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Iowa Senator Joni Ernst will lead the Senate DOGE Caucus to collaborate with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on ways to downsize the federal government.

“Iowans elected me with a mandate to cut Washington’s pork and make ’em squeal! From billion-dollar boondoggles to welfare for politicians and trillion-dollar slush funds, my decade-long investigations have exposed levels of abuse that are almost too insane to believe,” Ernst told The New York Post.

“The Senate DOGE Caucus is ready to carry out critical oversight in Congress and use our legislative force to fight against the entrenched bureaucracy, trim the fat and get Washington back to work for Americans.”

So far, the Senate DOGE Caucus includes Sens. Ted Budd (R-NC), Rick Scott (R-FL), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall (R-KA) and James Lankford (R-OK).

“We look forward to partnering with the Senate to downsize government. Grateful to @SenJoniErnst for her excellent suggestions yesterday!” Ramaswamy said on X.

This week, Musk and Ramaswamy wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, saying:

Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections.

This is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision. It imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers. Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem. On Nov. 5, voters decisively elected Donald Trump with a mandate for sweeping change, and they deserve to get it.

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