Ernst Lays Out Thanksgiving Menu to Carve up $2 Trillion in Waste
WASHINGTON – As Americans sit down for Thanksgiving this week, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is providing the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with a buffet of options to eliminate more than $2 trillion in waste.
Ernst, chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus, is using her decade of experience exposing waste, fraud, and abuse through her monthly “Squeal Awards” to lead DOGE’s fight in the Senate.
“Washington has been gobbling up tax dollars, and asking for seconds and thirds for far too long,” said Ernst. “The DOGE team has our knives out, and we are ready to trim the fat on the overstuffed budget and billion-dollar gravy trains to nowhere. It is time to make the federal government go cold turkey on waste.”
Ernst’s Thanksgiving menu of cuts to be carved out of Washington’s budget includes:
- Selling empty government buildings costing taxpayers billions;
- Auditing the IRS and firing the hundreds of agents who owe back taxes;
- Pulling the plug on President Biden’s billion-dollar EV boondoggle;
- Stopping taxpayer-funded silly studies like shrimp running on treadmills;
- Reviewing the government’s secret slush funds and cancelling outdated accounts, including billions left over from COVID;
- Canceling crazy California gravy trains; and
- Ending welfare for politicians.
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