EXCLUSIVE: Joni Ernst Relays What Senate DOGE Caucus Has Been Up To In Post-Elon Musk Era
The republican senator Joni Ernst of Iowa praised billions of dollars in savings on Thursday, saying exclusively to the Daily Caller News Foundation that a future Rechesions Package could add even more.
Elon Musk presented to Elon Musk and the former Republican Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, suggested discounts of spending that could save more than 2 dollars billions in a letter in November 2024 when they were appointed to co-chanter the Ministry of Government (DOGE). Ernst, who presides over the Caucus du Senate Doge, told the DCNF that the government had currently reduced $ 15 billion in waste expenditure since President Donald Trump took office on January 20. (Related: Exclusive: Joni Ernst asks Trump Admin to draw $ 14 billion in Bondoggle projects)
“I am proud to have directed the Caucus of the Senate Doge by accumulating more than $ 15 billion in savings for the American people and I am only beginning,” said Ernst. “The days of” work “of the bureaucrats of their foaming bath are over and workers will no longer see their funds for taxes in Iraq, California’s crazy trains or partisan propaganda at the NPR.”
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– Joni Ernst (@senjoniernst) August 13, 2025
Most of the savings came from a set of $ 9 billion attractions which mainly targeted the American agency for international development and the public broadcasting company. The Trump administration represented $ 4 billion in savings after having withdrawn federal funding for the California high -speed railway project, which had raised $ 95 billion on the budget in July.
Ernst asked that the Secretary of Transport Sean Duffy plans to draw $ 14 billion in other projects which she described as “boondoggles” in a letter sent on August 5, citing a report of July 30 lists those which were either five years or more late or 1 billion dollars compared to the budget.
Ernst also praised efforts to combat “union times funded by taxpayers” (TFUT), which cost taxpayers at least $ 135 million during the 2019 financial year, according to Ernst. The system had been mistreated, including an example where an employee of the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) used TFUT to start a real estate company in Florida while working elsewhere.
Ernst also highlighted the savings to solve problems with teleworking by federal employees and office spaces and unused buildings held or rented by the federal government.
Ernst told the DCNF that it did not intend to stop, adding that unnecessary expenses or additional programs in additional difficulty, including the elements it listed in the July 30 report, should be objectives for a future rattimization package.
“There is many more waste, fraud and abuse that I will soon put the cutting block,” said Ernst. “As I have always said, if you can’t find a waste in Washington, there is only one reason – you haven’t looked!”
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