Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, met over the weekend with President-elect Donald Trump and his choices to slash billions if not trillions of dollars in federal spending—entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
The Musk- and Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency is expected to work closely with the new Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget to implement recommendations on fiscal policy.
Ernst, who visited Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, leads the Senate’s new DOGE Caucus. The Iowa Republican has been a fiscal watchdog since her election in 2014. She publishes the annual “Squeal Awards,” similar to the late Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., whose annual “Wastebook” highlighted examples of waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.
“From billion-dollar boondoggles to welfare for politicians and trillion-dollar slush…
