Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene laid out President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to fire non-essential government employees.
Trump and his advisor Elon Musk plan to let go 500,000 federal workers on day 1 of his administration.
Trump, who will be sworn in on January 20, 2025, appointed Tesla founder Elon Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a task force called the “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, to cut government waste.
Greene says she was picked to lead a subcomittee of the newly created DOGE. She dismissed reports that laws are in place to prevent the mass terminations of government employees.
“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.
Congresswoman Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th District, continued: “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!!”
The subcommittee, which hasn’t been created yet, will be dubbed the Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee (DOGES). Greene will work closely with billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
“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.”
Among Musk and Ramaswamy’s recommendations is to fire thousands of non-essential government workers, including remote workers and civilian employees.
Musk believes the problem will take care of itself if work-from-home jobs end.
The government employs 2 million workers. Federal workers who don’t return to the office can stay home and search the Wanted ads for a new job.
Musk has experience with mass firings. He laid off 80% of Twitter’s workforce when he purchased the social media app for $44 billion in 2022.
Musk and Ramaswamy plan to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, nearly a third of the $6.75 trillion fiscal total.
