Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) questioned why Democrats are acting as if Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) panel is “legitimate” during a podcast appearance.

“Having watched Trump during his first term, when nothing was real, right, when everything was a feint or a fake — it was never infrastructure week, right? He was never serious, after Parkland, about doing gun control. Why do we, all of a sudden, decide to take this government efficiency task force seriously?” Murphy said on a Thursday episode of The New Republic’s “The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent.”

“Like, why are we acting as if this is legitimate?” he added.

Trump said last month that Musk and Ramaswamy would serve as the heads of DOGE, which aims to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures” and restructure federal agencies.