Conservative frustrations are boiling over Congress’ lack of action to codify spending cuts pursued by President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Tech billionaire Elon Musk — who headed up the DOGE effort — made waves this week when took aim at a sprawling package passed by the House last week to advance Trump’s tax priorities, while raising concerns over the potential deficit impact of the measure.

“I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk said in a snippet of an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” that airs later this week.

His comments add to a growing chorus of complaints made by fiscal hawks in Congress and prominent conservatives outside Capitol Hill in the days since the House’s passage of Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a former congressman, knocked GOP lawmakers on Tuesday in a post on X, while saying Musk took “massive incoming — including attacks on his companies as well as personal smears — to lead the effort on DOGE.”

“To see Republicans in Congress cast aside any meaningful spending reductions (and, in fact, fully fund things like USAID) is demoralizing and represents a betrayal of the voters who elected them,” DeSantis wrote.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller over the weekend took to X to clarify that the Trump agenda megabill was not the correct vehicle for the DOGE cuts.

“DOGE cuts would have to be done through what is known as a rescissions package or an appropriations bill,” Miller said. “The Big Beautiful Bill is NOT an annual budget bill and does not fund the departments of government. It does not finance our agencies or federal programs.”

But frustrated conservatives are amping up the pressure.

“Personally I want to pass DOGE cuts every single week until the bloated out of control government is reigned back in. As a........

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