JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville City Council Member Ron Salem will hold a meeting on Tuesday at City Hall to discuss local DOGE efforts.
The meeting will come as DOGE’s efforts at the federal and state levels to eliminate “unnecessary” spending to ensure government efficiency are already underway.
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News4JAX will speak to Council Member Salem on Thursday to ask for more details about Tuesday’s meeting.
DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, is a special commission originally headed by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who jointly vowed to cut billions from the federal budget and usher in “mass headcount reductions across the federal bureaucracy.”
As of Feb. 21, hundreds of thousands of federal employees had been laid off or fired as a result of DOGE.
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In late February, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced a DOGE task force to review and improve the state government’s efficiency.
“A state DOGE task force that will implement a multi-pronged approach to eliminating bureaucratic bloat and modernizing our state government to best serve the people of Florida in the years ahead,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis said he is proposing to eliminate 740 state government positions but will add positions in other state agencies that need more staff, like the Department of Corrections and Florida Highway Patrol. The task force will also review over 70 state boards and commissions to eliminate them.
Meeting Details
What: Meeting to discuss DOGE efforts on a local level
When: Tuesday, March 11 from 4 to 4:44 p.m.
Where: Lynwood Roberts Room at 117 West Duval Street, 1st floor, City Hall St. James Building
We will update this story when more information becomes available.
