00:00Director Boat, do you still expect the White House to send the rescissions package over to Congress tomorrow?
00:06Yeah, tomorrow.
00:07And the Speaker said on his way in today that he was expecting multiple rescissions packages to come from management and budget.
00:13Is that your expectation as well, not just one?
00:15I do. I want to see if it passes. I think we're very interested to make sure it passes both the House and the Senate.
00:20But we're very open to sending multiple bills.
00:24Can you lay out at all the strategy for enacting a lot of these douche cuts to get them codified?
00:28Well, you just heard it. We want to send up general rescissions bills to use the process if it's appropriate to get them through the House and the Senate.
00:37We also have pocket rescissions, which you've begun to hear me talk a lot about, to be able to use the end of the fiscal year to send up similar rescissions but have the funds expire.
00:49So there's a lot of things that we're looking at, all of them here towards figuring out how to make these cuts permanent.
00:55And would any of them happen through the appropriations process, the regular appropriations process?
00:58Sure, yeah. So we're, you know, fiscal year 26. We have a budget that's been up here for a number of weeks now.
01:04We want to make sure that we have a chance to have those reflected in the appropriations process and, you know, many good conversations, including the one we just had.
01:12Just to confirm, the package that's coming tomorrow is supposed to include the NPR and PBS cuts?
01:17Correct. It's the same $9.4 billion we've been talking about for a while now.
01:21We've been working with the House to make sure it's in the best place to pass.
01:27What else did you miss that you're talking about today?
01:28You know, we're just strategizing on how to make those cuts permanent using both fiscal year 25 and 26 and a lot of common ground on that.
01:38And we've never had these kind of conversations with the appropriations committee and the leadership to the extent that we are.
01:45But I think they just proved what the House can do with a three-seat majority if you, you know, start the process early enough and bring the members along the way.
