GOP-led states rush to align with Trump's agenda with DOGE committees and immigration bills

GOP-led states embrace DOGE's return-to-office move for government workers

Several GOP-led states are in step with President Trump's push to make government workers return to the office or forfeit their jobs.

Full list of US states setting up their own "DOGE"

GOP governors and lawmakers are setting up their own government efficiency task forces and committees to try to cut spending.

Red states create their own DOGE efforts to cut state government

Red states are echoing President Donald Trump’s quest to slash the size and cost of the federal government with their own initiatives aimed at making government smaller and more efficient. Read more...

More GOP-led states seek to follow Trump’s lead in defining male and female

Alabama and a small but growing number of other GOP-led states are pushing to enact more laws this year to legally define the two sexes based on observations of genitals at birth.

More GOP-led states seek to follow Trump's lead in defining male and female

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Katherine Bartle said she spent her years growing up in Alabama trying anything to “fix” herself and exist as a man. Eventually she realized it wasn’t possible. “I am a woman. I assure you that this is not a costume, nor is it by my own choice,” Bartle, 24, of Huntsville, Alabama, told Alabama lawmakers this week as they debated legislation that would define her and other transgender women in Alabama as men based on the s…

Red states pursue their own DOGE-style reforms

Numerous Republican-led states are seeking to implement measures to slash the size and cost of state governments in an effort to mirror the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in Washington.  Governors in Oklahoma and New Hampshire have used their executive authority to establish DOGE-like commissions, while state lawmakers in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri have introduced measures to establish their own versio…