You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Trump Signs Rescission Bill Clawing Back $9B for Foreign Aid and Public Broadcasting

HeadlineJul 25, 2025
Image Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

President Trump has signed a rescission bill clawing back $9 billion that had been previously approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting. Just over a billion dollars was slated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. The rest of the money was destined for foreign assistance programs.

Amid the cuts to USAID, Doctors Without Borders slammed President Trump’s plan to destroy nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives that were set to be delivered overseas. In a statement, the organization decried the “callous waste that puts the health and lives of women and girls at risk.”

Meanwhile, public broadcaster GBH said Tuesday it is laying off staffers who produce the series “American Experience” and pausing the production of new documentaries. Stanley Nelson, the award-winning documentary filmmaker, said, “These cuts are especially devastating considering the current state of affairs in this country, when the preservation and teaching of American history is more needed — and more threatened — than ever before.”

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top