His February 2025 Orange County Register column ran under the headline "DOGE is doing what must be done to protect taxpayers." When protesters showed up at his Palm Desert office, he said: "I'm used to it. It's just another day in paradise." He has still not held an in-person town hall.
The House was on track to reject Trump's $9.4 billion package of cuts. LaLota had already voted no. Johnson pulled him aside with the vote still open, and minutes later he switched to yes — 214 to 212. He wouldn't say what he got for it.
In February 2025 Cammack introduced a bill to cut off all federal money to NPR. In July she voted for the package that clawed back $1.1 billion from public broadcasting. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down. WUFT in Gainesville — home of the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network — lost about 20% of its operating funds.
Her vote passed the $9.4 billion cuts package 214–212. Indiana public media lost $1.3 million a year and cut 18 jobs. DOGE's charter quietly expired on July 4, 2026 without a final report.
Jim Baird has a doctorate, two Purdue degrees, a seat on the Science Committee and a co-chairmanship of the R&D Caucus. Purdue is in his district. When Washington started cancelling research grants, he called it long overdue — and in April 2026 he celebrated the shutdown of the USDA's flagship research center because Purdue picked up a piece of it.
She chairs the Veterans' Affairs oversight subcommittee. She cheered DOGE from its first meeting and told laid-off federal workers to 'go out and get' other jobs. Only after Politico counted the damage in Virginia Beach did she say she was working to reverse it.
Four staffers, $20,750 in taxpayer-funded travel over one long weekend — six times the House average, and more than any other office in the House. His spokesperson wouldn't say where they stayed.
The Florida congressman now praising DOGE for exposing government waste once collected $152,000 in public money from a community college for a 175-page double-spaced manuscript that existed in a single copy.
In May 2025 Wittman told Virginians he opposed 'reckless cuts' to the federal workforce. In June and July he voted twice for the bill that made DOGE's cuts permanent. Virginia lost 23,500 federal jobs in eleven months.