{"id":2390839,"date":"2025-01-15T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-reynolds-announces-iowa-doge-initiative-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T19:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:13:27","slug":"kim-reynolds-announces-iowa-doge-initiative-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-reynolds-announces-iowa-doge-initiative-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Reynolds announces Iowa DOGE initiative &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkim-reynolds-announces-iowa-doge-initiative-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390839&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Governor\u200d Kim Reynolds of Iowa has announced a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/broward-county-school-board-member-admits-she-was-intimidated-into-covering-up-safety-failures-that-contributed-to-marjory-stoneman-douglas-massacre\/\" title=\"Broward County School Board Member Admits She Was \u2018Intimidated\u2019 Into Covering Up Safety Failures That Contributed To Marjory Stoneman Douglas Massacre\">initiative called<\/a> the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), aimed at improving savings and efficiencies in state and\u2062 local government\u2064 operations.\u2063 During her 2025\u2063 Condition of the State\u200d address, she highlighted the importance of this\u200d initiative as part of a broader \u2064effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">enhance government effectiveness<\/a>. Reynolds expressed confidence in Iowa&#8217;s proactive\u2064 approach,stating,\u201cI like to say that we were doing DOGE\u2063 before DOGE\u2063 was a \u200dthing.\u201d This initiative\u2064 aligns Iowa with similar\u200c efforts being made in other states to optimize \u2064government functions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Kim Reynolds announces Iowa DOGE initiative<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1936548\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kim-reynolds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kim Reynolds<\/a> (R-IA) joined several other states in announcing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3286986\/musk-expected-operate-doge-white-house-complex-close-access-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Government Efficiency initiative<\/a> as she aims to find &ldquo;even greater savings and efficiencies in both state and local government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Reynolds spoke about the plan in her 2025 Condition of the State address on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I like to say that we were doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/3286427\/how-doge-can-save-america-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">DOGE<\/a> before DOGE was a thing,&rdquo; Reynolds said.&nbsp;&ldquo;And to build on our success, I&rsquo;m launching our own state DOGE to find even greater savings and efficiencies in both state and local government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The governor added that Emily Schmitt, general counsel of Sukup Manufacturing, would lead the department. Reynold&rsquo;s idea is similar to Elon Musk&rsquo;s and Vivek Ramaswamy&rsquo;s DOGE, which aims to cut the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-judge-grants-gop-lawmaker-standing-to-sue-biden-administration-over-unrwa-funding-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Texas judge grants GOP lawmaker standing to sue Biden administration over UNRWA funding - Washington Examiner\">federal government&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s spending during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In just a few short years, we&rsquo;ve turned our state into a national model for bold, get-it-done government. And we&rsquo;re not stopping,&rdquo; the Iowa governor said.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows a similar initiative from Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), who was elected in November. Reynolds recently began her ninth year as Iowa&rsquo;s governor.<\/p>\n<p>Ayotte called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/3282840\/new-hampshire-democrats-mad-governor-state-department-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">her version<\/a> the &ldquo;Commission on Government Efficiency&rdquo; and vowed to similarly &ldquo;streamline government, cut spending, and create value for our taxpayers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need to make sure that the government is operating more like the lean process in manufacturing, where waste is eliminated each step in the process for a better result,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin&rsquo;s State Assembly also followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congresss-4155-page-omnibus-bill-is-a-symbol-of-american-decadence\/\" title=\"Congress\u2019s 4,155-Page Omnibus Bill Is a Symbol of American Decadence\">government efficiency<\/a> trend, starting a committee called the Government Oversight, Accountability, and Transparency Committee. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he was &ldquo;excited&rdquo; for the committee and others in the session.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that we can look at a lot of ideas and try to find ways to make the government do a better job than we currently are,&rdquo; Vos told the&nbsp;<em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m super excited that we&rsquo;re going to now kind of focus on, not just how do we layer more things on, but how do we make the things that we already have work better,&rdquo; he added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Streamlining government isn&rsquo;t a new priority for Republicans. Former Republican Michigan Gov. John Engler wrote a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2012\/03\/streamline-reorganize-the-federal-government-074547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> <em>Politico<\/em> op-ed<\/a> alongside current White House chief of staff Jeff Zients in 2012 succinctly titled &ldquo;Streamline the federal government.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The piece called for consolidating and reorganizing the government in order to eliminate bureaucracy and save taxpayer dollars. &ldquo;We have a chance to rethink, reform and remake government in ways that will save taxpayers&rsquo; money and help us better meet the challenges of our time. In the weeks ahead, we hope that both parties in Congress can come together to seize this chance,&rdquo; they said.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s likely that other state Republicans will continue the government efficiency trend, especially when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Monday and his DOGE begins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1936548\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1936548\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Reynolds unveils Iowa&#8217;s DOGE initiative for efficiency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2390840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kim-Reynolds-Iowa.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12577,48585,5626,48584,32076],"class_list":["post-2390839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-doge-initiative","tag-iowa","tag-kim-reynolds","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kim-Reynolds-Iowa.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390843,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390839\/revisions\/2390843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}