U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
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Recent News About U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
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Ernst Slams Biden’s Nominee for Deputy Administrator of the SBA
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, slammed Biden’s nominee to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) for his failure to be transparent with the committee, unwillingness to decrease burdensome regulations, and concerns about his commitment to fully recover fraudulent SBA COVID funds.
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Ernst Works to Cut Funding to Outlaw Organizations Disregarding Federal Law
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is fighting to stop taxpayer funding of organizations that disregard the law, such as EcoHealth Alliance, which refuses to provide information about the dangerous experiments on bat coronaviruses conducted in China’s state-run Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) with U.S. tax dollars.
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Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Classroom Clinic
Throughout this Congress, Ranking Member Ernst plans to recognize a small business in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties.
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Ernst Tracks Over $1.3 Billion of U.S. Tax Dollars Sent to China and Russia, Promises Accountability for Every Penny
More than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars were sent to Russia and China since 2017, according to a new analysis released by Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Open the Books. This amount likely doesn’t reflect the total amount because federal agencies do not follow the trail of tax dollars to their final destination.
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Ernst Leads Effort to Save Taxpayers $300 Billion by Blocking Biden’s Student Loan Scheme
The resolution passed the Senate on May 31, 2023, with bipartisan support.
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Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Swenson’s Do it Best Hardware
Throughout this Congress, Ranking Member Ernst plans to recognize a small business in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties.
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Ernst Works to Keep Iowa Resources in Iowa
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is renewing her effort to ensure resources for Iowans stay in Iowa through the Rural Housing Accessibility Act.
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Ernst Applauds Supreme Court Ruling That Scraps Biden’s Overreaching Water Rule
On May 25, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court rightfully ruled in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, overturning Biden’s ill-conceived Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule and narrowing the scope of the Clean Water Act.
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Ernst Calls Out ATF Bureaucrats Posing as Law Enforcement to Scam Taxpayers, Waste Millions
According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) whistleblowers and confirmed by an Office of Special Counsel report, the ATF has routinely misclassified administrative positions as law enforcement jobs, improperly costing the federal agency millions in pay and enhanced benefits over a five-year span.
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Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Geothermal Eco Options, Inc.
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, on May 22, 2023, announced her Small Business of the Week: Geothermal Eco Options, Inc. of Howard County
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ICYMI: Ernst Continues to Push her Bipartisan Solution to Fentanyl Crisis
In case you missed it, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has been advocating for her bipartisan Disrupt Fentanyl Trafficking Act, which she introduced alongside Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.).
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Ernst Fights to Protect the Food Supply
On May 19, 2023, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is joining a bipartisan effort to improve resources for animal disease preparedness, including Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), African Swine Fever (ASF), and Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) that continue to pose a significant threat to Iowa’s agriculture.
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Ernst, Baldwin Continue Work to Support Mental Health Needs of Agriculture Communities
During Mental Health Awareness Month, U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, are building off of their bipartisan efforts to provide our nation’s agricultural community with critical mental health support and resources.
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Ernst Works to Stop Military, Federal Employee Retirement from Bolstering Communist China
On May 17, 2023, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined the bipartisan Taxpayers and Savers Protection (TSP) Act, which would ban the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) from steering federal retirement savings to China.
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Ernst Slams Biden for Sidelining Women in Sports
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), and 19 Republican colleagues issued a clear rebuke of U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona’s proposed changes to Title IX and condemned the Biden administration’s plan to force schools to allow biological males to compete against women in sports.
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Ernst, Kaine, Bice, Carbajal Combat Threat of Fentanyl
Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, are leading a bipartisan effort directing increased federal attention to fentanyl trafficking by utilizing the tools of the Department of Defense (DoD) and involving Mexico as an active partner to combat this crisis and disrupt Mexican cartel activity.
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Ernst mum on inflation concerns, Build Back Better Act
Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst did not respond to a query about whether the Biden administration’s Build Back Better Act should pass the Senate in spite of its expected addition of $3 trillion to the national debt.
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'The last thing' Iowans need, Ernst says, is burden of Biden's 'massive expansion of federal government'
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) says that rising inflation must be handled immediately so the economy's recovery is not short-circuited.
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September poll: Iowa veterans overwhelmingly disapprove of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal
A new poll showed veterans in Iowa did not support how President Joe Biden handled the final withdrawal of U.S. forces in Afghanistan — ending the 20-year war that resulted in the deaths of thousands of American troops.
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Ernst on Afghanistan: 'Simply incompetent'
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) condemned President Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan crisis that so far has resulted in 13 service members being killed.