'Codify into Law' the DOGE recommendations

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DOGE has power to investigate
DOGE has power to recommend
DOGE has power to expose

DOGE does not have the ability to actually change anything. DOGE does not have the power enact changes, but if a department adopts a recommendation, the department can follow through . . . until the next administration changes it back.

So the things that the DOGE folks have exposed, and the recommendations they have advised, need to be put into law.

It appears that the public would support that because there is now backlash over the huge disappointment of the One Big Beautiful BLOATED SPENDING and INCREASED DEBT Bill.



FULL STORY AT ZeroHedge >>> https://www.zerohedge.com/political...eautiful-bill-doge-pushes-ahead-spending-cuts

After Backlash, White House Prepares Rescissions Bill To Codify Some DOGE Cuts​

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The big question in recent weeks: Why are House Republicans hesitating to codify the waste and fraud identified by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) into law?​

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Musk's CBS News interview on Tuesday, where he called the "Big, Beautiful Bill" (BBB) a "disappointment," appears to have kicked off a broader information campaign aimed at pressuring the White House to push House Republicans toward formally codifying some DOGE-related spending cuts. ​

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By Wednesday afternoon, Politico reported, citing two anonymous Republican sources, that the White House plans to send a rescissions bill (appropriations bill) to Congress next week to formally propose the spending cuts.​

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The package is expected to target funding for NPR, PBS, and certain foreign aid agencies previously reduced under President Trump.​

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The package set to land on Capitol Hill is expected to reflect only a fraction of the DOGE cuts, which have already fallen far short of Musk's multi-trillion-dollar aspirations. The two Republicans said it will target NPR and PBS, as well as foreign aid agencies that have already been gutted by President Donald Trump's administration.​

House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that the House is "eager and ready" to act on the DOGE findings, while Senate Majority Leader John Thune and others voiced frustration over the delay.​

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A growing online campaign, led by supporters of Musk, including Sen. Mike Lee and Gov. Ron DeSantis, is pressuring the administration to codify more of the DOGE cuts.​

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Sen. Ron Johnson blasted House Republicans.​

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However, the path forward remains uncertain due to the opposition of 26 Senate Republicans.​

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An online pressure campaign aimed at "codifying" the DOGE cuts is taking shape. The number of X posts mentioning "codifying" has jumped from around 1,000 five days ago to 25,000 on Tuesday. ​

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All DOGE cuts must be codified. ​

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Elon Musk had ambitious plans when he took the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), famously pledging to slash at least $1 trillion in government waste. Back in February, we noted that while Musk's mission in Washington, DC, was admirable, the ultimate cost savings would be decided by Congress.​

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Fast forward to Tuesday, Musk appeared in a CBS News interview where he voiced his disappointment, citing frustration that despite DOGE's efforts to root out waste and fraud across federal agencies, President Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" (BBB) comes with an alarmingly high price tag.​

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"I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing," Musk said.​

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He added, "I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful ... but I don't know if it can be both. My personal opinion."​

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Last week, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the BBB that fulfills much of Trump's 'America First' agenda, such as delivering new tax breaks on tips and car loans and boosting spending on the military and hemispheric defense.​

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As we've previously explained, BBB will "massively" increase deficits by $3.8 trillion over ten years. In part because new borrowing is front-loaded and offsets are back-loaded, the bill would add massively to near-term deficits. ​

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The prospect of a ballooning national debt—despite DOGE's reported $175 billion in federal waste and fraud reductions—has put Musk at odds with Trump's BBB and, more notably, with Congress. His frustration appears primarily directed at lawmakers, whom he sees as unwilling to implement the sweeping fiscal cuts needed to course-correct that nation to avert a debt crisis. . . .​

 

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Breitbart and Fox are reporting similar news.

White House: We'll Send Some DOGE Cuts to Congress Next Week, Enacting All Will Take 'Several Months'

On Wednesday's broadcast of the Fox Business Network's "Kudlow," OMB Director Russ Vought stated that the White House will send a rescission package with | Clips

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Looks like the public outrage over the huge spending increases in the ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL have sparked a lot of complaints among the voters. I know there are all sorts of "contact your congressman" campaigns floating around the interwebs to press individual congress critters to enact DOGE. And also lots to force the Senate to CUT BACK the spending and bloat that the RINOS in the House left in the ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL. That is a horrible bill, with several good things, like permanent tax cuts, deregulatory language, etc. But the spending increases will increase our debt.

White House: We’ll Send Some DOGE Cuts to Congress Next Week, Enacting All Will Take ‘Several Months’​

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On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” OMB Director Russ Vought stated that the White House will send a rescission package with some DOGE cuts in it and enacting all the DOGE savings is “not going to be something that, hey, we’re going to have it in one bill, it’s going to be part of a process over the next several months.” And can’t be done in the reconciliation bill under Senate rules and law.​

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Host Larry Kudlow asked, “So, rumor has it that we’ve got a big rescission package, an Elon Musk DOGE rescission package coming up, can you confirm it?”​

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Vought answered, “I can. We’ll be sending that up on Monday or Tuesday, whenever the House is back in session, they will get our first rescissions bill. And, again, this has been proposed and we’ve talked about it, we want to make sure that Congress passes its first rescissions bill, including the DOGE, and we will send more if they pass it. And so, this is the first one, it’s foreign aid, USAID cuts, many of the waste and garbage that was funding, not only wasteful, but hurting our foreign policy, but also the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR.”​

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Vought added that the bill won’t be subject to the filibuster.​

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Kudlow then asked, “So, Russ, the Elon Musk DOGE total on their website is, I think, $175 billion. I don’t know, that’s 10 or 20 more rescission packages?”​

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Vought responded, “Well, look, that’s for fiscal year ’26. Fiscal year ’26 is the full budget year, we sent up $160 billion in cuts to nondefense spending, relatively consistent with that number, and that is the lowest number since fiscal year 2017, if you adjusted it for inflation, it’s the lowest since fiscal year 2000. And so, we are doing everything we can to make the DOGE cuts permanent, either through rescissions or through impoundment. Look, impoundment is still on the table and something we will consider. So, we have tools in the executive toolbox that the president has run on that we firmly believe are at his disposal. And all of those tools are something that we’re going to be looking at over the course of the next several months. And this is going to be playing out, it’s not going to be something that, hey, we’re going to have it in one bill, it’s going to be part of a process over the next several months. And remember, the one big beautiful bill…it cannot include discretionary savings to the bureaucracy, procedurally, under the Senate rules and law. So, it is many things, but it is not the vehicle to enact these DOGE cuts, which we will do and which we are in the process of doing.”​

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