Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said federal workers “don’t deserve” their paychecks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Tuesday.
“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.”
Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) criticized Greene for casting aside the careers of her own constituents, noting the number of federal workers in Greene’s district.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene believes 6,008 of her constituents are unworthy of a job or a paycheck because they work for the federal government,” Escobar wrote Tuesday in a post on the social platform X. “To quote her favorite person: SAD!”
Greene was responding to comments from Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) urging the federal government not to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.
“These reports are beyond troubling, and I respectfully request that you have a hearing again on the USPS,” he told the committee. “No private-sector entity provides universal service across the nation, and without these letter carriers and others, more than 51.5 million households and businesses especially in rural communities would have no guaranteed delivery.”
Krishnamoorthi earlier noted eliminating the Postal Service could throw “trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil.”
Greene has staunch advocated layoffs of government workers by the Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk.
