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President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, had the world’s richest man wielding a chain saw while spawning chaos in federal agencies.

Tough to top that.

Iowa’s DOGE Task Force, a group of mostly business leaders appointed by Gov. Kim Reynolds in a flattering homage to Trump’s wrecking ball, has been much calmer.

No chain saws. No chaos. And very few new ideas.

Its highest profile proposed recommendations, shared last week , are classic rock. Familiar, but hardly groundbreaking.

Take “merit” pay for public schoolteachers.

Iowa spent roughly the first 13 years of this century talking about what was called “pay for performance.” Iowa lawmakers, back when the Gold

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