Rescissions Act of 2025

June 12, 2025 | H.R. 4

Public media has broad, bipartisan support because it provides trusted information and reliable services for families across political parties, economic statuses, and zip codes. Communities count on it, not just for access to unbiased local news coverage, but also for emergency weather alerts, educational content, and public outreach services.

The proposed package wrongly claws back roughly one billion dollars in previously approved federal funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) threatening its ability to provide factual, nonpartisan news. This is not fiscal responsibility; it is a misuse of the rescission process as a political tool. The passage of this legislation erodes Congress’s constitutional power of the purse, does irreparable damage to the regular bipartisan appropriations process, and opens the door to future ideologically motivated funding clawbacks.