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On the recordFebruary 26, 2025
for over a decade, I have led the charge to expose government abuses, curb reckless regulations, and protect hard- working taxpayers from Washington's overreach. As my colleagues have so rightly discussed, the actions by the Biden administration made it necessary for President Trump to declare a national energy emergency on day one. The Biden administration's green energy programs artificially incentivized electric vehicles using billions of taxpayer dollars, with only 60 charging stations to show for it. Folks, that is just one of the many energy-related billion-dollar boondoggles by the former administration. As chair and founder of the Senate DOGE Caucus, I committed to preventing unchecked bureaucrats from issuing regulations that impose significant new costs and stifle growth. Every day, DOGE is uncovering just how far the Biden administration went to conceal its reckless spending through the Federal Agencies, especially regarding their climate pet projects. Instead of transparency and objective analysis, Biden's bureaucrats relied on manipulation, inflated so-called ``net benefits,'' and completely disregarded economic reality in their rulemakings. And they were prolific, churning out nearly 110,000 pages of regulations just last year. That is 1 year and 110,000 pages--the highest number ever.…
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Joni Ernst
Republican · Iowa

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