Every day that passes offers new credibility and excitement for the public if they are following the new Department of Government Efficiency. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are championing the cause. Even better, we are learning more about the plans for the Department:

Leaders on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee announced plans this week to form a DOGE subcommittee in the next Congress. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) will serve as the subcommittee’s chairwoman.

The formation of the new subcommittee ensures that the activities of DOGE will not only get a great deal of attention, but its activities will be transparent to the public.

Although having Marjorie Taylor Green as the subcommittee chair may raise some questions due to her reputation as a rabble-rouser, she may be just the thorn to stick in the side of the other members to keep them on task:

‘No topic will be off the table,’ she said. ‘The goal of DOGE is to bring accountability and GUT useless government agencies.’

Greene said she expects the subcommittee’s work ‘will expose people who need to be fired.’

‘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,’ Greene said. ‘Chairman [James] Comer and I are focused on delivering the mandate voters sent on Nov. 5th, and I can’t wait to get to work.’

Given her focus on pink slips, the question has come up about firing employees. But in his first term, President Trump was in the process of creating a new employment classification:

The executive order Trump signed in October 2020 made it possible for agencies to reclassify certain career federal workers in policy-related roles to a new “Schedule F” category of employment. If the order had been fully implemented, any employees moved into the new Schedule F classification would have seen their civil service protections removed, making them at-will employees and giving agencies much more flexibility to fire them.

But because Trump signed the order just a few weeks before the November 2020 election, the policy didn’t see much light of day. President Joe Biden, after winning the election, revoked the Schedule F executive order during his first month in office.

The reappearance of a policy similar to Schedule F is likely, but it would look different in a second Trump term. Robert Shea, a former associate director at the Office of Management and Budget during the George W. Bush administration, said a main distinction would be its arrival at the beginning, rather than the end, of the term.

Of course, we can count on the naysayers who will condemn the DOGE actions:

Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), however, criticized the GOP-led committee’s plans for the new subcommittee.

Greene ‘will chair a subcommittee to work with two unvetted billionaires who stand to receive billions more in government contracts and subsidies from the government under Trump,’ Raskin said. ‘That’s why Democrats will stay focused on waste, fraud, abuse and corruption. The government belongs to the people, not the billionaire oligarchs.’

One can only shake one’s head in wonder at the audacity of Jamie Raskin.

My hope is that this subcommittee, teaming with DOGE, will closely engage some key legislators who will energetically promote and celebrate the accomplishments of DOGE, keep the public abreast of their work, and help bring common sense to the management of government.