On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) rebuffed a reporter hounding her over President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-nearly-all-j6-defendants-could-be-released-from-prison-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sweeping January 6 pardons</a>.
Hours after being sworn into office, Trump signed an executive order pardoning nearly all individuals charged with J6-related crimes.
&#8220;Is this all you&#8217;re really talking about, is the J6ers have been pardoned?&#8221; MTG asked the reporter, to which the reporter responded, &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, are you gonna talk about the Biden family that got pardoned? No?&#8221; Greene continued to push. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t &#8211;,&#8221; the reporter replied.
To much controversy, former President Joe Biden pardoned five members of his family with only minutes left of his time in office.
&#8220;Okay, what about the rapers [sic], killers, and murders that Joe Biden pardoned &#8212; there are tons of them &#8212; is that a focus at all?&#8221; Greene once again asked, only to receive a response that the reporter was focused on the J6 issue.
In late December, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-commutes-sentences-of-dozens-of-murderers-two-days-before-christmas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commuted the death sentences</a> of dozens of convicted killers, including a man who murdered a police officer and a man who kidnapped and murdered a 12-year-old girl.
&#8220;I know what you&#8217;re asking about &#8212; I&#8217;m not doing this,&#8221; Greene told the reporter. &#8220;This insane place up here, and all of y&#8217;all&#8217;s obsession with January 6 is absurd. Everybody outside of here is sick and f***ing tired of it. I&#8217;m serious.&#8221;
&#8220;Joe Biden pardoned all these murderers and rapists and disgusting people, and then everybody up here has got their panties in a wad because J6ers got pardoned,&#8221; the lawmaker continued. &#8220;A lot of them walked through open doors. That&#8217;s it.&#8221;
Greene then suggested the reporter &#8220;go do a story on all the antifa and BLM (Black Lives Matter) people who never served time, over 95% of them. Seriously, think about that. Go do a story on all these cities BLM burned to the ground, and they never built back.&#8221;
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Before the interaction ended, MTG talked about the distrust the legacy media had fomented in the American people. &#8220;You are not trusted and people are sick of you,&#8221; she told the reporter.
Greene posted the interaction to her X account with the caption: &#8220;After 4 yrs, I’m fed up with Washington DC press. Your assumptions are ignorant and you are absolutely disconnected and clueless about what is important in life and to Americans. You have destroyed your credibility. With social media like X, you can’t lie about me anymore.&#8221;
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After 4 yrs, I’m fed up with Washington DC press.
Your assumptions are ignorant and you are absolutely disconnected and clueless about what is important in life and to Americans.
You have destroyed your credibility.
With social media like X, you can’t lie about me anymore. <a href="https://t.co/mC1RXDfBcl">pic.twitter.com/mC1RXDfBcl</a>
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1882249270847500414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-nearly-all-j6-defendants-could-be-released-from-prison-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump Issues Full Pardon To Nearly All J6 Defendants, Could Be Released From Prison ‘Tonight’</a>

House Oversight Committee Holds Biden Impeachment Hearing

‘Sick And F***ing Tired Of It’: MTG Wrecks Reporter Hounding Her Over J6 Pardons

‘F***ing Sick Of It’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Wrecks Reporter Hounding Her Over J6 Pardons

