>> The Department of Government Efficiency or Doge was created with the intention of cutting government spending and decreasing the federal deficit.

so far fired tens of thousands of federal workers and purge government agencies.

The Trump administration doesn't align with.

Now there's a new effort to create in Illinois version of Doe's inspired by the Elon Musk led department.

Joining us from Springfield is state Representative John Cabello who introduced the bill.

We should say we did invite multiple Democratic state lawmakers, but we haven't heard back yet.

Representative Casello, thank you for joining us.

So first, let's start please with what in Illinois Doe's would do.

>> Well, obviously, we want to take it after what's going on.

The federal government.

We've seen that they have a identify hundreds of millions of dollars in savings.

We have a large deficit that we're going overcome here in Illinois.

I think it's about 3.2 billion dollar deficit that we must overcome.

We need to find ways of saving the taxpayers money.

for too long in this state, the taxpayers have been forgotten about and it's time to make sure they're in the forefront of our mind.

>> How would this one be a local version in Illinois version be different from what we see on the federal level?

>> I'm not sure going to be very much different.

What we're looking at doing, though, is having committee of 5 numbers.

The auditor general would have the chairperson and the 4 legislative leaders will be able to appoint somebody to this committee.

We're looking at folks that want to do exactly what I've been talking about, saving the taxpayers money.

We've got to find people that want to look at that.

You good services that we're offering.

We want to get state properties back on that actual there's a lot of different things that we want to look at.

And we hope that they're going to look at to make sure again.

To save the taxpayers money.

That's what we need to start identifying in this state.

First, we too long.

We've been spending way too much.

It's time to give some breaks to the taxpayers.

>> Are there particular departments or agencies in which you state don't would would find some waste and inefficiencies.

>> I think every single one theirs, I don't believe that there's a director or a secretary that is in charge of the department that is going to openly say we don't need this much money way it works in state government in a way it works at a local government around budget they come around and they It's part of little visitor The what they do is they say.

Use it or lose it.

And we've got to find we have stopped doing that because each year if you don't use it, you lose it.

If you use it and they're going to give you more the next year.

So there's different ways that we can do this.

>> And Illinois, though, already auditing and oversight mechanisms in place.

Why would this additional agency?

Why would it be necessary and how it work?

>> Well, again, I mean, it's we're not reinventing the wheel here.

What we're seeing in less than a month of the federal government doing the identified hundreds of millions of dollars in savings.

I don't think it's going to be that big of deal to put a committee together quickly and to start looking at these different agencies.

It's it's it.

It's not rocket science.

We should be able to look at this stuff and here is where we're gonna be able to say These are the programs that we can cut there.

I think we've got some pretty smart people that would be able to identify those a very quick man.

>> Now, those savings, though, representative, they come in the form of many people's jobs.

The White House Department of Government efficiency has already made, as we've discussed, sweeping changes under the leadership of Elon Musk, their targets so far have included the Department of Education, U.S. a I D the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, FEMA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration among others.

Do you support those cuts that have been made so far?

And do you anticipate similar If such a doze were to form in the state of Illinois?

>> Yes.

And the reason why is because the government is not supposed to be a job creator, government is supposed to create an environment for private business to flourish.

The more government agencies that we have is going to be more burden the taxpayers.

So what we need to do is we need to create an environment for private businesses to flourish and read and get away from government jobs so that that way the of the taxpayers are burned as much when you have private industry doing the taxpayers are going to win.

>> So as we said, part of the new federal departments work issuing massive layoffs to federal employees, including employees who live in Illinois recently fired EPA worker Nyla McCranie was at that federal workers rally in the loop today.

And here's what she had to say.

>> If there's no one working on environmental health safety, if there's no plan at the RSA, there's no one at the EPA.

If there's no one at the FDA.

America be in say it's not federal workers who are your enemy.

people put profits over workers.

If you make profit over the American people, that is your enemy.

>> We will not let billionaires take over the workforce and we will keep fighting.

>> So representative, you say obviously get of the state and federal their job is not to create jobs for other people.

But is there not work at these agencies do that would still need to be done?

>> I think there are.

But let's there is a incident in my district where the EPA was.

Not able to solve a problem for 40 years.

It almost becomes a fact justifying their existence.

We need to find people that will come and solve problems and not take 40 years to do it.

It was a guest that to had been rectified, but they refused to allow somebody to build on it because it and they said it wasn't ready to be built on in.

This is 40 years later.

So it almost becomes a, you know, just find your own existence.

And I so the taxpayers needs that with the tax payers won.

We've got to find a way reducing the burden on the taxpayer.

>> Representative Cabello Governor JB Pritzker is presenting his state budget tomorrow.

We've got about 30 seconds left.

What would you like to see?

>> Well, if he was smart, he would talk about efficiency and government.

He was smart.

He would sit there and say we're going to do exactly what they've done on the federal government's side.

We're going to find ways of reducing the burden on our taxpayers because they've been burning for way too long.

>> All right, Representative John Cabello, a Republican in