    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 25, 2025)]
    [House]
    [Pages H773-H774]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                     DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT INEFFICIENCY

      The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from
    Pennsylvania (Ms. Scanlon) for 5 minutes.
      Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about the White
    House's pet project, the department of government inefficiency,
    otherwise known as DOGI.
      For the past month, our Federal workers and agencies have been
    assaulted by a dilettante billionaire empowered by President Trump to
    muck about in Americans' lives and Federal agencies.
      Americans are justifiably concerned that these unelected intruders
    are acting as judge and jury on people's lives and livelihoods as they
    gleefully and illegally feed tens of thousands of jobs and vital
    programs into a woodchipper.
      This billionaire and his tech bros claim to have found billions in
    fraud, waste, and inefficiency, but their methods and results are
    shrouded in secrecy. When they hype their claim on Twitter or the White
    House press room, independent review has shown that their claims are
    false or riddled with errors.
      Buying condoms for Gaza?
      It didn't happen.
      Social Security payments to people who are 150 years old?
      Nope.
      Mr. Speaker, $800 billion in savings on one contract?
      Oops. Maybe $800 million, they are not really sure.
      Absolutely nothing adds up.
      These DOGI efforts have introduced fraud, waste, and inefficiency
    into every agency they have touched with their invasions, freezes, and
    suspensions.
      Federal workers have been fired then rehired as their functions were
    quickly proven to be indispensable rather than nonessential. Employees
    have been bombarded with weird emails that threaten them with
    termination if they don't accept a sketchy buyout or snitch on their
    colleagues and with demands that they interrupt their real work to do
    make-work for review by people who have no understanding or interest in
    public service or government functions.
      Elon Musk's DOGI efforts are disrupting critical medical research and
    treatments, foreign aid, veterans' care, criminal investigations, and
    health, housing and human services across the Nation and beyond.
      It takes a remarkable combination of arrogance and stupidity to think
    that this is the best use of time for our intelligence officers, VA
    workers, air

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    traffic controllers, FBI agents, and everyone else upon whom our Nation
    depends to do their jobs well.
      If this is what bringing business acumen to government function looks
    like, then it is pretty clear we need to prevent our government from
    becoming a dumpster fire like X or one of Trump's corrupt corporations.
      We can't afford it, and the American people can't afford it.
      Mr. Speaker, it is well past time that Congress removed Mr. Musk and
    his DOGI minions from our government and get down to doing the peoples'
    business.
      The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from
    engaging in personalities toward the President.

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