Iowa DOGE is floating the idea as many of Iowa's most rural counties shrink. Iowa’s population grew 4.7% from 2010 to 2020, but 68 of 99 counties lost population, according to 2020 census data.

The Iowa DOGE Task Force – created by Gov. Kim Reynolds and named similarly to the federal Department of Government Efficiency created by President Donald Trump and headed by tech billionaire ...

Members of Iowa’s congressional delegation love to cite the GAO. Since the dawn of DOGE, they have increasingly styled themselves as watchdogs against wasteful government spending. And in the process, ...