Senate Republicans tell Musk to send his cuts to Congress
Source: Politico
03/05/2025 03:55 PM EST
Senate Republicans urged Elon Musk on Wednesday to better coordinate with them, with many suggesting the tech billionaire send Congress a package of proposed spending cuts to enshrine the work of his Department of Government Efficiency initiative. The message was delivered during a closed-door lunch organized by Florida Sen. Rick Scott in the latest instance of congressional Republicans, who have generally praised his efforts, counseling Musk to more closely loop in lawmakers.
The meeting came just hours after the Supreme Court rebuffed the Trump administration in one of several outstanding legal fights over spending cuts. Republicans warned that the flurry of court challenges, as well as a constant drip of stories about DOGE slashing key jobs, is muddying their political message.
“We need to capture this in the legislative process to make it real,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). “It’s time for the White House now to go on offense. We’re losing altitude here. We started off good. We’re losing altitude. We need to get back on the game, on offense.” The way to do that, Graham added, is to “take the work product and vote on it.”
Inside the room, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he urged Musk to have the White House send Congress a package of proposed spending clawbacks, known as rescissions. Other GOP senators described Musk as “elated” by the idea once he realized it could get through the Senate with a simple majority. “I love what Elon is doing … but to make it real, to make it go beyond the moment of the day, it needs to come back in the form of a rescission package,” Paul told reporters after the meeting. According to two GOP senators, Musk acknowledged that DOGE’s spending cuts would only be temporary unless they were backed up by action in Congress.
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Right now, the "spending cuts" ARE "REAL" and ILLEGAL. The shutting off from access to funds by many agencies has caused extreme harm and the courts have told the to RELEASE THE FUNDS and in some cases, they have refused.
And the GOP is finally waking up to the fact that what they have allowed to happen IS abdication of their role. They are trying to retro-fit the mess they allowed to happen but if they want to use "reconciliation", this "elimination of 'DEI' / 'Woke'" nonsensical description for the justification (and forget the buzzwords of "waste, fraud, and abuse" ), should be considered "policy riders", and FORBIDDEN by the Parliamentarian per the Byrd Rule.
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how quaint...............what could possibly go wrong...................oh yeah were reading and seeing it in real time..............JFC.........
