Sen. Joni Ernst tells Musk and Ramaswamy to be like the Grinch with DOGE spending cuts

She’s had enough with the Christmas-level spending sprees in Washington.Sen.Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the top DOGE in the Senate, urged Department of Government Efficiency co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to channel their inner “Grinch” while unveiling her plan to slash government waste.

Her plan to “trim the fat from Washington’s budget” features about two dozen major recommendations including a suggestion to clamp down on the ritual government splurging before the fiscal year runs out.“In Washington, Christmas comes in September when binge-buying bureaucrats go hog wild fulfilling their own wish lists,” she wrote in a letter to the pair obtained by The Post, noting the government’s “fiscal year expires at midnight on September 30.”“In the rush to use it before they lose it, $53 billion was recently spent in a single week!” she added.

“For the sake of taxpayers, DOGE needs to be the Grinch.”Ernst, 54, cited glaring examples of how past September “spending sprees” included $4.6 million of lobster tail and crab, roughly $12,000 for a foosball table and $2.1 million for games and toys for employees at various federal agencies.The Republican senator was recently announced as the head of the Senate DOGE Caucus which will collaborate with Musk and Ramaswamy on their eponymous endeavor.After his election victory, President-elect Donald Trump announced Musk, 53, and Ramaswamy, 39, as the co-heads of DOGE, which despite its name, is not actually a government department, but rather an outside organization that will work with the White House and Office of Management and Budget.During her bid for the Senate back in 2014, Ernst made a national name for herself with a spot reflecting on her upbringing “castrating hogs on an Iowa farm” and vowed that she’d take on the pork barrel spenders in Washington, DC, and “make ’em squeal.”Since then, her office has been doling out the “Squeal Awards” to spotlight government bloat.

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