Pocket rescission of $4.9bn in foreign aid
- Date
- Aug 28, 2025
- Kind
- Appropriations
- Status
- Source
- gao.gov ↗
- Court or forum
- Presidential special message; GAO B-337805
- What happened
- A special message proposed cancelling $4.9bn so late in the fiscal year that the 45-day clock would run past September 30 and the money would lapse — the first pocket rescission in nearly 50 years. GAO holds the practice illegal.
- Publisher
- U.S. GAO
- Full record
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