House Republicans and Democrats agree that after the Government Efficiency (DOGE) Committee has identified waste and overexpenditure, Cabinet Secretaries should play a greater role in making decisions about employees. did.
In a separate interview with News Nation on Monday on “The Hill,” Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) and Ami Bera (D-Calif.) have been working to make government more efficient, with tech billionaire Elon Although he praised Musk's purpose, he proposed to route his ideas through his secretary so that they can implement them in the best way for their respective departments.
“Look, I agree that the secretary runs the department. And while Doge is very helpful, it should be seen as a resource, not a federal government-wide operating system,” Davidson said. He spoke when asked how he viewed Doge and his efforts.
Davidson said Doge “emphasized something very important,” pointing to his activities at USAID as “exactly correct,” and “emphasized the issue of USAID and then highlighted it. [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio has taken over USAID. He decided what he was going to do to reduce USAID. ”
Davidson encouraged Musk to work with Chief Susie Wills, White House staff member, to implement the recommendations.
“I know that the idea of doing all this from Elon Musk's Twitter feed, or from an X feed, is really not good,” Davidson said. “And in my opinion, Elon Musk and Susie Wills would do well to sit down and take a little heart and run things through their secretaries.”
The interviews come amidst the chaos surrounding the latest driving forces of masks to make government more efficient. An email sent to mask instructions on Saturday afternoon asked all federal employees to respond by 11:59pm Monday on five things they accomplished the previous week. Musk said that failure to meet the deadline would be understood as a resignation.
However, soon several departments sent emails to employees telling them not to respond to emails. Subsequent guidance from the Department of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday revealed that responses to the email were voluntary and the lack of response would not be considered a resignation.
However, Musk ignored that guidance later Monday, appearing to have doubled his previous position, with federal employees saying they will “have another opportunity” and “responded for a second time.” Failure to do so will lead to cancellation.”
Davidson praised Musk in an interview, sending emails with a “useful tool” to reveal management layers that may not be necessary, or to see which employees are performing poorly. He said there are often things.
He said it is more difficult with such a large bureaucracy, and it is effective for officials to question how to organize all these email responses.
“That's not a way to read that lot of email unless you actually build an architecture. So why are we doing this?” Davidson said. “So you want people to be productive. That's kind of the point of doge. And the best way to do it is to take good ideas and route them through the secretary. I think that's what it is.”
In a subsequent interview, Bella mainly agreed with her Ohio colleagues, but added that her email approach was “somewhat sophomore” and “that's not how you justify someone else's job.” I stated.
He insisted that Cabinet Secretaries play a greater role.
“I agree with my colleagues in Ohio. Ohio was just there. I'll hand it over to the people who run the agency, the cabinet secretary. They're Donald Trump's hand-picked people, and they'll give them Let them get through their agents and see which programs are relevant, which programs are not, where you might be able to scale back.”
Asked if the Cabinet Secretary would be happy with the massive cuts and layoffs of federal employees if they led those measures, Bella said, “I hope that the Secretary will work with us in Congress.” You have to pass the law, as Rep. Davidson said.”
“I'm not claiming here that there is no lean, inefficient program, but that we're not going to work with us. Again, if Elon Musk is identifying things, he's I know I'm clearly a tech wizard. I'll modernize the government and make it work better and more efficient for Americans,” Bella said.
“But again, with layoffs, on the HR side, it's best to leave it at the agency,” he added.
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