WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) voted to pass H.R. 4 – the Rescissions Act of 2025. This bill codifies a rescissions request from the White House to eliminate $9.4 billion in unobligated, wasteful federal spending. Following his vote, Rep. Van Orden stated:
“There is not a single scenario in the world where using Americans’ hard earned tax dollars to fund radical, left-wing social programs in other countries makes sense. Passage of today’s rescissions package is a prime example of what it means to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government’s spending. The people I represent in Wisconsin’s Third District work too hard to have their money thrown away, and President Trump and I are both working to make sure it is not.”
Examples of past spending that resulted in the rescissions include:
- $35 million to address ‘vasectomy messaging frameworks’ and ‘gender dynamics’ in Ethiopia
- $6 million for “Net Zero Cities” in Mexico
- $4 million for “sedentary migrants” in Colombia
- $3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street
- $3 million for circumcision, vasectomies, and condoms in Zambia
- $800,000 for “transgender people, sex workers, and their clients and sexual networks” in Nepal
