President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is accomplishing in weeks what conservatives have been talking about for decades.

Already, DOGE has cut close to $1 billion in waste per day, dismantled the left-wing slush fund known formerly as USAID and is exposing the depths of the Deep State’s corruption—most recently the millions of taxpayer dollars that FEMA has been sending to hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants.

Elon Musk and his team of 20-something-year-old tech geniuses will continue to whip up public outrage over Washington’s monstrous misspending.

But they can’t defeat the Washington Leviathan all by themselves. Congressional Republicans must step up and root out corruption with the same urgency as the Trump administration.

The good news: Republican leadership on the Hill seems to be on the same page as DOGE and  prepared to cut waste, fraud and abuse in upcoming reconciliation and budget fights.

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Now, it is time to deliver. 

Permanently banning DEI from the federal government would be an excellent place to start.

During his first week in office, President Donald Trump signed three executive orders to stop “affirmative action” in federal contracts, close federal agencies’ corrupt DEI departments and cancel the Biden administration’s discriminatory DEI practices.

Each of these executive orders represents a huge victory for the Constitution and the American people, but if Congress doesn’t codify them into law, they could be reversed with the stroke of a pen.

DOGE has already canceled more than 100 DEI contracts that were costing Americans more than $1 billion.

To prevent any future administration from wasting American tax-dollars on these discriminatory programs, Congress should move quickly to consider the Dismantle DEI Act,which Rep. Michael Cloud and Sen. Eric Schmitt introduced this month.

Reforming federal civil-service laws should be on the table, too.

On his first day in office, Trump made it a priority to “terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis.”

And on Tuesday, he signed an executive order requiring agencies to fire four employees for every one employee they hire. 

Now, our elected representatives need to make sure that the unelected federal bureaucracy never gets to sit at home for years on the taxpayer dime ever again.

Moreover, Congress should make federal workers at-will employees with a performance-based system of pay, just as the rest of America’s most effective businesses operate.

Government employees should be held accountable to standards of performance and to the Americans that pay their salaries, not protected by bureaucratic arrangements that incentivize poor performance.

To that end, Rep. Andy Ogles introduced the End the Deep State Act on Feb.4.

His legislation would make it easier for Trump to remove federal workers who are intentionally undermining his goals—like those FEMA employees who just last week sent almost $60 million in taxpayer dollars to New York hotels housing illegal immigrants.

It also reverses a rule that President Joe Biden introduced to protect insubordinate employees from losing their status as civil servants. 

Finally, after it has tasked federal employees with once again working for the American people, rather than against them, Congress should eliminate the burdensome standards that federal regulations impose on everyday American families.

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Today, the federal bureaucracy buries Americans under a mountain of obscure and onerous regulation. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

By passing legislation like the REINS Act (Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny), Congress can reassert its Article I authority to control the regulatory process, move to streamline regulations and create a system in which regulations sunset regularly, thus lifting the burden on America’s families and small businesses.   

Each of these common-sense laws represents an easy win for Republican legislators.

Now it is on Congress—especially Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune—to make sure these basic reforms make it into federal law. 

There can be no more excuses—especially for the many members who benefitted from Trump’s leadership on the ticket and rode his coattails to victory. 

There also can be no delay. The 2026 midterms will be hotly contested, and we cannot get tired of delivering to the American people the wins they deserve.

President Trump has called on us “to once again act with courage.”

With a Republican majority in both chambers, a 6-3 majority in the Supreme Court and the American people firmly behind their new president, Republican leadership has a green light to codify a slate of common-sense policy solutions that restore power to the American people.  

It’s time to get to work.