Saturday, 23 November 2024

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Chosen To Lead New DOGE Subcommittee

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will chair a new subcommittee to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut wasteful government spending.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced he will create the subcommittee and chose Greene to lead it in January.

“We want to work for the taxpayers, not the bureaucrats,” Comer told Benny Johnson.

“I come from a business background and have successfully run a construction company my entire adult life. In the private sector, if you’re not doing a good job, you get fired. But for some reason, in government, bad employees—whether they’re failing to do the job they were hired to do or working in roles that are no longer needed—never get fired,” Greene said.

“This is incredibly unfair to the hard-working taxpayers of our country, and it’s about to change. I can’t wait to get to work!!” she added.

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Per Fox News:

The subcommittee is expected to investigate wasteful spending, examine ways to reorganize federal agencies to improve efficiency and identify solutions to eliminate bureaucratic red tape.

A source familiar told Fox News Digital that Comer had a meeting with Ramaswamy and his incoming DOGE team.

And Ramaswamy confirmed the meeting with Comer and Greene to Fox News Digital.

“A key step to driving greater efficiency in government is exposing the problem to the public—we are grateful that the House Oversight Committee has created a subcommittee to focus on this work,” a spokesperson for Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital. “We look forward to working together.”

The source said Ramaswamy is “supportive of the Oversight Committee’s endeavor and are already working together.”

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“We’re going to work very closely with Elon Musk and Ramaswamy,” Comer said during an interview.

Comer said the committee will get the “chopping block going.”

“Looking forward to working together with Congress. Proper oversight of agencies & public transparency are critical,” Vivek Ramaswamy said.

CNBC reports:

Trump revealed on Nov. 12 that he had tapped Musk, the world’s richest man and a top backer of Trump’s presidential campaign, and entrepreneur Ramaswamy to lead the government-efficiency group. The “DOGE” initials recall an internet meme and a related cryptocurrency that Musk, the CEO of Tesla
and SpaceX, has frequently touted.

Trump’s announcement specified that the group will not be an official department of the government, but rather will provide “advice and guidance” to the White House and the Office of Management and Budget.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Wednesday, Musk and Ramaswamy lamented that “most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants.”

Musk and Ramaswamy, who are also unelected, said they “will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings.”

Greene currently sits on Oversight’s Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, among other panels.


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