Republican senators roll out DOGE budget proposals for Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

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EXCLUSIVE: A group of DOGE-minded lawmakers is rolling out a series of budget proposals to add to the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act narrowly passed by the House.

The effort, led by Senate DOGE Caucus Chairwoman Joni Ernst, will include several major proposals forged by Republicans from both chambers, seeking to help offset trillions in extant government spending.

While a $9.4 billion rescissions package, a formal request from the executive branch to codify its DOGE cuts, is in the works, proponents of the Senate DOGE package say their total estimated savings would accentuate that and also surpass it in value.

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"We have a ‘big, beautiful’ opportunity to reduce reckless spending and save billions of dollars," Ernst told Fox News Digital Thursday. 

"Defunding welfare for politicians, stopping bogus payments and ending unemployment for millionaires are just the start of my commonsense solutions to continue rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. Washington has lived high on the hog for far too long, and now is the time to tighten the belt," the Senate DOGE chairwoman added.

Sen. Joni Ernst talks to reporters after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the U.S. Capitol Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington. (Getty Images)

Senate DOGE addendums to the Big Beautiful Bill Act during negotiations will include a plan from Ernst called the ELECT Act, which she said claws back hundreds of millions of dollars treated as "welfare for