“Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated,” the Washington Post reports.
“Senators have in recent days made the case to Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials to let money flow back into their states.
They are trying to finagle exceptions to President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders or cuts made by billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service that freeze hundreds of billions of dollars, including money for farmers and infrastructure projects.”“That push comes as the administration has also sought to fire a wide swath of federal employees — some of whom live in red states.”