DOGE Has a New Portal for the Airing of Grievances

Do you have a grievance with how the federal government is spending your tax money? A complaint over some wasteful practice or feather-bedded bureaucracy? I know I do - I could fill several volumes with complaints about government waste.

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 launched a website where Americans can directly report and suggest how to deregulate policies within the federal government, Fox News Digital learned.
"Your voice in federal decision making," reads the website Regulations.gov, "Impacted by an existing rule or regulation? Share your ideas for deregulation by completing this 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.

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It would be nice to have some more direct contact with an actual person, but that's probably not practical. I'm picturing something like this.

Now, here's my question: Will we, the general public, get to see each other's suggestions? I'm of two minds on whether this is a good idea or not. On the one hand, transparency is good, and it would be roundly interesting to see just how much useless drivel and goo the bureaucracies are engaged in.

On the other hand, it may be personally costly to some people. Imagine someone fed up with their organization submitting a report saying, "Hey, I work for the National Bureau of Armadillo Engraving, and we're spending $1.4 million a year on running Gila monsters on treadmills." Then, that person's supervisor sees it, and suddenly, the complainer is in some hot, dusty place examining the carapaces of North America's most famous armored mammals, who by the way are also leprosy vectors.

But as for the web portal itself, well done! Let's get those grievances aired.

Elon Musk and DOGE are bringing much-needed accountability to our out-of-control bureaucracy as they take a chainsaw to rampant waste, fraud, and abuse.

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