Marjorie Taylor Greene returned to committee work in the now GOP-controlled House in typical fashion for the Georgia congresswoman, by spreading incorrect information and stoking the culture war involving hot Republican topics.
Two years after being removed from her previous committees in the Democrat-controlled House because of her extremist social media activity, Greene now finds herself with seats on two of the most powerful departments in the House: The Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and the Committee on Homeland Security.
On Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability had its first hearing in the new congressional term to investigate what it called the "waste, fraud, and abuse" of billions of dollars of federal spending amid the COVID pandemic.
While questioning Gene Dodaro, the U.S. Government Accountability Office's (GAO) comptroller general, Greene asked how much "COVID cash" was given to abortion.
A visibly confused Dodaro said he didn't know the answer to that. Greene then made reference to how Planned Parenthood received more than $80 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans in 2020 as the pandemic broke out.
Later on, Greene asked Dodaro how much COVID relief was spent on critical race theory—an academic study looking at systemic racism in American laws and institutions that is largely not taught below college level anywhere in the U.S.
"It's a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin is not equal...
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