July 17, 2025

Senator Schmitt Hails Senate Passage of President Trump’s Rescissions Package

Schmitt Led Package through the Senate

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) today issued the following statement after the Senate passage of President Trump’s rescissions package, which he led through the chamber:

“President Trump promised to cut waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government. Today, the Senate delivered on this promise by passing the President’s rescissions package, clawing back $9 billion in wasteful spending to end the partisan capture of NPR and PBS, defund radical non-governmental organizations, and halt foreign policy programs dedicated to advancing leftist propaganda instead of American priorities. I worked closely with the White House to move this package through the Senate, and I look forward to seeing the House swiftly pass this bill so President Trump can sign it into law,” said Senator Schmitt.

The rescissions package ends taxpayer funding for NPR and PBS, which have abandoned their original mandate to be nonpartisan. For example:

  1. In March 2025, NPR released a podcast episode called “Gender is a negotiation, whether you realize it or not.”
  2. In October 2020, NPR declined to report on the Hunter Biden laptop because “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.
  3. On Valentine’s Day 2024, NPR ran a feature around “queer animals”.
  4. In 2021, NPR ran an opinion piece titled “Animals Deserve Gender Pronouns, Too”
  5. In 2022, NPR ran a feature titled “What ‘Queer Ducks’ can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom.”
  6. In 2021, a PBS station aired a children’s program with a drag queen named “Lil’ Miss Hot Mess” singing “The hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish” to a virtual audience of children.
  7. In 2017, PBS produced a movie called “Real Boy” about a teenager’s “changing gender identity.”
  8. In 2017, PBS hosted a panel devoted to “what it means to be woke” and “white privilege”.
  9. In 2021, NPR suggested doorway sizes are based on “latent fatphobia”
  10. A 2024 Media Research Center study found that PBS’s coverage of the Republican National Convention was 72% negative, while coverage of the Democratic National Convention was 88% positive.
  11. NPR CEO Katherine Maher:
    1. Called President Trump “racist,” 
    2. Shared a photo of herself wearing a “Biden for President” campaign hat, 
    3. Served on the board of a Soros-funded activist group,
    4. Described the “reverence for the truth” as a “distraction.”
    5. Called the First Amendment was the “number one challenge” in her fight against disinformation because it makes it a “little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from, and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.” 
    6. Justified the widespread looting in the summer of 2020, saying ““But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.”

The rescissions package defunds radical, leftist foreign policy initiatives:

  1. $1.1 billion in taxpayer funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the parent organization for NPR and PBS.
  2. $18 million for gender diversity in the Mexican street lighting industry
  3. $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala
  4. $2.4 million to make international disaster aid more considerate of “sexual orientation and gender identity”
  5. $2.2 million to reduce “xenophobia” towards Venezuelan migrants
  6. $3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street
  7. $4.4 million for the “Melanesian Youth Climate Corps”
  8. $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda
  9. $2.5 million for teaching young children how to make environmentally friendly “reproductive health” decisions
  10. $4 million for “sedentary migrants” in Colombia 
  11. $1 million for voter ID in Haiti
  12. $21 million for wind farms in Ukraine
  13. $8 million for the anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
  14. $3.3 million for civic engagement in Zimbabwe
  15. $300,000 for promoting tourism in the Caucasus
  16. $33 million for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), including funding for tampons for transgender individuals in Bangladesh, LGBTQ campaigns in Rio, and “third-gender” community centers in Southeast Asia
  17. $6 million for “Net Zero Cities” in Mexico
  18. $500,000 for Peruvian biodiversity
  19. $6.2 million to address the needs of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia
  20. $158 million for the Lebanon Peacekeeping Mission (UNIFIL) which has been fraught with waste and abuse, as evidenced by their utter failure to contain Hezbollah
  21. $135 million to the corrupt and dangerous World Health Organization (WHO) which showed during COVID that it was beholden to Communist China

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