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Is DOGE Losing Steam?

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President Donald Trump’s shift on the Department of Government Efficiency began with a warning from an unlikely source. Jesse Watters, a co-host of the Fox News hit show The Five, is usually a slick deliverer of MAGA talking points. But on February 19, Watters told a surprisingly emotional story about a friend working at the Pentagon who was poised to lose his job as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce. “I finally found one person I knew who got DOGE’d, and it hit me in…

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GSA’s commercial platforms gaining steam, but data, other concerns persist

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Three years into the Commercial Platforms Initiative, the vision Congress had for the initiative isn’t necessarily coming to fruition. But new data and analysis shows that doesn’t mean it’s a failure by any means. The number of agencies using the platform more than quadrupled between 2020 and 2022 to 27 and the spending, while far below initial estimates of $ 6 billion have increased to $ 40 million last fiscal year. And beyond the raw numbers, agencies told the Government Accountability Office in a new report that it is saving them…

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Democrats Gain Steam in Analyst Forecasts for US House Races – Voice of America

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Voice of America Democrats Gain Steam in Analyst Forecasts for US House RacesVoice of AmericaAs of Tuesday, there were 65 U.S. House of Representatives races widely seen as competitive or leaning against the incumbent party. The outlook for Democrats had improved in 48 of them during the seven weeks since early September in the eyes of at …Exclusive: Republicans are outspending Democrats 5 to 1 in key statehouse racesVox all 12 news articles » us democrats – Google News

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