This article was originally published at Western Journal on June 12, 2025 by Jack Davis
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is pushing for massive cuts to take place as the Senate considers President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Ernst is the Senate leader of the DOGE caucus, and says that the opportunity to make deep cuts in wasteful federal spending should not pass by as the Senate considers its version of the budget bill passed by the House, according to Fox News Digital.
The White House has developed a $9.4 billion package of rescissions, which are cuts in previously allocated budget lines. Ernst said she wants the Senate to go deeper.
“We have a ‘big, beautiful’ opportunity to reduce reckless spending and save billions of dollars,” Ernst said.
“Defunding welfare for politicians, stopping bogus payments and ending unemployment for millionaires are just the start of my commonsense solutions to continue rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. Washington has lived high on the hog for far too long, and now is the time to tighten the belt,” she said.
Ernst said one piece she wants to add is called the ELECT Act, which she said would zero out the presidential campaign fund, which she has called “welfare for politicians.”
The fund usually has about $400 million.
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