Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who is set to lead the upper chamber’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caucus, sent a letter to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy pitching more than $2 trillion in proposed cuts and savings.

Ramaswamy and Musk were recently selected by President-elect Donald Trump to lead DOGE, a nongovernmental commission to dismantle government bureaucracy and cut costs.

“Thank you for stepping up to take on the challenge of saving taxpayers from Washington’s out- of-control spending that put our nation $36 trillion in debt. Your mission could not be more urgent, and there’s no team better suited to lead the effort,” Ernst wrote in the letter, reported Politico.

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