Doge Meme Appears in US Senate: ‘Doge Inevitable’; Dogecoin Founder Reacts

Billy Markus, a software developer who collaborated with Jackson Palmer to create the original meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin in 2013, has taken to his X social media account to repost a video extract from a recent speech made in the US Senate by Senator Joni Ernst (IA) from the Republican Party.

While making her point to the Senate, she used a picture of the famous Doge meme overtaking a city. On that canvas, Doge overtook Washington D.C. Markus shared his half-humoros and half-serious take on this Doge meme demonstration.

Doge meme canvas makes it to US Senate meeting: "Doge is inevitable"

The aforementioned Senator Joni Ernst underscored the importance of the recently created Department of the Government Efficiency spearheaded by billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – D.O.G.E, saying that tax dollars must not be waisted. She urged other Senators and politicians to join this initiative, stating that “Doge is inevitable.”

The canvas depicts a popular Internet meme where a Doge dog in the form of a sand-dust cloud is devouring Washington D.C, hinting that D.O.G.E. operations spreading around the governmental city quickly and inevitably.

Billy Markus, also known on social media as Shibetoshi Nakamoto, commented on this tweet, saying: “Pretty funny to see this doge meme IN THE SENATE”

Markus’s army of followers responded quite enthusiastically to his Doge post, publishing comments about the thing widely associated with Markus’s brainchild making its way into the US Senate: “Doge is the future.”“You’ve really made it now.” “Politicians are catching on.” And there was even one proposing Markus should be voted for the Senate: “Billy for Senate.”

Dogecoin crashes 16% after printing similar rise

In the last week, the largest meme cryptocurrency has demonstrated high volatility movements as it first skyrocketed by roughly 16% on January 3 and plunging by 17.06% over the past two days. Dogecoin shed its massive gains, falling from $0.40 back t $0.32, where it is changing hands at the time of this writing.

Billy Markus highlighted the Dogecoin surge on January 3, publishing a post about this. As for the Bitcoin price crash which took place on January 7 and pulled down the rest of the crypto market, along with DOGE, he commented, tweeting: “Bitcoin ate some fast food this morning.”