Rep. Kelly Statement on Trump Administration’s Recissions Package: 'Needlessly Cruel and Evil'

WASHINGTON - The White House released its recissions package, requesting Congress to cancel $9.4 billion already appropriated by Congress. The package advances President Donald Trump's agenda to codify DOGE's spending cuts, slash foreign aid, cut funding from major public broadcasting entities and rolls back a Biden-era guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortion care.

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) released the following statement condemning the recissions package:

"President Trump's recissions package is needlessly cruel and evil. He is stealing money - money that has already been designated by Congress - from Sesame Street to Main Street, hurting everyday Americans to give tax breaks to the well-off and well-connected. For years, I've heard my Republican colleagues spout about Congress's constitutional power of the purse, but now, they'd consider cancelling $9.4 billion that we have already appropriated to programs like PBS, NPR, and USAID.

"The President also continues to threaten the lives of women by rescinding guidance that reaffirmed hospitals' obligation under law to provide lifesaving abortion care to patients experiencing a medical emergency. While the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act is still the law of the land, this is, again, a cruel and evil decision by the Trump administration. Rescinding this guidance will delay necessary emergency abortion care, endangering the lives of patients."