Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Thursday she will chair a new House Oversight subcommittee to work with President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency to cut spending and streamline government.
The new subcommittee, created by House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., would hunt for waste and fraud in support of the new outside agency to be led by Tesla founder Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and Vivek Ramaswamy, founder of Roivant Sciences who had challenged Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
“Wasteful government spending must end, and taxpayers deserve to see their money used effectively and efficiently,” Comer told Fox Digital, which first reported on the new subcommittee.
Greene, a Georgia Republican, told Fox the subcommittee would “identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government,” while providing “transparency and truth to the American people through hearings.”
Trump has said he wants his new agency, nicknamed DOGE, to complete its work by July 4, 2026, after examining all federal departments and agencies and recommending ways to cut costs.
Musk has said he thinks at “at least $2 trillion” could be shaved from the federal budget, though as a new op-ed he penned with Ramaswamy points out, DOGE would avoid “taking aim at entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid, which require Congress to shrink.”
Finding the money without going after major mandatory programs would require axing huge chunks of discretionary spending, which includes the Pentagon, veterans programs, NASA and much more. Musk’s companies currently have contracts with several federal agencies.
In their Wall Street Journal opinion column, Musk and Ramaswamy outlined their plans for the new agency, which include cutting regulations, paring back the bureaucracy, and working with the Office of Management and Budget to find cost savings.
But Musk and Ramaswamy said they would serve as “outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees.”
The creation of a new House subcommittee, however, could give Congress a role to play in implementing their recommendations.
The Oversight panel’s ranking Democrat, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, issued a statement mocking Comer’s decision to give Greene a new subcommittee.
“So now a noted student of American government, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, will chair a subcommittee to work with two unvetted billionaires who stand to receive billions more in government contracts and subsidies from the government under Trump,” Raskin said. “That’s why Democrats will stay focused on waste, fraud, abuse and corruption.”
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