Fedorchak votes to make President Trump’s spending cuts permanent
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) today voted in favor of H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, to codify the Trump administration's rescissions request that would eliminate $9.4 billion of wasteful government spending.
“Americans lose trust in government when their hard-earned tax dollars are spent advancing radical ideologies instead of addressing everyday needs,” Fedorchak said. “Public funds should support core national interests—not subsidize biased messaging or unaccountable programs. Between the One Big Beautiful Bill and these rescissions, we are taking meaningful steps to correct our fiscal course. I applaud President Trump for delivering on his mandate to root out the waste, fraud, and abuse rampant in our bloated bureaucracy.”
Rescissions are a formal cancellation of funds already approved by Congress. While the executive branch is required by law to spend appropriated funds, the President can request a delay in spending and ask Congress to revoke funds that are deemed unnecessary or wasteful. Last week, the White House submitted its first formal rescission request to Congress targeting funds designated for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) within the Department of State, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the United States Institute of Peace, and other international assistance programs.
Importantly, this package does not eliminate U.S. foreign aid or the bipartisan PEPFAR program. Instead, it realigns spending to advance U.S. national security, strengthen strategic influence, and support regional stability.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of taxpayer-funded government spending that will be rescinded as part of this package:
$3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street
$4 million for "sedentary migrants" in Colombia
$67,000 for feeding insect powder to children in Madagascar
$4 million for legume systems research
$6 million for "Net Zero Cities" in Mexico
$643,000 for LGBTQI+ programs in the Western Balkans
$567,000 for LBGTQI+ programs in Uganda
$8,000 for promoting vegan food in Zambia
$500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda
$1 million for programs to strengthen the resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer global movements
$833,000 for services for "transgender people, sex workers and their clients and sexual networks" in Nepal
$6 million for supporting media organizations and civic life of Palestinians
$2.5 million for teaching young children how to make environmentally friendly "reproductive health" decisions
$3 million for sexual reproductive health in Venezuela
$2.1 million for climate resilience in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and East Africa
Programs that prop up woke climate change programs for U.S. universities
$614,700 for climate adaptation, including to grow coral reefs in the Caribbean
$1.2 million for the "Afrobarometer public opinion survey."
$100,000 for Harvard to conduct research models for peace
$77,000 for University of Denver for "Escaping the Ethnic Trap in Deeply Divided Societies."
CLICK HERE to read about stakeholder support for the rescissions package.
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