According to a New York Post report, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst (R) will lead the Senate DOGE Caucus; a group that will collaborate with X owner Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to “cut pork” in 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 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.”
The Senate DOGE Caucus will include 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).
From The Post:
The Hawkeye State senator met with Ramaswamy Thursday evening and discussed plans she had to “rein in the bureaucratic state” inspired by her decade-long crusade against federal waste.
During her run for the US Senate in 2014, Ernst made a national name for herself when the then-state senator cut an ad recounting how she “grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm” and declared that “Washington’s full of big spenders — let’s make ’em squeal.”
Since then, Ernst’s office has been doling out the “Squeal Awards,” spotlighting bloat and inefficiencies. During her meeting with Ramaswamy on Thursday, Ernst discussed some of her findings with the “Squeal Awards” and ways the Senate can partner with DOGE.
Ernst plans to use her decades conducting research for the “Squeal Awards” as something of a blueprint to ensure that DOGE won’t be “all bark and no bite,” a source told The Post.
On the House side, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will helm the House Oversight Subcommittee Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE).
