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A House Republican and Democrat agreed that Cabinet secretaries should play a larger role in making decisions about their employees once the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) commission identifies the waste and excess spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In separate interviews on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cThe Hill\u201d on Monday, Reps. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) and Ami Bera (D-Calif.) praised tech billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s objective to make government more efficient but suggested he route his ideas through the secretaries so that they can implement them in ways that work best for their respective departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLook, I agree that secretaries run their departments. And DOGE, while very helpful, it should be viewed as a resource, not the operating system for the entire federal government,\u201d Davidson said, when asked how he views DOGE and its efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson said that DOGE has \u201chighlighted some very important things,\u201d pointing to the activity at USAID as \u201cexactly right,\u201d adding, \u201cThey highlighted problems with USAID, and then [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio took over USAID. He decided what he was going to do to scale down USAID.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson encouraged Musk to work with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to implement the recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe idea that you\u2019re going to run all this from Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter feed, or X feed, you know, really isn\u2019t good,\u201d Davidson said. \u201cAnd I think that Elon Musk and Susie Wiles would do well to sit down and have a little heart-to-heart and run things through the secretaries, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The interview comes amid confusion surrounding Musk\u2019s latest push to make government more efficient. On Saturday afternoon, an email sent at Musk\u2019s direction asked all federal employees to respond by 11:59 p.m. EDT on Monday with five things they accomplished the previous week. Musk said failure to respond by the deadline would be understood as resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon after, however, several departments emailed their employees instructing them not to respond to the email. Subsequent guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday clarified that responses to the email were voluntary and that a lack of response would not be considered resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Musk appeared to ignore that guidance later on Monday and doubled down on his previous position, saying federal employees would \u201cbe given another chance\u201d and that \u201cfailure to respond a second time will result in termination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davidson heaped praise on Musk in the interview and said sending that email is often a \u201cuseful tool\u201d to expose layers of management that might not be necessary or to see which employees are underperforming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said it gets more difficult in such a massive bureaucracy, and it\u2019s valid to question how officials would even sort through all those email responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a valid point to say, unless you\u2019ve really built the architecture out, there\u2019s no way to read that many emails. So why are we doing this?\u201d Davidson said. \u201cSo, you want people to be productive. That is sort of the point of DOGE. And I think the best way to do that is to take the good ideas and route them through the secretaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview that followed, Bera said he mostly agreed with his colleague from Ohio but said the email approach was \u201csomewhat sophomoric,\u201d adding, \u201cThat\u2019s not the way you go about justifying someone\u2019s job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He advocated for Cabinet secretaries to take a larger role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI agree with my colleague from Ohio, who was just on: Give it to the Cabinet secretaries, the folks that are in charge of running the agencies. They\u2019re Donald Trump\u2019s hand-picked folks, and let them go through their agencies, see what programs are relevant, which ones aren\u2019t, where you might be able to downsize.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked whether he would be satisfied with the large cuts and layoffs of federal employees if the Cabinet secretaries spearheaded those steps, Bera said, \u201cI hope the secretaries work with us in Congress. As Congressman Davidson said, you\u2019ve got to pass legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not here arguing that there isn\u2019t some waste, that there aren\u2019t inefficient programs, but work with us. And again, if Elon Musk identifies stuff, you know, he\u2019s obviously a technology wizard: Modernize government, make it work better and more efficiently for the American people,\u201d Bera said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut again, on the layoffs, the human resources side, that\u2019s best left to the agencies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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