The heads of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency were set to meet with House and Senate Republicans on Thursday and discuss ways they intend to trim the federal bureaucracy, The Wall Street Journal reported.

President-elect Donald Trump announced in November that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the incoming administration’s goal of weeding out government inefficiency and wasteful spending. On Thursday, Trump named former White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley to serve as counsel to DOGE aiming to “to provide advice and guidance to end the bloated federal bureaucracy.”

Describing their DOGE initiative in a Wall Street Journal opinion article last month, Musk and Ramaswamy wrote: “DOGE will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies, aided by advanced technology, to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies.”

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