Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thrilled for Marjorie Taylor Greene and her new job

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is thrilled about her colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest role in Washington.
Well, sarcastically thrilled.
The left-wing lawmaker threw shade at the right-wing Donald Trump loyalist after it was announced Greene is working with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
Trump put Musk, the world’s richest man, and Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate, in charge of the new department, which is really an outside advisory committee that will work with people inside the government to reduce spending and regulations.
“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,” Ocasio-Cortez quipped on X. “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.”
This week, Musk and Ramaswamy said they would encourage Trump to make cuts by refusing to spend money allocated by Congress, a process known as impounding. The proposal goes against a 1974 law intended to prevent future presidents from following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon, who held back funding that he didn’t like.
Trump has already suggested taking such a big step, saying last year that he would “use the president’s long-recognized impoundment power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings.”
It would be a dramatic attempt to expand his powers, when he already will have the benefit of a sympathetic Republican-controlled Congress and a conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, and it could swiftly become one of the most closely watched legal fights of his second administration.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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