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January 6

Marjorie Taylor Greene

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House Republicans on Wednesday said the Biden administration misled the American people about a federal workforce that has largely not shown up to the office in years, and that Donald Trump inheriting COVID-style telework was emblematic of Biden prioritizing the interests of federal unions and employees over the American people.
At the <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-opens-first-hearing-of-the-119th-congress-on-the-biden-administrations-efforts-to-cement-a-stay-at-home-federal-workforce/">first hearing</a> of the 119th Congress&#8217; House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, members called for a clampdown on federal union privileges and grilled former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley for signing a contract locking in extensive telework in his last week on the job, citing a Daily Wire report that found O’Malley flew to Florida to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-security-head-drank-with-union-members-before-giving-them-telework-through-2029" target="_blank" rel="noopener">party with union members</a> just before signing.
“How is this good for democracy?” Chairman James Comer (R-KY) asked O’Malley. “The voters just granted Donald Trump an electoral mandate to run the executive branch. Should union contracts designed to tie his hands take precedence over the mandate by the people?”
He noted that the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which signed the contract, has called its own <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/government-union-that-wants-feds-to-work-from-home-brings-staff-back-to-office-to-fight-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staff back</a> to the office in order to more effectively fight against Trump.
“The union’s message couldn’t be clearer: For those doing the people’s business in a federal job, showing up should be optional. Those charged with blunting the Trump agenda, they need to be on their A-game, and that requires showing up in person. I, for one, want federal employees to also be on their A-game,” Comer continued.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) added, &#8220;This was the union he was supposed to be negotiating against, not for. As Commissioner he was supposed to be serving the American taxpayers who pay his salary.”
A <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/report/the-lights-are-on-but-everyone-is-at-home-why-the-new-administration-will-enter-largely-vacant-federal-agency-offices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committee report</a>, prepared for the hearing, noted that O’Malley stood to personally gain from the giveaway, as it could help him win his race for chair of the Democratic National Committee.
O’Malley claimed the telework agreement, which required the rate of telework to stay the same, would not stop Trump from making changes, pointing to a potential loophole. “It reads ‘management has sole discretion to temporarily change, reduce or suspend approved telework days … due to operational needs,” O’Malley said.
A witness at the hearing said that 98.5% of Social Security Administration employees are eligible for telework, leaving only 900 employees spread across 1,400 offices and servicing 73 million people. Processing time for Social Security checks is now lower than pre-pandemic levels, tracking with the increase in remote work, the report said.
Across the federal government, 10% of employees are “remote,” meaning they never have to go to an office and can live anywhere in the country, the report said. Between 2019 and 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services went from 2% remote to 29%, while the Office of Personnel Management — which itself is in charge of federal telework policies — went from 7% to 40%.
Half of all Department of Education employees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-6-of-feds-work-from-an-office-full-time-and-some-arent-working-at-all-audit-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never show up to work</a>, and the remainder work from home most of the time under “telework.” Biden’s head of the General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, herself worked from home most of the time.
When Biden took office, he issued an order requiring masks in federal offices and said federal buildings could not exceed 25% occupancy. With the virus long receded, little changed, with 17 of 24 agencies using less than a quarter of their buildings in 2023.
By the time of Biden’s 2022 State of the Union address, he was acknowledging the ill effects of telework, and said, “The vast majority of federal workers will once again work in person.” His chief of staff repeatedly followed up, highlighting the benefits of in-person work — but his cabinet secretaries wouldn’t listen, in part, because they were cowed by unions, the report said.
Then, despite Biden himself believing telework had gone too far, his administration worked with unions to hamstring the Trump administration on the issue, it said.
The committee said that Biden never set a government-wide policy on telework. In March 2023, then-OPM Director Kiran Ahuja said she didn’t even know what portion of the workforce was teleworking.
Agencies claim telework is necessary to retain employees, but the committee said that the government has a higher retention rate than the private sector, and that when people leave, it is usually for another government agency — meaning a government-wide policy would stop agencies from trying to poach each other’s employees by giving ever more lenient telework.
Congress also asked agencies how they were measuring whether employees were more or less efficient when working at home, and they did not have substantive answers. The Department of Justice, for example, simply said that “[s]upervisors are responsible for monitoring employee performance to ensure telework and remote work policies are being used effectively and efficiently.”
Admissions that the Biden administration was not actually tracking how telework impacted productivity undermined the White House’s contention that it was delivering “effective and efficient telework,” the report said.
Agency heads have themselves had previously blamed telework when asked to explain poor performance. NASA’s Associate Administrator for Mission Support, Robert Gibbs, said of an asteroid mission, “One of the contributing factors to poor performance on Psyche was telework.”
Social Security Administration Executive Counselor Oren “Hank” McKnelly said that due to telework, “Our front office workers, specifically the trainees that you are talking about, they did not feel connected to the mission, and they did not feel connected to the teams that they were working with.”
At the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, stakeholders complained that they showed up for meetings to find no one was there.
Other agencies attributed negative changes to factors other than telework — only to admit that they had never examined whether telework was to blame, citing the “complexity” of studying it.
When the committee asked agencies for information about how union contracts affected their ability to bring employees back, most agencies did not respond, even as some privately found unions to be damaging to their efforts. The Department of Housing and Urban Development failed to respond to Congress, even though its union filed a grievance against it for merely asking its workers to come in once a week. The Department of Education also didn’t respond to Congress, but acknowledged to the White House that union contracts were its biggest obstacle.
Hearing witness Rachel Greszler, a visiting fellow at the Economic Policy Innovation Center, said that private companies may be able to use telework effectively, but the same unions that are demanding telework also make disciplining poor performers difficult — a necessity to deal with people who aren’t independent enough to work from home.
“Telework can be very useful if it is flexible, responsive, and employees are held responsible, but that can be hard to accomplish with civil service protections and practices that make it extremely difficult, costly and time-consuming to effectively discipline or dismiss federal employees,” she said.
She said it’s so difficult to deal with low performers in government that most managers don’t even bother. In a survey, less than a third of federal employees said steps were taken to deal with poor performers who can’t or won’t improve. “Even just not giving them a performance-based bonus requires setting up a performance improvement plan,” she said.
She also targeted the policy known as “official time,” where federal employees get paid for hours spent working on union business, and the government also provides space and other resources for union use.
“That includes things like nurses at the VA spending 100% of their time working for the union instead of treating veterans, and a VA hospital allocating half of its hospital wing primarily for the union’s use,” she said. “The irony of all this official time is federal unions can’t bargain for pay or benefits, so they’re often left negotiating for things like the height of cubicle space, the right to smoke on a smoke-free campus, or the right to wear spandex to work.”
Greene, who chairs the subcommittee working with the Department of Government Efficiency, said DOGE will target official time, and noted that Biden broke with prior presidents by hiding data on its cost.
Republicans and one witness said a return to the office would help the D.C. economy — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is aligned with Republicans on the issue — while a witness called by the Democrats said that remote work could “reverse brain drain, bring more jobs to states, and prevent economic decline in both cities and rural communities.” But those benefits would also come from relocating federal offices to other areas of the country. That wouldn’t help the D.C. area, but the D.C. suburbs are already the wealthiest areas of the country.
The committee suggested legislation that would prevent unions from being able to bargain over telework, and reopen contract negotiations at the start of each presidential term. It also said remote employees should be paid a standard rate, not paid more to live in high cost-of-living areas when they don’t go to any office.

