BURSTRep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) said she will focus her time in the upcoming Congress on furthering the mission of slashing trillions in government spending and will not sit on any committees or caucus with Republicans.
“I will stay as a registered Republican but will not sit on committees or participate in the caucus until I see that Republican leadership in Congress is governing,” Spartz wrote in a post on the social platform X.
“I do not need to be involved in circuses. I would rather spend more of my time helping @DOGE and @RepThomasMassie to save our Republic, as was mandated by the American people,” she continued, referring to the newly created "Delivering Outstanding Government Efficiency" Caucus, a counterpart to President-elect Trump's incoming "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE).
DOGE is an advisory commission developed by Trump aimed at government reform and spending cuts. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur — and the president-elect's former GOP primary rival — Vivek Ramaswamy were tapped to head DOGE.
In recognition that spending cuts cannot take place without congressional say-so, members have formed counterpart caucuses on Capitol Hill. The group is led by Reps. Aaron Bean (R-Fla.) and Pete Sessions (R-Texas) in the House and by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in the Senate.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) will also chair a new subcommittee within the House Oversight and Accountability Committee with the same acronym, called the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee, next year.
Spartz has long been critical of wasteful government spending. In her post Monday, Spartz was responding to an earlier post from Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) that he would help Ramaswamy in getting lawmakers to follow the mission of DOGE.