Last week, President Trump used his authority under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) to deploy a pocket rescission of $4.9 billion in woke, wasteful, and weaponized foreign aid money.

What is a pocket rescission, and why can Presidents use them? 🧵
The President may propose to rescind funds appropriated by Congress.

Earlier this year, Congress passed President Trump's rescission of $9 billion in funding that went to NPR, PBS, and other woke foreign aid.

Here’s the woke, wasteful, and weaponized spending the President just slashed in his historic pocket rescission package: 🧵⬇️

https://twitter.com/whomb/status/1961410044907458780

$3.2 billion from USAID Development Assistance (DA) -

The DA account has bankrolled initiatives that are antithetical to American values and represent the worst of USAID’s woke excesses.

DA has provided endless handouts for harmful radical leftist priorities, including the Global Green New Scam, DEI, and LGBTQ activities, and projects like baking and beauty therapy in Zimbabwe that are of no value to American taxpayers and American foreign policy interests.

NEW: Today, we sent the first rescissions package to Capitol Hill.

This package contains BILLIONS in wasteful foreign aid and federal funding for NPR and PBS.

Here’s just some of the waste, fraud, and abuse identified: 🧵 $67,000 for testing insect powder nutrition on children in Madagascar.

Today, we released President Trump's FY26 Discretionary Budget Request.

READ: ⬇️ The Budget reduces non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion (23%), guts the weaponized deep state and provides historic increases for defense and border security. The Budget also provides support for air and rail safety, key infrastructure, and our Nation’s veterans and law enforcement.