House Republicans Urge Senate To Push Forward With Rescissions Package

House Republicans urged their colleagues in the Senate to pass the Trump’s administration’s $9.4 billion rescissions package in interviews Tuesday with the Daily Caller.

With the House having passed the package just days after receiving it, the question remains whether the Senate can pass it before the 45-day deadline this Friday. The Daily Caller spoke with Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube at the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) “New Media Row” to get his thoughts on Senate pushback against the the legislation. (RELATED: MADNI: Senate Passing Trump’s Rescissions Package Is The Bare Minimum OPINION)

“I filed a bill that would completely abolish [the U.S. Agency for International Development] USAID, which I think needs to happen,” Steube said.

He introduced a bill that proposes eliminating USAID and slashing wasteful foreign aid in February.

The Senate needs to pass the rescissions package sent from the White House that already passed the House to save Americans billions.

The House voted to end taxpayer funding for NPR, PBS, and USAID.

This isn’t complicated: your hard-earned money should serve America’s interests,…

— Congressman Greg Steube (@RepGregSteube) July 15, 2025

“I commend [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio and the administration for sending us a rescission package that removes the funding for them, which I think would be good. It passed the House. I surely hope that the Senate will also pass it,” Steube continued.

“Obviously, their calculation is always political,” the representative noted. “So you’d have to ask the individual members who are vacillating on that, but there’s no reason why we can’t deliver on things that this administration has said we don’t need to deliver savings for the taxpayers.”

The Caller also pressed Steube on potential opposition to ending USAID and whether any holdouts could stall the package.

“I have a bill to completely repeal the agency. So I don’t think it should exist.”

“I mean, there’s lists of examples of the fraud that has occurred there. The funding that’s gone for transition centers in Guatemala and these ridiculous things that the majority of Americans do not support,” Steube concluded.

“Well, I hope it gets passed. It should get passed, and I don’t know why anybody would be opposed to cutting it for this.” (RELATED: Democrat Appointees To Board That Sends Taxpayer Funds To NPR, PBS Sue Trump After Getting The Axe)

The Caller also spoke to Republican Illinois Rep. Mary Miller asking her perspective on the Senate’s pushback.

“Well, it’s whether people want to cut waste, fraud and abuse. I mean, the American taxpayers — generally, even before Doge —they would have said, ‘yes, we’re being abused,’” said Miller.

President Trump’s rescissions package slashes $9.4 BILLION in waste, fraud, and abuse, including funding for PBS & NPR.

The House has delivered, now it’s time for the Senate to pass it. What’s @SenateGOP waiting for?

— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) July 14, 2025

Miller also shined light on the work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk. “The level of absurd abuse of taxpayer dollars is so clear now that for someone not to support the rescissions package and those cuts is unbelievable,” she told the Caller.

“They should be primaried. They should be out of Congress, they don’t represent the American taxpayer,” Miller concluded.

The package partly targets defunding Public Broadcasting, which supports National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It also takes aim at foreign aid.

Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins, along with fellow GOP senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mike Rounds of South Dakota, have raised worries about how cuts to public broadcasting could negatively affect rural communities in their states. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: USAID Quietly Sent Thousands Of Viruses To Chinese Military-Linked Biolab)

Collins had opposed cutting $400 million from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief (PEPFAR) program, though supporters of the package point out it would still receive $10 billion in funding. Senate Republicans and White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced Tuesday the upper chamber is moving forward with the package after agreeing to remove the proposed $400 million cut to PEPFAR.

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— RSC (@RepublicanStudy) July 15, 2025

The White House submitted the rescissions package to the House on June 3, with  Vought overseeing the effort.

The package is expected to cut $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR and PBS, and reduce foreign aid by $8.3 billion, including funding for programs run by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).