Fiscal Hawks Make Urgent Demand For ‘DOGE Cuts’

A key group of fiscal conservatives is calling on the GOP-led House to immediately get to work on passing President Donald Trump’s first second-term rescissions package slated to be sent to Congress this week.

In an “Official Position” released Monday, the House Freedom Caucus argued that codifying spending cuts sought by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative should be a top priority for lawmakers, who just returned to Capitol Hill after the Memorial Day recess.

“When the White House submits its first rescissions package to enact DOGE spending cuts to Congress, the House of Representatives should immediately move this to the floor for swift passage,” the group said. “The House Freedom Caucus strongly supports these critical rescissions, and we will support as many more rescissions packages the White House can send us in the coming weeks and months.”

Altogether, the rescissions package is expected to cover roughly $9.4 billion. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funds to NPR and PBS, as well as foreign aid are slated to be the targets of the first request to claw back funds appropriated by Congress. More rescissions packages could follow.

“These first DOGE cuts target taxpayer-funded public broadcasters notorious for their liberal bias like NPR and PBS, as well as billions in wasteful foreign aid dollars. Passing this rescissions package will be an important demonstration of Congress’s willingness to deliver on DOGE and the Trump agenda,” the House Freedom Caucus said.

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“While the Swamp will inevitably attempt to slow and kill these cuts, there is no excuse for a Republican House not to advance the first DOGE rescissions package the same week it is presented to Congress then quickly send it for passage in the Republican Senate so President Trump can sign it into law,” the group added.

Dealing with a narrow majority and Democrats who largely vote in a block against anything they do, House GOP leaders have been under pressure from many in the Republican rank-and-file to codify the DOGE cuts, particularly after the lower chamber narrowly passed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that is estimated to add trillions of dollars to the national debt.

Fiscal hawks who do not think enough is being done to rein in spending could revolt if the Senate makes changes to the legislation, and it gets sent back to the House. The Trump administration wants the bill ready to go by July 4.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has listed rescissions as being one of two actions the House will take based on findings from the DOGE initiative, in addition to using the appropriations process to “swiftly implement” Trump’s proposed 2026 budget. “When the White House sends its rescissions package to the House, we will act quickly by passing legislation to codify the cuts,” he said in a Wednesday post on X.