Republicans had faced backlash last month after tech mogul Elon Musk publicly backed complaints that Congress hadn’t codified any of his DOGE work, despite promising to do so.

The rescissions package now heads to the Senate, which appears likely to table the package until it finishes with the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that would extend and expand President Donald Trump’s

White House says the CBO’s analysis is wrong because it assumes that Republicans in Congress will fail to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

OMB director ignores current law and relies on budget gimmicks to claim massive deficit reduction.

Incredibly petty & shortsighted of Trump’s staff to exclude Republicans from the annual White House picnic while inviting Pelosi and every Democrat."

The White House's notion of offsetting tax cuts with a tax increase via tariffs, paid by consumers, is a conflicting one, complicating the GOP's messaging.

House appropriators on Tuesday advanced plans for a $831.5 billion defense budget for next fiscal year over concerns from Democratic lawmakers that the spending package is rushed and incomplete, since the White House still has not unveiled its own detailed funding plans for the military.