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Joni Ernst
Sen. Ernst Demands Agencies Stop End-of-Year Spending Sprees
Federal agencies again went on wasteful “use-it-or-lose-it” spending sprees in 2020 but still ended the year with more than $800 billion in unspent funds, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on ...
January 26, 2021
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Mark Tapscott
Sen. Ernst Says Schumer Is Blocking Spending Transparency
Newly reelected Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in her sights, singling him ...
December 7, 2020
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Mark Tapscott
Democrat Bid to Control US Senate Appears to Have Fallen Short
The all-out effort to flip the Senate appeared to have fallen short, as Democrats successfully regained control of ...
November 4, 2020
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Zachary Stieber
Joni Ernst Wins Reelection in Key US Senate Race
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has won a second term, defeating Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield in Iowa. The ...
November 4, 2020
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Mimi Nguyen Ly
Five Big-City Mayors Backing Police Budget Cuts Get Latest Ernst Squeal Award
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) named the mayors of Seattle, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon, as ...
September 14, 2020
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Mark Tapscott
House Bill Bars Millionaires From Extra $600 Unemployment Payment
Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) says it’s time for Congress to act to make sure enhanced unemployment benefits under ...
August 6, 2020
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Mark Tapscott
Veterans Affairs Gets Ernst ‘Squeal Award’ for Dirty Facilities, Shortage of Janitorial Staff, Too Many PR Operatives
Dozens of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities lack required levels of cleanliness due to shortage ...
July 31, 2020
BY
Mark Tapscott
NASA’s Orion Program Plagued by Excessively Generous Contractor Bonuses; Ernst Calls for Reform
NASA officials give such generous and unearned performance bonuses on the Orion space capsule development program that contractor ...
July 20, 2020
BY
Mark Tapscott
GOP Senators: Russia Bounty Intelligence Unverified and Inconclusive
Republican senators on Tuesday said reports on intelligence suggesting Russia may have offered bounties for the killing of ...
June 30, 2020
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Zachary Stieber
Sen. Ernst Says Close Tax Loophole ‘That Goes All the Way to China’
China has loaned the United States more than $1 trillion to help cover the federal government’s spiraling national ...
June 30, 2020
BY
Mark Tapscott
Ernst Bill Would Require Members of Congress to Disclose PPP Loans They or Family Members Get
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is introducing legislation that would require all senators and representatives to disclose any Paycheck ...
June 22, 2020
BY
Mark Tapscott
Sen. Ernst Introduces Bill Denying Millionaires Eligibility for CARES Act’s Extra $600 Jobless Benefit
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst said on May 20 she's introducing legislation to stop millionaires from being able ...
May 20, 2020
BY
Mark Tapscott
Ernst Gives ‘Squeal Award’ to USDA Unit That Bought Kittens, Puppy Parts in China
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) named the U.S. Agricultural Research Service—which spent tax dollars buying kittens and dog parts ...
April 22, 2020
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Mark Tapscott
Ernst Blasts Feds’ Wasteful ‘Turtles on a Treadmill’ Study as Senate Panel OKs Her Anti-SWAG Bill 5:3
WASHINGTON—Federal officials at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) spent an unknown ...
March 11, 2020
BY
Mark Tapscott
Campaign to Limit Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Gathers Momentum in Senate
WASHINGTON—Republican Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Mike Braun of Indiana are proposing to limit the federal tax ...
March 7, 2020
BY
Mark Tapscott
Sen. Joni Ernst: Abortion Survivors Should Receive Standard Medical Care [CPAC 2020]
At CPAC 2020, we sit down with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who is a member of the Senate ...
March 4, 2020
BY
Jan Jekielek
Sen. Joni Ernst Clarifies Remarks About Potentially Impeaching Joe Biden
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said her remarks about Congress potentially impeaching Joe Biden if he was elected president ...
February 3, 2020
BY
Zachary Stieber
Biden Responds After Ernst Suggests He Could Be Impeached if Elected
Former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, has responded after Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) warned ...
February 3, 2020
BY
Jack Phillips
Plan to Bring Back Earmarks Gaining Steam Among House Democrats
WASHINGTON—Key House Democrats are moving forward with plans to bring back earmarks—taxpayer-funded special interest projects once dubbed “the ...
January 29, 2020
BY
Mark Tapscott
House Could Have Called Bolton to Testify, Investigative Work Not the Senate’s Job: Ernst
The House of Representatives could have called former National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify during its impeachment ...
January 27, 2020
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Zachary Stieber
Senate Candidate Uses Doctored Footage to Show Senator Shooting at Him
A man running for a U.S. Senate seat in Iowa spliced footage together in a campaign announcement video ...
December 6, 2019
BY
Zachary Stieber
Feds Spend Billions on Useless Samples, Public Relations Gimmicks, and Mascots Nobody Knows
WASHINGTON—Everybody knows who “Smokey the Bear" is, but do you know about “The Green Reaper?” How about “Brite ...
October 31, 2019
BY
Mark Tapscott
Iowa Republican Ernst Emerging as Senate’s Top Foe of Government Waste
WASHINGTON—There must be something in the water in Iowa that makes Republicans like Sen. Joni Ernst recoil at ...
September 25, 2019
BY
Mark Tapscott
Ernst Says ‘Forget Area 51, Pentagon Waste Is Out of This World.’ DOD, Congress Get New ‘Squeal Award’
WASHINGTON—Department of Defense (DOD) officials could save millions of tax dollars by eliminating unneeded storage resources, says Sen. ...
September 17, 2019
BY
Mark Tapscott
Pentagon Gets Ernst’s ‘Squeal Award’ for Buying $30M of Risky Chinese Computers
WASHINGTON—Department of Defense (DOD) officials bought $30 million worth of computers and related equipment from Chinese companies last ...
August 29, 2019
BY
Mark Tapscott
IG Says Trump USDA Transfers Are Illegal, but Ernst Thinks Her Bill Fixes It
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s relocation of two small offices from the nation’s capital to Kansas City. Missouri, may have ...
August 7, 2019
BY
Mark Tapscott
Sen. Ernst Wants to Move Feds Out of Washington, Make Firms Earn Contract Bonuses
WASHINGTON—Moving federal departments and agencies out of the nation’s capital is a perennial proposal that comes and goes ...
August 1, 2019
BY
Mark Tapscott
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