Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to chair a DOGE subcommittee to improve government efficiency
U.S. Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., announced on Thursday that she will be chairing a new subcommittee aimed at eliminating waste in the federal government under the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, helmed by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
"We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption, and absolutely useless parts of our federal government. Our subcommittee will provide transparency and truth to the American people through hearings," she said in a statement. "The goal of DOGE is to bring accountability and GUT useless government agencies."
Greene named one agency in particular: The Pentagon.
"The bureaucrats who don’t do their job, fail audits like in the Pentagon, and don’t know where BILLIONS of dollars are going, will be getting a pink slip," she said.
Greene also shared a a Fox News article on X which said that House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer is expected to establish a subcommittee called the Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee focusing on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, captioning it “BIG NEWS."
President-elect Trump appointed Musk and Ramaswamy to "provide advice and guidance from outside of government," partnering with the White House and Office of Management and Budget "to drive large-scale structural reform" throughout the federal government.
"Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies ? Essential to the “Save America” movement," Trump said in a statement.
The operation will wrap up by July 4, 2026.
“A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence,” Trump wrote in a statement.
In a Wall Street Journal oped on Wednesday, the duo wrote that their mandate was to "cut the federal government down to size."
"We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees," they wrote in the oped. "Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs."
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House Correspondent for USA TODAY. You can follow her on X @SwapnaVenugopal
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