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Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz announced on Tuesday that he was joining the House’s Delivering Outstanding Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus, becoming the first Democrat to officially join the new group.

Both chambers of Congress, which will be led by Republicans in the 119th Congress, are establishing their own caucuses and subcommittees to work with President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. The House caucus will be led by GOP Reps. Aaron Bean of Florida and Pete Sessions of Texas.

The committees and department will work to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” 

Moskowitz said he is joining the caucus because he believes that eliminating wasteful spending should not be a partisan issue, and pushed to separate the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from other federal agencies like the Secret Service that serve under the DHS umbrella.

“I’ve been clear that there are ways we can reorganize our government to make it work better for the American people,” the lawmaker said in a statement reported by The Hill. “The Caucus should look at the bureaucracy that the DHS has become and include recommendations to make Secret Service and FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] independent federal agencies with a direct report to the White House.”

“It’s not practical to have 22 agencies under this one department,” he continued. “I look forward to working in a bipartisan manner with my colleagues to remove FEMA and Secret Service from DHS.”

Moskowitz previously worked as the director of emergency management in Florida.

The lawmaker’s entrance on the caucus, which is separate from the House Oversight subcommittee that will be chaired by Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, comes ahead Elon Musk’s and Vivek Ramaswamy’s visit to Capitol Hill on Thursday. Musk and Ramaswamy will lead the new department.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.