President-elect Donald Trump has tapped two innovative businessmen—Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy—to head the Department of Government Efficiency as the new advisory commission works to eliminate waste and abuse from the federal government.
The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t a government agency, however, and lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate have teamed up to advise DOGE and help craft legislation to enable its cost-cutting plans.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., gave The Daily Signal a snapshot of how Republicans in Congress—joined now by at least one Democrat—aim to assist these essential efforts. Lankford compared the path forward to Boeing’s 10% reduction in its workforce, and he suggested that many past bills he has co-sponsored may be vital to unlocking DOGE’s potential.
“We haven’t done this in decades, to do a top-to-bottom…