{"id":6073,"date":"2025-02-12T19:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-fail-to-land-viral-moment-at-doge-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:18:53","slug":"dems-fail-to-land-viral-moment-at-doge-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-fail-to-land-viral-moment-at-doge-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems fail to land viral moment at DOGE hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The highly anticipated first meeting of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, or DOGE, came and went on Wednesday with scarce political drama.<\/p>\n

Democrats sought to cast the subcommittee \u2014 a complementary effort to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk \u2014 as an extension of what they see as a corrupt executive branch plot to destroy the federal bureaucracy. But Republicans largely sidestepped those attacks, arguing they were in the business of eliminating government waste while Democrats had little interest in engaging earnestly on the subject.<\/p>\n

It was a surprising twist for a panel filled with political firebrands and chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who just a few years ago was stripped of her committee<\/a> assignments for controversial actions like suggesting she supported the assassination of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And on Wednesday, Democrats seemed at times keen on provoking Greene, known for viral spats and sparring with fellow lawmakers.<\/p>\n

At one point, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) announced he\u2019d decided to bring a \u201cdick pic,\u201d after Greene showed explicit images of Hunter Biden in a House Oversight Committee hearing in the previous Congress. Garcia then displayed a photo of \u201cPresident Elon Musk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should in no way be cooperating with House Republicans who want to shut down the Department of Education and destroy Medicare and Medicaid,\u201d said Garcia at the hearing.<\/p>\n

And Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who last year said during a spat with Greene during an Oversight Committee hearing that her colleague had \u201cbleach blonde, bad built, butch body,\u201d said Wednesday that Greene\u2019s leadership of the DOGE subcommittee was notable, given her absence from a number of past hearings dealing with \u201cimproper payments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greene has marketed her panel<\/a> as a serious partner in Musk\u2019s efforts to reduce government waste. On Wednesday, she said her subcommittee would soon release a report with legislative solutions to the problems raised at the hearing, titled \u201cThe War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a time for political theater and partisan attacks. The American people are watching. The legislative branch can\u2019t sit on the sidelines,\u201d Greene said in her opening remarks.<\/p>\n

She also announced that the subcommittee had finalized a date to hold a hearing on whether the federally funded public news outlets PBS and NPR are engaging in political bias in their coverage, and convene to discuss the U.S. Agency for International Development, which the administration is moving to dismantle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this subcommittee,\u201d Greene said, \u201cwe will fight the war on waste shoulder to shoulder with President Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE team.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The highly anticipated first meeting of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, or DOGE, came and went on Wednesday with scarce political drama. Democrats sought to cast the subcommittee \u2014 a complementary effort to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk \u2014 as an extension of what they see as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}