How DOGE-aligned Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to stop feds trying to 'Trump-proof' the government

As Joe Biden's agency heads are searching for ways to 'Trump-proof' the government just before Inauguration Day, two top Republicans are trying to foil their plans. 

Biden's presidency ends in 45 days and in these final weeks, the Democrat's hand-picked agency chiefs have struck long-term union deals that could restrict the next administration's control.  

Republicans are worried that since these deals extend well into President-elect Trump's next term. 

The Social Security Administration (SSA) chief Martin O'Malley, for example, just approved a deal with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a federal worker's union with over a million members, to lock in work from home policies until 2029. 

Trump has said he wants to implement policies that get federal workers back into their offices, and that same objective is shared by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

But the SSA's deal with AFGE, ensures 42,000 of the 60,000 SSA workers (70 percent) get locked into remote working deals. O'Malley departed the SSA immediately after signing the deal. 

Now, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and incoming DOGE Subommittee Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene are demanding these agencies cease negotiations with unions and turnover documents and files regarding their 'Trump-proofing' attempts. 

In a letter sent to the chiefs of the 24 executive agencies exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, Comer and MTG explain they are 'investigating whether agency leaders are abusing federal labor laws ... chiefly to bind the hands of a future President.' 

'To prevent further inhibition of the incoming President’s ability to fulfill his mandate, we strongly urge the Biden-Harris Administration to cease negotiating or extending collective bargaining agreements with respect to a workforce it will have no responsibility to manage going forward.'

The union deals are a vehicle to keep Biden-era policies in place during the upcoming administration, and are 'primarily designed to protect the outgoing Administration’s policies from being overturned,' the lawmakers write.

The Republican duo also explains in their letter how that the union deals cede presidential authority to unelected officials. 

'Requiring an incoming President to bargain with federal employee unions for the right to implement his policies is a ceding of executive power—not to Congress or the Judiciary—but to select federal employees and the unions that represent them.' 

'The Biden-Harris Administration has not only neglected to address longstanding issues of federal employee accountability but has ceded presidential authority to run the federal government to union allies,' the lawmakers write.

'Moreover, the Biden-Harris Administration has actively sought to constrain the ability of a future Administration to manage employees effectively and responsibly.'

Similar to the SSA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also moved to 'Trump-proof' itself by implementing a deal with AFGE in May.

That agreement provides 'scientific integrity' protections intended to safeguard the worker's ability to talk to the media about their work. It also adds protections for workers who report misconduct from retaliation. 

But the Republicans on the Oversight Committee have believe EPA's efforts are meant 'to entrench far-left progressive policies in the administrative state' and 'discredit scientific information and views that are not in keeping with the mainstream consensus.'

Officials at the Department of Justice are also working to secure union representation before Trump comes into office, and some workers are currently in talks with the National Treasury Employees Union.

Musk and Ramaswamy met with Greene, Comer and other lawmakers Thursday to discuss how to best go about trimming 'government waste.' 

Previously the co-leaders of DOGE penned on Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal describing, in part, how they plan to do so. 

'Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome,' they wrote.  

They have also floated canceling daylight savings as a means to reduce cost. 

Walking through Capitol Hill this week Musk even made the cheeky suggestion of creating a congressional 'naughty or nice' list to track member's votes on spending. 

Prior to his meeting with Musk and Ramaswamy on Thursday Speaker Mike Johnson announced the first DOGE-related policy that the House will tackle.

'One of the first things that i think you'll see is a demand from the new administration, and from all of us in Congress, that federal workers return to their desks.'

'We have long lamented the size and scope of the government, that it has grown too large,' Johnson said at the event.

'Let me be frank about this, government is too big, it does too many things and it does almost nothing well.'