White House formally sends its DOGE spending cuts request to Congress

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 5:18 PM EDT, Tue June 3, 2025


CNN — The White House has sent its long-awaited spending cuts request to Congress as it seeks to formalize a slew of DOGE slashes to federal funding.

The $9.4 billion package – known as “rescissions” on Capitol Hill – would claw back previously appropriated government funding. The move to cancel the funding through Congress would insulate the administration from legal challenges related to its cuts to federal funding. As anticipated, the cuts target the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a small chunk of the federal budget that provides some public funding for NPR and PBS, as well as the United States Agency for International Development.

This initial request, however, is far more limited in scope than the more than $1 trillion in spending cuts that DOGE has promised. The lengthy time it took the White House to send over a first round of cuts underscores the uphill battle for even a Republican-led Congress to codify DOGE’s work.

Congress will have 45 days after the White House submits the request to consider it. It can pass both the House and Senate with a simple majority, meaning it could clear the chambers without Democratic support. House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed in statement Tuesday that “the House will act quickly on this request.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/doge-cuts-rescissions-package-trump

[Autumn]

1. Millers's wife's F**kboy found $9.4 billion in waste to cut?

[Wiz Imp]

2. DOGE promised to cut $2 Trillion in funding

And the total amount they've identified and formally requested to cut is only $9.4 billion? And Republicans continue to try to scam their constituents and say they did such a great job find waste fraud and abuse? Are you kidding me? Talk about pathetic.

And how much did the government have to spend on DOGE staff, etc.? I'm sure that cut into that "savings" by a good amount. Meanwhile, actual verified federal spending during Trump's tenure has continued to grow every month. And people continue to believe these liars?

[magicarpet]

3. Not bad,...

Musk awarded his companies $250 billion in New contracts while at DOGE. Then there is the data files owned by the US Government that Musk stole about personal information on US Taxpayers. Worth billions upon billions that did not cost Musk one red dime.

Now Pete Theil and Musk can build a big beautiful Mother of a Database chock full of personal and private information from every/all government agencies databases imaginable. That will be worth billions upon billions on the open market.

Boy did Musk and Theil make out financially with DOGE.

[Marie Marie]

4. Good. Get them all on record of having to vote to cut the funding for or eliminate

entirely these programs that many. many Americans support. The mid term ads just write themselves. But then again, what do I know? I thought that whole overturning Roe v Wade was their death sentence. Sigh!

[Karasu]

5. Between that and 1/6/21, there should be no more GOP, and it's incredibly damning that it still exists at all.

[travelingthrulife]

6. Yup. Our judiciary and Congress failed us bigly.