DOGE Leaders Urge Conservatives to Oppose Continuing Resolution

The newly-appointed leaders of the incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been urging Republicans in Congress to oppose the 1,500-page continuing resolution (CR) spending bill.

As Fox News reports, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, one of two co-chairs of DOGE, declared on X that “unless @DOGE ends the careers of deceitful, pork-barrel politicians, the waste and corruption will never stop.”

“Therefore, there is no choice but to do so,” he added. “I wish there was another way, but there is not.”

The other co-chair of DOGE, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, had his own thoughts on the matter, saying that “yes, it *is* possible to enact a simple 1-page Continuing Resolution, instead of 1,500+ page omnibus pork-fest. Here it is.”

He then posted his own one-page spending proposal, adding “this is what a clean CR looks like. I still don’t love it because it permits the historical spending excesses to continue, but at bare minimum, we shouldn’t be stacking even more waste on top.”

As Congress has failed to pass its annual appropriations bill to fund the federal government for the next year, the CR was proposed to extend government services at current operating levels until March 14th, 2025. This is the result of a previous temporary spending bill that was passed on September 30th, which expires on Friday. If there is no resolution by Friday, then the government will shut down.

The CR battle represents another test for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has to contend with moderates in his caucus who support the bill and conservatives who are against it, all while he leads one of the narrowest congressional majorities in modern history. Following the 2024 House of Representatives elections, the GOP wound up with 220 seats, just two seats above the minimum needed for a majority in the lower chamber.