{"id":40257,"date":"2025-04-30T19:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/scoop-doge-caucus-plans-white-house-meeting-as-elon-musk-preps-to-step-back\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T19:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:45:35","slug":"scoop-doge-caucus-plans-white-house-meeting-as-elon-musk-preps-to-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/scoop-doge-caucus-plans-white-house-meeting-as-elon-musk-preps-to-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOOP: DOGE Caucus plans White House meeting as Elon Musk preps to step back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FIRST ON FOX: <\/strong>The Congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/scoop-more-than-100-lawmakers-join-congressional-doge-caucus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOGE Caucus<\/a> is planning a meeting with the White House sometime next month, one of the group\u2019s leaders confirmed to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking with the White House about our next meeting, and they may be hosting us. We&#8217;ll see what happens,&#8221; Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re ready to take the reins and continue to push no matter who&#8217;s leading [the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/how-doge-review-can-actually-improve-programs-fight-hiv-aids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>HOW A DOGE REVIEW CAN ACTUALLY IMPROVE THE PROGRAMS THAT FIGHT HIV\/AIDS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bean did not give a date for the meeting but said, &#8220;The answer is always, whenever Trump wants to host.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not immediately clear if President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> himself will participate, but the meeting would come as Republican lawmakers get ready to consider a roughly $9 billion list of spending cuts proposed by the White House, known as a rescissions package.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected to include a host of USAID programs, one of Trump\u2019s first targets in his campaign on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/doges-greatest-hits-look-back-departments-most-high-profile-cuts-trumps-first-100-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government efficiency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A senior House GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital they expected that package to be delivered to Congress next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional DOGE Caucus was founded by Bean alongside Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and House GOP Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore, R-Utah, to coordinate a legislative response to Elon Musk\u2019s work with DOGE.<\/p>\n<p>Musk recently told Tesla investors that he would be stepping back from the federal role beginning next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting probably next month, May, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly,&#8221; Musk said on a first-quarter earnings call.<\/p>\n<p>He added, however, &#8220;I&#8217;ll have to continue DOGE for, I think, the remainder of the president&#8217;s term just to make sure that the waste and fraud that we stop does not come roaring back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/doge-slashes-wasteful-problem-solving-contract-worth-50k-latest-round-eliminations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>DOGE SLASHES &#8216;WASTEFUL&#8217; &#8216;PROBLEM-SOLVING&#8217; CONTRACT WORTH $50K IN LATEST ROUND OF ELIMINATIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Congressional DOGE Caucus declined to comment when Fox News Digital reached out for more details on the tentative White House meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A senior White House official did not say whether Trump would attend the meeting nor whether the rescissions package would be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president is reviewing a wide range of tax cut proposals for inclusion in the reconciliation bill. He is most focused on tax policy that will help create more good-paying jobs in America and delivering the major tax cuts he campaigned on for working and middle-class Americans,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST ON FOX: The Congressional DOGE Caucus is planning a meeting with the White House sometime next month, one of the group\u2019s leaders confirmed to Fox News Digital. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking with the White House about our next meeting, and they may be hosting us. We&#8217;ll see what happens,&#8221; Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., told Fox News &#8230; <a title=\"SCOOP: DOGE Caucus plans White House meeting as Elon Musk preps to step back\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/scoop-doge-caucus-plans-white-house-meeting-as-elon-musk-preps-to-step-back\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about SCOOP: DOGE Caucus plans White House meeting as Elon Musk preps to step back\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}