SSA’s parking lot is empty on a Wednesday afternoon due to telework / House Oversight Committee

House Republicans Target Federal Unions After 11th-Hour Deals Tie Trump’s Hands On Remote Work

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This week, a pair of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> proposed bills that could bring to life President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s suggestions for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-u-s-to-change-name-of-the-gulf-of-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renaming</a> the Gulf of Mexico the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; — at least on maps and documents within the United States — and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-former-trump-official-explains-why-trump-may-take-panama-canal-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking back</a> the Panama Canal.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) announced on Tuesday that she directed her staff to draft a bill to make the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; rebranding happen as soon as Trump brought up the idea.
If the legislation is enacted, any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico shall be deemed to be a reference to the &#8220;Gulf of America.&#8221;
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🚨 READ MY STATEMENT &amp; BILL TEXT 🚨
Mexican cartels currently use the Gulf of Mexico to traffic humans, drugs, weapons, and God knows what else while the Mexican government allows them to do it.
The American people are footing the bill to protect and secure the maritime… <a href="https://t.co/m0Nh3a6vuq">pic.twitter.com/m0Nh3a6vuq</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1876756973644837111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And the commerce secretary, acting through the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, would oversee the implementation of changing the names in each federal document and map — an overhaul that would be completed in 180 days.
&#8220;It’s our gulf. The rightful name is the Gulf of America and it’s what the entire world should refer to it as,&#8221; Greene <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1876756973644837111" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X, adding later, &#8220;We already have the bill written with legislative council and ready to file first thing Thursday morning. Congress has to take the Trump Agenda mandate seriously and that means acting fast to enact it.&#8221;
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Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) is going to introduce a bill to authorize the president, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to enter into negotiations for the acquisition of the Panama Canal from the Republic of Panama for the &#8220;symbolic&#8221; amount of $1. The bill, according to a screenshot <a href="https://x.com/cami_mondeaux/status/1877058216032379180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to X by The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Cami Mondeax, also calls for a report to Congress detailing progress on the talks, potential challenges, and anticipated outcomes in 180 days.
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Here’s bill text from <a href="https://twitter.com/DustyJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DustyJohnson</a> to “authorize the President to enter into negotiations for the reacquisition of the Panama Canal from the Republic of Panama for the symbolic amount of $1.” <a href="https://t.co/k9nRSmrE7l">pic.twitter.com/k9nRSmrE7l</a>
&mdash; Cami Mondeaux (@cami_mondeaux) <a href="https://twitter.com/cami_mondeaux/status/1877058216032379180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;President Trump is right to consider repurchasing the Panama Canal. China’s interest in and presence around the canal is a cause for concern,&#8221; Johnson said in a statement <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5074775-republican-bill-panama-canal-trump-purchase/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Hill. &#8220;America must project strength abroad — owning and operating the Panama Canal might be an important step towards a stronger America and a more secure globe.&#8221;

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump

Republicans Offer Bills To Realize Trump’s Ideas For ‘Gulf Of America’ And Taking Back Panama Canal

Donald Trump

Gulf of Mexico

House Republicans

Panama Canal

President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-government-efficiency-doge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)</a> could set its sights on government-funded media programs like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a>, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) said on Sunday.
Greene, who has been tasked with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-doge-panel-chaired-by-marjorie-taylor-greene-will-help-slash-government-waste" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heading</a> a new House Oversight subcommittee to work with DOGE leaders <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>, mentioned the network while discussing how she believes wasteful spending is happening all over the U.S. government during a &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
&#8220;We will be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda,&#8221; Greene said, adding: &#8220;We will be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don&#8217;t help the American people.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMTG</a> says one of the things DOGE will look at is “government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda.”
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&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1860737016377245894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She continued: &#8220;I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can&#8217;t find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit, but not just that, Maria. I&#8217;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&#8217;re going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities.&#8221;
In his first term, Trump <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/02/donald-trump-public-media-pbs-npr-1202856498/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> reining in funding for public media, but Congress did not take him up on the cuts. Earlier this year, while back on the campaign trail, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that funding be cut from NPR after one of its editors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias. That editor, Uri Berliner, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-editor-who-accused-network-of-liberal-bias-resigns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> a short time later.
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“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP.’ THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112248653824267212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to Truth Social.
When NPR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-ditches-twitter-over-actions-that-undermine-our-credibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ditched</a> Twitter (now X) last year after being slapped with labels linking it to the U.S. government, the network <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> it &#8220;receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.&#8221; Still, on its website, NPR says federal funding is <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;essential&#8221;</a> and that ending it &#8220;would result in fewer programs, less journalism — especially local journalism — and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.&#8221;
In her Fox interview, Greene went on to say: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to look in every single aspect. And we don&#8217;t care about people&#8217;s feelings. We&#8217;re going to be searching for the facts, and we&#8217;re going to be verifying if this is worth spending the American people&#8217;s hard-earned tax dollars on.&#8221;

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

MTG Suggests NPR Could Be In DOGE’s Crosshairs: ‘Nothing But Democrat Propaganda’

Elon Musk

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National Public Radio (NPR)

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A new House subcommittee will reportedly work with the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help slash government waste.
The new Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee will be established by the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s chairman, Representative James Comer (R-KY), and chaired by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-create-doge-subcommittee-chaired-marjorie-taylor-greene-work-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
President-elect Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-elon-musks-department-of-government-efficiency-will-work">tapped</a> Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE, which he said will “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” giving government an “entrepreneurial approach.”
Comer said the new subcommittee &#8220;will align with the Trump administration’s priorities to eliminate government waste, streamline the federal government’s operations and cut red tape that’s stifling jobs and increasing costs for the American people.&#8221;
He added that Trump’s &#8220;landslide victory reflects a clear mandate to address inflationary spending that’s driving up the cost of living for hardworking Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;Wasteful government spending must end, and taxpayers deserve to see their money used effectively and efficiently,&#8221; Comer said.
Comer reportedly met with Ramaswamy and Greene recently to discuss the project.
&#8220;A key step to driving greater efficiency in government is exposing the problem to the public — we are grateful that the House Oversight Committee has created a subcommittee to focus on this work,&#8221; a spokesperson for Ramaswamy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-create-doge-subcommittee-chaired-marjorie-taylor-greene-work-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;We look forward to working together.&#8221;
Greene said the new subcommittee would bring &#8220;transparency and truth to the American people through hearings.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the entire DOGE team,&#8221; Greene said. &#8220;We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government.&#8221;
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&#8220;No topic will be off the table,&#8221; Greene said, adding that she expects the subcommittee &#8220;will expose people who need to be fired.&#8221;
DOGE will be a commission outside the government that will work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to advise the president on what government bloat can be cut.
Musk said he plans to target overregulation and out-of-control spending.
“The world is suffering slow strangulation by overregulation. Every year, the noose tightens a little more,” the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856729913148989710">posted</a> last week.
“We’re going to make the spending lower &#8230; if we don’t we’re going to bankrupt the country,&#8221; Musk said during a town hall in Pennsylvania last month.
DOGE will operate on a deadline. Trump said it would finish its work by July 4, 2026, the nation’s 250th birthday,

