{"id":143811,"date":"2025-07-18T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143811"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:01:08","slug":"congressman-mackenzie-statement-on-passage-of-rescission-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143811","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Mackenzie Statement on Passage of Rescission Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Following today\u2019s passage of the Rescission\u00a0Package, I wanted to share the below statement from Congressman Ryan Mackenzie:<\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter taking a hard look at how taxpayer dollars are spent, the Trump administration and Congress are taking thoughtful action with a package focused on reining in wasteful spending. We\u2019re rolling back $9 billion, including $1.1 billion from public broadcasting. Here in the Lehigh Valley, we\u2019ve seen firsthand how public media outlets like Lehigh Valley Public Media (LVPM) have operated in a way that\u2019s led to a deficit despite receiving federal funding and sitting on a $73 million endowment. For example, they paid one executive over $300,000, another over $200,000, and still cut 12% of their staff last year. Before asking taxpayers for more, these organizations should focus on fixing their own financial mismanagement.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time of record deficits, we also ended federal funding by U.S. taxpayers for projects like $18 million to improve gender diversity in the Mexican street lighting industry, $6 million for a \u2018Net Zero Cities\u2019 program in Mexico, $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, and $882,000 for social media mentorship in Serbia\u00a0and Belarus. We should be investing in American priorities, not footing the bill for programs that don\u2019t serve our national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nOffice of Congressman Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following today\u2019s passage of the Rescission\u00a0Package, I wanted to share the below statement from Congressman Ryan Mackenzie: \u201cAfter taking a hard look at how taxpayer dollars are spent, the Trump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143811\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressman Mackenzie Statement on Passage of Rescission Package<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/us-ryan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}