Republican lawmakers are introducing a package of bills to improve government efficiency as businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy spearhead President-elect Donald Trump’s advisory commission on curtailing government waste.

GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and her House colleague Claudia Tenney (N.Y.) introduced the DOGE Acts Wednesday afternoon to cut spending and reform the federal bureaucracy in line with Musk and Ramaswamy’s stated objectives as leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency.

“The American people have had enough of outsized bureaucracy and wasteful government spending,” Blackburn said.

“The DOGE Acts are the first step to achieving government efficiency by requiring federal employees to get back in the office, moving federal agencies into the heartland of America, cutting bloated federal spending across the board, and freezing federal hiring and salaries until we can rightsize the federal government.”

Blackburn and Tenney’s bills will freeze federal employee salaries and instruct department heads to incrementally decrease their numbers following the legislation’s enactment. The legislation also features a plan to relocate certain non-national security agencies to reduce the government footprint in Washington, D.C., and create a performance-based pay structure for existing federal bureaucrats.

Along those lines, the DOGE Acts would return telework among federal employees to pre-pandemic levels and slowly cut government spending beginning in fiscal year 2026. The budget cuts would exempt the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.

Musk and Ramaswamy spent time on Capitol Hill last week meeting with Republican lawmakers to discuss ideas for lowering government spending and potentially moving federal agencies outside of Washington, D.C., where many of them are concentrated. Both men have expressed interest in reducing the size of the administrative state and cutting back spending and regulations.

President-elect Donald Trump and his allies routinely voice their desire to overhaul the administrative state, especially the intelligence agencies and Department of Justice. Trump has also lended support for abolishing the Department of Education and returning its agenda to the states.

“Congress is ready to collaborate with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to rein in bloated budgets, relocate federal agencies out of Washington, DC, reform outdated bureaucracies, and ensure bureaucrats actually work for their pay,” Tenney said.

“The DOGE Acts embody these priorities, serving as a bold first step in advancing the incoming Trump Administration’s ‘Make America Efficient Again’ agenda.”

Senator Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), chair of the Senate DOGE caucus, released a report last week showing that only 6 percent of federal bureaucrats work in-person full time, and a third of them work entirely remotely. Meanwhile, the U.S. government is spending $8 billion annually to maintain government buildings and $7.7 billion on energy bills to keep them operating.