White House: Some DOGE Cuts will be sent to Congress Next Week, Enacting All Will Take ‘Several Months’

During Wednesday’s episode of Fox Business Network’s Kudlow, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought confirmed that the White House plans to submit a rescission package that includes cuts related to DOGE. He emphasized that implementing these savings will be a drawn-out effort, not something that can be handled in a single legislative package. “It’s going to be part of a process over the next several months,” he said, and added that such cuts cannot be included in a reconciliation bill due to Senate rules.

First, let me include this note. Then I'll paste the text of their conversation below as well as a link to the full interview. Vought argues that the "fiscal hawks" chastising the House version of the Big Beautifull Bill are misguided. The primary purpose of the BBB is to enshrine the 2017 Trump Tax cuts into permanent law.

“The notion that if you’re just a fiscal hawk and think that somehow not extending the tax cuts or dealing with the revenue side is enough to lay a foundation for welfare reform — you’re kidding yourself. It doesn’t happen. You have to establish that foundation first, and then you put the country in a position to start talking about reforms, savings, and changing the way this bureaucracy has been weaponized against the country.”

Host Larry Kudlow asked, “So, rumor has it that we’ve got a big rescission package, an Elon Musk DOGE rescission package coming up, can you confirm it?”

Vought responded, “I can. We’ll be sending that up on Monday or Tuesday, whenever the House is back in session, they will get our first rescissions bill. And, again, this has been proposed and we’ve talked about it, we want to make sure that Congress passes its first rescissions bill, including the DOGE, and we will send more if they pass it. And so, this is the first one, it’s foreign aid, USAID cuts, many of the waste and garbage that was funding, not only wasteful, but hurting our foreign policy, but also the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR.”

He further noted that the measure would not be subject to a Senate filibuster.

Kudlow followed up, “So, Russ, the Elon Musk DOGE total on their website is, I think, $175 billion. I don’t know, that’s 10 or 20 more rescission packages?”

Vought explained that the $175 billion figure refers to projected savings for fiscal year 2026. He said the administration already submitted a $160 billion proposal to reduce non-defense spending for that year—figures that, when adjusted for inflation, would represent the lowest levels since fiscal year 2000. “We are doing everything we can to make the DOGE cuts permanent, either through rescissions or through impoundment,” Vought stated. “Look, impoundment is still on the table and something we will consider.”

He reiterated that this effort will unfold gradually. “This is going to be playing out… it’s not going to be something that, hey, we’re going to have it in one bill,” Vought said. He also clarified that the reconciliation bill—the so-called “one big beautiful bill”—is not legally able to include discretionary savings from government agencies due to procedural constraints in the Senate.