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    US Congress clears Trump's $9 billion rescissions package

    Lawmakers had another marathon night of debates before passing the Trump administration's first multibillion-dollar clawback of congressionally approved aid.

    By Elissa Miolene // 18 July 2025

    The U.S. House of Representatives has approved President Donald Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package, which will cut billions of dollars in previously approved foreign assistance funding. It’s the first rescissions package to be passed in nearly three decades — but according to White House budget chief Russell Vought, it’s unlikely to be the last.

    “[It was a] very historic moment, the return of using rescissions,” said Vought, speaking to reporters before the vote on Thursday. “[We’re] getting the muscle memory for that back into the system.”

    The package — which passed by a vote of 216-213 just past midnight on Friday — has been making its way through Congress for weeks. The Trump administration sent its initial request to lawmakers in late May, and across 22 pages, Vought laid out how the White House wanted Congress to backtrack on $9.4 billion in “wasteful and unnecessary spending” that was “antithetical to American interests.”

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