DOGE, Shuler said, is “an unaccountable pseudo-government department supposedly created to make the federal government work more efficiently—but for whom? Ideas floated by the DOGE so far would slash government services working people depend on.”

“Everything seems to be on the chopping block,” including Social Security and Medicare, “except the government contracts and programs that personally benefit Musk,” she added.

To track it, the AFL-CIO’s new department “will report on proposed DOGE cuts and their impact on working people. It will provide its own recommendations for how the government can work more efficiently, proposed by the people who are the backbone of America’s economy: America’s workers.”

It’ll also step in where Congress is timid to tread. The Republican-run House has formed a “DOGE Caucus,” with all Republicans plus Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., a former top official with Unite HERE Culinary Workers Local 226. Reps. Val Hoyle, D-Ore. and Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla. are also in the caucus, but questioning—given Musk’s activities—it’s purpose.

“The caucus is about focusing on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. I joined in good faith and to make sure that we have a voice at the table to protect my constituents,” Horsford told Politico.