{"id":246549,"date":"2026-05-28T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:39:07","slug":"mamdani-announces-nycs-commission-on-government-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246549\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani announces NYC’s Commission on Government Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> announced a plan to recreate a Big Apple version of the Trump administration\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>, called the Commission on Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s<\/a> COGE will examine the city\u2019s charter and figure out ways for Mamdani\u2019s administration to cut costs, improve efficiency, and modernize the city\u2019s government, the mayor\u2019s office announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers deserve a government that works as hard as they do \u2013 and a government as careful with their money as they are,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement. \u201cFor too long, bureaucracy has stood in the way of delivering the housing, transit, child care and public services our city needs. The Commission on Government Efficiency will take a hard look at how City government functions and identify the reforms we need to deliver faster, smarter and more effectively for working people.\u201d<\/p>\n

After reviewing the entire 340-page charter, the commission will propose amendments to make the city run more efficiently. The COGE will then hold 10 public hearings throughout each borough of New York City to hear direct feedback from residents on its proposed amendments to the charter.<\/p>\n

Mamdani named Patrick Gaspard, an adviser and former Obama administration official, as the commission\u2019s chairman. There are 14 other committee members, and Mamdani proposed a 15th, Ann Cheng from Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s<\/a> (D-NY) office, to serve as the committee\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNew Yorkers deserve and need a government of the possible \u2013 one that can urgently build infrastructure, promote small business growth, and make the city more livable with accessible childcare and affordable groceries,\u201d\u00a0Gaspard said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s announcement of COGE, which made no mention of Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> DOGE, came just days after the mayor nullified former Mayor Eric Adams\u2019s<\/a> Charter Revision Commission, which Adams stacked full of his own allies just before leaving office. Hochul\u2019s passed New York state budget gave Mamdani the authority to dismantle Adams\u2019s commission, which aimed to<\/a> create open primaries in the city and fight antisemitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a plan to recreate a Big Apple version of the Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43569,81,426,9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-246549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-department-of-government-efficiency","tag-eric-adams","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}