Republicans had faced backlash last month after tech mogul Elon Musk publicly backed complaints that Congress hadn’t codified any of his DOGE work, despite promising to do so.

The House narrowly passed the first round of DOGE cuts that would slash $9.4 billion in funding for PBS, NPR, and foreign aid. It was the first time that Congress had moved to ratify savings after billionaire Elon Musk and his team worked to cut federal funding across the government.

House Republicans voted on Thursday to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid, locking in the first set of slashes made by the Department of

Reporter Hannah Natanson covers Trump's reshaping of the federal government for The Washington Post. She says DOGE's mass firings made the government more inefficient.

Steve Bannon called out the Department of Government Efficiency's efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse, saying that the White House task force that was helmed by Elon Musk "delivered zero." Newsweek has reached out to Bannon for comment via text message on Wednesday.

A former DOGE staffer says he was fired for praising the government's efficiency in an interview, despite the agency's stated commitment to finding waste.

President Trump said DOGE's work is "not finished at all" after his relationship with Elon Musk blew up in spectacular fashion last week.

Offices housing the U.S. Geological Survey's New England Water Science Center and the regional headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not close at the end of the summer. The agencies still face steep budget cuts under the Trump administration's budget proposal.