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The Senate Republicans pushed Elon Musk to camera on Wednesday to move his efforts to reduce federal spending and the federal workforce by the congress, while legislators compete for a seat at the table in the radical effort to revise the government.
It is a sign that Republicans seek to reaffirm their power from the bag in the coming months.
GOP legislators have pleaded for their behind -the -scenes leadership for weeks that the Musk government’s Ministry of Effectiveness must consult the congress on the programs it eliminates and the scope of the cuts. But the Republicans of the Congress wanted to stay in locking with the way President Donald Trump and Musk are reshaping the federal government and have so far made their decline.
To help solve this, Musk gave his mobile phone number during the meeting to the GOP senators and told them that he wanted to work more closely with them, according to a person familiar with the problem.
During the one hour meeting, Senator Rand Paul, an ardent defender of the government of narrowing, argued that the Musk cuts – in order to be protected from the courts – should go through the congress in the form of what are called resistance packages.
An attraction package strengthens the financing which has been appropriate by the congress and requires only a simple majority vote in the Senate led by the GOP and a majority vote in the Chamber led by the GOP.
The challenge for the Republicans, however, is that the vote to do so would mean that they will be in the file to vote for cuts that could be unpopular with some in the American public and even with some of their own voters.
“In order to make it real, in order to make it go beyond the moment of the day, it must return in the form of a termination package,” said Paul.
“What we have to do as Republicans is to capture their working product, put it in a bill and vote it,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, republican of South Carolina and president of the Senate budget committee, describing how the congress can play a more important role in the implementation of the DOGE cuts. “We must grasp this in the legislative process to make it real.”
“It’s time for the White House now to go as an offense. We lose the altitude here, ”added Graham
Senator John Kennedy, a republican of Louisiana, told the journalists of the meeting to discuss Doge: “part of this, the executive power can do alone, in part, we must have to do thanks to a cancellation package.”
Musk will meet the Republicans of the room later Wednesday.
Some House Republicans in recent weeks have pleaded with leaders of advice on how to answer the outpouring of their original districts on recent federal cuts. Republicans have taken human treatment in private for federal workers instead of condemning the elements of the administration approach.
Washington’s Gop representative Dan Newhouse told CNN that a meeting was planned “to talk about this kind of thing, to engage more congress more thought about some of the things it does”, ”
“We support the underlying efforts here and the objectives, but we want to impress him how we have to be more strategic,” said Newhouse.
Like the confusion around what federal subsidies remain in circulation and the way in which the dismissal of federal employees is managed, the Republicans, who continue to hear a ear of their voters, want answers on the Doge process.
Senator Mike Rounds declared before the meeting of the GOP of the Senate which he wanted Musk to explain how Doge will repair all the erroneous cups when he meets the GOP of the Senate during lunch.
The Southern Dakota Republican said that he wanted to hear “how we rely things that don’t happen as they are supposed to do.”
“In many cases, where they are carte blanche that make important cuts, how do we assure ourselves that this message comes back and that it is corrected as quickly as possible?” Rounds added.
“I want to see if we can get a firm approach to what would work best to make these modifications when they are – when they are accidentally do, in some cases.”
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, told Dana Bash de CNN on Tuesday that Doge’s effort should involve more compassion for the way in which federal workers are treated.
“You must also pay attention to the consequences of this and its impact on people. I mean, these are real people. They must be treated in this way, “he said, speaking of affected federal workers.
While the pressure is strengthened for the party to react more publicly, the head of the arm of the GOP campaign of the Chamber, the president of the NRCC, Richard Hudson, urged GOP members on Tuesday not to keep the halls in service in person in the future and to opt for virtual legislators, according to three sources in a private meeting of the Republicans of the Chamber, because the legislators were exceeded and confronted by people concerned.
Roundnds said that the Chief of the White House, Susie Wiles, proposed to be contact when she was before us “, about Doge, but noted” she is only one person “, so the Republicans need more than one process to be able to obtain more information.
This story has been updated with additional details.
Manu Raju, Danya Gainor and Morgan Rimmer of CNN contributed to this report.