Rep. Eric Sorensen: DOGE has ‘no validity’ to enforce budget cuts

The 119^th Congress gets sworn in on Friday.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, who represents parts of Bloomington-Normal, is set to begin his second term in Washington.

The second term is likely to look much different under the incoming Trump administration.

For example, Congress is trying to hammer out a new spending bill as the new Department of Government Efficiency commission [DOGE] looks for ways to slash the budget.

Sorensen said the new commission led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will only have the power Congress gives it.

“There is no validity for them. There is no mechanism for them to do that work,” Sorensen said in an interview on WGLT’s Sound Ideas. “I’m all for finding the waste in government. Let’s tackle it. Let’s get rid of it. Let’s find it first. But we need to make sure we are doing it…more

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