Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is delighted with Marjorie Taylor Greene and her new job

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is thrilled with her colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest role in Washington.

Well, sarcastically excited.

The left-wing lawmaker threw shade at the right-wing Donald Trump supporter after it was announced that Greene was working with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at the so-called Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE).

Trump has put Musk, the world’s richest man, and Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate, at the head of a new department that is actually an outside advisory committee that will work with people inside the government to cut spending and regulation. .

“It’s actually good. She hardly appears or reads. To borrow a phrase I’ve seen elsewhere, it’s like giving someone a disabled controller,” Ocasio-Cortez joked on X. “Absolutely dying that these two are now given the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’ with MTG. It’s actually fun. Enjoy guys! You have a very prestigious position there.

This week, Musk and Ramaswamy said they would encourage Trump to cut spending by refusing to spend money allocated by Congress. This process is known as forfeiture. The proposal flies in the face of a 1974 law designed to prevent future presidents from following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon, who withheld funding he didn’t like.

Trump has already proposed taking such a big step, saying last year that he would “use the president’s long-recognized detention powers to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for huge savings.”

It would be a dramatic attempt to expand his powers when he already has the advantage of a sympathetic Republican-controlled Congress and a conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, and it could quickly become one of the most closely watched legal battles of his second year. administration.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.