House Select Subcommittee On The Coronavirus Pandemic Investigates 2020 Scientific Paper Dismissing Lab Origins Of The Covid Virus

New DOGE Panel Chaired By Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Help Slash Government Waste

House GOP

U.S. House of Representatives

Vivek Ramaswamy

Never before seen footage showing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/planned-parenthood">Planned Parenthood</a> employee appearing to discuss the sale of aborted babies’ body parts was released Tuesday, years after now-Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris">Kamala Harris</a> seized the footage as Attorney General of California.
The five-minute video shows a conversation between a person identified as Dr. Stacy De-Lin, Planned Parenthood New York City Medical Director for Abortion Services, and an undercover reporter with the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). During their conversation, De-Lin seems to acknowledge that Planned Parenthood would sell the livers of aborted babies.
In one clip, De-Lin is told by a CMP investigator that she “could pay you $1,000, up to $1,500 for a liver.”
“Yeah, that’s great,” De-Lin responds. “I think a financial incentive from you guys like, to the people we have to get this approved from, will be very happy about it,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1kDkgS1vpg">according</a> to the video shared by CMP.
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▶️WATCH: In new full undercover video, Planned Parenthood NYC seeks $1,500 &#8220;financial incentive&#8221; per aborted fetal liver, which can be harvested from &#8220;intact D&amp;Es&#8221;—criminal partial-birth abortions.<a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a> seized this footage to cover up for <a href="https://twitter.com/PPFA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PPFA</a><a href="https://t.co/6pbuo7kpHe">pic.twitter.com/6pbuo7kpHe</a>
— David Daleiden (@daviddaleiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/daviddaleiden/status/1818483874676330921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Harris’ office confiscated footage in a 2016 raid on CMP President David Daleiden’s California home, two weeks after meeting with Planned Parenthood officials and after the organization had specifically requested the computers used for the undercover videos to be seized.
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The full videos show why they did, Daleiden says.
“You can see just from the first video why Planned Parenthood tried so hard to cover this up for eight years,” Daleiden told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. “They spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to make sure that the admissions on these undercover tapes never see the light of day.”
A federal judge in 2016 blocked CMP from sharing the full confiscated video for eight years. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) obtained the video through a subpoena earlier this year. Her office began <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pull-off-a-leg-or-two-footage-shows-reported-planned-parenthood-employee-discussing-brutal-abortion-practices">publishing</a> clips of the videos earlier this year, and <a href="https://greene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=801">released</a> the full footage on Tuesday.
In the video, De-Lin appears to admit that Planned Parenthood New York City engaged in illegal abortions, saying that they will do “fully intact” dilation and evacuation abortions, which fall in the category of partial-birth abortions.
“We certainly do intact D&amp;Es,” De-Lin says, after the undercover investigator said she would pay more for intact unborn babies.
According to Daleiden, the full video is “too incriminating to explain away.”
“There’s really no way that they can spin this stuff anymore. There’s no way that they can explain away admissions that are this stark and this obvious from their own top level leadership,” Daleiden said.
“And that’s why they went, eight years ago, to such incredible lengths to ask Kamala Harris when she was Attorney General of California to use the powers of her office to raid my home, try to seize all the original copies of the undercover footage, and prevent it from continuing to be published,&#8221; Daleiden continued. 
De-Lin, who now works at Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, did not respond to a phone call or email asking for comment on the videos. Planned Parenthood also did not return a request for comment.
Daleiden said that he expects lawmakers to release more previously blocked CMP videos in the coming weeks.
Harris has made abortion a key part of her 2024 campaign, attacking former President Donald Trump over the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 
She has long been backed by Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups, <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/46103/kamala-harris-and-her-pro-abortion-donor-base">raking</a> in tens of thousands of dollars in donations from the pro-abortion lobby throughout her career.
In 2020, Planned Parenthood Action released an ad campaign calling Harris “OUR Reproductive Health Champion.” That year, Planned Parenthood Votes published an article entitled &#8220;Nine Reasons to Love Kamala Harris.&#8221;
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Kamala Harris Made A Damning Planned Parenthood Video Disappear. Now, It’s Public.

