Within the next congressional term, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has said that she will lead a House subcommittee on “government efficiency,” coordinating with the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” project that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will run under the incoming Trump administration.

Both the agency and the subcommittee — set to be called the “Delivering on Government Efficiency” subcommittee, which will operate within the purview of the House Oversight Committee — will share the “DOGE” initials, a reference to a cryptocurrency product that Musk once promoted.

A GOP source with knowledge of the subcommittee’s creation told The Hill that it will be tasked with “investigating wasteful spending, examining ways to reorganize federal agencies to improve efficiency, and identifying solutions to eliminate bureaucratic red tape.”

Greene confirmed her designation as the head of the future subcommittee on social media, and suggested that her background in business made her a good fit for the role. She also said that her goals would include firing supposed “bad employees” within the federal government — alluding to complaints made by president-elect Donald Trump about workers who are disloyal to him.

“In the private sector, if you’re not doing a good job, you get fired. 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,” Greene claimed in a social media post announcing her new assignment.

Greene’s complaints are exaggerated, as federal government employees can, in fact, be fired for poor performance. It is more likely that Greene’s grievances (as well as those from Trump and other Republicans) are over the process of termination for federal roles, as workers are given due process to ensure that their firings are because they are incompetent at their jobs, rather than for political reasons.

Responding to the news that Greene would be leading the subcommittee, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) suggested that Greene’s incompetence would actually be a positive thing for people concerned about how far the........

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