{"id":2440080,"date":"2025-05-28T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/compromise-is-why-doge-cuts-are-missing-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-concha\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:21:14","slug":"compromise-is-why-doge-cuts-are-missing-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/compromise-is-why-doge-cuts-are-missing-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Compromise&#8217; is why DOGE cuts are missing in Trump&#8217;s &#8216;big beautiful bill&#8217;: Concha"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fcompromise-is-why-doge-cuts-are-missing-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-concha%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=2440080&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>In a recent assessment by Joe Concha at the *Washington Examiner*, the absence of proposed cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency in the recently passed &#8220;big, lovely bill&#8221; is attributed too the House Republicans&#8217; slim majority.Elon Musk, a prominent advocate for DOGE, expressed disappointment over the bill&#8217;s implications for fiscal duty, claiming it undermines the work of the DOGE team by possibly increasing the deficit. Concha notes that Musk&#8217;s views align with other Republicans who prioritize reducing government waste and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-taxpayers-spent-13-billion-on-paxlovid-for-pfizer\/\" title=\"American taxpayers contributed  billion towards Paxlovid by Pfizer\">maintaining fiscal prudence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite dissatisfaction from figures like Governor Ron DeSantis regarding the House Republicans&#8217; inaction on DOGE findings, Concha emphasizes that political realities necessitate compromises, notably with narrow majorities in Congress. He argues this pattern of unfulfilled promises to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-retired-lt-gen-keith-kellogg-endorses-gino-campana-for-colorado-senate-race\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg Endorses Gino Campana for Colorado Senate Race\u00a0\">cut government waste<\/a> is not new. Looking forward, the White House plans to present a &#8220;$9.4 billion rescissions package&#8221; to Congress,which could include meaningful cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid. House Speaker Mike Johnson has expressed readiness to act on DOGE findings,potentially through legislation or appropriations processes.  <\/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\">&lsquo;Compromise&rsquo; is why recommended DOGE cuts are missing in &lsquo;big, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-fights-to-keep-trumps-ear-as-house-agenda-stalls-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Mike Johnson fights to keep ...\u2019s ear as ... agenda stalls - Washington Examiner\">beautiful bill&#038;rsquo<\/a>;: Joe Concha<\/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_2133730\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Concha<\/a> assessed on Wednesday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House Republicans&rsquo;<\/a> slim majority is partly why the cuts proposed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> are not included in the &ldquo;big, beautiful bill&rdquo; that was passed last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a>, who spearheaded DOGE, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3423547\/elon-musk-disappointment-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">recently expressed disappointment<\/a> with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/1\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/a>, specifically regarding how it &ldquo;undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing&rdquo; by increasing the deficit. Concha, a senior writer for the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, noted that Musk&rsquo;s opinion reflects other Republicans&rsquo; sentiments about prioritizing fiscal responsibility, including those of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ron Johnson (R-WI). Concha noted, however, that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> is focused on providing &ldquo;wins&rdquo; to voters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3423215\/house-democrats-investigations-against-trump-2026-majority\/\">House Democrats plot investigations into Trump with eye on 2026 majority<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3422891\/republican-big-beautiful-bill-multi-pronged-crack-down-immigration\/\">Republicans&#8217; &#8216;big, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >beautiful bill&#8217; features multipronged approach<\/a> to crack down on immigration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3423479\/tom-homan-aoc-arrest-lamonica-mciver-ice-protest-waiting-consequences\/\">Homan taunts AOC after House Democrat charged over ICE protest: &#8216;Waiting on the consequences&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump is living more in the real world though, where he&rsquo;s talking about wins in terms of getting this across the finish line because that would otherwise mean a $25,000 tax increase for many Americans in this country, and he realizes he has to get the votes and votes means compromise, it means negotiation,&rdquo; Concha explained on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>The Story with Martha MacCallum<\/em>, guest-hosted by Gillian Turner. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s nice to say &lsquo;we have to have all these cuts,&rsquo; but in the end, when you only have a three-vote margin in the Senate and like a one-vote margin in the House, compromises will have to be made. Not everybody&rsquo;s going to get what they want here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2955252&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=ea72365dd757fa90f634d422fe948e99\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has also vented his frustration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3422671\/desantis-republicans-betrayal-implementing-doge-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House Republicans for failing to provide results on DOGE&rsquo;s findings<\/a>, suggesting that &ldquo;so far, the swamp has won&rdquo; against Musk and DOGE in eliminating government waste. <\/p>\n<p>Concha instead suggested that the speed bumps impeding DOGE are a longstanding problem, citing how previous presidents and administrations have vowed to cut government waste while failing to provide substantial results. As such, Concha argued that lawmakers are &ldquo;all foam, and no beer&rdquo; in providing results, which he explained cut programs and policies &ldquo;that may make you unpopular in your district.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/editorials\/3422903\/big-beautiful-bill-senate-changes-improvement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">THE SENATE CAN IMPROVE THE &lsquo;BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amid the setbacks, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> is planning to transfer a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3424019\/trump-white-house-rescissions-package-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">$9.4 billion &ldquo;rescissions package&rdquo; to Congress<\/a> next week. Included in this package is $1.1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which runs PBS and NPR, and $8.3 billion in cuts to foreign aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the African Development Foundation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElonMusk<\/a> and the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DOGE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DOGE<\/a> team have done INCREDIBLE work exposing waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government &ndash; from the insanity of USAID&rsquo;s spending to finding over 12 million people on Social Security who were over 120 years old. <\/p>\n<p>The House is eager and ready&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/1927749395363045819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 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>    <\/p>\n<p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) has stated that the House is &ldquo;eager and ready to act on DOGE&rsquo;s findings.&rdquo; He listed two ways in which this can be approached: through passing legislation to codify the DOGE cuts once the White House sends its rescissions package, or using the appropriations process to implement Trump&rsquo;s 2026 budget.<\/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_2133730\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2133730\"}});<\/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>Joe Concha attributes the absence of DOGE cuts in the &#8220;big, beautiful bill&#8221; to House Republicans&#8217; narrow majority<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2440081,"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\/05\/House-GOP-DOGE-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7304,23466,4762,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2440080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-compromise","tag-doge","tag-legislation","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/House-GOP-DOGE-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440080","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440084,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440080\/revisions\/2440084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}