Garbarino spent 2025 pressing HHS — letters, joint statements, private conversations — to undo DOGE's cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program. On June 12, 2025, he voted to write $9.4 billion of DOGE's other cuts into permanent law. It passed by two votes.
Murphy sits on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and represents Camp Lejeune. On CNN in March 2025 he defended the VA workforce cuts and promised "short-term pain." By September the VA had shed nearly 30,000 people.
DesJarlais spent 2025 cheering the campaign to shrink the federal government. In March 2026 word got out that the VA was shutting the McMinnville clinic for lack of staff — and nobody had told him. Then he took a victory lap for reopening it.
The Federal Agency Sunset Commission Act sets a date of abolishment for every federal agency, at least once every 12 years. If Congress doesn't reauthorize in time, the agency ends. Extending the deadline takes a supermajority of both chambers.
On August 6, 2026, the GAO reported that DOGE's savings claims were incorrect or unsupported — including $1.7 billion booked on a Pentagon contract that was never actually cancelled. Lee had passed the numbers along to her constituents as fact.
His February 2025 Orange County Register column ran under the headline "DOGE is doing what must be done to protect taxpayers." When protesters showed up at his Palm Desert office, he said: "I'm used to it. It's just another day in paradise." He has still not held an in-person town hall.
The House was on track to reject Trump's $9.4 billion package of cuts. LaLota had already voted no. Johnson pulled him aside with the vote still open, and minutes later he switched to yes — 214 to 212. He wouldn't say what he got for it.
In February 2025 Cammack introduced a bill to cut off all federal money to NPR. In July she voted for the package that clawed back $1.1 billion from public broadcasting. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down. WUFT in Gainesville — home of the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network — lost about 20% of its operating funds.
Her vote passed the $9.4 billion cuts package 214–212. Indiana public media lost $1.3 million a year and cut 18 jobs. DOGE's charter quietly expired on July 4, 2026 without a final report.