Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) compared Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) new role in Congress working with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to “giving someone an unplugged controller.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) plans to establish a subcommittee early next year that will work closely with DOGE, and has tapped Greene to lead that subpanel, according to CNBC.
“This is good, actually. She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a post on X. “To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, it’s like giving someone an unplugged controller.”
In another post, Ocasio-Cortez added that she was “absolutely dying” at Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy “getting assigned the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’ with MTG.”
“That is actually hilarious,” she added. “Enjoy, fellas! Very prestigious post you have there.”
In a statement, Greene says she is “excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the entire DOGE team.”
Earlier this month, Trump announced Musk and Ramaswamy as co-heads of DOGE who will advise the White House on reducing spending, regulations and the size of the federal workforce.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Musk and Ramaswamy wrote that they plan to achieve this through “three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings.”
Musk and Ramaswamy wrote that they will “focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws.”
“Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants,” Musk and Ramaswamy, who are both unelected, wrote.
