Twenty-six Republicans are not ready to codify the DOGE cuts, and they are angry they were put on the record.
Have they codified anything yet?
If they don’t codify anything, everything President Trump has done will be reversed when leftist Democrats get back into office.
Republicans cheer DOGE in public but won’t back up their statements. Many fear a political backlash to the cuts. Axios previously reported that a slight majority of the 60 congressional districts with the most federal workers are represented by Republicans.
According to Axios, some Republicans had cuts reversed.
Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) said he raised concerns about job cuts at the Bonneville Power Administration. “Whether it was my remarks back to DOGE or somebody else’s, it got fixed. They … hired back 30 people.”
Said Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa): “When we have heard from constituents who this has directly impacted in a way that harmed them. I have reached out directly to the agencies and teams.”
Nunn cited Agriculture Department cuts that “could … have impacted farmers” in his district. He “talked to the administration on it, they recognized it, they heard it, and we got those positions reinstated.”
James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Tinker Air Force Base in his state “cannot operate if we lose 600 civilian employees there.”
He also decried cuts to another Oklahoma military installation, McAlester Ammunition Plant. “We will not be able to keep aircraft in the air long-term for the Air Force. That is really important for us to be able to have.”
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) this week praised DOGE for reversing cuts to his district. “After working closely with DOGE and the administration, I am thrilled to announce that common sense has prevailed.”
Some cuts will be mistakes, but they can be rectified.
Democrats complained that they don’t have the same pipeline to express concerns.
26 GOP senators – including Thune and his No. 2 Barrasso – voted against Rand Paul’s amendment to codify DOGE cuts to USAID + foreign aid
List includes many farm state Republicans who were furious today as Paul pushed it
their farmers help provide US wheat and other food…
— Meredith Lee Hill (@meredithllee) March 14, 2025
Some cuts fund farmers.
Sen Roger Marshall (R-Kan), who ultimately voted for the amendment, told me this afternoon it “may be the right amendment at the wrong time”
“It’ll be a tough vote for us. And certainly I’m standing behind the president and DOGE, what they’re doing 110%, I just don’t know if this is the right time to do that.”
“Everyone” has raised concerns about it – another GOP senator said this afternoon.
The 26 Republicans:
Barrasso (WY)
Boozman (AR)
Capito (WV)
Cassidy (LA)
Collins (ME)
Cramer (ND)
Crapo (ID)
Fischer (NE)
Graham (SC)
Grassley (IA)
Hoeven (ND)
Hyde-Smith (MS)
Lankford (OK)
McConnell (KY)
McCormick (PA)
Moran (KS)
Mullin (OK)
Murkowski (AK)
Ricketts (NE)
Rounds (SD)
Scott (SC)
Sullivan (AK)
Thune (SD)
Tillis (NC)
Wicker (MS)
Young (IN)
Sad and true. GMO corn isn’t good for anything but ethanol. Does anyone know how much energy is used to create the Ethanol. And what energy source is being used to create ethanol. It is a lose-lose situation….and that is the way big deep state gov wants it to be.
When is the right time to do it? When the Dems are back in charge?
The ‘pork fat’ is alluring, eh!
Time to primary all of them.
They want to vote without us knowing how they voted?
On ANY issue, that is wrong, and reason enough to replace them!
Todd Young of Indiana continuing to be a RINO.
This is a good list of core RINO/Marxists.and an excellent starting place for removal or primarying by their constituents.
Of course nobody wants “Their Interests” cut, they think it’s worthy spending. More often than not it’s donors losing out so they are lobbied to complain. I live in Iowa and have spent some time on Facebook. I see employees of the USDA posting videos quite often on their personal channels at the time of day USDA employees should be working. Some do it daily and it’s obvious they are on the taxpayer dime. Zach Nunn needs to be primaried out but so far no one stepped forward. He may lose his seat to a Democrat. The thing is he votes with the Democrats 70% of the time so it’s not going to be that much of a change if he does lose. I know I can’t vote for him anymore. As for Grassleys vote, he must have lost the coin toss between him and Ernst to see who votes nay this time. They consistently cancel each other out, I pay attention to their voting records. Grassley was just reelected and this is probably his last term so he probably didn’t give a hoot. Ernst is facing reelection and has become the Doge queen in the Senate trying to change here image. Many think Grassley will step away before his term ends and Kim Reynolds will appoint his grandson Pat to take his place. Giving him the incumbent advantage over a primary challenge. I can’t vote for him either, or Ernst for that matter. They do not represent my conservative values.
