House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer is expected to create a subcommittee that will work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and will reportedly be chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
The Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee will focus on eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government. The subcommittee will also investigate “wasteful spending, examine ways to reorganize federal agencies to improve efficiency and identify solutions to eliminate bureaucratic red tape,” Fox News reported.
A source familiar with the matter said Comer and Vivek Ramaswamy met to discuss the development. “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,” a Ramaswamy spokesperson told the outlet. “We look forward to working together.”
Ramaswamy is “supportive of the Oversight Committee’s endeavor and are already working together,” the source said.
Comer told Fox News that Trump’s “landslide victory reflects a clear mandate to address inflationary spending that’s driving up the cost of living for hardworking Americans,” adding, “Wasteful government spending must end, and taxpayers deserve to see their money used effectively and efficiently.”
The subcommittee “will align with the Trump administration’s priorities to eliminate government waste, streamline the federal government’s operations and cut red tape that’s stifling jobs and increasing costs for the American people,” he said. “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 said the subcommittee will provide “transparency and truth to the American people through hearings.”
“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. “We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government.”
“The 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,” she added. “Chairman Comer and I are focused on delivering the mandate voters sent on Nov. 5th, and I can’t wait to get to work.”
Upon announcing DOGE, President-elect Donald Trump said Musk and Ramaswamy will “pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies — Essential to the ‘Save America’ Movement.”
Trump declared that the agency will become, “potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time.”
“Their work will conclude no later than July 4, 2026 – A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence,” he added. “I am confident they will succeed!”
