Marjorie Taylor Greene Lays Out DOGE Plan to Fire Government Employees

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Atlanta. Greene has been selected to lead a new DOGE subcommittee. Mike Stewart/AP

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has laid out plans to fire government employees after she was picked to lead a subcomittee of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.

"I come from a business background and have successfully run a construction company my entire adult life. In the private sector, if you're not doing a good job, you get fired," she wrote in a post on X on Thursday.

"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. I can't wait to get to work!!" she added.

Greene, a vocal MAGA advocate and ally of the president-elect, was selected to lead the DOGE subcommittee on Thursday after an announcement by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer.

The subcommittee, which is yet to be created, will be dubbed the Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee. It will see Greene work closely with billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who were selected by Donald Trump to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency to "eliminate government waste."

The subcommittee is expected to investigate wasteful spending, examine ways to reorganize federal agencies to improve efficiency and identify solutions to eliminate bureaucratic red tape.

In a Thursday appearance on Fox Business, Comer stated that the committee would work to eliminate "too many fat cats in government."

Comer aims to establish the subpanel early next year, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC on Thursday.

"I'm excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the entire DOGE team," Greene said in a statement on Thursday. "We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government."

In a statement to CNCB, Greene added that the committee will lead to the firings of government "bureaucrats," and vowed to "provide transparency and truth to the American people through hearings."

"No topic will be off the table," Greene said.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital that he is "looking forward to working together" with Greene and her committee. "A key step to driving greater efficiency in government is exposing the problem to the public—we are grateful that the House Oversight Committee has created a subcommittee to focus on this work," the statement said.

According to CNBC, Greene, Comer, Ramaswamy and Musk are already working together even though the committee has not yet been created.

Last week, Trump expressed hope that DOGE would become the "Manhattan Project of our time," referencing J. Robert Oppenheimer's secretive atomic bomb project during World War II.

"Republican politicians have long dreamed about the goals of DOGE," Trump said.

Musk has said he would like to make $2 trillion in cuts to the federal budget. The tech billionaire has admitted that an austerity drive would probably cause "temporary hardship" for ordinary Americans but said that the country must "start from scratch" to achieve "long-term prosperity."

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