While the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been busy at the federal level, locating and cutting fraud and waste to save taxpayers’ dollars, several Republican-led states have adopted its playbook. Though their approach has been softer and slower than Musk’s style, the objective is the same. In some cases, states are merely rebranding committees that had already existed and calling attention to them. Regardless of when these entities began, it’s clear the Musk-led department has made an impression.
The DOGE Effect
Florida might have the most ambitious efficiency endeavor on the state level. During a February press conference in Tampa, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said he was launching a “state DOGE task force” to take “a multi-pronged approach to eliminating bureaucratic bloat and modernizing” the “state government to best serve…
