Quotes from the Politico reporting:

Sen. Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican who serves on the Appropriations Committee, was among the first to speak out in favor of a "targeted approach" to reducing government waste. The University of Alabama at Birmingham has said the cuts to NIH would slow research and hurt the state's economy.

Britt's fellow Alabama senator, Tommy Tuberville, acknowledged the impact in an interview, but suggested he's not changing course. "I'm all on DOGE's side."

Sen. Jerry Moran, another GOP appropriator who represents the agriculture-heavy state of Kansas, has told the White House that DOGE's dismantling of USAID will impact constituents who have long relied on selling their crops to a government program that fights hunger abroad.

And Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who chairs an appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the National Institutes of Health, said her panel's funding bill includes language to prevent the White House budget office from slashing billions of dollars in health research grant money. Capito has long been a champion of the NIH, linking the biomedical research agency's funding to grant opportunities in her small state.

"I'm hearing from my institutions concerned about it," Capito said in an interview. "It's pretty drastic."

Morons.