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

Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst said it's been a lonely fight for the past several years to cut the federal government's wasteful spending, but she feels the tables are turning now with the incoming Donald Trump administration.

Sen. Ernst proposed ways to cut spending to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump picks for a proposed Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk has shared his own disbelief that the government efficiency department Donald Trump tapped him to lead “is real.” The world’s richest man and SpaceX owner, who holds billions of dollars in government contracts through his companies, appeared to mock the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in a post on X.

Musk—the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of X (formerly Twitter)—was quoted in Trump's announcement as saying that DOGE "will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!"