DES MOINES, Iowa (WHO) -- Back in February of this year, Governor Kim Reynolds authorized a state DOGE task force to create suggestions on how to reduce government waste.

On Tuesday morning, Governor Reynolds along with Emily Schmitt, the chair of the task force and the Chief Administrative Officer at Sukup Manufacturing, answered questions about the final report.

"Iowa is about a $20 billion enterprise with 18,000 employees, critical infrastructure and operations and a wide reaching scope of responsibility," said Reynolds. "And taxpayers, quite frankly, expect it to run like a business and it should."

Reynolds' work to streamline state government has gone back several years, most notably combining 37 cabinet-level state agencies down to 16. Reynolds emphasized that the task force is a

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