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$500,000,000 is rescinded from Global Health Programs

To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

$500,000,000 is rescinded from Global Health Programs

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What the document says

“Of the unobligated balances in the first paragraph under the heading ``Bilateral Economic Assistance--Funds Appropriated to the President--Global Health Programs'' made available by the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025 (division A of Public Law 119-4), $500,000,000 are rescinded”

To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Sec. 2

Paragraph (5), the rescission itself. It takes $500,000,000 of the unobligated balances in the first paragraph under the account headed Bilateral Economic Assistance, Funds Appropriated to the President, Global Health Programs, as made available by division A of Public Law 119-4, the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025. Two provisos follow it, recorded separately.

What the document actually says

“Of the unobligated balances in the first paragraph under the heading ``Bilateral Economic Assistance--Funds Appropriated to the President--Global Health Programs'' made available by the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025 (division A of Public Law 119-4), $500,000,000 are rescinded”

To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

Money had been set aside for health work in other countries. This takes back $500,000,000 of it.

What this is about

The money came from a 2025 spending law. The next item lists the health programs this money may not be taken from.

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  1. The document itself

    Rescissions Act of 2025, Public Law 119-28, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 467 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ28/html/PLAW-119publ28.htm

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    “$500,000,000 is rescinded from Global Health Programs,” Rescissions Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/rescissions-act-2025/proposal/sec02-global-health-programs/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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