Senate Republicans voice DOGE concerns in meeting with White House chief of staff

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Feb. 26, 2025, 7:19 PM EST


WASHINGTON — White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles worked to alleviate concerns by Senate Republicans Wednesday over Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal bureaucracy, as lawmakers increasingly raise questions about the Department of Government Efficiency's work.

“Everybody’s concerned when you have people cutting out of your state,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said. “But we all understand, it’s — that’s just part of it, you know, we’re way over, bloated we got to cut back.”

Wiles met with the lawmakers during a visit to Capitol Hill for a lunch with members of the Senate Republican Steering Committee, a group that includes many of the party's most conservative senators.

Senate Republicans who attended the meeting said Wiles fielded several questions regarding the Musk-led operation, and even senators who are supportive of Trump’s agenda requested more transparency regarding DOGE cuts to federal agencies. “We would like a bigger scoreboard of how it’s going,” Tuberville said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-concerns-doge-meeting-white-house-rcna193914

[underpants]

1. Tuberville has an "oh well" attitude towards his own state. A state that just sucks in Federal money

It’s not a damned football game and you don’t have a once in a lifetime quarterback like Cam with the ball.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. When those civil service and contract employees in Huntsville start getting laid off

when Muskrat targets it for closure and consolidation with his TX space operations, then what will Stuperville do?

[underpants]

7. Shrug and say some sort of football reference

[ms liberty]

8. Well, yea. He doesn't live there, so why should he care?

He lives in Florida.

[underpants]

10. Exactly

I was going to put that in. 👍

[Lovie777]

2. Alrighty................

of course, but in the end, you all fall in line.

[LymphocyteLover]

3. Why are they quoting Tommy Dumbfuck when he seems OK with all of it? JFC

[bucolic_frolic]

4. "They're eating the dogs" - did he mean DOGE's?

35% of MAGA prob think it's the same thing.

[underpants]

6. 👍

[sinkingfeeling]

9. But they're too chicken sh+t to voice it to TSF or Musk.

[Harker]

11. Tuberville's either masking his inner panic, or he's too stupid to figure it out.

50-50, I'd say.

[ConstanceCee]

12. Okay

But they all voted for the House budget, didn't they?

[wiggs]

13. reporting was just another chance to perpetuate the meme that most of fed govt is bloated. Once again,

media and pundits focus on process more than the damage they are doing to needed programs, global dynamics, public safety, the economy...and PERMANENTLY to the environment

opposition sounds like whining over process and, while legitimate, drowns out the real damage and INVESTIGATIONS INTO WHY THEY ARE DOING THIS. Hint: it's not about efficiency and saving our money.

[Emile]

14. Republicans raised the debt limit by Four Trillion Dollars

and now they're concerned about spending.

[angrychair]

15. This article is...disturbing

Again, why are they asking permission like they are subservient to the Executive branch?!?

This phenomenon has me more freaked out than anything else because Congress is allowing executive branch to halt their funding. Allowing the WH to cut funds or reallocate funding or stop funding all together. None of that is constitutional.
What "DOGE" is doing is clearly and unequivocally unconstitutional yet it appears that both Congress and the courts are not equipped to handle it.

Why is this complicated and why isn't the court system doing more to stop it?

Serious question: has Congress and Courts now made themselves irrelevant? How long before eLoon and his lapdog TSF just cut Congress and courts out of the picture completely?

[k0rs]

16. The rubber stamp crew...

...has "concerns." Biggest laugh today. Are they taking lessons from Susan Collins?