WASHINGTON – Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) praised the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and highlighted how Congress can carry on its legacy of reining in frivolous spending through the One Big Beautiful Bill, rescissions package, and annual appropriations process. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.

“I don’t see the work of DOGE being finished, but rather being the starting place.”

“The DOGE recommendations now embraced within this rescissions package cuts millions of dollars for Green New Deal style programs not in America, but around the world.”

“The bill rescinds $6 million appropriated for net zero cities in Mexico, a half a million dollars for electric busses in Rwanda, and $2.1 million for climate resilience in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and East Africa.”

“It rescinds $4 million for Legume Systems Research and $3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street.”

“We also have savings opportunities in the big, beautiful bill. Things like eliminating the Inflation Reduction Act, which was inappropriately named.”

“The third means by which we are going to begin this process of controlling our out-of-control spending in our national debt is the appropriations process.”

“While we often think of the appropriations process as strictly a spending process, it does not have to be that way. We can also use this appropriations process to enact further spending reductions.”

“I hope the House and Senate will take full advantage of each of these three opportunities to begin the process of reducing our deficit and debt.”

“While the formal Department of Government Efficiency Task Force may have concluded, the work of DOGE lives on.”

“As a founding member of the DOGE caucus, I’ll keep doing my part, along with all of my colleagues, to bend the spending curve, and I urge all of my colleagues to join us in that effort, particularly by passing this rescissions package, and then eventually in the coming weeks, the big, beautiful bill.”