Senate DOGE chair says she speaks with Elon Musk 'every few days' as Trump admin slashes spending

Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus Chairwoman Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said she talks to Trump-aligned billionaire Elon Musk each mates of days arsenic helium spearheads the administration's effort to slash wasteful spending. 

"We pass backmost and distant each fewer days oregon so," she told Fox News Digital successful an interview. "I'll nonstop further ideas that we travel up with."

According to Ernst, during a gathering astatine President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida successful November, she gave Musk "an eight-page memorandum blueprint with a fig of cost-saving ideas."

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Elon Musk and Joni Ernst person been staying connected connected DOGE. (Reuters/ Getty Images)

"He virtually is taking that and moving with it," the Iowa Republican remarked. 

She said she simply sends caller ideas straight to Musk, and "pretty soon you'll spot a tweet retired connected X."

When asked whether she thought she would ever beryllium moving to audit the authorities with the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, arsenic good arsenic the proprietor of X, Ernst laughed, "Never successful a cardinal years."

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The Congressional DOGE Caucus present has implicit 100 members, Fox News Digital was told. (House of Representatives/Getty)

Since Trump took bureau past month, DOGE has taken swift enactment to audit agencies and departments wrong the enforcement branch, rooting retired contracts, programs and spending that Trump and Musk see unnecessary oregon wasteful. 

The effort has been met by Democrats with protests, arsenic lawmakers person shown up extracurricular the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Treasury and the Department of Education to demonstrate. Some Democrats person adjacent attempted to participate the buildings, but were prevented. 

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Protesters descended connected the gathering that erstwhile housed USAID. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

On the different hand, Republicans person cheered the initiative. For example, Ernst told Fox News Digital that DOGE's actions truthful acold person been "tremendous." 

As for criticisms of however DOGE's staffers are conducting their audit and what accusation they are gaining entree to, the Iowa Republican maintained that it is wholly ineligible successful her opinion. "This is the enforcement subdivision and they are scrutinizing the enforcement branch. So, of course, it's legal," she said. 

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Joni Ernst is chairwoman of the DOGE caucus. (Reuters)

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"There is thing successful the Constitution that says the president cannot scrutinize the expenditures, particularly erstwhile those dollars are going to programs that members present successful Congress did not anticipate," she noted, referencing jaw-dropping programs being uncovered by DOGE, showing important wealth going towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), among different initiatives. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to Musk's DOGE for comment.