Ernst Works with Trump Admin to Shine a Light on Waste

WASHINGTON – In honor of Sunshine Week,  the annual celebration of boosting transparency and accountability in government, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is releasing a blueprint for exposing and eliminating Washington waste, beginning with enforcement of the laws to end secret spending she authored ignored by Biden’s bureaucrats.

Senate DOGE Caucus Chair Ernst detailed how these efforts will stop secret spending, highlight costly and behind schedule boondoggles, and ensure the American people can easily see how their money is spent.

“As the chair and founder of the Senate DOGE Caucus, I look forward to working with you to make Washington more transparent, accountable, and efficient. It’s impossible to achieve these goals if we don’t even know how our tax dollars are being spent. During my time in the Senate, I authored a number of laws intended to do just that, none of which have been implemented. Apparently, unelected bureaucrats have granted themselves a veto over any laws they don’t like,” wrote Ernst.

Some of Ernst’s solutions for Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought include:

• Requiring the Department of Transportation annually to disclose all projects that are $1 billion or more over budget or five years or more behind schedule, similar to how Ernst’s Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act would apply to all of government;
• Implementing the COST Act, which requires the public disclosure of the cost of any government-funded project to taxpayers; and
• Stopping secret spending by ending the practice of allowing bureaucrats to avoid the public disclosure of spending by classifying it as an “Other Transactions Agreement.”

Click here to view the full letter.

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