AOC's six-word breakdown of MAGA rival Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'Very Prestigious' DOGE gig

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tore into MAGA favourite Marjorie Taylor Greene for a caller gig she's astir to embark connected successful the House. 

The Georgia Congresswoman is being tapped to caput up a caller subcommittee that volition enactment with Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) being led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. 

But for the progressive Squad subordinate AOC, the quality of the arguable firebrand heading up a subcommittee was a root of entertainment. 

'This is good, actually,' the New York Congresswoman wrote connected X astir her colleagues caller post.

'She hardly shows up and doesn’t bash the reading. To get a operation I saw elsewhere, it’s similar giving idiosyncratic an unplugged controller,' she continued. 

In different post, AOC wrote 'Absolutely dying astatine those 2 present getting assigned the “privilege” of “working” with MTG. That is really hilarious. Enjoy, fellas! Very prestigious station you person there.'

Trump announced his 2 supporters Musk, the world's richest man, and Ramaswamy, a erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, would caput up the caller section known arsenic 'DOGE' past week. 

The extremity according to the president-elect is to 'dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations' and more. 

Taylor Greene, who is different Trump loyalist, celebrated getting to articulation the effort. She wrote that she is 'thrilled' to beryllium chairing the caller subcommittee.

'I won't remainder until we've rooted retired each penny of discarded and abuse,' she wrote connected X. 'The American radical merit a authorities that works for them, not against them!'

According to a root familiar, the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer volition found the caller subcommittee successful the upcoming Congress with Taylor Green arsenic the chair. 

The DOGE subcommittee volition beryllium tasked with investigating wasteful spending, examining ways to reorganize national agencies and find solutions to destruct reddish tape. 

Green and Comer person already met with Ramaswamy astir their efforts.  

The House Oversight Committee overseas the national civilian work and has jurisdiction implicit paperwork reduction, authorities absorption and ratio operations. 

Musk and Ramaswamy unveiled immoderate of their plans this week successful an op-ed successful the Wall Street Journal to chopped wasteful regulations and spending successful the national government. 

Part of their effort volition besides specifically people national authorities employees by forcing reductions and requiring them to instrumentality to offices alternatively than proceed work-from-home. 

‘Requiring national employees to travel to the bureau 5 days a week would effect successful a question of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If national employees don’t privation to amusement up, American taxpayers shouldn’t wage them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,’ the brace wrote successful their essay.

Part of their efforts to occurrence workers could acceptable of a ineligible conflict that could effect successful the Supreme Court having to measurement in. 

They reason that Trump had the authorization to bid ‘reductions successful force’ contempt existing civil-service extortion laws that would forestall the enforcement subdivision from firing personnel.

The caller section would besides look to trim outgo savings by cutting the implicit $500 cardinal successful spending from the enforcement subdivision that was not specifically authorized by Congress.

While Trump ran connected cutting the authorities and lawmakers connected some sides of the aisle person acknowledged concerns implicit the country's ballooning debt, immoderate person raised concerns implicit Musk being tapped to pb the effort. 

'Musk not lone knows thing astir authorities ratio and regulation, his ain businesses person regularly tally afoul of the precise rules helium volition beryllium successful presumption to onslaught successful his caller ‘czar’ position,' watchdog radical Public Citizen said aft the announcement was made. 

'This is the eventual firm corruption,' it argued.

Trump tasked DOGE with finishing its enactment by July 4, 2026.