Ohio Rep. Greg Landsman (D) mentioned Tuesday he would be part of the Congressional Delivering Excellent Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) Caucus, which seeks to be a counterpart to the brand new “Division of Authorities Effectivity in President-elect Trump’s administration.
Landsman joined NewsNation’s Blake Burman for “The Hill” on Tuesday when requested if he would comply with fellow Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz (Fla.) in becoming a member of the caucus.
“Oh, yeah, you got to be in the room,” he mentioned. “If you want to affect change and have an impact, you want to be in the room.”
Moskowitz grew to become the primary Democrat to hitch the Caucus, noting he believes in “streamlining” authorities processes and mentioned that making authorities efficient and environment friendly “should not be a partisan issue.”
Landsman agreed, arguing that commissions that stability budgets or discover authorities spending options ought to have lawmakers working collectively.
“Why wouldn’t you want to be in the room? Why wouldn’t you want to be working together?” Landsman mentioned. “And so there are opportunities where I think both parties would say, ‘yeah, that’s abuse’ or ‘that’s a waste of money’ or ‘that’s duplication.’”
Landsman famous that there will likely be instances when Republicans and Democrats on the caucus disagree, however they’ll’t have debates “unless they’re you’re in the room.”
The caucus is led by Reps. Aaron Bean (R-Fla.) and Pete Periods (R-Texas) within the Home and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) within the Senate.
Trump’s new division, nicknamed DOGE, will likely be led by tech billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. The formation of the caucus is serving as recognition that DOGE won’t be able to chop authorities spending or jobs with out Congressional approval.
Landsman mentioned in Congress he’s all the time tried to push his colleagues to work throughout the aisle.
“If there’s an opportunity to have a bipartisan solution, that, to me, is a better solution,” he mentioned. “It’s almost always going to be better than a hyper partisan one.”
“And so, whether it’s government efficiency, balancing the budget, the border, fixing the economy, I hope the Democrats are at the table, participating, and I suspect they will,” Landsman continued.
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