A recent NBC poll says 46% of Americans like the idea of DOGE— The Department of Government Efficiency. On the other side of the equation, 40% say it’s a bad idea. Since it’s launch in January, the DOGE website says it has saved $115 billion through workforce layoffs, canceling contracts, and identifying fraud.

In the same time period, over 20 lawsuits have cropped up over data privacy concerns, obligatory spending from Congress, and more.

DOGE has inspired everything from protest to vindication— and, a packet of state legislation aimed at deregulation.

“I was excited to see, its looking at government efficiency. It’s looking to contracts, reducing waste,” Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) said. "At the same time, I knew they would never actually codify or do it."

Grove has no grand hopes of the Department of Government Efficiency inspiring permanent change to the federal… or state government.

“I can say the same thing here,” Grove said, gesturing to the Pennsylvania State Capitol building behind him. "For all the talk of reducing costs in government, its costs never go down. Most of the bills I see from the House and Senate. Bigger government, more expansive new agencies. From Republicans and Democrats alike."

In the spirit of Novembers political win though—he did introduce a package of five bills this session, calling them “Improving our business climate—DOGE style”

A less discussed tab on the official DOGE website maps out federal regulation statistics.

“I had like a bunch of little bills that constituents have come up to me and been like, 'here's a problem with government’,” Grove said. “and it's a legal change it needs."

The bills range from making labor law more consistent to adjusting weight requirements for trucks.

"A guy that was hauling a trailer. And his everyday use truck, plus a trailer, hit this weight threshold [that] becomes a problem. You need more permits and stuff like that,” Grove said.

Cary Coglianese, a regulatory law and policy professor at Penn Carey Law, said that regulations have increased exponentially; and do deserve review.

“They spend a lot more time analyzing regulations before we put them in place,” Coglianese said, "than we do assessing them after the fact to see how well they're working."

Coglianese also notes that for the past 50 years, public opinion on government regulations has stayed pretty static; roughly 40% say there is too much regulation.

Another regulation fix the state can keep focusing on-- a lot of state agencies require the same personal information for paperwork. Technology investments could reduce redundancies.