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NEW: Beloved MAGA Congressman Tapped To Lead DOGE Subcommittee, Asks Elon Musk For Assistance
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) announced Friday that he would be replacing now retired Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as chairman of the House subcommittee on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. Burchett vowed to bring legislation to the floor and asked DOGE’s founder, Elon Musk, to help him out in some capacity.
In a video statement, Burchett said he was honored to be appointed as the new chairman and expressed his desire to bring meaningful legislation to the House floor.
“I went into it, honestly, with a great plan and we presented that to our leadership. a little different line of thinking. We’re going to produce legislation. This is not just going to be a gripe session,” the Tennessee lawmaker, who was appointed to the initial iteration of the subcommittee last year, said from his barn.
“We’re going to produce legislation, and some of it will be bipartisan, because it’s just doing what’s right. And then I’m going to not just propose the legislation and give a speech, and we’ll all stand there and pat ourselves on the back. I like to call that a mutual butt -kissing society. We’re not going to have that. We’re going to actually go move the legislation to the committees,” he continued.
“And those people that stand in our way, I will publicly embarrass them. I will publicly embarrass them. We’re $38 trillion in debt. And what’s going on in Minnesota, folks, is the tip of the iceberg.”
Burchett went on to praise tech billionaire Elon Musk, who pioneered the DOGE effort and identified billions of dollars in excess waste, fraud and abuse with his team. Billions of dollars worth of DOGE cuts were codified in the Trump-backed Big Beautiful Bill spending package, while the president has also downsized the federal bureaucracy in accordance with the initiative’s findings.
The congressman concluded his statement with a pitch to Musk directly, in which he asked the tech billionaire to help him with the renewed congressional effort. “I hope Elon Musk will get reengaged with us. And I look forward to working with him, as I did in the past,” he said.
Musk departed the administration last summer after a somewhat rocky end to his tenure, which culminated in a bitter feud with President Trump this past June. The two sides have since made amends, however, while Musk has pledged to bankroll Republican congressional candidates in the upcoming midterm elections.
The tech billionaire was most recently spotted at Mar-A-Lago last weekend, where he had dinner with the president and First Lady Melania Trump.
