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After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds

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Senators are lobbying 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 .

The push comes as the administration has also sought to fire a wide swath of federal employees, some of whom live in red states.

Sen. Jerry Moran (R- Kansas ) used social media platform X to ask Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help unfreeze food aid that was stalled in U.S. ports after the administration dismantled the agency in charge of foreign aid.

GOP lawmakers have proposed legislation to move the “Food for Peace ” program to the USDA .

Democrats decry the pauses as illegal.

The White House has defended the spending freezes as a check on out-of-control federal spending.

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