After the start of Donald Trump’s second term, the push to cut DOGE spending seemed at the outset to be a promising move, but it has now stalled in the Capitol’s inter-chamber corridors, drawing disappointment from conservative lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
At the White House, the campaign to cut funding is generally viewed as nearly finished: Trump has shifted his attention to other priorities. In Congress, Republicans passed only one DOGE-related bill totaling around $9 billion – a far less ambitious plan than Elon Musk’s proposal to cut the budget by about $2 trillion.
The White House budget office now hints that a new package that could restore funds will not appear, said White House Budget Director Russell Vought to a member of Congress last month: it’s a…
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