MTG puts do-nothing bureaucrats on ‘pink slip’ notice as new DOGE subcommittee chair

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is poised to serve as the chair of a brand new House Oversight Subcommittee dedicated to DOGE.

For the uninitiated, DOGE refers to the Department of Government Efficiency, a new independent organization being set up in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory.

According to Fox News, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer intends to establish the new subcommittee and then install Greene at the helm to work alongside DOGE bosses Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

“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,” Fox News notes.

“I’m excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the entire DOGE team,” Greene said in a written statement to CNN.

“Our subcommittee’s work will expose people who need to be FIRED. 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 added.

Comer’s team has reportedly already met with Ramaswamy.

“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,” Ramaswamy’s spokesperson told Fox News. “We look forward to working together.”

Meanwhile, Musk and Ramaswamy have penned a lengthy op-ed for the Wall Street Journal explaining the purpose of DOGE.

“Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government,” the op-ed begins. “That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but ‘rules and regulations’ promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year.”

“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 within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections,” it continues.

This, Musk and Ramaswamy then argue, is “antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision.”

“It imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers,” they note. “Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem.”

And that’s through the creation of DOGE.

The two go on to stress that they’re not politicians and therefore won’t be thinking and working like politicians.

“We are entrepreneurs, not politicians,” they write. “We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs.”

As to the specific types of cuts they intend to make, they plan on starting with “programs with lapsed funding authorization,” according to Insider.

Some of these programs, according to Insider, include “medical care for veterans, housing assistance vouchers for low-income renters, college Pell Grants, the National Institutes of Health, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and NASA’s major initiatives.”

And reportedly even Planned Parenthood!

“DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion-plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood,” Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in their op-ed.

As for all the federal employees who are poised to be fired, Musk and Ramaswamy have plenty of sympathy for them.

“Employees whose positions are eliminated deserve to be treated with respect, and DOGE’s goal is to help support their transition into the private sector,” they wrote in their op-ed. “The president can use existing laws to give them incentives for early retirement and to make voluntary severance payments to facilitate a graceful exit.”

Vivek Saxena

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