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Are Republicans Seeing Problems Yet? A Colorado State Open Thread, February 24, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-02-24
Whatever protests, boycotts, and objections might be made to the current *resident, Elon Musk (who is and is not the head of DOGE, but clearly is a power beside the throne) and J deViance, I don’t believe there will be substantial resistance until at least some of the elected officials of the temporary majority and currently serving appointees of the Mad!-ministration begin to see problems and say something. So, I thought I would go look at what Colorado participants in the current regime, seeking any clue of resistance or reluctance.
CO-03 Rep. Jeff Hurd
Rep. Hurd is unusual in already indicating some mild resistance: The Aspen Daily News reported
Colorado 3rd Congressional District Representative Jeff Hurd visited the Pitkin Board of County Commissioners’ retreat on Wednesday,saying that losing on-the-ground U.S. Forest Service employees is not the right way to improve efficiency in the federal workforce. Colorado 3rd Congressional District’s new representative, Jeff Hurd, said that while he understands the Trump administration’s goals to make the federal government more efficient, but that the feds “need to be smart” about layoffs. “I think there’s a better way to implement the goal of efficiency,” Hurd told the Aspen Daily News.“We need to make sure we’re not cutting positions on the ground.”
CO-04, Rep. Lauren Boebert
As I expected, there has been little news showing ANY deviance from Trump devotion from Rep. Lauren Boebert. She even backs what *resident Trump said about Medicare and Medicaid. In The Denver Post, Boebert explained:
“President Trump has said he does not want to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid and I stand with him on that commitment.”
For now, we don’t know what Boebert will do when Trump accepts House budget cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. But we can dream she knows the meaning of “commitment.”
CO-05, Rep. Jeff Crank
As a new member of Congress, there hasn’t been a great deal of communication from Crank’s office. One of the few points hinting there could be some opposition to the worst of Republican proposals, Crank said:
"Well, first and foremost, we need to protect special needs kids and we can educate those kids," said Representative Crank. "We didn't need a federal Department of Education in the 1960s and 70s to educate special needs kids. We don't need it now." Representative Crank said he'd like to see funding that would ordinarily go to the Department of Education head straight to the hands of states through block grants for them to disperse to schools.
So perhaps when there is a major threat to funding education for special needs kids, Crank may speak up for them.
CO-08 Rep. Gabe Evans
Rep. Evans is already developing a reputation for statements that don’t take positions.
In a statement to The Denver Post, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans, a Fort Lupton Republican who represents north Denver suburbs, didn’t directly address possible Medicaid cuts but said he would support “common sense spending reductions.” “While we only have topline numbers from the proposed budget, I look forwardto working with my colleagues in Congress to protect hard working families,” he said in the statement.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright
The oil and gas executive recognized all is not well in the actions of DOGE. Speaking with Scripps News on Wednesday, Wright said, "I probably moved a little too quickly there, and when we made mistakes on layoffs in NNSA, we reversed them immediately, less than 24 hours. The security of our country, our nuclear deterrence, our nuclear weapons, is critical, and we take that message, we don't take that lightly."
Perhaps, just perhaps, this will lead to the new Secretary being“once burned, twice shy” about following a DOGE diktat. But we shouldn’t hold our breath. In an early interview he’s peddling balloon gas:
Now that he is safely installed at DOE... the new Energy Secretary said there are upsides to raising the Earth’s temperature to levels not witnessed since before the last Ice Age. ”There’s pluses to global warming,” he said. “Everything in life has trade-offs.”
Kathleen Sgamma, nominated for Director of the Bureau of Land Management
Not yet confirmed, but seems unlikely to challenge Trump, MAGA, or Republican ideology.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management has plenty of experience with the federal agency — including at the helm of lawsuits that accuse it of trying to restrict oil and gas drilling on public lands. Kathleen Sgamma has served as president of the Western Energy Alliance for nearly two decades asthe organization has become a leader in litigation pushing for more fossil fuel production on public lands across the West.
Do those of you around the state have any indication of Colorado’s national Republicans showing any variance that COULD turn into resistance to Trump? Add your observation to the comments below. Or, add what you found interesting in our contradictory state — named “Colorado” but turning increasingly blue.
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