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Stockard on the Stump: Senate finance chief takes Tennessee ‘DOGE’ talk with grain of salt

States Newsroom · November 13, 2026

Tennessee’s chief numbers cruncher is downplaying Gov.-elect Marsha Blackburn’s plan to take a DOGE-style cleaver to “skinny up” the state budget. Blackburn boasted about her plan after barely beating Democrat Jerri Green in the gubernatorial race and again in her first press conference with Gov. Bill Lee. But Sen. Bo…

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Stockard on the Stump: Senate finance chief takes Tennessee ‘DOGE’ talk with grain of salt

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