I’ll have to admit, they certainly conned me, every damn one of them. It’s high time to repeal the 17th Amendment. It was a con-job from the very start and today we see how wrong it was.
Is there one person who is shocked, or even surprised. Republicans are just as involved with the money laundering and kickback schemes. It’s time for Musk to take out his checkbook.
This is just disgusting. It’s why the Federal Government has made sure so many in Congress benefit from a bloated bureaucracy by hosting different parts in their districts and states. In that way no one, literally no one, will vote to “downsize” the ever-expanding government.
I’d like to see video of these votes.
Too many love the good olde pork barreling (NIMBY).
The system is loaded with alligators.
There’s your list of scumbags that should be primaried.
I’m from Oklahoma and think Lankford should be primaried for so many reasons, he’s been corrupt for some time, but keeps getting voted back in
THEN DO IT! Be part of the solution, instead of just noting the problem!!! ALL action begins at home.
Angry that they were put on the spot. That is both funny and sad.
I knew Grassley was going to be on that list, he’s a long time deep state player, one foot on each side of the fence forever. Voting records don’t lie.
There’s one place the corruption unfortunately runs deep in the republican party, It’s because they govern over rural farming areas more than the democrats do.
It’s their presiding involvement with Big Agg corruption and farming, and with the chemical and GMO poison pushers.
Big agriculture corporations today are owned exclusively by big pharma and GMO seed pushers, chemical corporations, they’re one in the same and controlled by a few globally syndicated monopolies with immense ties to government personnel; Unfortunately!.
That group with ties to the corruption in Big Agg has been and is the de-facto main source of the corruption in the republican party. They were inseparable from Obama who was Monsanto’s main connection in the white house during the Obama administration’s tenure. They ruthlessly advocated for and authorized the use government funds to promote the use of contaminated GMO foods and farming. And knowingly against the peoples will.
This is True!. Until they’re weeded out of the picture expect trouble to arise.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-controls-both-the-white-house-and-the-us-congress/5336422
Wow!, browsing the site above, they’re pushing 100% fake news today as political propiganda, pretty sad to be living in a country where the media can’t be trusted.
GMO corn grown for ethanol manufacturing, that cost more to manufacture, producing more carbon emissions than using petroleum alone. That’s not farming for one thing, it’s being done for profits over whats rational. The farmers get subsides to grow it from the government so the chemical companies can make profit’s from off it. The math has been done, it’s not beneficially to grow GMO corn for ethanol, it’s not environmental safe to grow produce nor is it economically beneficial, it’s a scam.
It is deep state profiteering, destroying the natural non GMO species of plants, they cannot coexist together, and it’s all for the benefit of the chemical companies that have already contaminated 100% of our underground aquifers to some degree, there’s virtually no place on earth today that traces of pesticides and herbicides are not found.
If a correction is not made now in how we farm, what’s being passed off as food, and what is defined as farming, there’s a %100 chance that the prosperity and well being of future generations will be negatively impacted.
One last thing before I sleep. As of right now most of our organically grown non gmo food found in the USA today is being grown and imported from other countries. Why? primarily because of GMO an Chemical CONTAMINATION. Theirs absolutely no reason for it. They’ve went to great lengths to outsource our food supply and to censer out the fact that it was happening. They removed country of origin labels on meat. Yes this is for real. They’re Nut’s!.
I think it’s around 75% of the corn grown in Iowa is now going to ethanol production. About half that is modified specifically for ethanol production. I will say ethanol plants in MO capture the CO2 and sell it on the market for industrial cooling. They aren’t as reliant on subsidies because of that. You see all the plants in the upper plains that will be connected to the pipeline and the CO2 will be pumped in the ground. The investors in Summit Carbon Solutions will benefit from $10 billion yearly in 45Q tax credits which Congress increased under Biden. They can then turn around and sell those carbon credits on the open market. John Deere and The Rise Fund are the major investors and the board, legal team and advisors are all well connected politicos. The increase in the tax credits last year is the only reason they decided to move ahead. They say so on their website. I may live in Iowa and I do have friends who sell to the ethanol plants but I’m beginning to think the ethanol subsidies and these carbon tax credits need to be axed. They should be selling the CO2 but they won’t make as much $$$. We import CO2 to meet our refrigeration needs which makes zero sense. The EPA is phasing down CO2 use when it’s needed more than ever for cooling data centers and battery storage banks. None of this makes any sense but I doubt Trump will push to end it even though he said he was going to kill the climate debacle.
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