Marjorie Taylor Greene picked to lead a new DOGE House panel to slash government funding

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is set to chair the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency next year.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is set to get a plum new role next year: chairing a new House panel that will work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The Georgia Republican is expected to chair the new Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, which will be housed under the House Oversight Committee, a person familiar with the matter told B-17 on Thursday. Fox News first reported on the creation of the panel.

The DOGE subcommittee will be tasked with investigating “wasteful” spending, examining ways to reorganize federal agencies and supporting the work of the DOGE commission.

Greene and Rep. James Comer, the chair of the oversight committee, have already met with Ramaswamy and intend to work together, this person said.

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“Wasteful government spending must end, and taxpayers deserve to see their money used effectively and efficiently,” Comer told Fox News. “I look forward to working with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy to deliver on these goals to make America great again.”

Greene told Fox News that the subcommittee “will expose people who need to be fired.” She added: “Bureaucrats who don’t do their job, fail audits like in the Pentagon, and don’t know where billions of dollars are going will be getting a pink slip.”

President-elect Donald Trump announced the creation of DOGE earlier this month, naming Musk and Ramaswamy as the co-leads of the new extragovernmental organization. In a joint op-ed on Wednesday, the duo laid out their vision for DOGE in greater detail. They signaled that they would rely heavily on executive actions to carry out their recommended cuts to government spending.

That could include “impoundment,” in which Trump could simply refuse to spend congressionally approved funds. Impoundment has been largely illegal since 1974, but Trump and his allies view the law as unconstitutional and have pledged to challenge it in court.