Congress Cuts Foreign Aid Funding, Maintains PEPFAR
Published July 28, 2025
By AACOM Government Relations
Federal Policy
OME Advocate
- In July, for the first time in decades, Congress approved $9 billion in cuts in the Rescissions Act of 2025, H.R. 4. This action codified the funding cuts proposed by the Department of Government Efficiency using authority under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
- The Senate passed the rescissions package by a vote of 51-48 on July 17, 2025 after stripping out $400 million in cuts to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). It then returned to the House and passed by a narrow vote of 216-213 early July 18, hours before the 45-day deadline to act on the rescissions package.
- The bill contained approximately $7.9 billion in cuts to foreign aid and $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, has indicated that the administration will send another rescissions package to Congress.
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