Exactly four years after spiteful liberals led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) blocked newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from all House committees, the Georgia Republican is poised to chair what is arguably the most impactful subcommittee in Congress.
On Wednesday, Greene will take the gavel in the House Oversight’s Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency and open two years of investigations into federal waste, fraud, and abuse in a way that has possibly never been tried.
“We’re going to take it to a deeper level,” the three-term conservative told Secrets on Tuesday.
“It’s going to be transformative because we’re going to be able to bring up solutions and implement them, and we’ll be able to implement them through the coordinating work that we’ll be doing along with the White House,” said Greene of her first chairwoman role.
By complimenting President Donald Trump’s efforts and those of his Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk, Greene is expecting to make changes to how government works, chip away at the nation’s $36 trillion deficit, and even help Republicans gain seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
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— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
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“DOGE and the effort to rein in federal spending, rein in waste, fraud and abuse, and basically forcing Washington, D.C. to care about the American people and care how hard they work and to care about the money that they pay to the federal government, has become the No. 1 issue. I think it’s even above border security now, which is pretty impressive,” Greene said.
“Essentially,” she added, the new administration and congressional majority are “waging what we could call maybe a second American Revolution, which is saving our own government and saving our country.”
In her first hearing tomorrow, Greene will look at the general landscape of federal spending and potential waste. She has a hearing scheduled to get into the specifics of funding for National Public Radio and Public TV.
Greene, who has a business background, said she plans to go into hearings with an open mind but will quickly decide if action is needed.
“I’ll be making formal suggestions and formal announcements after each hearing. So I don’t want to be on the front end, but saying this, that, and the other on the back end,” she said.
While she is aiming to cut wasteful spending, Greene also promised to maintain critical spending that Americans rely on.
“We’re just going to have to cut programs,” she said, explaining, “We can do that well without cutting, you know, benefits, it’s easy. It’s easy. We can cut out the garbage, and we can still protect Americans.”
Once potential cuts are identified, Greene is hoping to team up with corporate IT outlets to automate some of the savings.
“I have a business mindset, and the only way I can look at the government is through making a failing company that’s about to go bankrupt into a successful company. And so you have to start with the simple things,” she said, citing fraud such as paying dead people.
“It’s easy to figure out. Those are quick cuts we can do, and we’ll be able to do that by working with Elon Musk and DOGE and probably some other really great tech companies coming up with algorithms, coming up with computer programs that can easily be put in place with the payment centers within our own federal departments and agencies. And these solutions that can be implemented that any private company would do immediately to stop from making improper payments. And these are the things that must be done within the federal government,” said Greene.
For Greene, getting the chairmanship is just the latest example of her elbowing aside old Capitol Hill traditions and challenging her critics, including the media.
After 4 yrs, I’m fed up with Washington DC press.
Your assumptions are ignorant and you are absolutely disconnected and clueless about what is important in life and to Americans.
You have destroyed your credibility.
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— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
And while she hopes for bipartisanship, she is expecting Democrats to block her, as some have to Trump’s cuts with demands that liberals go to war with Republicans to save the swamp.
“This will be a congressional fight, a constitutional fight, a legal fight, and on days like this a street fight, yes we will stand,” threatened Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) on Monday.
“They don’t care,” Greene said of the Democrats, many of whom have protested in support of wasteful USAID and Department of Education funding.
“I’d love to see them wage, BLM, Antifa style riots, where they’re defending the bureaucracy and they’re defending $36 million in debt. Like, yeah, go ahead, burn down regular communities over that. Let’s see how that plays out for you because I want to win the midterms, to be honest with you. So if they want to go that route, I’m all for it,” she told Secrets.
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She added that taxpayers “should be angry” at the waste she, Musk, and others have revealed so far.
“They work their tails off, and the government has wasted so much of their money and overspent. Inflation is high, and now their money has lost so much value, it doesn’t go very far. And yeah, they should be furious coming up on April 15,” the date 2024 tax forms are due, she said.
