Schumer vows to restore DOGE funding cuts and go higher on federal funding levels
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House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (DY) said he will push to restore funding cut by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) or even increase the original amount.
Schumer’s comments came after he was asked at a forum hosted by the Center for American Progress on Thursday whether he would work to increase funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
“If you look at the budget we’re working on right now, we’ve restored most of the cuts. In fact, we’ve gone even higher than in previous years on many of the programs that DOGE has cut,” Schumer said.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, DY, outside the Senate chamber. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“We worked really hard and got bipartisan support to increase those amounts and roll back many of the significant cuts,” he added.
He did not disclose what specific programs he hoped to support.
Lawmakers have not yet released the final text of the 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development bill. The Senate Appropriations Committee proposed a plan that: will increase Fiscal year 2026 provides $5 billion in funding above fiscal year 2025 levels.
Since the Trump administration began making cuts to DOGE, Democrats like Schumer have largely condemned them and called them an attack on government resources and services.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts have revealed several examples of wasteful spending. (Getty; AP.DOGE/X)
Republicans, by contrast, framed the effort as a way to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. according to DOGE website, The group believes $215 billion in waste has been eliminated.
Republicans formalized $115 billion of those spending cuts in a bill passed last year.
But since then, lawmakers have not advanced another repeal package, a special type of bill that helps them accelerate spending cuts at the president’s request.
Aaron Bean, R-Fla., chairman of the House DOGE Caucus. Republicans like say the GOP’s cost-cutting efforts are still going on in the background.
“DOGE is still alive,” Bean told Fox News Digital in December. “We’re going to rock it. I think it’s going to be that way.”
Bean noted that there have been some pressing issues that have come to Congress’s attention in the last few months.
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Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on April 30, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
“I think the shutdown set everyone back a little bit. Those credits, along with the budget, everything,” Bean said, referring to the COVID-era Obamacare tax credits that are at the center of the 2025 government shutdown.
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Members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Schumer’s remarks.
