Some GOP legisans call doge carefully – carefully

Senator Thom Tillis, Rn.C.
AP/Jan. 30, 2025

The Republican legislators call out the USDOKE from Elon Musk in the midst of violent setbacks of their voters, who have packed in town halls and bombed congress offices with objections to the dramatic cuts of the Trump government with the federal government.

The Republicans of the Congress hesitated to criticize President Donald Trump and his MPs, and the GOP leaders support Musk's project to reduce the federal government. But in the past few days, some legislators have publicly questioned the billionaire Trump donor's methods -at the same time that the Top Trump officers Musks will postpone the WEITH EVERSION -SECTION that every federal worker declares his work by e -mail to remain busy.

MP Richard McCormick (R) – whose town hall in Georgia last week annoyed by Doges over the cuts – reporters said this week that he is “concerned that we may move a little too quickly” and he plans to address the problem with Trump And musk. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) described Musk's recent email demand to the employees “absurd”. Several GOP legislators have asked the Tech CEO to show the workers whose life is built up more “compassion”.

But the Republicans go a fine line with their pushback and in many cases try to solve their worries privately with the Trump team.

“We are working when we find that something has not gone quite properly,” said Rep. Doug Lamalfa (R-Calif.), He said that he had said concerns about the administration about cuts in employees, of which he believes that he believes that they are necessary for agricultural and nature conservation programs. He found that Trump officers were “attentive”.

“There were a few rough patches. … so we want to work on this aspect, but not just give up the entire concept, ”said Lamalfa. “Because we saw some amazing things that were turned over.”

“My concern is that we use a scalpel … and not a suggestion hammer,” repeated Rep. Jeff van Drew (Rn.J.). “So we have to be very careful that we cut things that do not hurt everyday life.”

The Democrats called Musk's Doge, which stands for the government's efficiency, an illegal takeover of power and argued that the Trump government has no right to make such comprehensive changes to the German office without the consent of the congress. Musk and his MPs have requested access to sensitive data and sought abrupt cuts in the agencies, which causes complaints and in some cases judicial orders are solved at a standstill.

However, the overall project of Doge plowed up at high speed, effectively germinates the US agency for international development, manages humanitarian aid abroad and transferred over 10,000 employees to national parks, health authorities and much more layoffs via the Beltway.

The failure has exerted pressure on the Republicans who control the congress. The members of the house returned to their districts last week to find protests in their offices and angry voters in their events – even in red districts.

McCormick, the legislator of Georgia, whose town hall became last week, defended the podcast of the Atlanta Journal Constitution this week the podcast “Political Georgia” of Atlanta-Einige People who are very conservative also think that we also think much slower should move. ”Later he said NBC News that he would“ bend ”Trump's ear in the matter in a previously planned meeting on Tuesday with the Republicans of the Congress.

“If we have layoffs on the CDC, some people will be affected,” said McCormick, whose district is not far from the headquarters of the agency in Atlanta. “The question is that we give people time to adapt to their lives? And I think that's my greatest concern that we are compassionate. “

Senator John Curtis (R-Utah) made the same indication in an OP-ED published last weekend.

“I agree with those affected that the Doge approach appears ruthlessly and from rash and that we should show the sympathy and dignity affected by his mission,” wrote Curtis.

Some of the strongest objections come from Murkowski, the moderate Senator of Alaska, who is known for the swallowing of her party with important voices. “If Elon Musk really wants to understand what federal employees have achieved last week, he should get to know every department and agency and learn about the jobs he tries to shorten,” she recently wrote in an X -Post.

Last week it was Murkowski who said in a virtual town hall with voters that the congress should “step in” if he holds back the acquired federal financing or whether he violates the budget law or the fitting of the prior knowledge.

“If we allow this in congress, we effectively act part of our authority, and so we do your question, what do we do about it? We have to get up, ”she said. “It requires the law to violate the executive authorities.”

Senator Thom Tillis (Rn.C.) also criticized Musk's guideline that the federal agent was sending a list of her activities by e -mail to a list of her activities last week and said he supported the agency leader to ignore the commands .

“If I am a confirmed member of the administration and someone else asks my employees, I would have a problem with it,” said Tillis. “It means” line of the control line “.”

Federation employees who were released by Doge planned to start a “job fair” and a sit-in in a Senate building on Tuesday morning to demand that the senators “set non-selected smash-and-grabber Elon Musk”. The demonstration should include employees who were terminated by Doge, as well as the contractors in canceled federal contracts and others affected by Musk's cuts.

Many Republicans continue to praise Doge without reservation. Senator Jim Justice (RW.VA.) said that he had “naturally” heard from some voters who displeased the cuts, but he insisted that the West Virgins generally support the efforts.

“We have to get all these things under control,” he said. “People are sick and full that the government does not work like a company. … and so of course you hear that some people who are certainly not happy and everything, we have the expenses in any way. “

And while Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.)-The last week that was confronted with the voters, which were dissatisfied with Doge cuts last week, NBC News said on Monday that his voters said at home that they didn't like Elon, “he said later The The Post that it was only Democrats in his district who had complained about Musk and Doge.

“My Republicans love it. They call and say thank you. They appreciate. Imagine the Democrat, «said Hern. “They did not want waste, fraud and abuse.”

Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Who represents a swing state, said the voters there had expressed frustration about the disorder in Washington and expressly expressed the opposition to Jobs in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He said of his Republican colleagues: “They also fight with it inside, but they have to speak.”