Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been named to chair a new congressional subcommittee aimed at eliminating government waste, the “Department of Government Efficiency” to be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and firing government employees. it may be part of his plan.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced the creation of a new GOP-controlled “Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE)” subcommittee in the next Congress, and Greene, a loyal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, will chair it.
Green said that in the new position, he will work to “identify and investigate waste, corruption and completely unnecessary parts of our federal government.”
“Our subcommittee will provide transparency and truth to the American people through hearings,” he said in a statement. “DOGE’s goal is to bring accountability and GUT to unnecessary government agencies.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee, condemned the committee and Greene’s involvement.
“So now a prominent student of American government, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, will chair a subcommittee to work with two billionaires who will receive billions more in Trump administration contracts and government grants,” Raskin said in a statement.
The Georgia Republican has In that role he pledged to carry out Trump’s agenda and “root out every penny of waste and abuse” – indicating that government employee jobs could be on the chopping block.
Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 22, 2024.
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“In the private sector, if you don’t do a good job, you get fired. But for some reason, in government, bad employees are doing the job they were hired to do or not. They’re no longer needed, don’t ever get fired,” Greene wrote. a Posted in X on Thursday. “This is incredibly unfair to the hardworking taxpayers of our town, and it’s about to change.”
Trump himself has made no secret of his intentions to cut what he considers government waste dissolution for the Department of Education and picking cabinet picks that talk about eliminating entire agencies and laying off tens of thousands of federal workers at the same time.
It could be to help in that effort New Department of Government Efficiency — led by Musk and Ramaswamy, both staunch allies of the president-elect. While DOGE will not be a federal agency of the US government, Trump said it will provide advice and guidance “outside the government” and will work closely with the White House and the Office of Management. & Budget to “encourage structural government reform”.
The president did not specify how this new department would be financed.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to reporters as she leaves the House Republican Caucus meeting on November 19, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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Lawmakers involved in the future subcommittee have already met with members of the White House’s DOGE team, including Ramaswamy, who support the Oversight Committee’s effort and are already working together, according to a source.
Ramaswamy Posted in X That he “looks forward” to working with Greene and Congress on that effort.
Greene’s time in the House has been marked by several controversies, including his involvement A meeting of the House Oversight Committee that included names and surnames and he Plot to remove Speaker of the House Mike Johnson from the beginning of the year.
Since 2023 he is in the Upper House Committee, but in 2021 The House voted to remove him from his assigned committees for him record of making fiery remarks From allegedly supporting violence against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats, to spreading baseless claims that mass school shootings were staged.
ABC News’ Will Steakin contributed to this report.
