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Congressional Republicans are racing to harness the momentum left behind by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and the leaders of a new House GOP initiative are hoping they have the solution.

"You tell people the word ‘rescission,' in my district, I'm sure that polls pretty low, but they know waste, they know fraud, and they know abuse," Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., told Fox News Digital.

"This is why this process needs to be not only explained to our own members, but also to the population out here that might not know what the heck a rescission is, but know that they want the wasteful spending to end."

Moore is leading the Republican Study Committee's (RSC) new task force, aimed at getting both fellow House Republicans and the American public on board with the GOP on a mechanism for spending cuts known as rescissions.

Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) explained the difference between the Big Beautiful Bill Act and the recent cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency.

“So, obviously, I want to see these executive orders codified, as well as the DOGE cuts, though I do want to point something out, very important: It’s not going to be in the ‘big, beautiful bill’ because that only deals with mandatory spending,” Moore said. “This week, we are going to get a rescission package from the White House that is going to start implementing these DOGE cuts. I’m a member of the House Appropriations Committee. We’re starting our budget process, in which that’s where you’re going to see a lot of the DOGE cuts as well.”

Both of West Virginia’s congressional representatives voted for the big reconciliation bill that narrowly passed earlier today.

The bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is now headed to consideration by the U.S. Senate, where it could face changes.

The legislation, called the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in a a 215-214-1 vote. Two Republicans voted against the bill, one voted ‘present’ and two did not vote. All Democrats voted against it.

Both Riley Moore and Carol Miller, Republicans of West Virginia, voted in favor of the bill.

“77 million Americans demanded generational change in November,” Moore said, referring to the number of votes received by President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

“Today, House Republicans delivered on that mandate from the American people.”

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed on Wednesday that some previously laid off workers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health facility in Morgantown had been restored to their positions.

Kennedy, during a U.S. House Appropriations Committee budget hearing, answered a question about the status of the NIOSH employees from Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va.

We spoke with West Virginia Congressman Riley Moore, who personally worked on the deal during his time as State Treasurer, and he describes the news as heartbreaking.

“What I’d like to see is perhaps given the national security aspect of transformers, it is a national security issue, we have to be able to produce them here in the United States, if perhaps the Administration invoking the Defense Production Act. And that is something that I’ve been speaking with the White House about this issue as it relates to Cleveland Cliffs and Weirton.”

On Wednesday, following the closure of the stock market, it was learned that plans to convert Weirton’s Cleveland-Cliffs facility to an electric transformer facility have fallen through.