WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for Fox News on how President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, will help bring the dramatic change needed to rein in big government, restore America’s fiscal sanity and save the American dream. Senator Scott has been fighting to stop Washington’s reckless spending and dangerous status quo, and is a founding member of the Senate DOGE Caucus, led by Senator Joni Ernst, to make sure Congress provides the Trump administration maximum flexibility to fix the federal government and advance DOGE’s work to ensure its success.

In the op-ed, Senator Rick Scott wrote, “We need dramatic change in Washington to bring America back to the path of fiscal sanity, and President Trump’s decision to name Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy shows there are still patriots devoted to protecting the American Dream by reining in big government. 

The work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be critical to turning our country around, Making America Great Again and rescuing the American people from our big government, inflation and debt nightmares.

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I am 100% committed to DOGE’s mission because my entire life has been a turnaround story. 

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Like Florida did in 2010, America now finds itself at a moment where dramatic change is needed to save itself. These figures highlight just how dire our financial situation truly is. Since 2019, the U.S. population has grown just 2%, but federal spending has skyrocketed by 52% and the federal workforce has grown by more than 140,000 employees, an increase of over seven percent. 

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As a business guy, I know that if you don’t run a company that constantly improves, innovates and becomes more efficient, you die. That’s what we are seeing in the federal government right now. Washington’s failure to live within its means which has forced inflation, high interest rates, and fewer jobs on American families. DOGE has the opportunity to fix this mess with a sea-change mentality that scales back big government regulation, slashes bureaucracy, cuts taxes, improves public safety and education, and grows our private sector to create good-paying American jobs so every family can live their dreams. 

Elon and Vivek have had massive success in business because they know how to run efficient organizations and manage productive teams. The federal government needs a hell of a lot more of that type of leadership. Failing to force accountability within our federal government is a serious threat to our national security and the American Dream.

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Since being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018, I’ve been fighting to fix the problems and I’m so glad DOGE is now being created to help tackle these issues. 

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President Trump was elected with a mandate to reform Washington and the work of DOGE, with Elon and Vivek combing through and eliminating the reckless spending, waste and fraud in our federal government will be invaluable to advancing his agenda of government efficiency so we can Make America Great Again, save the American Dream and finally Make Washington Work for hardworking families across the country.”

Read the full op-ed in Fox News HERE.

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