Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia will explain Sunday why sanctuary state and city leaders are eligible to provide federal funding to a new Congressional subcommittee working to reduce government waste. said it was necessary.
Greene, who was chosen to lead a subcommittee working with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, discussed how government spending could be reduced in an appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures.” I said what I wanted to do.
One of the areas Greene said she would like the subcommittee to investigate relates to the immigration crisis.
“I want to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and ask them to come to our committee and explain to us why we should spend federal money if we are going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in our states and cities. ” she said.
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is leading a new Congressional subcommittee dedicated to reducing waste in government. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images, File)
Green specifically pointed to the death of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was brutally killed while jogging on the University of Georgia campus in Athens in February. Jose Ibarra, an illegal Venezuelan immigrant, was found guilty of murder. Ybarra was granted a “humanitarian flight” from New York City to Atlanta in September 2023.
Jose Ibarra listens through an interpreter during his trial in Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Athens, Georgia. (Hyo-Seob Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Greene also identified a number of other areas that could face challenges under the subcommittee's plan to cut government spending.
“The way we do that is by cutting programs, contracts, employees, subsidy programs, etc. that fail the American people and do not benefit the American people,” Green said.
The lawmaker said government-funded media programs like NPR, which he claims “propagate nothing but Democratic propaganda,” will be under the subcommittee's oversight.
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He also said he would examine ongoing government contracts and programs to determine whether they still “relevant” or have “lost their purpose.”
Green said government employees have been working remotely since the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing many employees in both the government and private sectors to work from home. Ta.
“We are also looking at many buildings, thousands of buildings, that the federal government owns and pays over $15 billion a year, but those government buildings remain empty, and these of government employees are at home.”
Greene called these “failures” in government service to the American people.
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“And we don't care about people's feelings,” Green said. “We're going to look at the facts and see if this is worth the American people's hard-earned tax dollars.”
