Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, told Newsmax on Friday that it’s “shocking” that Democrats are “actually defending wasteful spending” in the federal government and attacking the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its chair, Elon Musk.

“I would have thought that DOGE would have been something that should be bipartisan,” Hinson said on “National Report.” “We should be focusing on the funding streams that go to things that actually help support our constituents. The era of big government waste and big government spending is very clearly over. Merit’s back in our federal government, all of these things that Elon and DOGE and President Trump have been talking about for years are finally being executed, and so, to see them defend wasteful spending is so disrespectful to taxpayers.

“I’ve been out in the district — I’m in Iowa right now — and I have been hearing from Iowans who are getting ready to send in their tax checks to the federal government and so they’re seeing all this waste, and they’re wondering, why should I send my dollars in to the federal government if it’s going to things like transgender operas or Sesame Street in Iraq?” she said. “We want to make sure that we’re funding things that Iowans and Americans actually need.”

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