DOGE sprouts in red states, as governors embrace the cost-cutter...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In Oklahoma, Gov. Kevin Stitt - who says in a blurb on the Oklahoma DOGE website that "I´ve been DOGE-ing in Oklahoma since before it was cool" - made a DOGE splash with the first report by his Division of Government Efficiency by declaring that the state would refuse some $157 million in federal public health grants.
51% : HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The brash and chaotic first days of President Donald Trump 's Department of Government Efficiency, once led by the world's richest man Elon Musk, spawned state-level DOGE mimicry as Republican governors and lawmakers aim to show they are in step with their party's leader.
51% : Steve Slivinski, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute who researches state government regulatory structures, said that a lot of what he has seen from state-level DOGE initiatives are the "same stuff you do on a pretty regular basis anyway" in state governments.
50% : Analysts at the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute say that governors and lawmakers, primarily in the South and Midwest, are using DOGE to breathe new life into long-term agendas to consolidate power away from state agencies and civil servants, dismantle public services and benefit insiders and privatization advocates.
46% : States typically have routine auditing procedures and the ways states have of saving money are "relatively unsexy," Slivinski said.
42% : Critics agree that some of these initiatives are nothing new and suggest they are wasteful, essentially duplicating built-in processes that are normally the domain of legislative committees or independent state auditors.

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