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Ron DeSantis blasts House GOP for failing to codify DOGE cuts: ''Betrayal of the voters''
2025-05-28
[NYPOST] Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis accused congressional Republicans Tuesday of ''betrayal'' by failing to codify spending cuts pursued by the Elon Musk-guided Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

''Elon Musk took massive incoming — including attacks on his companies as well as personal smears — to lead the effort on DOGE,'' DeSantis, who was elected to Congress three times before resigning in 2018 to pursue a successful gubernatorial run, lamented on X. ''He became public enemy #1 of legacy media around the world.

''To see Republicans in Congress cast aside any meaningful spending reductions (and, in fact, fully fund things like USAID) is demoralizing and represents a betrayal of the voters who elected them.''
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Posted by:Fred

#10  No... They needed to leave the DOGE cuts out. They are now going back to vote on them individually. This was a brilliant move. Now the no votes cant be masked with some other objection to the big bill. It will force those that lived in the corruption and their masters into the light when they vote no. When they begin to object DOGE has all the data on who got the money and their corruption will be plastered for all to see. This is a worst case event for the left and right that lived this corruption... It will be great!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2025-05-28 17:48  

#9  re: 6 &7
That's what I'm afraid of.

We seem to be seeing a need for a ChiCom style corruption crack down. Do we need to start decorating lamp-posts?
Posted by: alanc   2025-05-28 17:29  

#8  Absolutely disgusting, and as DeSantis said - a huge betrayal.
Posted by: mossomo   2025-05-28 13:54  

#7  I can't imagine WHY.

If the budget is trimmed, the money goes away.
If the budget is not trimmed, the money can be reallocated.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-05-28 12:53  

#6  GOP doesn't want to rock the boat because they TOO are in on the grift. Not all grift is "illegal", but most of it is absolutely NOT in the best interests of their constituents...and the GOP doesn't really give a damn about their constituents.
Posted by: Crusader   2025-05-28 11:52  

#5  I don't doubt the RINO faction is behind his but I
can't imagine WHY.

Is it really that they don't want to disrupt the flow or THEIR funding?
Posted by: alanc   2025-05-28 10:58  

#4   why we've not heard much from Musk lately.

From CNBC, published 4/30:

Elon Musk bids farewell — sort of — to Trump Cabinet, claims DOGE saved $160 billion

Musk said last week on a Tesla earnings call that his time spent running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency will drop significantly beginning in May, and that he plans to spend just a “day or two per week” on the government effort.

The New York Post reported Tuesday that Musk was no longer working out of the West Wing. But his DOGE lieutenants were still working in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is on the White House campus.

Musk said in his Tesla earnings call last week that he would continue work on DOGE “for as long as the president would like me to do so, and as long as it’s useful.”

“But starting next month, I’ll be allocating far more of my time to Tesla now that the major work of establishing the Department of Government Efficiency is done,” said Musk.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-05-28 07:34  

#3  Ballotpedia's congressional approval polling average: 31% (May 27, 2025)

Results are updated daily at 9:30 a.m. EST and aggregated from the most recent polls from the sources listed in the methodology section below. Think we're missing something? Email us.

The congressional approval rating indicates public satisfaction in the job performance of the members of the United States Congress. It is the percentage of people polled who responded favorably toward the work of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-05-28 07:09  

#2  Failing to codify DOGE cuts: ''Betrayal of the voters'

I agree with you Mike. It might also be why we've not heard much from Musk lately.
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-05-28 06:58  

#1  Truth. I am VERY disappointed in the House and Senate. Make a list and throw the bums out. And that explicitly includes all Rinos. And what the heck happened with the Fort Knox 'audit'? I smell a rat.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2025-05-28 05:28  

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