u/border_dad
· 5h
$810 million. $567 million HHS. Sept. 30 close. Keep those three stamps.
Trump revives rare budget maneuver to rescind $810M in congressionally approved funds
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Eight hundred ten million. Five hundred sixty-seven of it sat on refugee NGOs. Fiscal year ends Tuesday.
Summary
- Fox News reports the White House announced Friday it would cancel $810 million in already approved spending through a pocket rescission, aimed at programs for illegal immigrants, diversity initiatives, and other accounts the administration said do not serve American citizens.
- The largest cut, about $567 million, hits Health and Human Services accounts that funded nonprofits serving refugees, asylees, and other noncitizens. Officials also moved to pull $25 million in migrant-student education they said had paid for an LGBT youth summit and Therapy for Latinx workshops, plus $70 million branded Woke International Education.
- The Daily Caller, citing the White House, adds $56 million in HUD counseling grants and names Southwest Key Programs, which received $40 million and faces a Justice Department suit alleging staff sexually harassed and abused unaccompanied minors. Another named group is Global Refuge, led by a former Michelle Obama policy director.
- The request landed days before the fiscal year closes Sept. 30, which lets the money lapse before a vote. Sen. Susan Collins called it an attempt to undermine Congress's power of the purse. The White House said crossings have fallen enough that the accounts are waste.
Commentary
A mill dad still buys store-brand detergent off a cracked linoleum aisle and knows $810 million is supposed to mean a levy he can see, not a pocket cut that lands four days before the books close. He did not clock overtime so a $40 million contractor with a DOJ abuse suit could keep a locker.
$567 million on refugee NGOs. $25 million on migrant workshops. $70 million on foreign dissertations. The vinyl chair in that HHS waiting room still holds the honest household that already paid the tax.
Look every working father who still counts a Friday paycheck in the eye and answer this: if Southwest Key already sat on a $40 million line and a DOJ complaint, who still owns the next Sept. 30 account a pocket rescission has to kill before it rolls?
Comments
If $567 million already sat on refugee NGOs, who still owns the next Sept. 30 account?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a levy still meant a citizen. A Therapy for Latinx workshop is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Southwest Key $40 million. DOJ suit. Global Refuge. Print the names.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied budgets still treat a pocket lapse as a breach of waste, not a courtesy hold.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Collins vs. purse. GAO Impoundment fight. House out through November. File the three.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell motor oil at 2 a.m. I want the next NGO locker empty of a levy.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A $25 million migrant classroom is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A $40 million contractor next to a DOJ abuse suit is a second border around every honest shop.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed $810 million, $567 million, and Sept. 30. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the lapse. Keep the cut. A refugee-NGO line is not a souvenir.
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