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EXCLUSIVE: Joni Ernst Reveals More Examples Of HUD Bureaucrats Bilking Taxpayers

Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst wrote on Monday highlighting more cases of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) bureaucrats who are abusing programs that allow taxpayers to work for unions. Ernst details whether bureaucrats claimed to be unionized while they were on leave or spending time in prison, and is said to have started small businesses […]

Senate DOGE leader Ernst faces challenge from Iowa Democrat Nathan Sage

R-Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst faces her first Democratic challenger in the 2026 election. On Tuesday, a Marine and Army veteran jump into the race and vows to fight “for the Democrats who people like me want to participate.” Nathan Sage, now executive director of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, announced his candidacy through a campaign […]

Ernst seeks to reel in massive grant to VA fishing group over salaries, more

Exclusive: The Senate's top doge leader is trying to involve large federal grants from nonprofits focused on promoting fisheries, boating and outdoors. Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa and her colleagues have scrutinized federal grants for the emergence of taxpayer funding waste, fraud or abuse, and have won a $27 million grant for the Recreation Boats and […]

Sen. Joni Ernst Details USAID’s ‘Anti-American Agenda’ in Letter to Secretary of State Rubio

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), Senator Joni Ernst, detailed on Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, detailed the US International Development Organization (USAID), anti-American agenda. “For multiple years, I have expressed serious concerns about the intentional obstruction of parliamentary monitoring by the US International Development Organization (USAID). Many times, the institution is taxpayers in Ukraine companies. […]