H.R. 4 · 119th Congress · Economics and public finance
Rescissions Act of 2025
How each chamber voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jul 18, 2025
Roll call ↗216
213
The House’s vote on the final text.
Senate · Jul 17, 2025
Roll call ↗51
48
Passed the Senate.
Law 48 days after it was introduced
Public Law 119-28. Each step dated from the congress.gov record
- IntroducedJun 6, 2025
- CommitteeJun 6, 2025
- Passed HouseJun 12, 2025
- Passed SenateJul 17, 2025
- House final voteJul 18, 2025
- Became lawJul 24, 2025
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 5
- all Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on the BudgetSenate Committee on AppropriationsHouse Committee on Appropriations
- Lobbying
- At least 82
- organizations named it2025 Q2 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This law cancels budget authority the President proposed to rescind in a June 3, 2025 special message, using the rescission process of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act.
How each member voted
The Senate roll call, passed the Senate, July 17, 2025
Nay unless marked
D · Sen · MD
D · Sen · WI
D · Sen · CO
This law cancels budget authority the President proposed to rescind in a June 3, 2025 special message, using the rescission process of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. The rescissions take effect immediately on enactment. Most of the cancelled money is foreign aid: unobligated balances for contributions to international organizations and international peacekeeping, global health programs, migration and refugee assistance, development and economic support funds, disaster assistance, and multilateral funds including the Clean Technology Fund. Individual cancellations include $800,000,000 from Migration and Refugee Assistance, $2,500,000,000 from Development Assistance, $1,650,000,000 from the Economic Support Fund, and $500,000,000 from Global Health Programs. Several rescissions carry provisos protecting specified programs from the cut, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, nutrition, and maternal and child health under Global Health Programs; assistance to Jordan and Egypt and the Countering PRC Influence Fund under the Economic Support Fund; and U.S. commodity-based food aid such as Food for Peace under Development and Disaster Assistance. The law also rescinds all amounts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 82 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 232 quarterly reports filed by 18 lobbying firms and by 57 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
2 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 2067, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees; U.S. Global Leadership Campaign; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; Council for Citizens Against Government Waste; University of California. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 77 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.