The White House has sent its long-awaited spending cuts request to Congress as it seeks to formalize a slew of DOGE slashes to federal funding.

The request marked the White House's first attempt to cement the spending cuts pursued by the Department of Government Efficiency.

The so-called rescissions package seeks to claw back $9.4 billion lawmakers had authorized the executive branch to spend, and it would require only GOP votes to pass.

Speaker Mike Johnson was on the verge of an embarrassing defeat on the floor: the narrowly-divided GOP House was on track to reject billions in DOGE cuts.

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The foreign aid and public broadcasting cuts could be the first of several "rescission" requests sent to Congress in the coming months.

Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an emailed statement that the Trump administration was already “illegally impounding additional funds,” as withholding money has “always been illegal without explicit Congressional approval.”