(*150*)Harold Hutchison
Republican Senator Joni Ernst from Iów introduced legislation on Thursday to codify policies implemented by the Department of the Government (Doge), which can save over $ 150 billion a year.
Legislation, providing government performance (DOGE) in the Act on expenses, would order the provisions regarding compliance with March 25 executive order By President Donald Trump, who has established fresh procedures for preventing fraudulent payments, including those approving the recipients of payments, as well as by encoding payments with information connecting them with budget positions. Ernst, who manages the Doge Caucus senate, said The Daily Caller News Foundation that veterans will benefit from adopting the regulations and preventing incorrect payments.
“It is unforgivable that disabled veterans are extreme, while billions of dollars in overpayments are sent through the door, because Washington sleeps behind the wheel,” said Ernst for DCNF. “Sharing the health process will stop people from double immersion, catching fraud and save tens of billions of dollars in false payments.”
Some disabled veterans are changed by as much as $ 4,170.59, according to A report by the Office of the General Inspector of the Veterans Department. Incorrect payments cost the federal government $ 162 billion in a tax year 2024, According to to the Government Office for responsibility (GAO).
“The Trump and Doge administration did a huge job to put taxpayers in the first place, and we can’t let these wins were temporary,” Ernst continued. “I fight in Congress so that the savings are permanent, codifying the actions of President Trump in order to ensure the efficiency of the federal government instead of waste.”
The Ernst Act is the first act introduced since the term of office of Elon Musk as a special government employee ended May 30.
“By requiring the agency to transfer a payroll treasury system (DNP) relevant data before issuing payments, requiring coding from the Treasury and attaching each payment to the appropriate fund Account, and granting the Treasury the ability to ping in other agencies and available in the private sector to ensure accuracy and kinship for each payment, we will, for the first time, take care of the Federal Payment System to completely eliminate the fee. In order to eliminate imphrop. distribute The legislation provided by the Ernst office speaks.
The Ernst office told DCNF that legislation can lend a hand pay for one great accounting act currently in the Senate resistance From some fiscal hawks. Musk also vocally opposed the legislation, vocation It’s “disgusting disgust”.
Doge identified savings of $ 175 billion, since Trump set him, an average of $ 1 086.96 per taxpayer, According to on the organization’s website. The department lists savings that he identified on its website, dividing it into contracts, lease and subsidies. It also breaks down expensesproviding information about federal hands and the government statute.
Ernst has focused on government waste from the time of election to the Senate in 2014. Telepork AND remote work About federal agencies. On seven -page letter Posted to musk in November 2024. Ernst’s suggestions ranged from turning to unused space in buildings Down Unusual expenses In the case of a relief in Covid, with proposed cuts worth over $ 2 trillion.
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Harold Hutchison is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Senator Joni Ernst” by His. Joni Ernst.
