There is certainly no denying that the Republican Party remains devoutly loyal to their Dear Leader Donald J. Trump in the public spotlight.
However, a bombshell new report from Axios paints a rather different picture behind closed doors — one full of alarmed, furious, and quietly seething Republicans who, barely a month into Donald’s second presidential term, are already fed up with mistake-ridden, crash-and-burn tactics being employed by Elon Musk’s unelected and largely unchecked Department of Government Efficiency.
And according to Axios, a revolt is closer than we think…
The explosive new report points to several signs of an impending uprising among Republicans in Congress against Elon Musk’s Trump-approved mass firings and cuts that are already causing an onslaught of real-world suffering among lawmakers’ districts that they’re being forced to answer for.
You add those mass firings to the fact that Musk is blatantly attempting to pull control of the proverbial purse strings away from the US Congress, where the US Constitution has long allotted that power, and you get a group of Republicans who are beginning to see that the “constitutional crisis” Democrats have been ringing alarm bells over is not so far-fetched and out of the question after all.
Andrew Solender and Stef W. Kight write, “The job and funding cuts are now hitting GOP lawmakers’ districts and states. DOGE’s spree of job cuts is starting to target federal roles that even some of Trump’s Republican allies in Congress may deem too essential to sacrifice.”
One House Republican who spoke to the publication on the condition of anonymity said, “I think you’re going to see a clash when they … start abolishing [agencies]. Say like USAID, right? We authorized that. That’s a creature of Congress.”
“If they try to do something like that, then you’re going to get into a constitutional argument or crisis,” the anonymous lawmaker added.
Republican Rep. Don Bacon agreed with that warning, before pointedly noting that more than a few federal employees who were unceremoniously canned by Musk and his DOGE team ended up being hastily and desperately recalled back to their positions because the untrained DOGE employees failed to do their homework or any proper due diligence before handing out pink slips and sending people packing for the hills.
“Before making cuts rashly, the Administration should be studying and staffing to see what the consequences are. Measure twice before cutting. They have had to backtrack multiple times,” Bacon said.
GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski was a bit more pointed and vicious in her criticism of Musk’s DOGE team, the cuts her state have suffered, and the overall way that this whole mess has been implemented and handled.
“We all want efficiencies, there is a way to do it, and the way these people have been treated has been awful in many cases. Awful,” she openly chastised.
Even Republican Senator Chuck Grassley admitted in a recent interview that, despite his seniority and perceived power within the GOP, he has found himself powerless against what the Trump-backed DOGE team is doing at billionaire Elon Musk’s unhinged direction.
“his is an executive branch decision,” Grassley said. “Congress can’t do anything except complain about it”
Axios goes on to report, “Republicans have largely applauded the swiftness of DOGE’s hacking and slashing, but some are quietly fuming that their Constitutional role in controlling federal funds could be steamrolled in the process,” which led one lawmaker to suggest, “Even though it’s our guy in the White House, if there’s a lot of executive overreach, we want to protect the institution of Congress.”
You can read that full report from Axios here.
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