Greene to chair ‘DOGE’ House subcommittee in conjunction with Musk, Ramaswamy

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) will chair a new subcommittee within the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, called the Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee, working in conjunction with the White House commission with the same acronym that is set to be run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

A source familiar with the plans said Greene has already met with the incoming White House "Department on Government Efficiency" team, including 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 source said.

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Greene, in a social media post Thursday, noted her experience running a construction company and expressed a desire to make it easier to fire career government employees, who have a number of workplace protections.

“In the private sector, if you’re not doing a good job, you get fired,” 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. This is incredibly unfair to the hard-working taxpayers of our country, and it’s about to change.”

It is a remarkable rise for Greene, who was stripped of all her committee assignments during her first term in Congress in 2021 when Democrats controlled the House, over past social media interactions and comments involving conspiracy theories and threats of violence against Democrats.

And it also is another indication of a truce between Greene and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), whom she had sharply criticized over the last year, even attempting to remove him from the Speakership. Greene and Johnson had what she described as a “productive” meeting last week, The Hill previously reported.

The subcommittee will be officially ratified when the Oversight Committee meets to ratify its rules for the 119th Congress.

Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) also 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 told conservative commentator Benny Johnson.

Greene, Comer said, is “not afraid to back down or walk away from a fight.”