Congress WILL NOT approve the Musk/DOGE job cuts….

Any surprise on this?

NOPE….

Trump and Musk got their way off the starting line of Trump 2.0….

BUT?

Republican House and Senate lwamkaers ARE getting HUGE Head and Stomach ache’s back home from voters that WILL be lining up for the 2026 Midterm Elections….

Trump ain’t running again…..

In addition ?

The Musk/DOGE oiperation HAS BEEN about going around Congressional Spending and Policy authorizations….

Lawmakers ARE gonna get THEIR wishes BACK to take home to voters thru the Spending Bill that Trump WANTS , eh?

WTF would Congress vote to ALLOW a President, even of their party,  essentially make them POWERLESS?

Several GOP senators expressed deep reservations about codifying DOGE cuts as the White House wants.

“I think they don’t want to lose the vote, so I think they may be concerned about the sensibility,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who supports the rescissions effort, told West Wing Playbook.

Other Republicans were more blunt. “I don’t know that we should be taking our limited legislative time to look at that,” said Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). “I don’t think legislation is called for.”

In 2018, during Trump’s first term, the Senate narrowly rejected a $15 billion rescissions package. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was one of two Republicans to vote no. “I don’t like tipping the power of the purse to the executive branch,” she said then.

Now, Collins — who has more power as chair of the Appropriations Committee — is warning she won’t support any effort that cuts global women’s health programs or PEPFAR. “I don’t see those passing,” she told the Washington Post.

The congressional cold shoulder has major implications for the future of DOGE.

Although the group has claimed more than $160 billion in savings — their accounting has been disputed — most of those cuts are unilateral, and potentially reversible executive actions. With both Congress and the courts unwilling to provide legal backing, the administration is running out of ways to ensure its reductions hold, raising the risk that DOGE’s sweeping disruption may leave little lasting impact…

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Complicating matters further, Republicans earlier this year were hoping to use DOGE savings to partially offset the cost of extending the Trump tax cuts. But the rules governing the process the GOP is using to enact the megabill doesn’t allow for cuts to discretionary spending — where most of the DOGE cuts were made.

With few viable paths in Congress, the White House may now pivot to the courts.

“I think they probably want to challenge the Impoundment Act is my sense,” Hawley said. A legal fight over that statute, if successful, could open the door for a broader showdown over Trump’s executive power.

The White House has already expressed an openness to unilaterally freezing money approved by Congress….

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Make no bones about this….

This IS a President Challenging his party in Congress dfor the spending those lawmakers ARE responsible to make for their President to make happen…Trump has up to now been fighting with the courts….

Now it’s about Congress also….