Greene was named chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency this week. The new committee will work in tandem with President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamay, to reduce bureaucratic waste.

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But Ocasio-Cortez showed little enthusiasm for Greene’s new committee role, suggesting that her Republican colleague does not have the work ethic or the capacity necessary to step into the position.

“This is good, actually,” the New York Democrat said Thursday in a post to X. “She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading. To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, it’s like giving someone an unplugged controller.”

Greene said Friday that the new position working with the DOGE represented a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make real transformational change to government to benefit the American people.”

Announced by Trump shortly after he won a second term on Nov. 5, the creation of the DOGE was an unconventional move that stirred mixed reactions from Washington insiders. Musk and Ramaswamy outlined their priorities for the DOGE in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, saying they wanted to reclaim power from unelected civil bureaucrats, target unconstitutional regulations representing what they described as “federal overreach,” cut government spending, and save costs for taxpayers.

Ocasio-Cortez sardonically suggested in another post that she pitied Musk and Ramaswamy for having to work with Greene on the DOGE taskforce, saying she was “absolutely dying” at the two men “getting assigned the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’” with the Georgia lawmaker.

The Washington Examiner reached out to Greene’s office for comment but did not receive a reply at the time of publication.

The two congresswomen rose to power in the lower chamber just two years apart. But with Ocasio-Cortez representing the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and Greene emerging as a top Trump ally, their differences have been on full display in multiple battles during their time in Congress.

Heated debates over Ocasio-Cortez’s support for the Green New Deal and Black Lives Matter quickly ensued after Greene was elected to the House in 2021. After the New York Democrat backed an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza days after Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 civilians at an Israeli music festival, Greene clapped back again.

A rare show of bipartisanship over support for Julian Assange, who was punished for leaking classified documents to the public, broke the pair’s battle for a brief moment.

But they were back at it again during a heated House Oversight Committee hearing earlier this year when Ocasio-Cortez condemned Greene for commenting on another House colleague’s appearance.