Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is mocking rival Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over the Republican lawmaker’s new post working alongside the newly created budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
The progressive Bronx/Queens lawmaker says her GOP counterpart from Georgia is not ready to do the hard work needed to find big cost savings in the federal budget.
“She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “It’s like giving someone an unplugged controller.”
Ocasio-Cortez predicted incoming DOGE bosses Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will find out the hard way that Greene lacks the needed legislative chops to help them get stuff done on Capitol Hill.
“Absolutely dying at those two now getting assigned the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’ with MTG,” she wrote. “That is actually hilarious. Enjoy, fellas!”
Greene has been tapped by Rep. James Comer, the GOP chair of the oversight committee, to lead a subcommittee to work with DOGE in the coming Congress.
The firebrand MAGA lawmaker vowed to use the new post to root out waste in the federal bureaucracy.
“We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government,” Greene said in a statement. “Our subcommittee’s work will expose people who need to be FIRED.”
Greene’s appointment reflects an apparent dramatic improvement in her relationship with House Speaker Mike Johnson. She sniped at Johnson in recent months and accused him of working with Democrats to avoid government shutdowns and funding Ukraine’s effort to defend itself against the Russian invasion.
The pair appear to have buried the hatchet since their mutual ally President-elect Trump won a fresh four-year term in office.
Musk and Ramaswamy have been appointed to lead DOGE, a new organization that has no formal power over the federal budget.
It is unclear how DOGE will function and how its proposed actions would translate into actual budget cuts, which legally must be approved by Congress.
Musk, the world’s richest man, has said he hopes to cut about a third of the federal budget, a shocking goal that could be politically dangerous for Trump.