Trump Sends CPB Funding Rescission Proposal to Congress; House GOP Eyes Vote Next Week
House GOP leaders are hoping to tee up votes next week on the Trump administration’s promised budget rescission proposal that would claw back CPB’s advance funding for FY 2026 and FY 2027 (see 2505280050), congressional aides and lobbyists told us Tuesday. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters that the White House had transmitted its rescission proposal to Congress on Tuesday, as expected (see 2506020056). Meanwhile, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said Tuesday he’s filing legislation to codify President Donald Trump’s May executive order blocking CPB from distributing funding for PBS and NPR (see 2505020044).
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The Trump administration hadn’t publicly released its rescission proposal as of Tuesday afternoon, but congressional aides told us it aligns with language in the administration’s FY 2026 budget proposal, which calls for canceling $505 million of CPB’s advance FY26 funding and all $535 million for FY27. Collins cautioned that rules for moving a rescission package through the Senate are “extremely complex,” and “there hasn’t been a successful rescission package in many, many years.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters his “objective is to move [the rescission proposal] as quickly as our rules allow us.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters Monday night that he expects the House to take up the proposal first, and then the upper chamber will consider it “as quickly as we can.” Johnson and other House GOP leaders want the Rules Committee to meet June 9 to tee up floor consideration of Trump’s rescission package, congressional aides and lobbyists said. GOP hopes to pass the measure next week depend on swaying some party-affiliated appropriators who aren't completely supportive of Trump’s proposal, lobbyists said.
In another move to end funding for public broadcasting, Burchett said it's “time for us to codify the President’s Executive Orders into law, [including] by cutting taxpayer funding from NPR and PBS.” Burchett “will not sit on the sidelines when it comes to implementing the President’s agenda; I am taking charge to implement the mandate we have from the American people,” he said. Both NPR and PBS are suing the Trump administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia over the CPB order. NPR argued in its lawsuit, filed last week, that Trump's order violates the First Amendment (see 2505270047).