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President Trump canceled nearly $1 billion in already-approved federal spending. That claim is real: on September 25, 2026 the White House announced a “pocket rescission” totaling about $810 million.
whitehouse.gov
A pocket rescission is a late-year use of the 1974 Impoundment Control Act. The president sends Congress a list of funds he wants canceled. The law then lets the executive withhold that money for 45 days while Congress considers a rescission bill. If the request is sent so close to September 30 that the money expires before Congress can act, the funds lapse instead of being spent. That is what happened here, with only five days left in the fiscal year.
bipartisanpolicy.org
The largest slice is $567 million from HHS accounts that had funded services and NGO grants for refugees, asylees, unaccompanied children, and other non-citizens. Smaller cuts hit DHS grants for legal aid, mental-health services, and “cultural orientation”; Education Department migrant-student programs; the Justice Department’s Community Relations Service; race-conscious grants at the Minority Business Development Agency; and several other diversity, housing-counseling, and research accounts the administration labeled wasteful or ideological.
whitehouse.gov
The White House argument is that border crossings have fallen sharply, so leftover migrant-services money is no longer needed, and that other programs subsidize illegal presence or race-based spending that does not serve American citizens.
The legal fight is over whether the president can let the money expire without Congress voting to cancel it. The Government Accountability Office has long said no: funds proposed for rescission must still be made available for obligation before they expire. Some members of Congress, including Sen. Susan Collins, called the move an illegal impoundment that usurps Congress’s power of the purse. The administration and some legal analysts treat the statute’s 45-day clock as a usable loophole when the fiscal year is about to end. Courts have not issued a final merits ruling on this exact 2026 package.
gao.gov
So the post is summarizing a real, contested budget maneuver: the executive is trying to kill leftover appropriations by running out the clock rather than waiting for a congressional vote.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has hereby CANCELED close to $1B in Congress-approved funding that would've gone to illegal alien and "race-focused" programs, per New York Post
A grand total of 11 recissions in one fell swoop
This is the SECOND pocket recission in nearly 5 decades
LET'S GO! 🔥🔥
The notice has been sent to Speaker Johnson.
KEEP RESCINDING! Cut and DOGE it all!