Two days after Democrats won both chambers, Hageman called for another party-line budget bill to make the DOGE foreign-aid cuts permanent before the new Congress arrives. Fine said he'd stay 'around the clock until Jan. 3.' Self wants Trump's orders written into law and the SAVE America Act passed 'now while we can.'
In December 2024, Juan Ciscomani said he was 'thrilled' to join the DOGE Caucus to work with Elon Musk's cost-cutting team. DOGE pushed out about a quarter-million federal workers, and its claimed savings couldn't be verified. Now his campaign won't talk about it — while Musk's America PAC buys digital ads against his opponent.
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Byron Donalds held an in-person town hall and spent two hours lecturing the crowd, defending Elon Musk's DOGE, and arguing with the people who elected him.
ProPublica reports Trump's DHS appointees asked the federal election-security agency to secretly acquire and hack a voting machine and send the results to the White House — while cutting a third of its staff and leaving states on their own before the midterms.
The National Institutes of Health planned an open competition to replace a $112 million research contract. Its own paperwork says Trump's DOGE order caused delays and staff turnover that wrecked the plan, so it gave the same company two more years and up to $20 million more without a bid.
Elon Musk's DOGE team pushed the IRS to share its data. The IRS's top privacy officer says she quit rather than help send ICE taxpayers' addresses. A federal judge later found the IRS broke the law about 42,695 times doing exactly that.
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Oregon Republican Cliff Bentz went on national TV to demand budget cuts, saying we all need to make sacrifices.
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The CDC's civil-service workforce fell from 12,705 to about 8,895 between March 2025 and May 2026, according to the union representing its workers. At least eighteen of its divisions lost every employee. That's the agency meant to protect us from measles, food poisoning and the flu.