Rep. Moskowitz Exposes DOGE Subcommittee Inefficiency and Waste

Critique of the DOGE Subcommittee

• 🎯 Jared Moskowitz, the first Democrat on the DOGE subcommittee, criticizes its performative nature and lack of actual results.
• 💡 He highlights that the subcommittee, intended to deliver on government efficiency, has failed to make any departments, systems, or services more efficient.
• 📉 The subcommittee's goal to find $1 trillion in savings has fallen significantly short, with Moskowitz stating it has made government inefficiency worse.

Ineffectiveness and Missed Goals

• 🚀 Moskowitz points out that the DOGE subcommittee has met only twice and had no involvement from Congress in its executive branch processes.
• ⚠️ He uses the Newark airport as an example of how government efficiency has not improved, and notes that FEMA has not been made more efficient.
• 📊 Despite promises to tackle the national deficit and debt, the subcommittee has not achieved these goals, and has instead contributed to increased debt with large spending bills.

Proposed Amendments and Savings

• 💰 Moskowitz proposes several amendments to cut government spending, including reducing IT budgets, lawyer hiring, new car purchases for Homeland Security, and employee bonuses.
• 💸 He contrasts the proposed $42,000 average bonus for ICE employees with the national average Christmas bonus of $2,500, suggesting a reduction to $25,000.
• 🤝 He aims to capture over $900 million in savings to demonstrate seriousness about reducing waste, even if the DOGE caucus itself is defunct.

Performance of Democracy

• 🎭 The video suggests that the DOGE subcommittee's ineffectiveness is not a failure to deliver, but a deliberate sidelining, representing a "performance of democracy."
• 🗣️ Moskowitz calls for bipartisan efforts to tackle the debt, suggesting the formation of a budget commission.