BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) – The Idaho Legislature’s new interim government efficiency committee is gearing up to identify more cuts to state government.
At its second meeting Monday, the DOGE Task Force — made up of state lawmakers, and named for the federal Department of Government Efficiency previously led by billionaire Elon Musk — paved more of a roadmap for its work.
The task force plans to review state laws to repeal, based on feedback from agencies required under a new state law to clean up state laws. The panel also plans to look into hundreds of tips from the public on government inefficiencies submitted to its online portal, which the task force announced a month ago at its first meeting.
And Idaho’s DOGE panel might also explore cutting Medicaid expansion.
After years of the