When you’re coaching football, one of the first things you teach your team is discipline. A team without discipline blows assignments, misses tackles, and lets games slip away. Well, Washington has been blowing assignments and missing tackles for decades, especially when it comes to spending your hard-earned tax dollars. This week, we’ve got a chance to start calling the right plays. The Senate voted on a $9 billion rescissions package—a straightforward, no-nonsense plan to cut wasteful government spending and get our fiscal house back in order. Now it is up to the House to follow through. This isn’t a trick play. It’s not a Hail Mary. This is blocking and tackling—the fundamentals of fiscal responsibility. Frankly, this should be low-hanging fruit for Republicans. We talk a big game on the campaign trail about cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. But now that it’s time to walk the walk, some of my Republican colleagues seem to have forgotten how they got here in the first place.
Over the past 4 years, Joe Biden treated the American taxpayers like his own personal piggy bank for bad ideas. Now, we’re $37 trillion in debt and have very little to show for it. The American people sent us here to clean house. 77 million Americans voted for President Trump and the America First agenda—an agenda that includes cutting woke foreign aid, left-wing propaganda, and out of control bureaucracy. That’s exactly what this bill does. We are cementing DOGE cuts into law and finally delivering on the President’s mandate to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. First, we’re cutting $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This woke organization funds NPR and PBS, two outlets that have gone out of their way to push the Democrat Communist Socialist Party’s radical agenda.
It’s no secret that NPR is the PR arm of the left. Their CEO openly called President Trump a “fascist” and a “deranged racist.” But don’t taking my word for it—just ask Uri Berliner, who was a senior business editor at NPR for more than two decades. In April 2024, he wrote an op-ed called “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.” In the piece, he wrote that NPR has an “absence of viewpoint diversity.” He acknowledged that NPR has “always had a liberal bent” but now an “open-minded spirit no longer exists at NPR.” To prove his point, he noted that registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 87 to 0 in the newsroom. Not surprisingly, NPR suspended Berliner for having the nerve to call it like it is. I guess NPR only protects freedom of speech as long as it aligns with their progressive ideology. Go figure.
PBS is no better. They are very open about their political beliefs—they ran a documentary in 2024 making the case for reparations. But as a father and a grandfather, what makes me sick is PBS’ weird fascination with indoctrinating children. In 2021, PBS aired a “children’s program” starring a drag queen named “Lil’ Miss Hot Mess.” They weren’t content with just sexualizing kids, they want them to hate each other too. In 2020, PBS’ Sesame Street partnered with CNN for a town hall where children were indoctrinated with a one-sided narrative about the “Black Lives Matter” movement. When I was growing up, we watched Andy Griffith and learned values of family, hard work, and coming together as a community. In PBS’ world, boys can wake up and decide to be girls, white kids are inherently evil, and anyone who doesn’t support reparations is racist. Beyond getting rid of the taxpayer subsidizing of anti-American media, we are also addressing the total scam that is foreign aid. For years, American foreign aid has been a slush fund for radical Democrats. Here’s just a sampling of where your money’s been going:
- $167,000 for free education and healthcare for Ecuadorian and Venezuelan migrants
- $33,000 for “Being LGBTI in the Caribbean”
- $643,000 for LGBTQI+ programs in the Western Balkans
- $567,000 for LGBTQI+ activism in Uganda
- $67,000 for feeding insect powder to children in Madagascar
- $3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street
- $8,000 to promote vegan food in Zambia
- $4 million for “sedentary migrants” in Colombia
- $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda
- $6 million for “Net Zero Cities” in Mexico
- $2.5 million to teach Iraqi kids about “environmentally friendly reproductive health”
- $3 million for sexual health programs in Venezuela
What a rap sheet. Americans are starving on the streets, and yet we’re sending money to educate kids in Uganda on LGBTQI+. It would almost be funny if it wasn’t so sad. This is global social engineering paid for by the American taxpayer. What the hell are we doing?
It’s time for Republicans to put up or shut up. You can’t campaign on cutting spending and then flake out when someone hands you the scissors. If Republicans can’t make this play, we don’t deserve to be on the field. Let’s pass this rescissions package, tighten our belts, and start governing with some good old-fashioned common sense. President Trump campaigned on reining in spending, and it is incumbent on us to deliver. Let’s get it done.
