Lawmakers Prepare for Their Newest Partisan ‘Bar Fight’: The DOGE Subcommittee

“It’s gonna be a shit show,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to reporters as she leaves the House Republican’s caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP

As Donald Trump and Elon Musk take a sledgehammer to the federal bureaucracy, Democrats are wrestling with how to mount their opposition. But on Capitol Hill, there’s at least one place where Democrats are ready for a fight: the newly minted DOGE Subcommittee.

“We’ve gotta fight the fire with fire,” Democratic member of the panel Rep. Robert Garcia told NOTUS. “We’re gonna view this as a bar fight.”

“There’s a lot of decorum in Congress, and that’s fine, but these people have no interest in decorum, and they have no interest in truth, and they have no interest in following the rules,” he said. “And so in that situation, you also have to match that energy.”