GOP congressman says Department of Education, EPA, and Energy Department should be on chopping block

Congressman Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., said Wednesday that there are lots of departments that should go in the next Trump administration. 

"I'm glad to hear the reports that are coming out – getting rid of the Department of Education," Rosendale said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "I think you can get rid of the Department of Energy. I think you can get rid of the EPA."

Some of President-elect Donald Trump's goals include uprooting the federal bureaucracy and reducing the size of the federal government. As a result, he created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for his second term, which will be led by Tesla owner Elon Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. 

The goal of DOGE will be to reduce government by making cuts at certain agencies. Rosendale argued that a lot of states can have control over their own energy.

"Every single state has their own department of environmental quality and they have standards that are already as high as the EPA sets for them," Rosendale said. 

"We have a legal system that provides for it and everybody has regulations in place to protect [it]," he added. "We should start getting rid of those agencies right now."