House Speaker Mike Johnson announced the House is ready to act on the cost savings found by the Department of Government Efficiency, which was overseen by tech mogul Elon Musk.
The Louisiana Republican highlighted some of the waste, fraud, and abuse DOGE exposed, including the amount USAID was spending to the more than 12 million people on Social Security who were over 120 years old.
“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,” Johnson wrote on social media.
Johnson said the House will act quickly to pass legislation to codify the DOGE cuts once the White House sends its rescissions page, using the appropriations package to implement Trump’s 2026 budget.
“DOGE found savings in discretionary spending (such as funding agencies), while our One Big Beautiful Bill secured over $1.6 trillion in savings in mandatory spending (such as Medicaid),” Johnson said. “Both are historic and take huge steps toward addressing our debt and deficit.
The recessions package the House will be voting on is only a fraction of the DOGE cuts, Politico said, mainly targeting NPR, PBS, and foreign aid agencies.
The move comes after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, criticized Congress for betraying voters for failing to help DOGE’s effortsto cut waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending.
“@elonmusk took massive incoming — including attacks on his companies as well as personal smears — to lead the effort on @DOGE,” DeSantis wrote on X. “He became public enemy #1 of legacy media around the world. To see Republicans in Congress cast aside any meaningful spending reductions (and, in fact, fully fund things like USAID) is demoralizing and represents a betrayal of the voters who elected them.”
Sen. Rand Paul has also been critical of the “big, beautiful bill” and Congress’ failure to address the deficit.
“I’m very disappointed — not only in the White House, but disappointed in Congress,” Paul said to Politico. “If Congress can’t cut $9 billion, I think most of them should resign and go home.”
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