The House Districts Most Exposed to DOGE Cuts

Monday, March 10, 2025

Share of workers who work for the federal government, by congressional district

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These are the House districts most exposed to Elon Musk's DOGE cuts

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... At first glance, it seems like DOGE's work to slash the federal workforce mainly impact the solidly Democratic areas in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Then you dig a little deeper.

Why it matters: Of the 60 congressional districts with the most federal workers, a slight majority are actually represented by Republicans " many of whom are publicly cheering on Elon Musk's hack-and-slash efforts.

- - - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is on the list. So is Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), who leads the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the chair of the House Appropriations Committee.

- - - Several of their endangered GOP incumbents " including Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.) " are on there as well. ...

As usual with Axios, there's an excellent graph in the article, which see.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-08 06:57 PM | Reply

Is it the ones with the most blacks?

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-08 08:35 PM | Reply

Poor folk. Billionaires want to use poor folk as a power source.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-08 09:49 PM | Reply

Here in Okiehomie the solution to be offered will be for all these fired federal workers to become school teachers--with much lower pay and societal status. The solution those laid off workers find will be to leave the state for greener pastures...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-10 01:19 PM | Reply

Ah, my district is in deep purple, and the Democrat barely won an open seat in November. Former rep (D) will be running for governor this year. Look for Virginia's gubernatorial race to be in the news as a bellwether state for what people think about the current unpleasantness.

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-10 03:17 PM | Reply

Republicans are apathetic and only care when it affects them.

The real question is, has the Musk /Trump administration hurt republican voters enough for them to start caring.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-10 03:20 PM | Reply

this used to he considered sarcasm.

could very well be true today....with all the stupid effing crap coming out.

---"I was fired today thanks to Elon! My team was so close to solving how many licks it takes to get to the center of a

tootsie pop! $25 million down the drain! Now we will NEVER know!"

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-03-10 05:47 PM | Reply

--a new strain of head lice has been discovered and it is known to be resistant

to all traditional treatments.

--that's terrible

--yes, it's left scientist scratching their heads.

esad

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-03-10 05:50 PM | Reply