'Would love to': Republicans jostle for open spots on Marjorie Taylor Greene-led DOGE panel

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Some House Republicans are embracing the thought of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., starring a caller legislature subcommittee dedicated to cutting down on authorities waste.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is readying to committee a caller sheet nether his purview called the Delivering connected Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee, Fox News Digital archetypal learned connected Thursday.

And aggregate Republican lawmakers person already told Fox News Digital they anticipation to articulation the panel.

"Marjorie would instrumentality nary prisoners," said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who said he's already texted Greene astir the subcommittee. "I would emotion to beryllium connected it."

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Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett some suggested they'd privation roles connected the DOGE subcommittee. (Getty Images)

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who is besides aiming for a spot connected the committee, said, "good for her" erstwhile asked astir Greene starring the panel.

"I deliberation she'll beryllium a fundamentally an immovable entity connected immoderate of the spending cuts that we need," Luna said.

As to her ain bid for a spot, she said, "We're going to marque a propulsion close now."

It comes aft Trump announced the instauration of an advisory panel called the Department of Government Efficiency, which helium tapped Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to lead.

Trump said the sheet would assistance his medication "slash excess regulations, chopped wasteful expenditures and restructure Federal Agencies."

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., a subordinate of the recently created DOGE Caucus, said that whoever were to pb the subcommittee should beryllium "hawkish" connected fiscal matters.

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Rep. Cory Mills besides signaled involvement successful being connected the panel. (David Dee Delgado)

"I'd decidedly beryllium funny successful it," Mills said. " I ever speech astir 3 things, which is repealing programs and departments that nary longer service the intended purposes; reforming definite areas wherever we recognize that, conscionable the mode times change, the requirements and needs alteration arsenic well; and past besides re-energize successful definite areas to marque definite that Americans cognize what's accessible to them arsenic acold arsenic assets oregon resources."

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., who serves connected Comer's Oversight Committee, did not consciousness powerfully 1 mode oregon different astir joining the DOGE subcommittee but praised Greene's ascension to the chair.

"One happening astir Marjorie is that she's, you know, she's locked successful connected details, and truthful she's going to privation to beryllium precise adjuvant to Elon and Vivek," Donalds said. "And obviously, we're breaking caller crushed here."

He besides suggested that Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, would beryllium "very good" connected the subcommittee.

Cloud did amusement involvement erstwhile asked by Fox News Digital, and helium likewise praised Greene.

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Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk were tapped by Trump to pb DOGE. (Getty Images/AP Images)

"Reining successful the national authorities and restoring accountability is 1 of the astir important tasks we look successful this adjacent Congress. These efforts are indispensable if we are to enactment the mandate President Trump has been fixed by the American people, and I americium anxious to lend to this effort successful immoderate capacity," Cloud said successful a statement. 

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"Congresswoman Greene has shown she’s the close idiosyncratic to situation the norms and thrust the benignant of alteration Washington desperately needs."

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., did not measurement successful straight connected Greene but said helium "would hope" immoderate fiscal hawks successful his blimpish radical would beryllium considered for positions.

Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Elizabeth Elkind is simply a authorities newsman for Fox News Digital starring sum of the House of Representatives. Previous integer bylines seen astatine Daily Mail and CBS News.

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