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Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) sponsored H.R. 4, the Recissions Act of 2025, which rescinds congressionally appropriated funding to international aid programs and public broadcasting. The bill cuts nearly half a billion dollars in funding that was previously appropriated on a bipartisan basis together to help other countries recover from climate-fueled disasters and to build clean energy projects around the world. Additionally, in cutting funding for public broadcasting, a pillar of the free press and a healthy democracy, this bill defunds lifesaving emergency alert systems that are essential emergency response tools during climate-change fueled natural disasters, especially in rural communities and when internet and cellular service is unavailable. These partisan rescissions cede U.S. leadership on climate action on the global stage and undermine congressional checks and balances and the basis for future bipartisan dealmaking on an already politically fraught process. On June 12 the House passed H.R. 4 by a vote of 214-212 (Roll call vote 168). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The Senate amended and passed H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, on July 17th, and the House followed suit on July 18th. As of July 18th, the bill awaits President Trump’s signature.
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