$9.4 Billion Pending in USAID Waste: Congress Faces Final Deadline to Block Radical Globalist Giveaways

On June 3, 2025, President Trump formally proposed rescinding $9.4 billion in previously

appropriated federal funds, with the bulk of the cuts targeting global LGBTQ+ programs, climate change initiatives, DEI efforts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Congress now faces a strict July 18 deadline—45 days from the proposal’s submission—to approve these cuts; otherwise, the funds must be released and spent as originally intended. Conservatives in Congress must act now to back the President’s America First agenda and prevent billions from being wasted on radical, globalist initiatives.

Issue

The Biden Administration wreaked havoc on the American taxpayer, spending roughly $240 billion to fund USAID programs. The $9.4 billion in funds proposed to be rescinded will fund many of the same problematic initiatives championed by the previous administrations, including the following:

Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities:

Over $203 million is set aside to pay for the U.S. share of U.N. peacekeeping missions, which have seen widespread waste and abuse, including the failure of the Lebanon mission to contain Hezbollah and the ongoing sexual exploitation scandals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Global Health Programs

$500 million will fund “family planning” and “reproductive health” programs for women and

children, as well as LGBTQI+ activities and “equity” programs.

International Security Assistance

Of the $3.6 billion appropriated in fiscal year 2025 for the Economic Support Fund, $1.7 billion will fund radical gender and climate projects if the funding is not rescinded.

Call to Action

The Biden administration spent more than $240 billion on misguided USAID programs, and unless Congress acts by July 18, another $9.4 billion will go to the same radical agenda. This includes hundreds of millions for failed U.N. peacekeeping missions, global “equity” and LGBTQI+ initiatives, and gender-focused climate programs. These are not American priorities—they're globalist pet projects masked as foreign aid. Conservatives in Congress must act now to pass the full rescissions package and stop taxpayer dollars from funding the left’s radical agenda abroad.