Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will soon have a new powerful job assisting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by billionaire Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer plans to create a Congressional subcommittee chaired by the firebrand Republican from Georgia.
Greene confirmed the ‘big news,’ writing on X that she’ll be working closely with Trump’s top allies.
Musk and Ramaswamy announced their plans Thursday to force federal workers to return to the office in order to end the work-from-home culture that settled into the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic.
They also want to cut wasteful regulations and spending in federal government by specifically targeting the number of federal government employees.
‘Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,’ the pair wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion essay.
They argue that Trump had the authority to order ‘reductions in force’ despite existing civil-service protection laws that would prevent the executive branch from firing personnel.