As House Republicans sprint to advance a bill codifying $9.4 billion of Department of Government Efficiency funding cuts this week, vulnerable Republicans are in the precarious position of slashing programs that were once championed by their own party.
Speaker Mike Johnson is aiming to hold a vote as soon as this week, likely Thursday, on the rescissions package. But he could face problems from moderate Republicans, who have expressed concern about rushing to cut international aid and public broadcasting.
“We want to make sure that we meet the objectives of saving, and the approach that I’ve had of not funding programs that are failing for the sake of funding them. Also, not gutting programs that are working for the sake of gutting them,” Rep. Juan Ciscomani, a moderate Republican on the Appropriations Committee, told NOTUS last week. “We have to comb through the whole thing carefully.”