U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., slammed a Republican colleague’s plan to work with the leaders of President-elect Donald Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
Ocasio-Cortez said it was laughable that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer assigned U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to a subcommittee to work with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy on DOGE.
“This is good, actually. She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X. “To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, it’s like giving someone an unplugged controller.”
Days after winning another term in the White House, Trump announced Musk and Ramaswamy would lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, an outside group that will advise Trump.
Trump said DOGE will allow his administration to “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulation, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies.”
Ocasio-Cortez said Greene’s assignment was a dud.
“Absolutely dying at those two now getting assigned the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’ with MTG. That is actually hilarious. Enjoy, fellas! Very prestigious post you have there,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X.
Ramaswamy and Musk detailed early plans for DOGE in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal earlier this week.
Musk and Ramaswamy said they aren’t counting on new laws to help them make cuts. Rather, they plan to focus on executive actions that Trump can take once he’s sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025.
The pair said they plan to start by cutting regulations and then cutting federal employees to match what they say should be the right size of the federal government.
“A drastic reduction in federal regulations provides sound industrial logic for mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy,” Ramaswamy and Musk wrote. “DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions.”
