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FIRST ON FOX: At the 2nd Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caucus meeting, Chairwoman Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, led discussions connected however they tin astir efficaciously and rapidly statesman cutting discarded crossed the government.
The caller 18-member caucus convened connected Thursday greeting and strategized connected however to debar immoderate of the pitfalls different akin efforts person tally into.
"The Senate DOGE Caucus is hitting the crushed moving connected time 1 of the Trump medication to downsize government," Ernst told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "Biden’s bloat has created a target-rich situation for uncovering ways to destruct discarded and marque the bureaucracy accountable to the people. Now is the clip for results, and aft today, I consciousness assured that we person plans successful spot to service arsenic the enactment limb successful Congress to present for taxpayers."
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For years, Ernst has been taking inventory of authorities waste, which has fixed the caucus a database of places to statesman eliminating excess bureaucracy and making the authorities tally much efficiently.
Some circumstantial targets for the caucus are national telework, IRS agents with unpaid taxes and U.S. backing going to overseas laboratories with small accountability.
Caucus members mapped retired however they tin code these items successful a mode that ensures they tin get "multiple bites astatine the apple," per Ernst's office.
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To bash this, the Republican members program connected taking vantage of tools specified arsenic the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which tin beryllium utilized to overturn rules enactment successful spot by national agencies, and fund reconciliation.
The fund reconciliation process is already expected arsenic a cardinal conveyance for Republican taxation and migration argumentation objectives, and the enactment has further signaled it could walk 2 reconciliation bills this year. One legislator adjacent suggested they could bash 3 specified bills during the 119th Congress.
The payment of passing authorities done fund reconciliation is that it requires a elemental bulk and is not taxable to the 60-vote threshold of the legislative filibuster. The CRA is likewise not beholden to the filibuster.
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The caucus is besides readying to enactment with President-elect Trump connected enforcement orders aimed astatine authorities waste.
The 18 members of the caucus service connected a fig of antithetic Senate committees, giving them a well-rounded thought of wherever the astir discarded exists.
Last year, Ernst took the accidental to laic retired a program that cuts $2 trillion of what she says is waste. In it, she recommends selling bare authorities buildings, auditing the IRS and firing agents that beryllium taxes, and slashing seemingly random oregon "silly" studies conducted by the government, among different things.
DOGE was antecedently announced by Trump, who tapped billionaire Elon Musk and erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy to pb the caller advisory committee looking to chopped authorities waste.
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