Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is the chair of a subcommittee tasked with working with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami to reduce wasteful spending across the federal government. It will be.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will create a new Subcommittee on Government Efficiency (DOGE) and nominate Greene to chair it in January, Fox News reported. Digital reported. reported Thursday.
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Musk and Ramaswamy were tasked by President Trump to lead DOGE in removing power from the federal bureaucracy and returning it to “the people we elect.” [to] Please run the government” Musk and Ramaswamy outlined Wednesday's wall street journal editorial. The DOGE subcommittee will likely serve as a conduit for House investigations that support the department's work.
According to Fox News Digital, Comer met with Ramaswamy and the incoming DOGE team.
“An important step to increasing government efficiency is bringing this issue to the public's attention. I am grateful that the House Oversight Committee has created a subcommittee to focus this effort.” Mr Ramaswamy's spokesperson told the publication. “I look forward to working together.”
“I'm excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the entire DOGE team,” Greene told Fox News Digital. ” he said. We identify and investigate wasteful, corrupt, and completely useless parts of the federal government. ”
He added that the subcommittee will provide “transparency and truth to the American people through hearings” and that “no topic will be off the table.”
Mr. Greene cited bureaucrats behind the Pentagon's routine audit failures as among those who will “receive pink papers.”
The Oversight Committee must shift its focus after years of investigation into corruption of Joe Biden and his family. The creation of the new DOGE subcommittee signals where the committee will train its sights.
Comer told Fox News Digital that DOGE is a Trump-funded effort to “eliminate government waste, streamline federal government operations, and reduce the bureaucratic bureaucracy that is crushing jobs and increasing costs for the American people.” “This is consistent with the administration's priorities.”
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“I look forward to working with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Elon Musk, and Congressman Vivek Ramaswamy to achieve the goal of Making America Great Again,” Comer added.
President Trump has set the bar high for the new department, hoping that DOGE will become a “modern-day Manhattan Project.”
“Republican politicians have been dreaming of DOGE goals for a long time,” he said.
Comer is not expected to face a challenger to lead the oversight committee, although the chair position and even committee membership await assignment by the steering committee.
Bradley Jay is Breitbart News' Capitol Hill correspondent. Follow him on X/Twitter. @BradleyAJay.
