Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Nonsensical Defense For Trump Firing Government Watchdogs

Green lied that the internal government investigators Trump fired had “overseen” the entire national debt.

The first meeting of the congressional “DOGE” subcommittee took place Wednesday morning, and it quickly offered a bizarre look at how Republicans are justifying President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s aggressive dismantling of the federal government.

The committee was created as a legislative counterpart to the “Department of Government Efficiency,” a temporary organization created by Trump and run by Elon Musk. It has flooded several federal agencies with Musk aides who have sought extensive access to sensitive technology, and has pursued deep budget and personnel cuts, despite not having congressional authorization.

As Democrats hammered the administration for illegally shuttering entire agencies, attacking civil servants and handing over enormous power to an unaccountable billionaire, Republicans largely avoided talking about the rampage. But Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the subcommittee’s chair, did occasionally offer some insight into Republican thinking about Trump and Musk’s hatchet job.

After House Oversight Committee ranking member Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) called out Trump’s (allegedly illegal) mass firing of 17 inspectors general ― the internal investigators literally tasked with sniffing out bad behavior ― Greene bizarrely blamed the same civil servants for the entirety of the federal debt.

“If we want to be serious, we’ve got to have objective, neutral inspectors general who are monitoring government waste, fraud and abuse and expenditures, and I think you would find Democrats more than willing partners in that kind of enterprise if we’re going to be serious,” Connolly said. “But a wrecking crew ― a wrecking crane, a wrecking ball ― is not going to do it.”