Abortion

David Daleiden

Kamala Harris

Planned Parenthood

U.S. Politics

After much discussion, the cohosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; have determined that the origin of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19</a> pandemic &#8220;wasn&#8217;t in this country&#8221; — and Joy Behar even said that she&#8217;d heard somewhere that it might have come from a lab.
In a segment from Tuesday&#8217;s live broadcast — years after most Americans had determined that COVID had most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China — the show&#8217;s cohosts embraced the pandemic&#8217;s foreign origins in an attempt to attack Republicans for continuing to question the roles played by American officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Joy Behar began by complaining about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who had objected to referring to Fauci as &#8220;doctor&#8221; during a Monday hearing, saying that she was disrespectful and not very smart.
&#8220;She&#8217;s really stupid, and so disrespectful,&#8221; Behar said.
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Joy &#8220;I know history&#8221; Behar, who claims NATO fought the Nazis, calls MTG &#8220;really dumb.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/wLuf94Daih">pic.twitter.com/wLuf94Daih</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1798011937395015837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
Sunny Hostin went on to criticize Republicans in Congress for investigating American officials, saying that it didn&#8217;t make sense to scrutinize their roles if the pandemic had originated outside the United States.
&#8220;Fifteen months of an investigation — we have real problems in this country,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;Fifteen months of an investigation, spending real taxpayer dollars, it really really just gets to me. And I think that people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and other people really need to start doing the work of the people, as opposed to trying to send these messages.&#8221;
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&#8220;They say that they cannot find out what happened here in the United States in terms of the origin of COVID — well, maybe because the origin wasn&#8217;t in this country. Maybe it was in another country, and maybe they need to now start looking at other countries.&#8221;
&#8220;They say it possibly came out of a lab,&#8221; Behar interjected.
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Without evidence, Whoopi went on an unhinged rant suggesting Republicans on the committee were denying that the virus was even real, to begin with. <a href="https://t.co/JYkR4aYwzH">pic.twitter.com/JYkR4aYwzH</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1798030993087234480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
Whoopi Goldberg concluded the segment by reminding everyone that &#8220;people died&#8221; during the pandemic and suggesting that Republicans were saying &#8220;people made it up.&#8221;

WHOOPI GOLDBERG, SARA HAINES, JOY BEHAR, SUNNY HOSTIN, ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN

Problem Solved: ‘The View’ Has Determined COVID’s ‘Origin Wasn’t In This Country’

Anthony Fauci

COVID-19

Joy Behar

Media

Sunny Hostin

The View

Whoopi Goldberg

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) triggered Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday when he criticized a congressional hearing during which she recently made news after she got into a verbal spat with other female lawmakers.
Fetterman commented on the childish drama that unfolded yesterday on the House Oversight Committee when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) got in a verbal altercation after Crockett insulted Greene&#8217;s intelligence and Greene responded by insulting her appearance.
The incident quickly escalated from there, with other members getting involved, including AOC.
&#8220;In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show,&#8221; Fetterman posted on X. &#8220;Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show.&#8221;
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In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show.
Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show. <a href="https://t.co/y6wxLX5FIV">pic.twitter.com/y6wxLX5FIV</a>
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1791471678137966855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez responded by lashing out at Fetterman, and appeared to take a shot at his mental fitness for office, calling him &#8220;confused,&#8221; which comes after he suffered a serious stroke in 2022 and has had lingering issues related to speech and hearing ever since.
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&#8220;I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and seem to be confused about racism and misogyny being a &#8216;both sides&#8217; issue,&#8221; AOC posted. &#8220;But I stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one.&#8221;
&#8220;And to the women of Pennsylvania: I’d stand up for you too,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Enjoy your Friday.&#8221;
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I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and seem to be confused about racism and misogyny being a “both sides” issue.
But I stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one.
And to the women of Pennsylvania: I’d stand up for you too.
Enjoy your Friday. <a href="https://t.co/cInF4YXO2y">https://t.co/cInF4YXO2y</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1791489796168122700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez April 30

Fetterman Triggers AOC With Criticism Over ‘Jerry Springer’-Esque Congressional Hearing

