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Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has a plan for her new House subcommittee aimed at eliminating federal government waste and spending.
She was appointed to head the subcommittee by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and she will work closely with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are heading DOGE (Department Of Government Efficiency), she explained on Fox News Sunday.
“We’ll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda, we’ll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa,” she said to host Maria Bartiromo. “I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can’t find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit, but not just that.”
NPR is seen by many conservatives as being a propaganda machine for the Democrat Party and Musk even labeled the network “State Media” on his X platform.
She said she will also go after “sanctuary” cities and states and threaten to pull funding from them.
“I’d like to … have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they’re going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and cities,” the representative said.
“We don’t care about people’s feelings — we’re going to be searching for the facts and we’re going to be verifying if this is worth spending the American people’s hard-earned tax dollars on,” she said.
And she said that she would look into the many federal buildings the government owns and pays for that are not being used.
‘We’re also looking at many – we have thousands – of buildings that the federal government owns and pays for with over $15 billion a year, but yet those government buildings stood empty and these government employees stay at home,” she said.
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The subcommittee is expected to investigate wasteful spending, explore ways to streamline federal agencies for improved efficiency, and propose solutions to cut through bureaucratic red tape.
A source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital that James Comer recently met with Vivek Ramaswamy and his incoming DOGE team.
Ramaswamy confirmed the meeting with Comer and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Fox News Digital.
“A key step to driving greater efficiency in government is exposing the problem to the public—we are grateful that the House Oversight Committee has created a subcommittee to focus on this work,” a spokesperson for the entrepreneur and 2024 GOP presidential contender told Fox News Digital. “We look forward to working together.”
The source also said Ramaswamy is “supportive of the Oversight Committee’s endeavor and are already working together.”
Comer told the outlet that President-elect Donald Trump’s “landslide victory reflects a clear mandate to address inflationary spending that’s driving up the cost of living for hardworking Americans.”
“Wasteful government spending must end, and taxpayers deserve to see their money used effectively and efficiently,” he told the outlet.
Comer told Fox News Digital that the new Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency “will align with the Trump administration’s priorities to eliminate government waste, streamline the federal government’s operations and cut red tape that’s stifling jobs and increasing costs for the American people.”
“I look forward to working with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to deliver on these goals to Make America Great Again,” Comer said.
On the X platform, Taylor Greene acknowledged the initiative in a post featuring Comer and conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, writing: “I come from a business background and have successfully run a construction company my entire adult life. In the private sector, if you’re not doing a good job, you get fired. But for some reason, in government, bad employees—whether they’re failing to do the job they were hired to do or working in roles that are no longer needed—never get fired. This is incredibly unfair to the hard-working taxpayers of our country, and it’s about to change. I can’t wait to get to work!!”
