President-elect Donald Trump’s new DOGE commission is inspiring copycats at the state level.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, announced this week in her Condition of the State address the formation of a state Department of Government Efficiency Commission.

Ms. Reynolds said the effort will build on her administration’s success in eliminating hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful spending and help lay the groundwork for “meaningful property tax reform.”

“I like to say that we were doing DOGE before DOGE was a thing,” Ms. Reynolds said. “And to build on our success, I’m launching our own State DOGE, to find even greater savings and efficiencies in both state and local government.”

Led by billionaire tech executives Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the DOGE commission in Washington has generated a lot of buzz inside the halls of Congress, where fiscal conservatives have been fighting against the big spending consensus in Washington.

Another Iowa Republican, Sen. Joni Ernst, is chairing a Senate DOGE caucus and has already started highlighting some of the federal government’s questionable spending practices.

• Seth McLaughlin can be reached at smclaughlin@washingtontimes.com.