How to Use rescission in a Sentence

rescission

noun
  • If that is true, the rescission saves no money and is pure theater.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
  • For all these reasons, the rescission of Title 42 cannot come soon enough.
    — Raul A. Reyes, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Trump has not yet sent a rescission request to Congress.
    — Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2020
  • One of his rescission packages in 1992 spurred a productive back-and-forth between the House and the Senate.
    — The Editors, National Review, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Those questions arise with the news that the Senate won’t take up a $15 billion spending rescissions bill that the House passed last week.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • The House approved the rescission package last month, and the Senate now faces a July 18 deadline.
    — Cristina Corujo, CBS News, 10 July 2025
  • The attorneys general ask the court to rule that the time to ratify the ERA has expired and that the five states’ rescissions are valid.
    — al, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Politico was the first to report on Thursday that the rescission package would not move forward.
    — Reuters, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • About half the package is a rescission to the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • But the Supreme Court held that the rescission of treaties is left to the political process and not for judicial involvement.
    — Erwin Chemerinsky, Orange County Register, 8 June 2017
  • The White House's official transmission of the rescission package on June 3 started the clock on a process that gives Congress 45 days to act.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 12 June 2025
  • In this light, the rescission of the Monument Butte project’s approval is hardly a speed bump in the basin’s output of hydrocarbons.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • This kind of polling empowered a political backlash to the rescission of the Obama-era memo.
    — German Lopez, Vox, 13 Apr. 2018
  • With Trump’s rescission of the Biden order, there is no longer a regulatory framework for AI in place.
    — Zach Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Collins is now chair of the Senate appropriations committee, which plays a key role in the rescission process.
    — Stef W. Kight, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Burr's vote against the rescissions package is an early sign of a political tussle that may lie ahead.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • In total, the rescissions package cuts $9.4 billion in funding.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 June 2025
  • In the case of rescissions, Congress must then pass legislation cutting the funding.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The letters tie back to the other tool the administration is using: rescission.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • Cole, who has been working with Mulvaney on the spending cut attempt, said he had been told to expect two or three rescission requests over the coming months.
    — John Fitzpatrick, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2018
  • One of those lawsuits was over the waiver rescission, which Bonta said his office would be prepared to sue over again if necessary.
    — Zack Budryk, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But if the Senate passes the rescission, that might nullify their legal action.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 July 2025
  • The feds are portraying the wind rescission as no big deal since other offshore zones between New York and New Jersey are still under review.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Almost all of the $9.4 billion being cut in the rescissions bill recently passed in the House falls under the authority of this division.
    — Morgan Kromer, The Washington Examiner, 26 June 2025
  • The package of 21 budget rescissions will have to be approved by both chambers of Congress for the cuts to take place, beginning with a House vote expected Thursday.
    — Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
  • Trump's rescission would reduce the contingency fund to about $500 million.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
  • The law still allows the White House to temporarily pause spending, using a process known as rescission, though the money is restored unless Congress votes to claw it back.
    — Tony Romm, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • Analysts have highlighted that the unexpected rescission charges didn’t put too much of a dent in the bank’s CET1 ratio, a measure of the capital strength.
    — Sam Potter, Bloomberg.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Even minor mistakes could cause the company to revoke the policy, a practice called rescission.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Democrats are all expected to vote against the White House request — known as a rescissions package — to claw back north of $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
    — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 12 June 2025

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