As Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy assemble the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a key senator laid out some low-hanging fruit.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) has been howling into the wind about wasted taxpayer dollars for a decade, and on Monday she wrote to Musk and Ramaswamy with some ideas to get them started. “With $3 billion of interest being added to our national debt every day, the longer we delay tackling the problem, the further away the finish line gets,” she wrote.
DOGE is an outside-of-government, temporary commission that hopes to cut trillions in federal outlays, which will have to work with Congress to enact lasting programmatic reforms. Ernst is chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus, which she founded to make sure DOGE has “bite,” not just “bark,” she said.
Her proposed targets include:
- Pennies that cost three cents. The federal government even manages to lose…
