Move Over DOGE and Musk, Vos Unveils GOAT For Wisconsin
The 'Government Oversight, Accountability and Transparency' is similar to a newly-launched Trump effort.
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester seen at the Wisconsin State Capitol in 2020 in Madison, Wis. Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch
The Wisconsin Assembly will have a new committee next year that mirrors a government office created by President-elect Donald Trump.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican from Rochester, announced the formation of the “GOAT” committee — or Government Operations, Accountability and Transparency.
In an interview with the public affairs network Wisconsin Eye, Vos said the goal is to address inefficiency in government, and especially to explore how to leverage artificial intelligence and technology for government processes.
“How do we drive efficiency so that the people who live in Wisconsin can afford to stay here but also expect the services they have come to want in a way that’s much more meaningful and much more efficient?” he said.
That’s a similar priority to what President-elect Donald Trump has promised in his new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. That advisory committee is co-chaired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
Both committees use internet-inspired slang for their names. DOGE is a reference to an old meme that later inspired the name of a cryptocurrency, while GOAT is a frequently used acronym meaning “Greatest Of All Time.”
Vos announces Wisconsin ‘GOAT’ committee aimed at government efficiency was originally published by Wisconsin Public Radio.
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UGH!
Falling in line with the master huckster.
Addressing government inefficiency is a notable goal. Lets not use it as an excuse to limit social services or continue to underfund key institutions like public education, or the Dept of Corrections.
REALLY? Who hired Gabelman?
trying to get around Evers.
REALLY? Vos refuses to pass Medicaid expansion. This would save Wisconsin’s citizens $1,8 BILLION over 2 years!
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GOAT acronym losing all meaning with this one.
So this is an efficency ploy? This is what should be done. The New Hampshire House of Representatives is the lower house in the New Hampshire General Court, the bicameral legislature of the state of New Hampshire. The House of Representatives consists of 400 members coming from 203 legislative districts across the state, created from divisions of the state’s counties. On average, each legislator represents about 3,300 residents, which is the smallest state legislative population-to-representative ratio in the country. Each legislator receives an annual salary of $500.
Return the Wisconsin Legislature to part-time status.
Why didn’t Vos try and make the government more efficient when his party controlled all of it? Why hasn’t his party submitted bills to do so for the past 15 years they’ve had control of the legislature?
This idiot’s been duped by the marketing hype around LLM chatbots that are only good at parroting back half wrong information from the Internet. It’s barely even AI, and it’s not very useful.
Really? Vos was full in on the original Foxconn grift with Walker and is still full up on pumping more money OUR$!) into Foxconn!