Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Sunday mentioned leaders of sanctuary states and cities ought to have to elucidate why they deserve federal {dollars} to a brand new congressional subcommittee bent on chopping authorities waste.
Greene, who was tapped to guide a subcommittee working with the Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy-led Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), laid out how she hopes to chop authorities spending throughout an look on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
One space Greene mentioned she desires the subcommittee to analyze is tied to the immigration disaster.
“I would like to speak to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come earlier than our committee and clarify why they deserve federal {dollars} if they will harbor unlawful prison aliens of their states and their cities,” she mentioned.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is main a brand new congressional subcommittee devoted to chopping authorities waste. (Brandon Bell/Getty Photographs, File )
Greene particularly famous the loss of life of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing pupil who was brutally murdered whereas jogging on the College of Georgia campus in Athens in February. Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan unlawful immigrant, was convicted in her homicide. Ibarra had been granted a “humanitarian flight” from New York Metropolis to Atlanta in September 2023.
Jose Ibarra listens via an interpreter throughout his trial at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court docket, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Athens, Georgia. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Structure by way of AP, Pool)
Greene additionally laid out a slew of different areas that might face the chopping block beneath the subcommittee’s plan to chop authorities spending.
“The best way to do this is to chop packages, contracts, staff, grant packages, you title it, which are failing the American individuals and never serving the American individuals’s pursuits,” Greene mentioned.
The congresswoman mentioned government-funded media packages like NPR, which she claimed “unfold nothing however Democrat propaganda,” will likely be beneath the subcommittee’s microscope.
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She additionally mentioned it is going to examine lively authorities contracts and packages to see in the event that they nonetheless “make sense” or if “their objective has expired.”
Greene talked about authorities employees who’ve been working remotely because the COVID-19 pandemic – which compelled many throughout the workforce, each within the authorities and personal sectors, to do business from home.
“We’re additionally taking a look at many – we’ve 1000’s – of buildings that the federal authorities owns and pays for with over $15 billion a yr, however but these authorities buildings stood empty and these authorities staff keep at residence.”
Greene known as these factors “failures” within the authorities’s service to the American individuals.
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“And we do not care about individuals’s emotions,” Inexperienced mentioned. “We will be trying to find the details and we will be verifying if that is value spending the… American individuals’s hard-earned tax {dollars} on.”
