To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
Despite opposition from moderate Republicans, the act passed the Republican-led House on June 12, 2025. An amended version passed the Republican-led Senate on July 17, 2025, and was agreed to in the House on the next day. President Trump signed the bill into law on July 24, 2025.[5]
The Senate amended the bill to remove $400 million in cuts to PEPFAR, place exemptions on funding cuts for programs that treat and prevent major diseases (HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis) and programs that support nutrition or maternal and child health, protect foreign aid for Jordan and Egypt, protect foreign aid for a fund that works to counter influence from China, and exempt funding cuts for programs that pay U.S. farmers to produce food that is distributed in poor countries.[7]
Votes
First passage in the House
The bill passed the House on June 12, 2025 in a 214–212 vote. All present Republicans except Mark Amodei of Nevada, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Nicole Malliotakis of New York, and Mike Turner of Ohio, all moderate Republicans, voted for the bill.[8] Two other moderate Republicans, Nick LaLota of New York and Don Bacon of Nebraska, initially voted no but changed their votes. Bacon said he changed his vote after receiving assurances from House Republican leadership that PBS would be fully funded for the 2026 U.S. federal budget and that global aid cuts would not affect funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.[9] All present Democrats voted against the bill. Two Republicans and four Democrats did not vote. If all absent members had voted with the majority of their party, the bill would have failed.[10]
Passage in the Senate
In the early morning of July 17, 2025, the Senate passed an amended version of the act in a 51–48 vote. Moderate Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against the bill with all present Democrats. Democratic Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota missed the vote after being hospitalized.[11]
Second passage in the House
The House had to vote to pass the amended act by July 18, or the bill would have become invalid.[11] Just after midnight on July 18, the House passed the act through a procedural rule, which also teed up an unrelated vote on U.S. Department of Defense funding. Moderate Republicans Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mike Turner of Ohio joined all present Democrats in voting against the rule.[12]
Impact
On August 1, 2025, the CPB announced it would shut down in January 2026.[13] Public media advocates argued that it would result in the closure of some stations and hamper access to emergency alerts in rural communities; the CPB's defunding and resulting closure would result in some public television and radio stations imposing staffing and programming cuts (with some electing to drop PBS and/or NPR programming altogether).[14][15][16]
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