Are you unhappy with how the federal government is using your tax dollars? Do you have concerns about inefficient practices or unnecessary bureaucracy? I certainly do – I could write a lot about government wastage.
Well, now the Department of Government Efficiency – the DOGE – has an internet portal where you can take your complaint directly to them.
The Department of Government Efficiency has introduced a platform where citizens can report issues and propose ways to streamline policies in the federal government, according to Fox News Digital.
The website Regulations.gov states, “Your input in federal policymaking,” and invites individuals affected by current rules or regulations to submit suggestions for deregulation through a provided form.
Now, that’s a great idea. While there’s certainly an “opening the floodgates” element to all this, soliciting feedback directly from the taxpayers sounds wonderful – we no longer have to wait until election day to let the federal government know how browned off we are about a particularly idiotic bit of wastefulness or over-regulation. And it matches up nicely with the DOGE’s mission.
DOGE worked with the Government Services Administration, an independent agency tasked with helping support the functioning of other federal agencies, and the Office of Management and Budget, which is the federal office frequently charged with overseeing deregulation efforts, to launch the website earlier this month, Fox Digital learned.
“DOGE is combining the administration’s goals of adding transparency and slashing waste, fraud, and abuse by offering the American people the unique opportunity to recommend more deregulatory actions. This DOGE-led effort highlights President Trump’s priority to put the people first and government bureaucrats last,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox Digital.
Can I just submit a ticket with the request, “Return the federal government to within its constitutionally defined limits?” That would take Washington back to a pre-1850 level of government, and frankly, I’m OK with that. The only real concern with this new portal is that it may well be overrun. Not that the people’s ideas won’t be good ones or that they won’t have a ton of legitimately wasteful horse squeeze committed by one bureaucracy or another. But boy, howdy, whoever is handling the feedback from this new system may find themselves drinking from not one but several fire hoses.
