Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) will chair a brand new subcommittee inside the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee, known as Delivering on Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) subcommittee, working along with the White Home fee with the identical acronym that’s set to be run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
A supply acquainted with the plans mentioned that Greene has already met with the incoming White Home Division on Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) crew, together with Ramaswamy.
“The DOGE subcommittee will support the Oversight and Accountability Committee’s mission to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. Its objectives include investigating wasteful spending, examining ways to reorganize fderal agencies to improve efficiency, and identifying solutions to eliminate bureaucratic red tape, fostering greater prosperity for our nation and citizens,” the supply mentioned.
Greene, in a publish on X Thursday, famous her expertise working a development firm and expressed a need to make it simpler to fireside profession authorities staff, who’ve numerous office protections.
“In the private sector, if you’re not doing a good job, you get fired,” Greene mentioned. “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. This is incredibly unfair to the hard-working taxpayers of our country, and it’s about to change.”
It’s a exceptional rise for Greene, who was stripped of all her committee assignments throughout her first time period in Congress in 2021 when Democrats managed the Home, over previous social media interactions and feedback involving conspiracy theories and threats of violence in opposition to Democrats.
And it is also one other indication of a truce between Greene and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who she had sharply criticized during the last yr, even making an attempt to take away him from the Speakership. Greene and Johnson had what she described as a “productive” assembly final week, The Hill beforehand reported.
The subcommittee will probably be formally ratified when the Oversight committee meets to ratify its guidelines for the 119th Congress.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) additionally confirmed the plans for the subcommittee and Greene as its chair.
“We don’t care if someone’s feelings get hurt if we eliminate their fat cat bureaucratic job in Washington,” Comer instructed conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
Greene, Comer mentioned, is “not afraid to back down or walk away from a fight.”
