By
Nia Prater,
Intelligencer staff writer, who covers New York politics
On Thursday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of a new Charter Revision Commission, tasked with finding ways around government bureaucracy. Its official name might sound familiar.
Mamdani’s commission will be known as the Commission on Government Efficiency, or COGE, a tongue-in-cheek reference to Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his heavily derided federal initiative DOGE, which resulted in mass layoffs of federal workers and the downsizing of agencies, supposedly in the pursuit of government efficiency.
