It's not DOGE, it's COGE: Mamdani introduces commission to make NYC more effective |
It’s not DOGE, it’s COGE: Mamdani introduces commission to make NYC more effective
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) announced the appointment of a new commission on Thursday focused on improving the effectiveness of the city’s government.
The newly-unveiled Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE) drew immediate comparisons to the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) championed by President Trump and Elon Musk, which cut hundreds of thousands of federal jobs in the name of reducing government spending.
Mamdani refuted any connection between the two during a Thursday press conference on housing, telling reporters, “It’s just the name and what [DOGE] should have been.”
“Government efficiency, these are words that somehow have been understood as if they are Republican priorities, when in fact they are the priorities of anyone who believes in the public sector,” Mamdani told reporters. “And yet Elon Musk took that language and used it to cut as........