Well, it looks like the swamp just got a little more exposure to daylight, and surprise, surprise—it’s crawling with bureaucrats behaving badly. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who chairs the DOGE subcommittee, is going full watchdog (pun absolutely intended) on the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which is supposed to be a neutral, taxpayer-funded media outlet. Spoiler alert: it’s neither neutral nor responsible with your tax dollars.
Now, President Trump—yes, the only one out there doing any real draining—signed an executive order last Friday to dismantle seven federal agencies, including USAGM. That means good riddance to the bloated bureaucratic monster that oversees propaganda outlets like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. These agencies have been guzzling tax dollars like it’s happy hour in D.C., all while playing fast and loose with national security and cozy government contracts.
The executive order doesn’t mince words: eliminate non-statutory components, gut the staff, and strip it all down to the legal minimum. Translation? If it’s not required by law, it’s out the door. That’s how it’s done, folks.
Enter Marjorie Taylor Greene, armed with a letter and a spine. She sent a formal request to Kari Lake, who’s overseeing the agency clean-up for the Trump administration, demanding a full investigation into what she calls “gross negligence” and “intentional defiance of national security protocols.” And she’s not exaggerating. According to past investigations—including a 2020 deep dive by the law firm McGuireWoods—this place was a circus of corruption. We’re talking J-1 visas handed out like candy, millions in shady contracts going to friends and family, and investigators getting handed laptops scrubbed clean. Nothing suspicious about that, right?
And let’s not forget the real kicker: the people fired for all this nonsense during President Trump’s first term were quietly rehired under Biden. Because nothing says “accountability” like giving the foxes back the keys to the henhouse. Greene called this an “insult to taxpayers” and a “direct threat to national security.” She’s right. It’s more than an insult—it’s a slap in the face.
So now, Greene is demanding records, communications, and every grant agreement that went through the Open Technology Fund. She’s not letting this one slide, and thank God for that.
This isn’t just about corruption—it’s about restoring some sanity to a government that’s been allowed to operate in the shadows for way too long. President Trump lit the match, and Greene’s making sure the fire doesn’t burn out.