WASHINGTON — Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst began proposing ways to cut government spending to the Trump team this weekend, but she’ll need to convince her colleagues in Congress if her ideas are ...

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, have suggested they’ll make cuts in key ...

Republican lawmakers are racing to embrace Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s push to chop up the federal government — even if their actual authority is still murky and the effort poses a potential ...

As Trump prepares for his term, Steve Bannon credits Musk’s financial support and influence as key factors in securing ...

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has embraced the goal of cutting $2 trillion in federal spending set forth by ...

An ambitious effort to reduce the size of the federal government in the second Trump administration is encountering ...

Countries like Canada and Australia have stopped producing one-cent coins for more than a decade. Sweden was a first mover in ...

Senator Joni Ernst says she’s led a “squeal team” of staff who’ve come up with ideas that would chop at least $1 trillion out ...

Senator Joni Ernst is getting in on the racket Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are making in Washington DC, proposing her own waste-cutting solutions.

Iowa, has offered more than $2 trillion in government spending cuts to the fledgling Department of Government Efficiency.

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is eyeing about $1 trillion in potential federal spending cuts as she partners on President-elect ...

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has created a Republican caucus to assist in federal spending reductions sought by ...