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Amid a myriad of shocking findings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under the Trump administration, the question as to whether DOGE’s recommended cuts would be codified continues to linger, but some Republicans are taking action to ensure they are.
The House Freedom Caucus announced on Tuesday that its official position on the rescissions package from the White House was to expedite recommended DOGE spending cuts to the floor for “swift passage.”
“The House Freedom Caucus strongly supports these critical rescissions, and we will support as many more rescissions packages the White House can send us in the coming weeks and months,” the caucus said in an official statement.
This comes weeks after Musk, who departed the Trump administration just last week as a top advisor, began to uncover rampant evidence of alleged waste, fraud, and abuse across federal agencies to the tune of billions.
“Passing this rescissions package will be an important demonstration of Congress’s willingness to deliver on DOGE and the Trump agenda,” the caucus statement explained.
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., also called upon Congress and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., to bring these cuts to the floor.
“That is the only way we can prove to the American people that we are serious about reining in wasteful spending,” she said on X.
According to Politico, the rescissions package is “a fraction of the DOGE cuts,” and will pointedly aim to defund PBS and NPR, two taxpayer-funded networks that the Freedom Caucus described as being “notorious for their liberal bias.”
Speaker Johnson last week thanked Elon Musk for his work spearheading DOGE for the past few months, calling the findings “amazing.” He seemed to indicate that Congress would do what it could to ensure the codification of DOGE’s recommended cuts.
“The House is eager to act on its findings. Congress is working with the White House to codify DOGE savings to stop government misuse and misspending of our tax dollars,” Johnson wrote.