OKLAHOMA CITY (OBV) — The Oklahoma House of Representatives is launching a new government efficiency portal that is designed to cleanse the state government of service duplication, waste and inefficiencies.
A government efficiency survey was added to the House’s transparency portal to make the state government more efficient.
This waste elimination effort was inspired by the federal government’s waste elimination enterprise, which was created by the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“We will work hand-in-hand with President-Elect Trump and our federal delegation on broader efforts to make government more efficient with DOGE,” said House Speaker-Elect Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow. “We want to ensure our state government is working as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. As lawmakers, we want the assistance of Oklahomans who have first-hand experience with duplicative and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars.”
The portal is now live.
Oklahomans can use the portal to report any examples of state government waste or duplication they experienced. The reports will be submitted to House budget leaders for review. The information will be used during legislative budget hearings and the crafting of the Fiscal Year 2026 state budget.
“We know Oklahomans get frustrated every day with the inefficiency of government, and we need their help to root out the most egregious examples so we can eliminate unnecessary expenditures,” said Rep. Trey Caldwell, R-Lawton, who will serve as House Appropriations Chairman for the 60th Legislature. “The more efficient we can become, the more we can invest in critical government services and pursue lowering the overall tax burden for all Oklahomans.”
Constituents must enter some demographic information, the issue area their example encompasses and waste or inefficiency details when filing government waste complaints online.
“We are confident we will get examples of inefficiency that we likely would not have known about otherwise,” said Rep. John Kane, R-Bartlesville, who will serve as Vice Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee this upcoming session. “Every January we have an opportunity to walk through budget requests with state agencies, and we will have the ability to ask about these constituent submissions directly in an effort to make government as efficient and effective as possible.”
Oklahomans can begin submitting examples of waste they have already encountered or will see in the future.
“We hope to capitalize on the momentum we are seeing on the federal level with the efforts of President Trump at DOGE, and the national priority they have set to reduce waste,” Hilbert said. “Oklahoma has the opportunity to align with these efforts and lead at the state and local level as we seek best practices and frameworks for auditing and reducing waste in government spending.”
Go to the homepage of the House’s website, okhouse.gov, to access the government efficiency survey, which is similar to the House Budget HQ, which was launched in the 2024 session and updated regularly.
All submitted agency FY26 budget requests have been updated and can be viewed in the portal.
