Sanctuary states, cities should explain to DOGE why they deserve federal money: MTG

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., connected Sunday said leaders of sanctuary states and cities should person to explicate wherefore they merit national dollars to a caller legislature subcommittee bent connected cutting authorities waste.

Greene, who was tapped to lead a subcommittee moving with the Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), laid retired however she hopes to chopped authorities spending during an quality connected "Sunday Morning Futures."

One country Greene said she wants the subcommittee to analyse is tied to the migration crisis.

"I'd similar to speech to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and person them travel earlier our committee and explicate wherefore they merit national dollars if they're going to harbor amerciable transgression aliens successful their states and their cities," she said.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is starring a caller legislature subcommittee dedicated to cutting authorities waste. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images, File )

Greene specifically noted the decease of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing pupil who was brutally murdered portion jogging connected the University of Georgia field successful Athens successful February. Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan amerciable immigrant, was convicted successful her murder. Ibarra had been granted a "humanitarian flight" from New York City to Atlanta successful September 2023.

Jose Ibarra listens done an interpreter during his proceedings astatine Athens-Clarke County Superior Court, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, successful Athens, Georgia. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Greene besides laid retired a slew of different areas that could look the chopping artifact nether the subcommittee’s program to chopped authorities spending.

"The mode to bash that is to chopped programs, contracts, employees, assistance programs, you sanction it, that are failing the American radical and not serving the American people's interests," Greene said.

The congresswoman said government-funded media programs similar NPR, which she claimed "spread thing but Democrat propaganda," volition beryllium nether the subcommittee’s microscope.

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She besides said it volition analyse progressive authorities contracts and programs to spot if they inactive "make sense" oregon if "their intent has expired."

Greene mentioned authorities workers who person been moving remotely since the COVID-19 pandemic – which forced galore crossed the workforce, some successful the authorities and backstage sectors, to enactment from home.

"We're besides looking astatine galore – we person thousands – of buildings that the national authorities owns and pays for with implicit $15 cardinal a year, but yet those authorities buildings stood bare and these authorities employees enactment astatine home."

Greene called these points "failures" successful the government’s work to the American people.

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"And we don't attraction astir people's feelings," Green said. "We're going to beryllium searching for the facts and we're going to beryllium verifying if this is worthy spending the… American people's hard-earned taxation dollars on."