In addition to discretionary spending reductions, the Fiscal Responsibility Act includes dozens of rescissions of unobligated funding from previously passed legislation such as the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, and the CARES Act, among others – it also allows Congressional appropriators to reinvest the rescinded funding into FY2024 and FY2025 appropriations legislation. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are a wide variety of rescissions targeted at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). For more information, click below.