Several House Republicans pleaded with leadership Tuesday for guidance on how to respond to the deluge of questions from their home districts on recent federal cuts, and called for more involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency’s process,

As the Trump administration plows ahead with its bid to radically reshape the federal government, increasing numbers of Republicans are pushing back on the offensive's wide scope and impacts on federal workers.

Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) told me he considers DOGE a real political risk, saying, “In some ways, it’s the same things you have to look out for if you go into a government shutdown.” “Where you are ultimately going to see it is in a lot of citizen-facing issues—national parks or customer-service-type functions are going to be the first to suffer—and that could have an impact on peoples’ perceptions of whether or not it’s good or bad,