A group of House GOP allies of former President Donald Trump is spearheading a bill to codify the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its initiatives into federal law. The legislation, led by Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., aims to provide DOGE with legal protections against potential challenges over the next 18 months.
“This creates a reporting structure that allows what DOGE is doing with the Cabinet to be relayed to Congress, which is our Article I authorities, which is really the idea of being good stewards of taxpayer funding,” Mills told Fox News Digital in an interview.
The bill seeks to formalize Trump’s executive order, which directed Cabinet secretaries and heads of executive offices to collaborate with DOGE on government efficiency plans. Under Trump, the Elon Musk-led DOGE identified billions in what it considers wasteful government spending.
The legislation would bolster the authority of Elon Musk and DOGE Acting Administrator Amy Gleason to implement federal spending cuts as part of Trump’s broader plan to reduce government waste.
“What Elon has done is that he’s created kind of this algorithm that works in the background, that sifts through all of these different programs, 24 hours a day, to look at anomalies and how they’re being utilized, to go ahead and say, ‘Hey, is this something for analysis? Is this something that we need to take a look at?’” Mills explained. “That’s really what this is — it’s about modernizing and maximizing.”
The bill is co-sponsored by House DOGE Caucus co-chair Aaron Bean, R-Fla., along with Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.; Barry Moore, R-Ala.; and Michael Rulli, R-Ohio.
If enacted, the legislation could protect DOGE from Democratic efforts to restrict its access to federal government data. Recently, Musk and DOGE were ordered by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to turn over a wide range of records in response to a lawsuit filed by more than a dozen Democratic attorneys general.
