Source: Common Dreams
“While U.S. President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has faced intense criticism and even multiple lawsuits, some progressive groups and lawmakers are also engaging, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday. When Trump announced DOGE in November, he said the presidential advisory commission would work to ‘slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies’. Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday detailed 30 proposals that would cut at least $2 trillion of government spending over the next decade. In a lengthy letter to the chair of DOGE, billionaire Elon Musk, that was first reported by Time, Warren highlighted that ‘you have publicly called for sizable cuts in funding — from $500 billion in annual spending to ‘at least’ $2 trillion in cuts to federal spending – although recently, you said you may not actually be able to meet that goal.'” (01/23/25)