The Department of Government Efficiency launched a portal for the public to pitch suggestions for clawing back excessive red tape earlier this month.
DOGE collaborated with the Office of Management and Budget and Government Services Administration in developing the regulations.gov/deregulation module for everyday Americans to highlight what they believe is excessive regulation.
“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,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News, which first reported on the website.
“This DOGE-led effort highlights President Trump’s priority to put the people first and government bureaucrats last.”
DOGE was conceived, in part, as a blue ribbon commission to aggressively deregulate the federal government.
Last November, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy discussed their plan to use DOGE to present a “list of regulations to President Trump, who can, by executive action, immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations.”
Ultimately, Ramaswamy, who had put an emphasis on cutting regulations, dropped out as a co-boss of DOGE amid differences over how to approach the initiative and his ambition to run for governor of Ohio.
Under Musk’s direction, DOGE has publicly emphasized its efforts to cut costs and government bloat.
But quietly, DOGE has been studying government regulation as well. In February, Trump ordered government agencies and DOGE to spend two months identifying regulations to cut.
Last week, Trump signed a memo intended to speed up deregulatory efforts by allowing regulations to be removed without a public notice and comment period — a process that can take a year.
After getting sworn into office for his second term, Trump also signed an executive order directing federal agencies to remove 10 rules for every one being proposed.
Both Trump and Musk have been outspoken critics of excessive government regulations.
The new portal encourages users to flag where the regulation is coming from and list a reason why such a rule should be removed.
A White House spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
