Heartburn among Republican senators is intensifying over the Trump administration’s sweeping federal spending freezes, cuts, and layoffs that could jeopardize services or programs in lawmakers’ home states.
The rapid government changes, made without congressional approval to funds Congress already appropriated, have come from executive orders by President Donald Trump and at the direction of billionaire ally Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
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