Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's new job working with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency as like "giving someone an unplugged controller."
Greene, a far-right Georgia Republican, has been tapped to lead a new House subcommittee that will work alongside the new department—which is actually an outside advisory committee—led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, CNBC reported this week.
Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat who has clashed with Greene, said on social media that appointing her to the role "is good, actually."
"She barely shows up and doesn't do the reading," the congresswoman wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, it's like giving someone an unplugged controller."
This is good, actually. 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. https://t.co/cgu6B4IAYV
In another post, Ocasio-Cortez added that she was "absolutely dying" at Musk and Ramaswamy "getting assigned the 'privilege' of 'working' with MTG."
She added: "That is actually hilarious. Enjoy, fellas! Very prestigious post you have there."
Newsweek has contacted Ocasio-Cortez and Greene for comment via email.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer plans to establish the subcommittee that Greene will chair early next year, CNBC reported.
Greene told the outlet that she is "excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the entire DOGE team."
Trump announced on November 12 that he had tapped Musk, the world's richest man, and Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate, to form an outside group called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE—a name that references Musk's favorite cryptocurrency—to advise the White House on reducing spending, regulations and the size of the federal workforce.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Wednesday, Musk and Ramaswamy said they "will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings.
"We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws."
They added that they were assisting the Trump transition to "identify and hire a lean team of small-government crusaders" to work in the Trump administration "closely" with the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Musk and Ramaswamy, who are both unelected, also lamented that "most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren't made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections."
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