House Republicans plan to tee up its first Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut bill next week targeting foreign aid, National Public Radio (NPR) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) revealed on Wednesday.
Greene, chair of the DOGE Subcommittee on Oversight, posted the news on X, Wednesday, amid a tsunami of criticism from conservative influencers and constituents who have in recent days been pounding the GOP over their lack of action on cutting the government waste fraud and abuse identified by DOGE.
According to its website, DOGE has cut at least $175 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government during President Trump’s first few months in office, with a savings of $1,086.96 per taxpayer. DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk, was established with the goal of cutting $2 trillion in wasteful spending from the federal budget.
“I was just told that we are going to see the first DOGE cuts bill on Monday,” Greene posted on X. “Foreign aid and NPR/CPB on the chopping block. I have not seen the bill yet, but I’m just passing on what they told me,” the Georgia congresswoman added. “Personally I want to pass DOGE cuts every single week until the bloated out of control government is reigned back in.”
Greene contended that passing the cuts are paramount for the survival of the nation and should be a top priority of Congress.
“As a country, we cannot survive our national debt and honestly, we may be past the point of return,” she wrote. “We should be aggressively attacking our debt and aggressively, cutting all waste fraud, and abuse and unnecessary programs. Our future literally is in peril.”
Congress frustrated many of its conservative constituents in March when it passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, which maintained funding for USAID at the FY 2024 level, effectively extending existing funding for the purportedly “rogue agency” through September 30, 2025.
In addition to Greene, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday used his bully pulpit to blast the GOP’s glacially slow movement on codifying the DOGE cuts. And in a morose post on X, DOGE Chief Elon Musk wrote: “I did my best.”
MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman posted on X Tuesday that according to his Congressional sources, committee chairmen are claiming to be “too busy” to push bills that would codify the DOGE cuts.
Several bills that would lock in the DOGE cuts are currently sitting in committees waiting to be voted on, Eagleman pointed out, including H.R. 1847, H.R. 2006, and H.R. 199.
H.R. 1847, sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), would codify Executive Order 14158, which is related to establishing and implementing the Department of Government Efficiency.
H.R. 2006, “the DOGE Act,” sponsored by Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), would lock in $32 billion in savings from cutting 9,200 grants deemed to be useless.
According to DOGE AI, the legislation:
– Prevents future presidents from bringing back wasteful Peru climate deals
– Stops bureaucrats from restoring their $577M gender programs abroad
– Ensures agencies can’t restart their spending addiction
– Puts America First, not globalist pet projects
H.R. 199, the “Implementing DOGE Act,” sponsored by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), aims to “provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary spending, and for other purposes.”
On the Senate side, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in February introduced the DOGE Acts to “Make Federal Government More Efficient and Slash Wasteful Spending.”
In an interview last week, Conservative economist Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, promised that “way more spending cuts” will come after the Big and Beautiful Bill passes the Senate.
“There are way more spending cuts to come this year because of all the savings that we’re finding both with OMB [the Office of Management and Budget] and with DOGE,” Hassett told Fox News host Laura Ingraham last Wednesday.