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

John Fetterman

Early in the 20th century, there was a famous columnist known as H.L. Mencken. Two of his quotes are currently quite applicable.
Number <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51436-democracy-is-the-theory-that-the-common-people-know-what" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one</a>: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Number <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/37546-no-one-in-this-world-so-far-as-i-know-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two</a>: “No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” 
I point this out because we live in a representative democracy, so when we see spectacles like what we saw in the House of Representatives yesterday, it’s important to remember that these are all elected representatives of the United States.
We have filled Washington, D.C., with complete imbeciles. This is our fault because we vote for them. The fact is that if you don&#8217;t like your representatives, you can always change your them, but it seems as though the American people increasingly like a Congress that is completely unworkable; a presidency filled with numskulls like the current president of the United States; and entire representative agencies of the federal government that are filled with people whose IQs, when combined, might be in double digits.
If you think I&#8217;m being harsh, I present to you the spectacle yesterday, which is not, in fact, from Jerry Springer.
It is from Congress.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1967-we-filled-washington-dc-with-complete-imbeciles-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
Yesterday, a giant fight broke out between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the noted intellectual congresswoman from Georgia, known colloquially as MTG, on one side, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the noted intellectual congresswoman from New York, known colloquially as AOC, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Texas on the other side.
You can tell this is similar to a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) face-off when the congresspeople are known by their acronyms.
The wattage displayed by these three ladies put feminism back about 100 years, as shown by the fact that two of the men who are leading this committee, James Comer on the Republican side, and Jamie Raskin on the Democratic side, could not help but laugh at the idiocy displayed by this coterie of crows.
It began when Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted Jasmine Crockett’s fake eyelashes and went downhill from there. AOC snapped, “I would like to move to take down Miss Green&#8217;s words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person.”
Greene: “Are your feelings hurt? Aww.”
AOC: “Oh, girl, baby girl, baby girl. Don&#8217;t even play. Don&#8217;t even play. We are going to move and we&#8217;re going to take your words down.”
After MTG said she would agree to take her words down, AOC demanded an apology. MTG refused. Crockett later said to Comer, “I&#8217;m just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleached-blond, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
Comer, genuinely puzzled: “What now?”
A shouting match then ensued.
The question about all this is why? Why? These are outtakes from “Idiocracy” at this point.
The answer is because Congress and our representative government have become a performative spectacle for people who are hoping to get famous and rich outside of Congress. That&#8217;s what this is. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute wrote one of the most important books of the last 20 years about this — about how our representative institutions ar supposed to shape the people who enter them because they are given the grave responsibility of representing the American people, taking care of trillions of our taxpayer dollars, figuring out our foreign policy, and trying to rectify breaches in the social fabric and the social compact. That is their actual job. 
But over time, as we have become a more populous and populist country, our representatives have become stand-ins for our various gripes and grievances.
And so you end up with the dumbed-down version of the American public. I don&#8217;t think that this is a partisan issue. I know hundreds of members of Congress and the Senate, both Democrat and Republican, and I can name the number of intelligent people that I know in Congress on less than two hands. 
The American people have chosen poorly. It used to be when government did not have insane levels of power over our life, we didn&#8217;t actually care who was in charge of the government nearly as much because the government didn&#8217;t have the power to control every aspect of our life. Thus, politics was largely relegated to the local level. And when it came to federal politics, people who were very invested in federal politics tended to be the people who were the most knowledgeable, the people who actually cared the most, the people who were the most engaged. 
But now, it&#8217;s become a popularity contest. It&#8217;s “American Idol,” and thanks to the mass media, you can take dullards and make them incredibly famous. If you want to sell papers, that&#8217;s exactly what you do. If you want higher ratings, you focus on the dullards in Congress, not the congressperson who is spending late nights poring over the bills that are being created to shape our lives; that&#8217;s the boring stuff. 
The people like this. And this is why all three of these congresspeople are significantly more famous than some actual powerful congresspeople who make policy. People now use Congress as a platform for other activities to become famous — to be on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, to be on various shows on TV. 
That&#8217;s not good for America. Americans ought to get off of this.
But the reality, of course, is that this has pervaded American politics, and it has bled up. The quality of our public leadership is a reflection of the quality of our public conversations. And our public conversations are terrible because they are low IQ and do not involve any sort of actual knowledge base for the people involved. In fact, a quick insult is considered significantly more useful than an actual understanding of the issues at play and the nuances of those issues. The latter things are not important.
This is one of the reasons why you are seeing re-engagement online with three-hour long conversations with various hosts. There is a hunger in a certain segment of the population for something a little more substantive that has completely gone away for the vast majority of the American public.
The American people are casually engaged. They tune in for the last five minutes of “American Idol” before they cast their vote.
And what you end up with is a bunch of people who are getting rich and famous being in Congress and being complete imbeciles.
This is why you end up with a presidential race featuring an incumbent president who is full-on senile, and it doesn&#8217;t matter one whit to at least half the population. 
I think most people look at yesterday’s debacle in Congress and they&#8217;re ashamed of what they see.
We should all be ashamed of what we see in Congress because the level of intellectual achievement in our Congress, the level of true engagement with serious issues, is so unbelievably low that you would get a better conversation about what goes on in our nation in a third-grade social studies classroom than you would in a congressional committee such as yesterday’s.

DHS Secretary Mayorkas Testifies Before House Homeland Security Committee

We Filled Washington DC With Complete IMBECILES 

Ben Shapiro

Opinion

Readers Pass

Washington D.C.

