‘Finally happening:’ House Republicans rally behind Elon Musk’s efficiency rampage
By Alex Miller - The Washington Times - Updated: 6:01 p.m. on Sunday, February 9, 2025
Republican lawmakers for years have preached fiscal responsibility and vowed to curb wanton federal spending, but Congress kept racking up deficits and the national debt has now ballooned to more than $36 trillion.
Enter Elon Musk, tech billionaire and leader of President Trump’s charge to downsize the federal government.
Mr. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have taken Washington by storm, rattling the federal bureaucracy to its core by rooting out questionable spending — the type of freewheeling spending that Republicans have long derided.
It begs the question, why did Republicans need Mr. Musk to start cutting spending? After all, Congress controls the federal purse strings.
“Well, there’s a part of me that’s asking that same question,” Rep. Michael Cloud, Texas Republican, told The Washington Times.
Mr. Cloud is a member of the debt-hawk-filled House Freedom Caucus and the House’s new DOGE subcommittee. He said that while Congress has “long had the authority to rein in the government spending,” sometimes they didn’t know where to look.
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The other side of the story, he said, was that bureaucrats have done everything they can to “hide, to obfuscate, to keep Congress from knowing the information for us to know where the money is actually going.”
“He’s been able to bring some technology tools to the table that have provided transparency to where we and the American people are seeing where things were going,” Mr. Cloud said.
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