Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) co-leaders, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have been on Capitol Hill this week pitching their plan to chop $2 trillion in wasteful authorities spending to lawmakers.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Musk and Ramaswamy have been scheduled to meet with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday to debate the brand new program aimed toward reducing authorities waste.
Final month, it was reported that Congressmen Aaron Bean (R-FL) and Pete Periods (R-TX) launched a brand new congressional DOGE Caucus aimed toward serving to Musk and Ramaswamy accomplish their targets. Reps. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) and Ralph Norman (R-SC) have additionally joined the caucus. Even Democrat Consultant Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) has reportedly agreed that “lowering ineffective authorities spending shouldn’t be a partisan difficulty,” vowing to hitch the Republican caucus.
Individually, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) plans to chair a DOGE Home Oversight Subcommittee to “establish and examine the waste, corruption, and completely ineffective components of our federal authorities,” stated Greene.
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), who has come underneath latest hearth for opposing Trump’s nominees, has additionally launched a Senate Doge Caucus. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Budd (R-NC), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rick Scott (R-FL), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and James Lankford (R-OK) have signed on to hitch the brand new caucus.
Nevertheless, some lawmakers seem uncertain that the targets of DOGE will probably be completed. Rep Max Miller reportedly expressed that the cuts aren’t based mostly on “actuality.” One other lawmaker stated, “They’re gonna supply quite a lot of options which might be gonna roll off the tongue actual simple, however take a look at the margins. They’re simply not gonna have the horsepower,” indicating that GOP assist is not going to be unanimous.
Per The Hill
“Most likely half of them in there are actually excited, and the opposite half know actuality,” Miller stated of these attending the assembly. His remarks alluded to doubts amongst Capitol Hill Republicans about DOGE’s skill to chop spending and radically reshape authorities.
Some members left the assembly extremely skeptical Musk and Ramaswamy will be capable of get something like $2 trillion in spending cuts by way of Congress.
“These guys are going to get their eyes open,” stated one Republican lawmaker, granted anonymity to talk candidly, pointing to the razor-thin majority within the Home and the issue of the filibuster within the Senate.
Republicans may have a 219-215 majority firstly of the brand new Home session due to Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) choice to go away Congress regardless of successful reelection. That majority will then go all the way down to 217-215 when two different Republicans go away for Trump administration posts.
Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) famous in an X submit that “the largest obstacles to the success of DOGE” will probably be lawmakers stonewalling the spending cuts.
Nonetheless, “It did give me hope that the richest man on the earth (who has stated he’ll play in primaries in coming electoral cycles) stated they might be making a ‘Naughty and Good’ checklist of those that get in the best way of their efforts,” Crane acknowledged in his submit:
Received to hear to those guys discuss their plans to slash fraud, waste and abuse from the federal authorities yesterday.
Sadly many individuals within the room will find yourself being the largest obstacles to the success of DOGE.
It did give me hope that the richest man on the earth (who has stated he’ll play in primaries in coming electoral cycles) stated they might be making a “Naughty and Good” checklist of those that get in the best way of their efforts.
Received to hear to those guys discuss their plans to slash fraud, waste and abuse from the federal authorities yesterday.
Sadly many individuals within the room will find yourself being the largest obstacles to the success of DOGE.
It did give me hope that the richest man on the earth… pic.twitter.com/gIJoxIBgo1
— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) December 6, 2024
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Inexperienced (R-GA) additionally highlighted the “naughty and good checklist for members of Congress based mostly on their spending habits with their voting card,” which will probably be used to publicly rating lawmakers’ voting information forward of the 2026 elections. Moreover, “they’re speaking about speaking with the American folks, maybe perhaps even a weekly podcast or a report,” Inexperienced defined.
Greene spoke to reporters Thursday about her DOGE subcommittee’s plans to show “each single unelected bureaucrat, each single company that’s losing the American folks’s cash, and the large authorities departments that must be uncovered for the way they are not serving the American folks.”
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) stated in an X submit that he is excited to work with Musk and Ramaswamy on “a leaner, extra environment friendly authorities.” He additionally famous that the federal authorities is way too massive and inefficient, and “the American taxpayers deserve higher.”
Johnson spoke to reporters Thursday to elucidate the aims of lawmakers assembly with DOGE.
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Johnson: This is a crucial day. It is the start of a journey. You heard what DOGE is all about, the Division of Authorities and effectivity. It is a new factor, and this can be a new day in Washington and a brand new day in America. We’ve lengthy lamented the dimensions and scope of the federal government that it has grown too massive. And let me be frank about this: The federal government is simply too huge. It does too many issues, and it does virtually nothing nicely. And the taxpayers deserve higher. They deserve a extra responsive authorities, a extra environment friendly authorities, one that’s leaner and extra centered on its major aims. And that is the chance that we have now right here now.
We imagine it is a historic second for the nation, and these two gents are going to assist navigate by way of this thrilling new day. Elon and Vivek do not want a lot of an introduction right here in Congress for sure, and a lot of the American folks know what they’re able to and what they’ve achieved. Each of those gents have run very profitable organizations, they’re innovators, and so they’re ahead thinkers, and so that is what we want proper now. And so, what you are going to have at present is first is a gathering that we’ll have right here with choice makers, key figures within the Republican Home and Senate, who’re chairs of committees of jurisdiction, who cope with the cash and financing of presidency and the construction of presidency.
We’ll have chairs of the brand new DOGE caucuses which have been arrange within the Senate and the Home. After which after that, we’ll proceed to the Congressional Auditorium, the place all the Senate Republicans and Home Republicans have been invited, and I feel lots of them will collect for this dialogue. So, there will not be quite a lot of element for the press at present, and that is by design as a result of this can be a brainstorming session. It’s the first, once more, as I stated, of an extended sequence of conferences that will probably be held as we’re laying the groundwork for the brand new 12 months and the brand new Congress. And you are going to see quite a lot of change round right here and in Washington, in the best way issues are run.
We have to make authorities extra environment friendly, and that’s what this complete goal is. That is what the DOGE effort will probably be about. And you are going to see bicameral cooperation, and will probably be, by the best way, bipartisan. Over the past 24 or 48 hours, you’ve got seen quite a few our Democrat colleagues, each within the Senate and the Home, who’ve stated, “You understand what, Signal me up. I need to be part of this as nicely.” So, we welcome that. It ought to be a bipartisan effort, and I feel we’ll do nice issues for the Nation.
