Tillis shouts at Vought, tired of picking up ‘DOGE s‑‑‑ because people did it wrong’

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Thursday lambasted Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought over, in his view, the shuttered Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) lack of accomplishments. 

During a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tillis asked Vought to name “one DOGE initiative” he could tout as an “exquisite realization of the value” the agency brought to the table.

When Vought began to talk about DOGE’s cuts to the federal workforce, Tillis interrupted and asked for specifics, adding he did not “want a world salad answer.”

DOGE, which President Trump launched and Elon Musk oversaw in the early months of the administration, officially ceased operations on July 4.

As of October, the fledgling agency estimated it saved $214 billion through asset sales; contract, lease and grant cancellations; fraud and improper payment deletion; savings on interest; programmatic changes; regulatory savings; and workforce reductions — amounting to $1,329 saved per taxpayer,........

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