The House Freedom Caucus is calling on leadership to pass the White House‘s $9.4 billion rescissions bill “immediately,” the fiscal conservative group’s latest demand to codify Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cuts.
The Freedom Caucus said upon receiving the proposal, which calls for major cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and foreign aid agencies, the House should “immediately move this to the floor for swift passage.”
“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 caucus said Monday.
House Freedom Caucus Takes Official Position on Rescissions Package: It’s Time for Congress to Codify DOGE Spending Cuts.
“When the White House submits its first rescissions package to enact DOGE spending cuts to Congress, the House of Representatives should immediately…— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) June 2, 2025
Fiscal hawks have been vocal about codifying the cuts proposed by Musk, who has since stepped away from serving in an adviser capacity to President Donald Trump.
Musk ruffled feathers when he said he was “disappointed” by the GOP’s “one big, beautiful” reconciliation bill, adding he thinks it “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
The White House has pointed out that DOGE’s proposed cuts are to discretionary spending, which cannot be passed through the reconciliation process, according to Senate budget rules. Instead, the cuts must be codified through either the normal appropriations process or through the passage of a separate rescissions bill.
The administration is expected to send the rescissions bill to the House on Tuesday, meaning the Freedom Caucus will be demanding a vote sometime this week. This would add a major item to an otherwise light House docket this week, which could put GOP leadership in a bind as it works to try and get their conference on board with voting for a rescissions legislation.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) can only afford to lose three votes on legislation to pass it along party lines. It is unclear whether centrist Republicans would offer any pushback on the legislation, though many have expressed concern over DOGE’s slashes to federal aid programs such as the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Johnson said in a post last week that House Republicans would “move quickly” to pass legislation to codify the DOGE cuts once the bill arrives.
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“The House is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings so we can deliver even more cuts to big government that President Trump wants and the American people demand,” Johnson said.
The legislation calls for $1.1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which runs PBS and NPR. It also calls for $8.3 billion in cuts to USAID and the African Development Foundation. But it ultimately falls short of the hundreds of billions in cuts proposed by DOGE since January.