Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) reacted to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) appointment to chair a brand new Home Oversight subcommittee that may work in tandem with President-elect Trump’s new Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
Trump earlier this month tapped tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to steer the advisory group, which can deal with chopping federal spending and lowering the dimensions of the federal government.
“Absolutely dying at those two now getting assigned the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’ with MTG,” Ocasio-Cortez posted Thursday on social platform X. “That is actually hilarious. Enjoy, fellas! Very prestigious post you have there.”
A supply beforehand instructed The Hill that Greene has already met with the incoming DOGE workforce, together with Ramaswamy.
“This is good, actually,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “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.”
Greene was faraway from all her committee assignments throughout her first time period in 2021 when Democrats managed the Home after previous social media interactions involving conspiracy theories and threats of violence towards Democrats got here to mild.
The Georgia Republican will now lead the Delivering on Authorities Effectivity subcommittee, Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer confirmed. He praised Greene as somebody who’s “not afraid to back down or walk away from a fight.”
In response to the appointment, Greene stated her previous expertise operating a development firm makes her a chief candidate to know office protections and to deal with “bad employees.”
“In the private sector, if you’re not doing a good job, you get fired,” she wrote on X. “However for some purpose, in authorities, unhealthy staff — whether or not they’re failing to do the job they had been employed to do or working in roles which might be now not wanted — by no means get fired.”
“This is incredibly unfair to the hard-working taxpayers of our country, and it’s about to change,” she added.
