MAGA's Marjorie Taylor Greene accidentally tells Congress she doesn't deserve her own job
| 02/27/25
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MAGA diehard Marjorie Taylor Greene said that federal employees “don’t deserve their paychecks,” and the internet immediately started reminding the congresswoman that means she should be fired too.
While defending Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at a House committee hearing on Tuesday, the Georgia representative went on a rant about her “Democrat colleagues pitching tantrums” because of Musk’s deep cuts to the federal government’s workforce.
“Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue, by the way. They’re consuming taxpayer dollars. Those jobs are paid for by the American tax people, who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes, and then pay these federal employees,” Greene said during the hearing.
“Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks. And these are jobs that can be fired at will,” she continued.
A clip of this moment is currently going viral on X (formerly Twitter), where people were quick to point out that Greene is herself a federal employee who doesn’t “produce federal revenue,” as she put it.
MTG is constantly putting her foot in her mouth. Not only did she once voice her opinion that California’s wildfires were caused by “Jewish space lasers” and called a “Petri dish” a “peach tree dish,” but she also accidentally implied that she wanted to be pardoned for a crime she committed.
While some Trump loyalists approved of Musk gutting the deferral government, most commenters were clowning on Greene for not realizing she too is a federal employee who “deserves” to be fired, writing, "Well MTG is a federal employee… and I definitely agree that she doesn’t deserve her job” and "Someone give her a mirror, quick."
Keep scrolling to see the funniest reactions to MTG accidentally admitting she should be heading to the unemployment line!
"Here comes Marjorie Taylor Greene with another hot take straight from the conspiracy cooker: "Federal employees? Pshh, those aren’t real jobs—none of ‘em deserve a dime!" Yeah, Marjorie, because the folks keeping the country running—air traffic controllers, border agents, the people who make sure your mail doesn’t end up in Canada—are just playing pretend for funsies. No federal revenue there, nope, just a bunch of freeloaders twiddling their thumbs while the real heroes, like, uh… Bigfoot hunters, I guess, do the heavy lifting. Tell us more, MTG—next you’ll say the IRS is just a book club that got out of hand. Pure brilliance from the woman who thinks “revenue” is what you yell when you spot a deer."
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.