U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) appeared on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” to discuss President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its mandate to reduce wasteful government spending. Senator Fischer emphasized the need to focus on the core responsibilities of the federal government and eliminate spending on unnecessary pet projects.
In the interview, Senator Fischer also addressed the challenge of working with Senate Democrats, urging the need to find those willing to stand up to wasteful spending and prioritize the interests of their constituents.
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On working together to reduce wasteful spending:
“I think it’s important that we’re going to partner together to work with the administration. To work with people close to Donald Trump, and also to work together here as Republicans and Democrats, to deliver better results for the American people.
And that really ties in with looking at how we’re going to quit wasting taxpayer dollars. Find programs that work, focus on those, and find programs that don’t work, and work to eliminate those.”
On finding common ground with unlikely allies:
“I was really happy to see Senator Fetterman, Bernie Sanders. Not folks that I usually work with, but to be able to have a coming together of what we all should be interested in. And that’s being able to prioritize taxpayer dollars on things that really are a duty of the federal government, and that have a true benefit to the American people.”
On making progress in cutting wasteful spending:
“We have an administration where President Trump has been very forthright in making his views known, that that’s what he wants to do. He wants to deliver for the American people on a variety of issues, and having a more effective and more efficient government is one of those.”
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“It’s hard to get any kind of results on that, unless you have an administration that’s going to prioritize it. And unless here in the Senate, we are able to find Democrats who want to work on that, who want to answer to their constituents as well on cutting out that waste.”
On working with Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and others to prioritize government responsibilities:
“I look forward to working with him. This is a case where we’re going to have to be able to prioritize what I believe are true responsibilities of the federal government. That’s what we should be funding, we’re not going to fund pet projects. We want to fund responsibilities of the government and those priorities that deliver programs that meet the needs of the American people.”