Joni Ernst

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said that Iran’s strikes earlier in the day show “that the Iranians do not want to sit down. They don’t want to negotiate.” And “We

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is asking Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jayanta Bhattacharya to shut down former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Chief Anthony Fauci’s Rocky Mountain Lab in Montana after White Coat Waste Project (WCW) exposed scandals including virus smuggling as well as monkey bite incidents, Breitbart News exclusively learned.

Iowa Democratic Senate candidate and current state representative Josh Turek collected over $20,000 in per diem payments while skipping votes.

Biden administration officials may have broken the law by hiding pandemic-era small business loans to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said.

Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Mike Lee (R-UT) are asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate alleged fraud by a Somali-owned rehab center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as alleged fraud schemes among Somali-owned nonprofits, daycare centers, and medical transportation companies have been referred to federal investigators.

The uncovering of widespread fraud in Minnesota and other Democrat strongholds has reignited DOGE’s efforts to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) explained on the Alex Marlow Show.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Monday introduced legislation that would prevent the abuse of government contracts, after hundreds of millions of dollars went to bribery schemes over several decades.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said that giving Tomahawk missiles “would give the Ukrainians that definite edge to win this war and put Russia back into a box. That is

The White House on Tuesday warned that federal bureaucrats who have been forced not to work, due to the Democrat shutdown, are not guaranteed to receive back pay.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told Breitbart News that taxpayers are paying $400 million per day for nonessential federal bureaucrats not to work during the Democrat shutdown.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced legislation that seeks to remove DEI funding for “transgender apps,” and other “woke nonsense” from a key defense tech program.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) revealed in a video message Tuesday that she will not seek another term in 2026, ending more than ten years in the Senate and a career in public service that has spanned the U.S. Army Reserves, the Iowa Army National Guard, and state and federal elected office.

Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) cheered a guilty plea by an SBA loan officer who had approved over half a million dollars in fraudulent loans for herself and relatives.

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the completion of their appointed rounds” goes the U.S. Postal Service creed – but not with electric vehicles, if some Republican lawmakers have their way.

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) announced a new push to rescind or redirect $14 billion in federal transportation funding from what she calls “boondoggle” rail projects that are years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, according to a letter sent this week to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) bipartisan bill to boost domestic manufacturing advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee is slated to be passed by the Senate.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told Breitbart News that she aims to codify her fixes in the Big Beautiful Bill to prevent fraudulent payments in federal programs.

Sen. Joni Ernst said that $79 billion in coronavirus aid fraud was easily preventable had government bureaucrats put simple safeguards in place.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said Democrats “actually care” while Republicans like Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) lacked compassion.

Pollster Sarah Longwell said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) must be having a “nervous breakdown” over her Medicaid comments, saying death is inevitable.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R) are introducing legislation today to protect Federal Firearm License holders (FFLs) from being antagonized and shut down by a weaponized ATF.

The Senate must amend the House-passed President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill to root out waste, fraud, and abuse while protecting healthcare benefits for Americans, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) explained on The Alex Marlow Show.

On Thursday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) talked about wasteful spending on government credit cards. Ernst said, “[T]he federal government, through GSA credit cards, has 4.6 million active credit cards and accounts…we have a little less than half

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) will say during a Senate Small Business Committee hearing on Wednesday that revitalizing the American industrial base starts with boosting small businesses.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Thursday introduced legislation that would derail efforts by Democrat states to institute zero-emission trains.

Rep. Mark Alford (R-OH) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement that his legislation to relocate Small Business Administration (SBA) offices across America gives small businesses a “seat at the table.”

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Monday introduced legislation that would sell off millions of dollars of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) firearms to pay for the national debt.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) proposed legislation on Wednesday that would extend the statute of limitations to catch the potentially millions of individuals who took advantage of coronavirus pandemic-era aid.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said a Government Accountability Institute (GAO) report found lax oversight by the SBA over hundreds of billions of dollars in coronavirus aid loans and grants doled out during the Biden-administration was either “jaw-dropping incompetence or willful negligence.” Ernst cannot decide which is worse.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said in a statement to Breitbart News that Congress needs to empower a special inspector general to uncover more of the billions of dollars in coronavirus aid fraud.

GOP Senators are demanding information from the Small Business Administration (SBA) about how much COVID-19 aid Planned Parenthood affiliates received.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled legislation that would short circuit the failed $7.5 billion electric vehicle program instituted by President Joe Biden, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a leading senator on slashing government waste, gave the inside story on how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was “ready to go” in cutting $2 trillion in government waste during an exclusive appearance on The Alex Marlow Show.