Mr. Cloud is a member of the debt-hawk-filled House Freedom Caucus and the House’s new DOGE subcommittee. He said that while Congress has “long had the authority to rein in the government spending,” sometimes they didn’t know where to look.
The other side of the story, he said, was that bureaucrats have done everything they can to “hide, to obfuscate, to keep Congress from knowing the information for us to know where the money is actually going.”
“He’s been able to bring some technology tools to the table that have provided transparency to where we and the American people are seeing where things were going,” Mr. Cloud said.