Conservatives introduce radical DOGE law in dispute over spending bill

With a government funding deadline looming Friday and Republican lawmakers bickering over House Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposed stopgap bill, the conservative House Freedom Caucus is touting a plan to cut federal spending that conveniently cuts the bloated Pentagon -Leaves the budget untouched.

The House Freedom Caucus will take place on Wednesday evening mocked Johnson’s bill in a post DOGE law: a bill introduced Tuesday night by Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas.

The DOGE Act would cut non-defense discretionary spending – which, according to the Congressional Budget Office“funds a range of federal activities in areas such as education, transportation, income security, veterans’ health care, and homeland security” — by about $114 billion, from just over $710 billion to $597 billion.

Stephen Semler, policy analyst and co-founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute, posted that the proposed DOGE law would shrink these necessary programs but, strangely, “reduce Pentagon spending by $0.”

On Wednesday afternoon, Roy showed up fox To criticize Johnson’s spending bill, which he said was too expensive.

“To what extent is this a signal to the world that we as a country have got our finances on point? That is not the case,” Roy said, before touting the DOGE Act as a solution. “We offered all sorts of options,” he added. “For example, we have a bill that I filed yesterday – it’s called the DOGE Act – that would reduce non-defense spending by 13 percent to pre-COVID levels. That’s $113 billion. That would all be paid for. We just wanted to vote on it.”

In response to the DOGE Act, the anti-war organization Code Pink wrote to .”