U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) met with billionaire Elon Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy on Capitol Hill on Thursday to discuss how the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will work to root out and cut unnecessary spending within the federal government.
Musk and Ramaswamy, who were both tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead DOGE and work to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” met with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill to discuss plans for the new department.
Prior to meeting with Musk and Ramaswamy, Blackburn announced that she had filed a package of bills called the DOGE Acts to assist the new department in making the “necessary cuts” to the federal government’s spending.
“I have gotten the DOGE Acts filed…What this will do is freeze federal salaries and federal hiring so we can begin to get our arms around this bloated federal government and begin to make the cuts that are necessary for us to be free, to be a sovereign nation for our kids and grandkids,” Blackburn said in a video statement on Thursday.
