‘You’re Defending The Status Quo’: Chris Cuomo Confronts Dem Rep For Opposing DOGE Efforts To Cut Spending

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo confronted Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts on Tuesday over his opposition to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) ongoing cost-cutting endeavors.

DOGE claims on its website to have cut an estimated $65 billion in government spending, including fraud. However, Moulton argued on “CUOMO” that DOGE’s actions were not improving efficiency, prompting Cuomo to say it seemed like he was “defending the status quo” rather than pushing for real reforms.

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“DOGE is not making government more efficient. It’s making government nonexistent. It’s completely unaccountable. They can’t get out of their own way,” Moulton said. “They just had to retract their top four or five big savings because they were fraudulent on their own website. In other words, they were posting fraudulent numbers, and so this is not the way that you make the government more efficient.”

“But it makes it seem like you’re defending the status quo and not wanting to find all of the pork that people hate,” Cuomo retorted.

Moulton immediately tried to interrupt Cuomo before stammering and saying the NewsNation host’s response was “not fair,” noting that he had listed “a whole bunch of examples” of cuts he would make earlier in the segment, focusing on the Pentagon.

“There are a lot of places where I’m perfectly willing to modernize our government, to make it more efficient, to make a lot of cuts and save taxpayer money,” he added. “We should all be in favor of that.”