Washington-after facing the setback of the voters, several Republicans of the House of Representatives return to Washington this week on a mission to demand more information and a more considered approach to the effort led by Elon Musk to reduce the size of the federal government.
Representative Rich McCormick, republican of G-GA. Federal Government. Budget cuts and layoffs.
McCormick also said he wants to use a previously scheduled meeting in the White House on Tuesday to “fold” the ear of President Donald Trump on the subject. The entire class of the second republican year of the House of Representatives will meet with Trump on Tuesday, according to McCormick.
“If we have dismissals in the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]Some people will be affected. The question is, do we give people time to adapt to their lives? And I think that is my biggest concern, we are being compassionate, “McCormick told NBC News.
“Ironically, the first time I met Elon Musk, they asked him:” What could the Republicans do better? “And his answer was … ‘I think you might seem more compassionate.’ So I’m going to use your own words when I talk to him,” said McCormick.
As the Republicans have begun to feel the heat of the constituents who are affected by cuts and layoffs, some legislators have spoken more publicly about Dux and encouraged the Trump administration to adopt a more delicate approach. While they want to stay loyal to Trump, they also want to protect the voters who chose them to Congress.
In addition to frustration: Congress Republicans have been given a little warning about Doge’s movements, much less any type of messaging guide is given, which has sometimes left them flat.
The representative Scott Fitzgerald, Republican of Wisconsin, whose voters demanded answers to the effort to reduce Doge costs during a City Council last week, said he promised his voters that he would try to obtain more information from the Trump administration about what is being reduced exactly. And who would be affected.
“I think it would be better for members to have real specific information. Because we don’t have it. I don’t have it, ”he told reporters. “We don’t know what they are seeing, and we don’t know what the numbers are. … I am learning about this when I see a transmission as much as any other person right now, because we have not informed ourselves. “
But other Republicans of the House of Representatives set aside concerns about the contentious municipalities.
The representative Kevin Hern, Republican of Okla., Who faced difficult questions about the federal budget cuts during an event in his district last week, said that his constituents still support Doge’s broader mission, but they have a problem with Musk.
“I have not heard anyone say that he doesn’t want to cut anything. It’s just that they don’t like Elon. That is, “Hern to NBC News told NBC.” We are advancing with the cuts. “
Hern added that he is “stuck” with his support for Doge, despite the concerns of some of his voters, but will continue listening to them.
“We continue advancing. We will continue answering questions. I asked questions for more than an hour of my voters at home last week, and listen, we represent everyone. I’m going to take questions, ”said Hern. “But I still think that the right thing is to control our government. We have $ 37 billion in debt and growing. It will not improve if we continue doing the same in the same way we have always done. “
Meanwhile, representative Mark Alford, Republican of Mo., said that “was not surprised” by the event full of people who had with the constituents on Monday morning in Missouri, where the voters expressed concern about federal workers who They lost their jobs and actions by Doge.
“The unfortunate was that this was organized protests, I think that by some groups of external agitators,” he said. “There were some components I wanted to hear, and I couldn’t know about them.”
Alford said that “his district is firmly behind what President Trump is doing and what Doge is doing.”
He acknowledged “valid concerns about the speed that this is happening. But the ship heading towards a reef, we do not have much before reaching that reef with a debt worth $ 36 billion.”
