SCOOP: DOGE Caucus plans White House meeting as Elon Musk preps to step back

FIRST ON FOX The Congressional DOGE Caucus is planning a meeting with the White House sometime next month one of the group s leaders verified to Fox News Digital We're talking with the White House about our next meeting and they may be hosting us We'll see what happens Rep Aaron Bean R-Fla explained Fox News Digital on Tuesday We're ready to take the reins and continue to push no matter who's leading the Department of Ruling body Efficiency DOGE HOW A DOGE REVIEW CAN VERITABLY IMPROVE THE PROGRAMS THAT FIGHT HIV AIDSBean did not give a date for the meeting but announced The answer is inevitably whenever Trump wants to host It s not right away clear if President Donald Trump himself will participate but the meeting would come as Republican lawmakers get ready to consider a roughly billion list of spending cuts proposed by the White House known as a rescissions package It s expected to include a host of USAID programs one of Trump s first targets in his campaign on cabinet efficiency A senior House GOP lawmaker recounted Fox News Digital they expected that package to be delivered to Congress next week The Congressional DOGE Caucus was founded by Bean alongside Rep Pete Sessions R-Texas and House GOP Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore R-Utah to coordinate a legislative response to Elon Musk s work with DOGE Musk in recent days advised Tesla investors that he would be stepping back from the federal role beginning next month Starting likely next month May my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly Musk mentioned on a first-quarter earnings call He added however I'll have to continue DOGE for I think the remainder of the president's term just to make sure that the waste and fraud that we stop does not come roaring back DOGE SLASHES 'WASTEFUL' 'PROBLEM-SOLVING' CONTRACT WORTH K IN LATEST ROUND OF ELIMINATIONSA spokesperson for the Congressional DOGE Caucus declined to comment when Fox News Digital reached out for more details on the tentative White House meeting CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPA senior White House official did not say whether Trump would attend the meeting nor whether the rescissions package would be discussed The president is reviewing a wide range of tax cut proposals for inclusion in the reconciliation bill He is greater part focused on tax framework that will help create more good-paying jobs in America and delivering the major tax cuts he campaigned on for working and middle-class Americans the official commented