Yesterday the House Oversight Committee gathered for a very important hearing. <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite</a> reports on the purpose of the hearing:
<blockquote>The committee met to discuss a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. That subpoena demanded he turn over the recorded deposition of President Joe Biden as questioned by former Special Counsel Robert Hur. Hur investigated Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice president. Ultimately, the special counsel <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/biden/elderly-man-with-a-poor-memory-devastating-doj-report-says-biden-did-not-remember-when-he-was-vice-president-and-when-his-son-died/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> to prosecute Biden, stating that a jury would likely view him “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.</blockquote>
As you probably recall, Joe Biden was judged by the special counsel to be mentally unfit to stand trial for his mishandling of classified documents. The poor old man was just confused, Robert Hur determined. There may be some merit to this excuse, if not for the fact that Joe Biden is also, you may have noticed, the President of the United States. If he is not mentally competent enough to stand trial, how is he mentally competent to sit in the Oval Office?
That’s a very good question. Another question is this: just how embarrassing and troubling was Joe Biden’s performance in that deposition that it led to this conclusion? And as a way of getting to the bottom of that, congress has attempted to obtain the audio recording of Biden’s deposition. But the Biden Administration is refusing to comply with the subpoena on the grounds that they don’t want Biden to look bad. That’s not the reason they’re giving but it is the actual reason, as we all know. And this is why the House Oversight Committee was meeting last night. It’s a very important subject. One that requires a seriousness of mind and purpose.
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Unfortunately, however, in the current year, Congress happens to include some of the dumbest human beings who have ever been born on planet Earth. Voters in this country have scoured the nation, from sea to shining sea, looking for the most obnoxious dimwits they can find, and then they have elected those people, and put them into positions of power. Of course, we have been electing clowns to Congress for many years but we have now reached critical clown mass. As philosophers and scientists have long warned, when you reach critical clown mass, total dysfunction follows. And that’s what we saw at this hearing on Thursday night. 
It all began with Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who made a little dig at Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to Jasmine Crockett. 
&quot;I don’t think you know what we’re here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up your reading.&quot; 🤣🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/pB9TqSSKGR">pic.twitter.com/pB9TqSSKGR</a>
&mdash; 3sidedstory 🇺🇲 (@3sidedstory) <a href="https://twitter.com/3sidedstory/status/1791282150966456511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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That was the spark — Marjorie Taylor Greene makes fun of Crockett’s fake eyelashes. 
Now, you know I am not exactly a sensitive soul when it comes to this kind of thing, or any kind of thing. I have been known to throw out insults myself on very rare occasion. And it’s true that Crockett does seem to have fake eyelashes. But come on. Is a congressional hearing really a place for catty little insults like this? How does a comment about another representative’s eyelashes help us obtain the recordings of Joe Biden’s deposition, which is supposed to be the purpose of the hearing? It does not help us. Instead, it takes things wildly off course. And that’s exactly what happened. Watch: 
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Anyway. We’re $35 trillion in debt. Heading into World War 3. Being invaded at the southern border. 
Let’s check in on congress: <a href="https://t.co/V3h7u1Jij8">pic.twitter.com/V3h7u1Jij8</a>
&mdash; Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) <a href="https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1791279190760644999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It might be hard to discern anything that is being said over noises that sound like feral cats fighting in a back alley. So please allow me to provide a brief but fully accurate and verbatim transcript of Jasmine Crockett’s remarks. She said, and I quote: 
“Ya’ll wanna play games with me. Don’t tell me to calm down. Y’all talk noise and then you can’t take it. Cuz if I come and talk s*** about her, ya’ll gon’ have a problem.”
That is an actual statement made by an elected member of the United States Congress during a House Oversight Committee hearing. I think we can safely say that it is the first time in American history that any member of Congress, operating in an official capacity, has ever used the phrase “Ya’ll talk noise.” It’s also, I’m guessing, the first time that the phrase “talk s***” and “ya’ll wanna play games” have ever been uttered during a congressional hearing. We are making history here, in all of the wrong ways. 
And that was not the only history making moment. Listen to this exchange, in the same hearing, between Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC:
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Again, the transcript: “Oh girl. Baby girl. Don’t even play.” 
There is another statement that, we can assume with some measure of certainty, has never been stated on the record at any congressional hearing. It is another historic first. We are witnessing history in the making.
If you read just the transcript of these exchanges without any context, you would assume this was, perhaps, an argument between groups of people at a Waffle House. Or maybe it’s a feud that broke out in the parking lot of a Bojangles fast food restaurant at 2:00 a.m. If you just arrived here in a time machine from 30 years ago, or any time prior, you simply would not believe that this was an exchange between members of Congress. If you were informed of that fact, you would immediately get back in your time machine and go back to your own time to warn the world of the impending collapse of our collective IQ. If for some reason you couldn’t go back in your time machine, you would probably elect to throw yourself into the sea, rather than stay here and live through this. 
We should note that the Democrats are not the only ones humiliating themselves in this exchange. Marjorie Taylor Greene is no better. Or if she is better, only slightly so. 
And this dispute between Greene and AOC continued, as AOC demanded an apology for the random insults Greene kept throwing onto the pile:
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“Why don’t you debate me?” I very much hope she doesn’t. I think we’ve already seen what a “debate” between AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene would consist of. Here’s what the debate would be: 
“You’re stupid!”
“No I’m not. You are!”
“And you’re ugly!
“No you are!”
“No, you!”
And so on, for seven and a half hours. This cat fight felt like it went on that long during the hearing, as the men sat there bewildered and stuttering, trying meekly and ineffectually to get the hearing back on track. It was a microcosm of American culture in many ways — and all the worst ways.
By contrast, back in the year 1858, there were a series of presidential debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas. These were highly contentious and emotionally-charged, and often involved bitter personal attacks. After all, this was only three years before the country would erupt into a brutal civil war that would kill 700,000 people on both sides. And yet these men expressed their disdain for one another in eloquent and intelligent ways. So eloquent and intelligent that we can’t even imagine politicians in the modern age speaking this way.
Here is just one very brief example, pulled at random. In the first debate, Douglas spoke first. Lincoln, when it was his turn, felt that Douglas had lied about him and misrepresented his record. Here was his way of accusing Douglas of dishonesty. One sentence will be enough to make the contrast clear. He said:
<blockquote>My fellow citizens, when a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him-at least, I find it so with myself; but when misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.</blockquote>
Now compare that to how that same sentiment would be expressed by politicians today. Instead, it would be something like this:
<blockquote>Oh baby girl, don’t play with me. You best stop talkin’ that noise, wit your lyin’ a**.</blockquote>
The intelligence of our leaders hasn’t just declined, it has plummeted like a meteor out of the sky and formed a crater in the ground that goes five miles deep into the Earth. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We know that, because it never was this way until now. There was a time when our nation was led by men — and it used to be mostly men, let’s face it — who were articulate, intelligent, dignified, composed, and most importantly, boring. I’m not saying that they were always good at their jobs or always made wise decisions. That certainly wasn’t the case. But I’m simply trying to emphasize the fact that it is highly unusual, from the perspective of history, to have a congress with an average IQ of 85. Then again, when the average IQ of the country collapses, we would expect the country’s representatives to follow suit.
My only hope is that voters get tired of this. We don’t need to be entertained by politicians. They are not there to amuse us. They are not there to go viral. These are not social media influencers. We should have serious people leading us.
We need more than seriousness from them. We should also want them to be competent, and have integrity, and always put America and its people first. We have almost no one who checks any of those boxes, let alone all of them. But before any of that, they need to be serious people who take the job seriously. Yet we can only get serious kinds of leaders if we have serious voters who take the job of voting seriously. Because ultimately you get the leaders you deserve. And as sad as it is to say, this is what we deserve.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Chaos Breaks Out In Congress Because Our Politicians Are The Dumbest Dimwits To Ever Exist On Planet Earth

