

House Freedom Caucus Calls on Speaker Johnson to ‘Immediately’ Pass White House’s DOGE Spending Cuts
The House Freedom Caucus on Monday called on Speaker Mike Johnson to “immediately” bring the first round of DOGE cut requests to a floor vote for “swift passage.”
The White House’s $9.4 billion rescissions package, which is set to land in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, slashes funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
“When the White House submits its first rescissions package to enact DOGE spending cuts to Congress, the House of Representatives should immediately move this to the floor for swift passage,” the caucus said in a statement posted on social media.
“The House Freedom Caucus strongly supports these critical rescissions, and we will support as many more rescissions packages the White House can send us in the coming weeks and months. These first DOGE cuts target taxpayer-funded public broadcasters notorious for their liberal bias like NPR and PBS, as well as billions in wasteful foreign aid dollars,” the statement continued.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has identified an estimated $175 billion in wasteful spending in federal agencies.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said last week that the House would act on the rescissions package “quickly.”
“.@ElonMusk and the entire @DOGE team have done INCREDIBLE work exposing waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government – from the insanity of USAID’s spending to finding over 12 million people on Social Security who were over 120 years old,” Johnson wrote on X. “The House is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings so we can deliver even more cuts to big government that President Trump wants and the American people demand.”
The House Freedom Caucus urged Johnson to make good on his word.
“Passing this rescissions package will be an important demonstration of Congress’s willingness to deliver on DOGE and the Trump agenda,” the caucus stated. “While the Swamp will inevitably attempt to slow and kill these cuts, there is no excuse for a Republican House not to advance the first DOGE rescissions package the same week it is presented to Congress then quickly send it for passage in the Republican Senate so President Trump can sign it into law.”
During a press conference in the Oval Office Friday marking Elon Musk’s departure from the Trump administration, the president said most of the cuts are “going to come later.”
“We’re totally committed to making the DOGE cuts permanent,” Trump said.
The president praised Musk for his DOGE efforts, saying: “It’s an honor to be with Elon, who’s my friend and he’s done a fantastic job. He didn’t need this.”
He added, “And we find that government’s a little nasty on occasion.”
Last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted on X that a rescissions package was on its way to the House, saying: “Personally I want to pass DOGE cuts every single week until the bloated out of control government is reigned back in.”