No tote bag for MTG this year.
Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wasted no time getting out the red pen as she prepares to lead a new House subcommittee dedicated to research and eradication of unnecessary spending – and is already brandishing his saber against the liberal grab bag. -distribution of National Public Radio.
Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer — who was charged with creating the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the brainchild of Trump appointees Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — tapped Greene to lead a panel of the House to fuel this effort.
Speaking on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” on Sunday about her impending new role, Greene said DOGE would search federal coffers for budgetary inefficiencies across the board.
“We will look at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that only broadcast Democratic propaganda, to grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa,” she said to host Maria Bartiromo. .
“All kinds of programs that don’t help the American people,” she said, also lambasting the Pentagon for failing its seventh consecutive audit.
“I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can’t find billions of dollars every year and why they fail their audit,” she said.
She also said she plans to exercise her new oversight authority to hold accountable governors and mayors of so-called ultra-migrant-friendly sanctuary states and cities.
“I would like… them to come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they want to harbor criminal illegal aliens in their states and cities,” she said.
“We don’t care about people’s feelings – we’re going to get the facts and we’re going to find out if it’s worth spending the American people’s hard-earned tax dollars.”
