The Republican Congress IS leary of cementing the Musk/Project 2025 Actions/Cuts

In voting to keep the cuts and undercut the increasing number of Federal Judges ruling’s tempering them?

The Congress would also be ceding power to a President OVER their actions as lawmakers….

Even with their Congressional Majority ?

Republicans are leary about a so-called “rescissions” package …

Something one Donald Trump was AGAINST back in the day….

 

The White House does not appear to be in any hurry to move a so-called “rescissions” package up to Capitol Hill, according to interviews with members of Senate GOP leadership, senior Republicans and close Trump allies. And there’s no guarantee the cuts will pass if and when it arrives: The GOP tried and failed to enact the same maneuver during Trump’s first term…..

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With the courts increasingly questioning efforts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to slash the federal bureaucracy, some GOP senators are privately advising the White House that a congressional vote could provide the spending cuts some legitimacy.

“It would be a big mistake if we don’t,” Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said about voting on rescissions. “It’s the one way to make DOGE cuts real.”

Unlike most legislation, Republicans could clear a rescissions package with a simple majority vote in both chambers, making it an attractive option for fiscal hawks who are eager to make their mark on DOGE’s agenda. Their 53-seat majority gives the Senate GOP some breathing room, though they’ll still need to muscle it through the House, where Republicans have a smaller margin for error.

The last time Republicans attempted to approve such a package, under Trump in 2018, it resulted in failure — something senators are eager to avoid. Many are already limiting their public disapproval of DOGE’s work over fears of incurring Trump’s wrath and Musk’s social media megaphone.

This time around, the task could be trickier: The 2018 package tried to claw back $15 billion, and it unraveled because it tried to make cuts to funding priorities of GOP senators. Now rescissions advocates want Congress to bless a package of cuts totaling between $100 billion and $500 billion, and there’s wide private unease among Senate Republicans about Musk’s sledgehammer approach…..

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Trump has publicly disavowed the 1974 law that created the rescissions process that Republican lawmakers are urging him to use. On the campaign trail, Trump argued that the Budget and Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional and that presidents have the power to unilaterally withhold congressionally approved funding…..

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