Marjorie Taylor Greene to go new DOGE Home subcommittee with plans to chop ‘waste’

Republican firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been tapped to chair a brand new congressional subcommittee geared toward eliminating authorities waste below the newly fashioned “Division of Authorities Effectivity,” which is about to be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — and firing authorities workers may very well be a part of her plan.

Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer introduced the creation of the brand new GOP-controlled “Delivering on Authorities Effectivity (DOGE)” subcommittee within the subsequent Congress, and Greene, a loyal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, will chair it.

Greene stated within the new place, she is going to work to “establish and examine the waste, corruption, and completely ineffective components of our federal authorities.”

“Our subcommittee will present transparency and fact to the American folks by hearings,” she stated in a press release. “The objective of DOGE is to convey accountability and GUT ineffective authorities companies.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the rating Democrat on the Oversight Committee, slammed the committee and Greene’s involvement in it.

“So now a famous scholar of American authorities, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, will chair a subcommittee to work with two unvetted billionaires who stand to obtain billions extra in authorities contracts and subsidies from the federal government below Trump,” Raskin stated in a press release.

The Georgia Republican has pledged to hold out Trump’s agenda within the function and “rooted out each penny of waste and abuse” — signaling that authorities workers’ jobs may very well be on the chopping block.

“Within the personal sector, in the event you’re not doing an excellent job, you get fired. However for some purpose, in authorities, dangerous workers—whether or not they’re failing to do the job they have been employed to do or working in roles which are now not wanted—by no means get fired,” Greene wrote in a submit on X on Thursday. “That is extremely unfair to the hard-working taxpayers of our nation, and it is about to vary.”

Trump himself has made no secret of his plans to chop what he sees as authorities waste by calling for the dismantling for the Division of Schooling and choosing Cupboard picks who discuss abolishing complete companies and firing tens of hundreds of federal staff at a time.

Serving to in that effort may very well be the brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity — helmed by Musk and Ramaswamy, each staunch allies of the president-elect. Whereas DOGE is not going to be a federal company within the U.S. authorities, Trump stated it is going to present recommendation and steerage “exterior of presidency” and companion with the White Home and Workplace of Administration & Price range to “drive structural authorities reform.”

The president-elect didn’t element how this new division could be funded.

Lawmakers concerned sooner or later subcommittee have already met with members of the White Home DOGE crew, together with Ramaswamy, who help the Oversight Committee’s endeavor and are already working collectively, in response to a supply.

Ramaswamy posted on X that he’s “trying ahead” to working with Greene and with Congress in that effort.

Greene’s time within the Home has been marked by a number of controversies — together with her involvement in a raucous Home Oversight Committee assembly that included title calling and her plot to oust Home Speaker Mike Johnson from the job earlier this 12 months.

She has been on the Home Oversight Committee since 2023 — however in 2021, the Home voted to take away her from her assigned committees due to her document of constructing incendiary remarks starting from allegedly supporting violence in opposition to Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats, to spreading baseless claims that mass college shootings have been staged.

ABC Information’ Will Steakin contributed to this report.