House Republicans want to work with DOGE leaders

By Brett Rowland
The Center Square

House Republicans plan to work alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy on President-elect Donald Trump's newly created Department of Government Efficiency. 

Musk and Ramaswamy will get help from the powerful House Oversight Committee led by U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky. Comer picked U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to lead a new subcommittee. 

"Comer to create @GOPoversight DOGE subcommittee chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene to work with @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy," Greene wrote Thursday on X. 

Trump said the new group will allow his administration to "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulation, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies."

Greene said she's eager to get to work. 

"I come from a business background and have successfully run a construction company my entire adult life," she wrote. "In the private sector, if you’re not doing a good job, you get fired."

Those same ethics should apply to the federal government's nearly 3 million employees, Greene said.

"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," she wrote. "This is incredibly unfair to the hard-working taxpayers of our country, and it's about to change."

Ramaswamy and Musk detailed their early plans for DOGE in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. 

Musk and Ramaswamy said they aren't counting on new laws to help them make cuts. Rather, they plan to focus on executive actions that Trump can take once he's sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025.

"The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings," they wrote. "We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws."