DES MOINES, Iowa ( IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH ) - As Iowa’s DOGE task force considers recommending cuts to public employee compensation and tying school staff pay to student achievement, public workers organizations are rallying for Iowans to speak out against these proposals.

The DOGE task force members met Wednesday to discuss some of the recommendations they plan to include in the report submitted to Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Legislature by their Sept. 29 deadline.

The governor launched the task force through an executive order in February as a means to find areas where state and local governments can become more efficient. The state task force is modeled off of the federal DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency, service in Washington, D.C., formerly headed by billionaire Elon

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