Red States Adopt DOGE as Cost-Saving Measure, Endorsed by Governors - Internewscast Journal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : 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.
55% : During the tumultuous early days of President Donald Trump's leadership, his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), once directed by the billionaire Elon Musk, inspired similar efforts at the state level.
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.
44% : Critics argue that some of these state-level initiatives are not particularly innovative and can be wasteful, as they often duplicate existing processes typically handled by legislative committees or independent state auditors.

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