AOC mocks Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over budget-slashing DOGE post

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is mocking rival Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene implicit the Republican lawmaker’s caller station moving alongside the recently created budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency, oregon DOGE.

The progressive Bronx/Queens lawmaker says her GOP counterpart from Georgia is not acceptable to bash the hard work needed to find large outgo savings successful the national budget.

“She hardly shows up and doesn’t bash the reading,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “It’s similar giving idiosyncratic an unplugged controller.”

Ocasio-Cortez predicted incoming DOGE bosses Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy volition find retired the hard mode that Greene lacks the needed legislative chops to assistance them get worldly done connected Capitol Hill.

“Absolutely dying astatine those 2 present getting assigned the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’ with MTG,” she wrote. “That is really hilarious. Enjoy, fellas!”

Greene has been tapped by Rep. James Comer, the GOP seat of the oversight committee, to lead a subcommittee to enactment with DOGE successful the coming Congress.

The firebrand MAGA lawmaker vowed to usage the caller station to basal retired discarded successful the national bureaucracy.

“We volition place and analyse the waste, corruption and perfectly useless parts of our national government,” Greene said successful a statement. “Our subcommittee’s enactment volition exposure radical who request to beryllium FIRED.”

Greene’s assignment reflects an apparent melodramatic betterment successful her narration with House Speaker Mike Johnson. She sniped astatine Johnson successful caller months and accused him of moving with Democrats to debar authorities shutdowns and backing Ukraine’s effort to support itself against the Russian invasion.

The brace look to person buried the hatchet since their communal state President-elect Trump won a caller four-year word successful office.

Musk and Ramaswamy person been appointed to pb DOGE, a caller enactment that has nary ceremonial powerfulness implicit the national budget.

It is unclear however DOGE volition relation and however its projected actions would construe into existent fund cuts, which legally indispensable beryllium approved by Congress.

Musk, the world’s richest man, has said helium hopes to chopped astir a 3rd of the national budget, a shocking extremity that could beryllium politically unsafe for Trump.