Doge excites on Capitol Hill

Wherever you look in Washington, Doge is starting to slow down.

It is not only that Elon Musk is preparing to reduce his involvement in the project and to devote more time to Tesla. It is also not simply that the 2 billions of estimated dollars of musk in the federal budget were reduced to less than $ 200 billion. The initiatives linked to the Dogey in Capitol Hill – where decisions concerning public spending are finally taken – also lose steam.

“This is one of my big frustrations at the moment,” said Republican representative Tim Buchett du Tennessee in Bi. “The agenda of the president of the Doge is throughout the decrees, and without anything else.”

A house caucus created to provide ideas for reducing Doge costs has had little interaction with the Trump administration. On Wednesday, a house committee created to support the government’s efficiency efforts held an audience on transgender athletes in fencing. And plans to vote on the creation of Doge Cuts permanent has also stalled.

Despite the shock and fear of the first weeks of musk in the government, time has shown that Doge is still subject to the laws of political gravity. Musk has become unpopular, Doge was faced with a massive breath of the public, and Tesla – the source of most of Musk’s wealth – has become the target of demonstrations.

The substance of the Musk project is also in danger. Although the congress has largely taken the rear seat of the executive power in the first months of President Donald Trump’s mandate, the legislative power must act to ensure that the modifications made by DOGE are not reversible by the next administration.

“We are not even going to call it the Doge’s subcommittee”

For months, the chamber surveillance subcommittee on the delivery of government efficiency – alias, the Doge -Sub -Comeding – was the main forum for republicans and democrats to chop subjects related to Doge in a public forum. He has held hearings on inappropriate payments, USAID, NPR and PBS financing, and if the federal government should reduce its real estate portfolio.

Wednesday, the subcommittee started from this course, holding an audience on transgender athletes participating in fences competitions.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, the president of the subcommittee, said before the hearing that the subject was linked to the effectiveness of the government because Trump signed an executive decree aimed at prohibiting transgender women from competing with women’s sports.

During the hearing, several Democrats of the Committee argued that the hearing was out of topic.

“We are not going to even call it the DOGE subcommittee. This is called the fences surveillance committee,” said representative Melanie Stansbury of the New Mexico, the best Democrat in the Panel. “Welcome to the fences monitoring committee.”

The republicans of the subcommittee have largely been questioned when they were questioned about the apparent nature outside the audience. “Yeah, I don’t know,” said Burchett. “You know, people are careful.”

Meanwhile, House Doge Caucus – a bipartite group which has nearly 80 members – has been much less active than originally expected. The leaders told BI in January that the group planned to publish a report at the end of the first quarter which had compiled economics suggestions for the White House and Musc.

But the group has not met for months, and the republican representative Blake Moore of Utah, one of the three co -presidents of the group, told Bi that the plans of a report had been delayed.

“There was simply not much interaction with us and the administration,” said Moore.

The representative Jared Moskowitz of Florida, one of the few Democrats who had joined the group, went even further in a recent CNN interview. “The Doge Caucus at Congress is dead, it’s missing,” said Moskowitz. “He met twice, I was there, he never met again. They were not included in any conversation.”

To date, Moore said, the members have been left pending that the White House submitted a request asking the Congress to withdraw funding that legislators had previously approved, known as “cancellation”.

The administration had planned to ask the legislators to reduce the financing of the USAID, the NPR and the PBS, according to various reports. But now this has also been put on hold, and the White House did not meet a request for comments on the moment when the request for recurrence is made.

“Our goal is right, at this stage, that the cancellations finally come,” said Moore. “But there was a major delay in there, so it is somehow to wait to see what legislative action occurs.”