Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) defended his decision to show a “d--k pic”—in the form of Elon Musk’s face—during the first meeting of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Wednesday.
Appearing on CNN’s News Central after that morning’s events, anchor Brianna Keilar asked the California Democrat if he believed he was creating “effective messaging.”
“Do you think that calling Elon Musk a d--k is effective messaging for confronting what is a potentially irreversible transformation of the U.S. Government?” she asked.
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Garcia replied in the affirmative.
“Well, he is a d--k, and I think he‘s also harming the American public in an enormous way,” Garcia said.
“And what I think is really important and what the American public want is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country, and it‘s important to push back on the chairperson of this committee,” he continued, referencing how Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared X-rated images of Hunter Biden during a 2023 House Oversight Committee hearing.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene talks about having decorum, about bipartisanship. This is the person that lies more than anybody else in the entire Congress,” Garcia said. “And so if she is going to make a mockery of hearings, I want to make sure that us as Democrats are bringing that same level of energy.”
Garcia then recapped what other ground he covered during Wednesday’s hearing.
“After those comments, we went into exactly what Elon Musk is trying to do—dismantling the Department of Labor, dismantling the Department of Education, dismantling all of our consumer protection agencies,” he explained.
“And so it‘s all important, but it‘s also important to get the attention of the American public and call Elon Musk out for what he is, and to make people know that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not a serious legislator, and she shouldn’t be treated as such.”
