Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has stated that her new subcommittee addressing government efficiency will look at defunding National Public Radio and applying budget cuts to sanctuary states.
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Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures, MTG talked about the goals of her new subcommittee, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will operate under the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. DOGE, which will be led by billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, aims to cut government spending under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
"We'll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda, we'll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don't help the American people," said Greene.
Greene's sentiments are seemingly an extension of the goals voiced by Musk and Ramaswamy, who outlined which government programs they aimed to cut funding from earlier this month. These cuts include $535 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an organization that funds hundreds of locally owned public radio and television stations.
"We are focused on delivering cost savings for taxpayers," Musk and Ramaswamy explained in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal. "The Skeptics question how much federal spending DOGE can tame through executive action alone.
"They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question."
Greene continued to talk about other areas of government where she would support cutting federal funding, including to sanctuary states.
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I lay out my vision for the @GOPoversight Subcommittee on DOGE and the steps we need to take to GUT federal agencies, FIRE unelected bureaucrats, and deliver for the American people!
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"I'd like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they're going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities," she said.
Greene also mentioned Laken Riley, the 22-year-old college student who was murdered in Athens, Georgia, by Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan immigrant who entered the United States illegally. Trump has pledged to launch the largest deportation in U.S. history to restrict the number of immigrants living in the country illegally.
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