The chairwoman of the new House DOGE subcommittee will pledge on Wednesday to work “shoulder to shoulder” with the president and his efficiency czar when she gavels in her first hearing targeting government waste.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will present her House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency as a member of the team set up by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who heads the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.
“The American people are watching. The legislative branch can’t sit on the sidelines. In this subcommittee, we will fight the war on waste shoulder to shoulder with President Trump, Elon Musk, and the DOGE team,” she will promise, according to excerpts of her opening statement released to Secrets.
In the subcommittee’s first hearing, Greene plans to look at government overpayments, which total billions of dollars, according to reports.
This is so strange it’s hard to believe and embarrassing that parts of our government are functioning at this far outdated level.
And no one would know without DOGE!!!
The people want transparency and they are FINALLY getting it!!! https://t.co/EU9FDnSTXL
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
(@RepMTG) February 11, 2025
“This week, we turn our attention to improper payments by the federal government, including in Medicaid and Medicare. I’m looking forward to what we find out and how to solve this crisis,” she said.
Musk raised this issue on Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference to tell the public what he and his team are doing and what they have found so far.
At one point, he suggested that government payments are being made to people 150 years old. “That’s the case where I think they’re probably dead,” Musk said. “Or they should be very famous. One of the two.”
Greene said she is approaching the chairmanship as a businesswoman and friend of taxpayers who will protect legitimate and needed payments and support to the public.
“Every day, Americans go to work. They run businesses. They have to earn their paycheck, no one guarantees it, and if they don’t do a good job, they get fired. They also have to pay their bills, credit card debts, balance their checkbooks, and scrap and save every penny they can in order to plan for that rainy day and hopefully retirement one day,” she said.
“No matter how bad the federal government fails the American people, it still takes your money, it still pays its own federal employees, and it never goes out of business. There are no consequences for bad customer service, total failure, and for enslaving the American people against their will in the ever-growing and future all-consuming national debt,” she added.
In a Tuesday interview with Secrets, she said, “I have a business mindset, and the only way I can look at the government is through making a failing company that’s about to go bankrupt into a successful company. And so you have to start with the simple things.”
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And while Democrats on her committee have suggested otherwise, Greene said tackling government waste and trimming the $36 trillion deficit should be a bipartisan effort.
“This is not a Democrat problem. This is not a Republican problem. This is an American problem,” she said in her comments.
