Costumed mascots for various federal agencies that have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars would be sent packing under one GOP senator’s plan to slash spending amid the government shutdown.

Franklin the Fair Market Fox from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Puddles the Blue Goose from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Owlie Skywarn from the National Weather Service are just a few of the characters in Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst’s crosshairs, as she appeals to Trump’s budget chief to cut spending.

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a memo issued before the shutdown that ‘Reduction in Force (RIF) notices for all employees’ working in programs that are ‘not consistent with the president’s priorities’ should be sent by individual agencies.

Ernst, who chairs the Senate DOGE caucus, plans to ask during a floor speech on Friday that riff-raff like government mascots and other ‘do-nothing bureaucrats’ be fired immediately. A single costume for a mascot at the US Embassy in Singapore cost taxpayers a whopping $22,000 in February, and the government spent a jaw-dropping $250,000 at a costume company in Ohio in 2019, according to Ernst’s office.

Ernst told the Daily Mail last week that keeping 750,00 non-essential workers on the government payroll costs $400 million every working day. The total cost of employing these workers has crossed $2.8 billion since the government shutdown began, she said.

Ernst’s other potential cost-cutting measures include eliminating the positions of federal employees and contractors who weren’t even working before the shutdown, and others who have said that they get paid to take naps and watch Netflix .

‘Did nothing all day today over 10 hours in here,’ read one journal entry shared by Ernst’s office with the Daily Mail. ‘I do hope to play another good game of chess,’ read another. Before the shutdown, the senator introduced the Double Dippers Act to cross-check payrolls to identify and stop bureaucrats from billing taxpayers twice for work they’re not even doing.

One full-time employee at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development was found to have been simultaneously holding two additional full-time government contractor positions, sometimes billing for 26 working hours in a single 24-hour day, Ernst said. That cost the American taxpayers more than $225,000 over three years.

The senator’s push comes as air traffic controller shortages are causing flight delays, the Federal Drug Administration is not able to process applications for new drugs, and members of the military may miss out on their next paycheck, all due to the inability of Congress to pass a budget resolution.

House Republicans passed a budget bill and sent it to the Senate, where the funding legislation needs to overcome a 60-vote threshold. Republicans hold 53 seats in the chamber, and Democrats John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada, and Independent Angus King of Maine supported the GOP budget package. Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky has opposed it.