"The President can fire whoever he wants," Marjorie Taylor Greene says

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) talks about "at least five Inspectors General who were looking into Elon Musk‘s companies were fired by the Trump-Musk administration", mentions millions Musk makes from Government contracts on a daily basis

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) is the first member who doesn‘t bother with the witnesses but rants about Musk for 5min he gets: "He is leading a power grab", "his staffers, some teenagers, are unqualified and problematic"

Ranking member Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) needs to agree: Yes, fraud and waste bad, let‘s work together, improve the situation, but: "We can‘t pretend this is a normal hearing." She calls Musk‘s work "recklessly, illegally wrecking the federal bureaucracy"

1st DOGE Subcommittee hearing has started, it’s titled "The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud" and chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene. In her opening statement she says that US is "36 trillion in debt – this is not a DEM or REP problem, this is an American problem"