Two months into chairing the House Social Security Subcommittee, Estes went on TV to talk about 'efficiency' at the agency he oversees. It then lost 6,645 employees between January and November 2025 — the biggest one-year staff drop in its history.
The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee told constituents DOGE was 'pretty responsive' if you worked it right. His district lost weather service jobs anyway — and when Norman residents asked him to face them in person, his office said he was busy.
In 2016, public television gave Cole its Champion of Public Broadcasting Award — citing his work protecting service to 'the Native American nations of Oklahoma.' In 2025, as Appropriations chairman, he cosponsored the bill that shut the whole system's funder down.
John Moolenaar voted twice to cancel money Congress had already approved for public broadcasting, and dismissed it as 'clearly biased news coverage.' WCMU — licensed to Central Michigan University in his district, serving 42 Michigan counties — lost 19% of its budget.
In March 2025 Barr told a Commerce Lexington luncheon that Musk had assured him 'face to face' that University of Kentucky research was safe and there'd be no broad federal workforce cuts. UK was already facing a $40 million hit, and 317,000 federal workers were gone by year's end.
Bean and Pete Sessions launched the House DOGE Caucus in November 2024 calling the national debt a wakeup call. Twenty months later the debt is $3.9 trillion higher, the caucus has stopped meeting, DOGE itself expired, and Bean's plan to revive it is unused office space.
In February 2025 he told Ohio business leaders Trump's executive orders were 'getting out of control.' Within a day his office said he was 'mischaracterized.' Four months later he voted, at Trump's request, to cancel $9.4 billion Congress had already approved.
He said it on a Republican Study Committee golf podcast during Masters Week. He sits on the House Oversight Committee's DOGE subcommittee — a panel its own chairwoman said was built to work 'hand in hand' with DOGE, and he cheered right along.
Tennessee stands to lose an estimated $7 billion from TennCare and has at least nine rural hospitals at risk. Burchett's DOGE subcommittee spent July 21 on Smithsonian exhibits, with witnesses from the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College.