Indiana Senator Jim Banks Talks DOGE, Wasteful Spending

Trump Got Tired Of Waiting On GOP Lawmakers To Decide Whether To Relinquish Their Authority

Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ President Trump wants to send to Congress a chunk of the DOGE federal funding cuts that Congress, in a properly functioning democracy, should have voted on in the first place. Its called a rescissions package, and it is a mechanism for Congress to vote to approve a small sliver of the cuts that the executive branch has already enacted without the legislative branch’s permission, as well as a reque…

Indiana Senator Jim Banks Talks DOGE, Wasteful Spending

WASHINGTON–The spending cuts that have been made by the Dept. of Government Efficiency don’t become permanent until they are made law by Congress. Sen. Jim Banks, of Indiana, is frustrated because some of his colleagues seem reluctant to actually pass the cuts in what are called “rescission packages”. “Congress has to do the easy part and claw that back and make those cuts permanent,” said Banks, in a Thursday appearance on “The Ingraham Angle” …