{"id":2405803,"date":"2025-02-23T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/curtis-says-doge-spending-cuts-are-exact-opposite-of-constitutional-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T17:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:04:01","slug":"curtis-says-doge-spending-cuts-are-exact-opposite-of-constitutional-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/curtis-says-doge-spending-cuts-are-exact-opposite-of-constitutional-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis says DOGE spending cuts are &#8216;exact opposite&#8217; of constitutional crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcurtis-says-doge-spending-cuts-are-exact-opposite-of-constitutional-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2405803&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator John Curtis (R-UT) has defended President\u200b Donald Trump&#8217;s actions of cutting goverment appropriations, stating that they are constitutional and part of the ongoing interplay between the three branches \u200dof government. During an interview\u2063 on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the\u2062 Nation,&#8221; curtis argued that the department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s identification and elimination of wasteful spending has resulted in \u200dsignificant savings, estimated at $55 billion. He suggested \u200cthat the \u2063legal frameworks established by \u2063the Constitution are functioning as intended, countering claims that \u2063these actions\u2064 represent a constitutional crisis. Curtis emphasized that both Congress and the president hold duty\u2062 when Congress fails to\u2064 fulfill its duties.His comments come amidst various legal challenges, including those surrounding Trump&#8217;s \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-ca-gov-overstepped-his-authority-with-covid-order-issues-permanent-injunction-restraining-newsom-from-further-issuing-unconstitutional-orders\/\" title=\"Judge Rules CA Gov Overstepped His Authority with Covid Order, Issues Permanent Injunction Restraining Newsom From Further Issuing Un... Orders\">executive orders<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosis-new-house-rules-package-silences-the-voice-of-republican-minority\/\" title=\"Speaker Pelosi\u2019s new House rules package silences the voice of Republican minority\">spending cuts<\/a>. Curtis, a\u2063 first-term senator who\u200c previously \u200bserved in the House of Representatives, expressed confidence in the constitutional process as these issues unfold.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">John Curtis says DOGE spending cuts are &lsquo;exact opposite&rsquo; of constitutional crisis<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2015932\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3288091\/john-curtis-emerges-elusive-gop-vote-tulsi-gabbard-confirmation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"John Curtis\">John Curtis<\/a> (R-UT) defended the constitutionality of President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/3319253\/trump-cutting-spending-through-doge-make-those-cuts-permanent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"John Curtis\">cutting funding<\/a> appropriated by Congress.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The Department of Government Efficiency has identified government contracts, leases, and grants deemed to be wasteful spending and then cut them, sparking legal battles.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3323628\/has-doge-really-saved-55-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a>&nbsp;to the department, this has already saved $55 billion. Additionally, Trump has paused federal grants via an executive order. Curtis appeared on CBS News&rsquo;s <em>Face the Nation<\/em> to suggest that the legal process outlined by the Constitution is &ldquo;proving to work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3323452\/james-lankford-snap-cuts-center-on-improper-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"JAMES LANKFORD EXPLAINS CUTS TO SNAP CENTER ON &lsquo;IMPROPER PAYMENTS&rsquo;\">JAMES LANKFORD EXPLAINS CUTS TO SNAP CENTER ON &lsquo;IMPROPER PAYMENTS&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What we&rsquo;re seeing play out is&nbsp;the wrestle between the three&nbsp;branches of government.&nbsp;We&rsquo;ll find out.&nbsp;This is the beauty of the&nbsp;system,&rdquo; Curtis said of the canceled funds.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have a point of&nbsp;view?&rdquo; CBS host Margaret Brennan asked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When asked whether the president has the unilateral authority to cancel funds appropriated by Congress, Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) says, &#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing play out is this wrestle between the three branches of government. We&#8217;ll find out.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@margbrennan<\/a>: &#8220;You don&#8217;t have a point of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UB3YEVgIy5\">pic.twitter.com\/UB3YEVgIy5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1893706417560797310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, listen, I believe in the&nbsp;Constitution, right?&nbsp;I believe this is how we test&nbsp;the Constitution.&nbsp;People have said, &lsquo;Oh, this is a&nbsp;constitutional crisis,&rsquo; and&nbsp;I say exactly the opposite.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s proving to work.&nbsp;We have the courts playing it.&nbsp;We have Congress who will play&nbsp;in it,&rdquo; Curtis said.&nbsp;&ldquo;Both parties &mdash; when Congress&nbsp;doesn&rsquo;t do their job and the&nbsp;White House &mdash; have a tendency to&nbsp;try to solve it.&nbsp;Let&rsquo;s let this play out by the&nbsp;Constitution, and then Congress,&nbsp;let&rsquo;s step up, right? I&rsquo;ll be the first to&nbsp;say this is a problem that&nbsp;Congress, in many cases, has&nbsp;given the American people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Among the dozens of lawsuits, one of the successes from Trump&rsquo;s opponents was their litigation against the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">executive order ending birthright citizenship<\/a>. At the moment there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-claims-lawsuits-against-trump-are-actually-winning-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Jeffries claims lawsuits against ... are &#039;actually winning&#039; - Washington Examiner\">temporary restraining order keeping<\/a> the Trump administration from moving forward to enforce it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While a&nbsp;lawsuit&nbsp;attempting to keep&nbsp;DOGE&nbsp;out of the data from the&nbsp;Labor&nbsp;Department was dismissed, and another attempt from 13 Democratic attorney generals was similarly thrown out, one U.S. district judge ruled against the department accessing the U.S. Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis is in his first term as senator after serving in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-of-representatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House of Representatives<\/a> since 2017, when he won a special election to fill Utah&rsquo;s third congressional seat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2015932\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2015932\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Curtis claims DOGE cuts are the &#8216;opposite&#8217; of a constitutional crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2405804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-Curtis-Jan-2025.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50202,11917,23466,38509],"class_list":["post-2405803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-constitutional-crisis","tag-curtis","tag-doge","tag-spending-cuts"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-Curtis-Jan-2025.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405807,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405803\/revisions\/2405807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}