White House sending $9.4 billion DOGE cuts package to Congress next week

The White House is expected to nonstop a national spending chopped connection to Congress adjacent week, 2 Republican sources told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday.

It's the latest determination by Republican officials to marque bully connected promises to slash authorities spending, a task spearheaded by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The connection is called a "rescissions package," a conveyance for the president to artifact funds that were already allocated by Congress successful its yearly appropriations process. Once transmitted to Capitol Hill, lawmakers person 45 days to instrumentality it up earlier it's voided.

An Office of Management and Budget (OMB) authoritative told Fox News Digital the bundle is expected to full astir $9.4 billion.

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President Donald Trump is preparing a spending chopped bundle for Congress. (Getty)

It volition chiefly people national backing to NPR, PBS, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the authoritative said, confirming details archetypal reported by Axios.

A 3rd GOP root told Fox News Digital that House GOP leaders had asked the White House to hold until their enclosure finished information of Trump's "big, beauteous bill" to nonstop its spending-cut package.

The House passed the monolithic portion of tax-and-spending authorities past week aft an all-night league of statement and procedural votes, sending it to the Senate for further consideration.

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That bill, which is being precocious nether the fund reconciliation process, chiefly deals with mandatory authorities backing that Congress indispensable alteration by amending the instrumentality itself.

A rescissions bundle targets discretionary authorities funding, which Congress sets the levels of each twelvemonth successful its yearly appropriations process.

The White House referred Fox News Digital to OMB erstwhile reached for comment.

The bundle is expected to get to Congress conscionable arsenic Musk is opening to measurement distant from his relation starring DOGE – but is seemingly inactive keeping a adjacent oculus connected governmental affairs.

Elon Musk's clip astatine DOGE is winding down (AP/Evan Vucci)

The billionaire tech laminitis criticized Republicans' "big, beauteous bill" connected CBS Sunday Morning, saying successful a preview clip that helium was "disappointed" by it.

"I deliberation a measure tin beryllium big, oregon it could beryllium beautiful. But I don't cognize if it could beryllium both," Musk said.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., vowed the House would bash much to codify DOGE cuts successful a connection aft Musk's message.

"The House is anxious and acceptable to enactment connected DOGE’s findings truthful we tin present adjacent much cuts to big government that President Trump wants and the American radical demand. We volition bash that successful 2 ways," Johnson wrote connected X.

"1. When the White House sends its rescissions bundle to the House, we volition enactment rapidly by passing authorities to codify the cuts. 2. The House volition usage the appropriations process to swiftly instrumentality President Trump’s 2026 budget. In the meantime, we person been moving astir the timepiece arsenic we prepared for those processes. The House made definite to physique connected DOGE’s occurrence wrong the One Big Beautiful Bill."

Musk's commentary, meanwhile, divided House Republicans connected Wednesday.

"This is wherefore Mr. Musk has nary spot in Congress. He wants to codify discretionary cuts. He didn't find capable waste, fraud, and maltreatment to money [the Small Business Administration], fto unsocial trim our debt," 1 House GOP lawmaker granted anonymity to talk freely told Fox News Digital. "This was a gimmick, helium got used, he's present upset."

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans would codify DOGE cuts. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., who voted "present" connected the authorities past week, told Fox News Digital that helium believed Musk was right.

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"I stock Mr. Musk's concerns astir the short-term adverse effect connected the national shortage of the constricted spending reductions successful the BBB. Debt markets stay acrophobic astir US full indebtedness and yearly deficits," Harris said.

The House is expected to statesman moving connected fiscal twelvemonth (FY) 2026 appropriations adjacent week, though the rescission bundle deals with FY 2025 funding.

And the 45-day deadline for that is not the lone marker connected the skyline – identical FY 2026 spending bills indispensable walk the House and Senate by the extremity of the existent fiscal twelvemonth connected Sept. 30 to avert a partial authorities shutdown.