Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (R) will lead the newly created Senate DOGE caucus. This is a nod to President-elect Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which works outside the government to “dismantle government bureaucracy, reduce overregulation, and reduce budgets.” Cut wasteful spending and reorganize federal agencies. ” President Trump said in a statement:.
“I am proud to be the top oversight body in the Senate,” Ernst wrote. post on social platform X on Friday.
“It's a bad time for waste, fraud and abuse in Washington!” she added in the post.
Ernst's announcement comes as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene will become chair of a new subcommittee within the House Oversight and Accountability Committee called the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency (DOGE). It was held inside. She will work in conjunction with the White House Committee (also by the same acronym) led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Musk and Ramaswamy laid out plans for the new department in a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this week, in which they said the committee's purpose is to identify “thousands” of regulations that President-elect Trump should eliminate. That's what I explained. It argues that “massive layoffs” across the government are justified.
The op-ed appears to seek to address widespread skepticism about Musk and Ramaswamy's committee's ability to effect change.
“At every step, we both intend to advise DOGE to pursue three key reforms: regulatory rollback, administrative reduction, and cost reduction,” they wrote. “We will specifically focus on driving change through executive action that builds on existing laws, rather than passing new laws.”
They also cited several Supreme Court rulings that took aim at the powers of the administrative state, saying that “the current plethora of federal regulations” exceeds the agency's authority and could be removed. said.
