Ernst discusses new role as chairman of the Senate DODE CAUCUS

“If you work in the federal government and you can’t find waste everywhere, it just tells you not looking because there is waste everywhere.”

Washington, DC – just two days after President Donald Trump was sworn in as 47^Th President of the United States, US Senator Joni Ernst (R-II), showed up on Wednesday afternoon before a lunch meeting in the Ripon Society to discuss the efforts she leads on Capitol Hill to empty excessive government spending and waste.

A long -time spokesman for fiscal discipline who served as a county auditor before her election for the US Senate, Hawkeye State Legislator launched recently US SENAT DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY (DOGE) CAUCUS that works with US HOUSE DODE CAUCUS and US DODE SERVICE TEMPORATION ORGANIZATION It is led by Elon Musk in the second Trump administration.

“Here we have a new era under President Trump,” Senator Ernst said in her opening markings. “We have a new opportunity with the Department of Government Efficiency and I was really happy when President Trump grabbed this. I was able to sit down with Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk before President Trump joined. I met them in November down at Mar-A-Lago and presented them with a plan $ 2 trillion savingsWhich is exactly what Elon Musk had said they would achieve in the Department of Government Efficiency. “

Ernst, who was first elected ten years ago, has shone light on government waste since her first day of office through her Make ’em squeal awards. But her team doesn’t stop there, she shared.

“If you work in the federal government and you can’t find waste everywhere, it just tells you not to look because there is waste everywhere. My team and I also see ways we can correct these shortcomings, ways we can fight the waste. We take a problem and we suggest a solution to that. … I have 10 years of legislation ready to go and we are finally able to take it to a department now within our federal government and department. “

In addition to the monthly price program, she only discovered it six percent Of the federal workforce enters the office every day of the week, a case that President Trump treated in one of his many Exercising orders On his first day in the office.

“We won’t continue to make the Covid model where you just don’t even show up a single day every week. That era is gone, the people’s. If we need to have telecommunications workers, we need to make sure there are standards in place. The American people expect better from our federal workforce and I hope they get it. “

“With DOGE CAUCUS, what we have actually done is put Washington DC on notice. So we’re going to badly ill. If there is garbage out there we will find it. We will suggest changes and try to adopt these changes.

“We affect any federal government agency, every action, every reaction. We have already had several meetings, like the house, and we will then work with the administration and Elon Musk. We want to work hand in hand with him and he has been very, very supportive of my efforts. “

In the question and the answer of the discussion, President Ernst felt a question of efforts to move some of the federal departments and agencies to areas of the country they earn the most.

“It doesn’t make sense to have all these agencies focused here when they could do a better job if they have to go to the grocery store and meet someone who is actually dealing with a problem in their department. They think a little more about what they are doing and the rules and regulations they write … They must be responsible for the people they have to work for. “

To see Senator Ernst’s comments on the Ripon Society on Wednesday afternoon, click on the link below:

Ripon Society is a public political organization founded in 1962 and gets its name from the city, where the Republican Party was born in 1854 – Ripon, Wisconsin. One of the main goals of the Ripon Society is to promote the ideas and principles that have made America great and contributed to GOP’s success. These ideas include keeping our nation safe, keeping taxes low and having a federal government that is smaller, smarter and more responsible to the people.