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Sen. Joni Ernst's report squealing on wasteful COVID-19 spending
The federal government’s coronavirus spending spree turned out to be a snow job — literally.One Utah county spent more than $200,000 of its COVID-19 cash to make snow on a hill for sledding.Auditors...
View ArticleSen. Joni Ernst slams Joe Biden's 'deranged climate policy,' calls for...
Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, blasted the Biden administration Tuesday for its "deranged climate policy," calling on the White House to bring back the Keystone XL pipeline to counter rising U.S....
View ArticleRepublicans press Biden to send Polish warplanes to Ukraine
Republican U.S. senators are imploring the Biden administration to reverse course and allow the transfer of Poland's MiG fighter jets to the Ukrainians to fight the Russian invasion, a sign the Defense...
View ArticleFeds to release list shaming over-budget and overdue transportation projects
The Transportation Department will soon have to release its first name-and-shame list of federally funded projects that have ballooned a billion dollars over budget.Language demanding the report was...
View ArticleMilitary vets say border is like a 'war zone'
A Marine who was in Afghanistan when the country fell to the Taliban and who now lives in Texas told lawmakers he has seen more dead bodies along the U.S.-Mexico border than he did during his tour of...
View ArticleIowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst demands IRS audit own employees to root out...
As the IRS prepares for a massive expansion that will empower it to probe into more Americans' finances, a Republican senator is asking the agency's inspector general to perform an audit to see how...
View ArticleInspector general to probe for tax cheats inside IRS
A federal inspector general has announced an audit of IRS employees to suss out how many of them are cheating on their own taxes.The investigation comes as the IRS prepares to staff up with potentially...
View ArticleChina used 'double-crossing companies' to steal U.S. national security research
Although the federal government invests heavily in research, it’s China that gets more out of it, according to a Defense Department study of its spending that is getting attention on Capitol Hill.Sen....
View ArticleSen. Joni Ernst calls on HHS to permanently bar Wuhan virus lab from getting...
The Chinese virology lab that some analysts blame for igniting the coronavirus pandemic has been stripped of its U.S. funding, but Sen. Joni Ernst said it has not been blacklisted to make sure it can’t...
View ArticlePig-Pong: Feds funded experiment to teach hogs to play video game
Sen. Joni Ernst released a list of dubious government spending Tuesday, questioning why federal taxpayers had to foot the bill for studies that trained pigs to play a video game or dolphins to use an...
View ArticleWuhan virus lab got more U.S. money than previously reported
The Wuhan lab at the center of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus received four different grants of money from the U.S. government over the past decade, according to new research released...
View ArticleDeSantis, Pence and other GOP 2024 hopefuls, but not Trump, set to appear at...
Eight Republican presidential hopefuls are in Iowa on Saturday to attend a political event hosted by U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence are among those...
View ArticleJoni Ernst seeks to 'turn up the heat' on Biden energy officials -- literally
Sen. Joni Ernst wants to make Biden administration officials sweat — quite literally — to make them follow the federal government’s own energy efficiency guidelines.The Iowa Republican has filed...
View ArticleSen. Joni Ernst urges feds to sell offices left empty by pandemic telework
If the Biden administration isn’t going to get federal workers back into the office, a waste-watching senator says it’s time for the government to sell off desks.Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, is...
View ArticleState audit finds tens of thousands of unqualified Marylanders received food...
Officials in Maryland several years ago managed to disable one of the systems intended to check whether food stamp applicants had low enough income to qualify for the benefit.The result, according to a...
View ArticleInspector general to investigate federal offices left vacant by telework...
A federal inspector general has opened an investigation into telework policies that have turned some government offices into ghost towns, risking the spread of disease and raising questions about how...
View ArticleSenator demands Nancy Pelosi building in San Fran be shut down after it...
Sen. Joni Ernst is calling for the government to pull the plug on the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco after its public spaces turned into a crime-ravaged open-air drug market...
View ArticleSenate Republicans grudgingly warm to Democrats' plan to end Tuberville's...
A handful of Republican senators reluctantly concluded they may have to side with Democrats to end Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade against confirming hundreds of military promotions.It’s the latest...
View ArticleJoni Ernst says 'woke policies' caused her to choke at lunch
Sen. Joni Ernst joked about her choking episode Thursday afternoon, blaming it on Democrats' “woke policies.”In response to an X post revealing that Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, administered...
View ArticleThey earned more than a million dollars -- and still took unemployment
The crisis days of the pandemic were easing in 2021, but plenty of people still rushed to collect unemployment, including more than 300 people the IRS says made at least $10 million in income that...
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