A Democratic lawmaker ridiculed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Georgia Republican scored a new job that will coordinate with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Greene will join a new congressional subcommittee that will work with the Department of Government Efficiency, a largely symbolic agency that Trump announced will identify severe cuts and be headed by Musk and Ramaswamy.
"This is good, actually," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wrote on X. "She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading. To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, 'It’s like giving someone an unplugged controller.'"
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"Absolutely dying at those two now getting assigned the 'privilege' of 'working' with MTG," she continued. "That is actually hilarious. Enjoy, fellas! Very prestigious post you have there."
Punchbowl News congressional reporter Melanie Zanona agreed Friday afternoon, telling MSBC panelists that some committees require actual work, while others are more for "show horses."
"I think in this case, this is another example where Marjorie Taylor Greene will hold a bunch of hearings and draw a lot of attention, but I'm not sure she's going to be holding all that much," said Zanona. "I think it is important to note that the Appropriations Committees are the ones that actually do the work of authorizing and doling out spending, so she can go after the government agencies from her perch on the subcommittee, but she doesn't have the power or the authority from that committee to do any spending cuts."
Rev. Al Sharpton said Greene, Musk and Ramaswamy "almost deserve each other if they were not talking about serious issues."
"The conversation they have — we should make a reality show of Elon talking with MTG," he suggested. "Imagine that conversation. And it is furtherance of how they made a mockery of government."
Greene has bragged that she will have subpoena power, and specifically threatened Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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