AOC's six-word breakdown of MAGA rival Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'Very Prestigious' DOGE gig
By Sarah Ewall-Wice
Daily Mail
Nov 22, 2024
Progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tore into MAGA favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene for a new gig she's about to embark on in the House.
The Georgia Republican congresswoman is being tapped to head up a new subcommittee that will work with President-elect Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
But for the socialist-backed Squad member AOC, the news of the controversial Trump supporter heading up a subcommittee was a source of entertainment.
'This is good, actually,' the New York congresswoman wrote on X about her colleague's new post.
'She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading. To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, it’s like giving someone an unplugged controller,' she continued.
In another post, AOC wrote 'Absolutely dying at those two now getting assigned the “privilege” of “working” with MTG. That is actually hilarious. Enjoy, fellas! Very prestigious post you have there.'
Trump announced his two supporters Musk, the world's richest man, and Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate, would head up the new department known as 'DOGE' last week.
The goal, according to the president-elect, is to 'dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations' and more.
Taylor Greene, who is another Trump loyalist, celebrated getting to join the effort. She wrote that she is 'thrilled' to be chairing the new subcommittee.
'I won't rest until we've rooted out every penny of waste and abuse,' she wrote on X. 'The American people deserve a government that works for them, not against them!'
According to a source familiar, the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer will establish the new subcommittee in the upcoming Congress with Taylor Green as the chair.
The DOGE subcommittee will be tasked with investigating wasteful spending, examining ways to reorganize federal agencies and find solutions to eliminate red tape.
Green and Comer have already met with Ramaswamy about their efforts.
Businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has teamed up with Elon Musk to run a department focused on government efficiency. He met with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who will lead the House subcommittee tasked with helping the effort
The House Oversight Committee oversees the federal civil service and has jurisdiction over paperwork reduction, government management and efficiency operations.
Musk and Ramaswamy unveiled some of their plans this week in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal to cut wasteful regulations and spending in the federal government.
Part of their effort will also specifically target federal government employees by forcing reductions and requiring them to return to offices rather than continue work-from-home.
‘Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,’ the pair wrote in their essay.
Part of their efforts to fire workers could set of a legal battle that could result in the Supreme Court having to weigh in.
They argue that Trump had the authority to order ‘reductions in force’ despite existing civil-service protection laws that would prevent the executive branch from firing personnel.
Elon Musk who will co-head DOGE talks with President-elect Donald Trump before the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship on November 19
The new department would also look to reduce cost savings by cutting the over $500 billion in spending from the executive branch that was not specifically authorized by Congress.
While Trump ran on cutting the government and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have acknowledged concerns over the country's ballooning debt, some have raised concerns over Musk being tapped to lead the effort.
'Musk not only knows nothing about government efficiency and regulation, his own businesses have regularly run afoul of the very rules he will be in position to attack in his new ‘czar’ position,' watchdog group Public Citizen said after the announcement was made.
'This is the ultimate corporate corruption,' it argued.
Trump tasked DOGE with finishing its work by July 4, 2026.
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