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James Comer

Matt Walsh

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) got into a heated spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during a Thursday committee hearing, referring to the Georgia congresswoman condescendingly as &#8220;baby girl&#8221; and demanding she &#8220;strike&#8221; her words.
The tiff began as the House Oversight Committee met to discuss holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden&#8217;s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in his classified documents probe — a subpoena the White House blocked by citing &#8220;executive privilege.&#8221;
Greene sparked the ire of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) when she asked whether any Democrats had employed the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan — who is currently presiding over former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Manhattan hush money trial — a political consultant whose firm has worked for Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY).
&#8220;I’d like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Merchan’s daughter,&#8221; Greene began.
&#8220;Please tell me what that has to do with Merrick Garland,&#8221; Crockett objected.
&#8220;Oh, Goldman. That’s right. He’s advising. Ok,&#8221; Greene continued.
&#8220;Do you know what we’re here for? Do you know we’re here —&#8221; Crockett tried again.
After a little bit of back and forth, Greene took a shot at Crockett: &#8220;I think your fake eyelashes are messing up your –&#8221;
&#8220;Hold on! Hold on! Order,&#8221; Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) cut in. &#8220;We have a point of order. Mr. Lynch, state your point.&#8221;
&#8220;Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ask the parliamentarian if your conduct here in raising money in connection with this hearing is referable to the Ethics Committee within this hearing. There’s a motion in order to refer your conduct and your abuse –&#8221; Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) said, prompting an immediate rebuttal from Comer.
&#8220;That’s not a point of order,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;I do have a point of order. And I would like to move to take down Ms. Greene’s words,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said then. &#8220;That is absolutely unacceptable! How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person!&#8221;
&#8220;Are your feelings hurt?&#8221; Greene asked.
&#8220;Move her words down!&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez shouted.
&#8220;Aww,&#8221; Greene mocked.
&#8220;Oh! Girl, baby, girl!&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said in condescending tones.
&#8220;Oh, really?&#8221; Greene prodded.
&#8220;Don’t even play!&#8221; from Ocasio-Cortez.
&#8220;Baby, girl? I don’t think so,&#8221; Greene shot back.
&#8220;We are gonna move and we are gonna take your words down,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued.
WATCH:
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Rep. Greene makes fun of Rep. Crockett&#39;s fake eyelashes and all hell breaks loose. 
You have to watch the entire exchange. 
SNL couldn&#39;t create a skit like this: <a href="https://t.co/hSzJBRVk08">pic.twitter.com/hSzJBRVk08</a>
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Greene then agreed to &#8220;strike her words&#8221; but said that she had no intention of offering the apology Ocasio-Cortez demanded.
Greene then suggested that Ocasio-Cortez debate her — an offer the New York congresswoman rejected out of hand. Comer caller for order again, clarifying for the record that Greene would agree to strike her words — although she repeated her prior statement that she would not apologize.
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Crockett then interjected with another point of order, and took a shot at Greene. &#8220;I’m just curious. To better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleached blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?&#8221;
&#8220;A what now?&#8221; Comer asked, and all hell broke loose for a second time.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

‘Oh, Girl. Baby Girl’: AOC Demands Apology In Angry Spat With Marjorie Taylor Greene

'Oh, Girl. Baby Girl': AOC Demands Apology In Angry Spat With Marjorie Taylor Greene

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On Wednesday, the GOP-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> quickly defeated a bid by Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) to remove Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) from his top perch.
Within an hour of Greene declaring that she was going through with her motion to vacate the chair — an announcement met by a <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1788322758058770553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wave of boos</a> in the chamber — members overwhelmingly voted to table the measure by a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024188" target="_blank" rel="noopener">359-43 tally</a>.
The measure was introduced in a privileged fashion, meaning leadership had two legislative days to act on it, similar to what Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) did last year to queue up a vote that led to Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s ouster as speaker.
Unlike what happened with McCarthy, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-ousted-from-speakership-after-democrats-side-with-matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lacked support</a> from across the aisle when he was forced out of the role, Johnson <a href="https://apnews.com/article/speaker-mike-johnson-marjorie-taylor-greene-motion-to-vacate-552169f3e831ab8fb3baacfdf76c2d82" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had the backing of Democrats</a> who said they would vote to table a motion to vacate the chair brought by Greene.
He also got a boost from former President Donald Trump, now the likely GOP nominee in the 2024 election, who stood with Johnson at Mar-a-Lago in April and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/12/politics/mike-johnson-trump-mar-a-lago/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the speaker was &#8220;doing a very good job.&#8221;
When the vote finally did take place, 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1788325269003960783" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to table the motion from Greene. <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1788334658830082475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eleven Republicans</a> and 32 Democrats opposed it. Ten Republicans and 11 Democrats did not vote.
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“I want to say that I appreciate the show of confidence for my colleagues to defeat this misguided effort. That is certainly what it was,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?535527-1/speaker-johnson-motion-vacate-failure&amp;live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters</a> after the vote.
Greene had been talking about using the motion to vacate against Johnson ever since <a href="https://apnews.com/article/speaker-johnson-motion-vacate-marjorie-taylor-greene-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">late March</a> when the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-passes-massive-spending-bill-in-middle-of-the-night" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a $1.2 trillion spending package.
At least two other Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ), <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/politics/paul-gosar-mike-johnson-house-gop/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> Greene last month as she refused to relent on her campaign against Johnson.
Johnson and Greene met over the past <a href="https://apnews.com/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-speaker-johnson-trump-7bbe71b7fc2aef26de3036a354af0d13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">couple days</a> during which Greene made a series of what she said were &#8220;suggestions,&#8221; <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-privately-urges-greene-drop-push-oust-speaker/story?id=109990543&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcnp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> defunding special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s inquiries into Trump and no more financial aid for Ukraine.
Recent polling from Monmouth University <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4618204-just-1-in-5-want-johnson-replaced-as-speaker-survey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> just one in five Americans wanted Johnson to be replaced as speaker.
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112407712153390935" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to Truth Social on Wednesday, around the time of the vote on tabling Greene&#8217;s motion, complimenting Johnson, as well as Greene. He also called attention to the slim majority the GOP has in the House while pushing for unity.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

House Quickly Rejects Bid To Oust Mike Johnson As Speaker

Mike Johnson

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