Iowa Senator Joni Ernst announced that she would vote for Pete Hegseth to become Defense Secretary, making his path to Senate confirmation much easier.

Joni Ernst’s support for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth as crucial. A former Army National Guard commander, Ernst faced an avalanche of criticism and primary threats late last year after ...

Only Congress can stop payments or shut down agencies, but Iowa’s delegation is OK with ignoring the Constitution, writes the ...

Ernst explained that for years, she tried to find out how humanitarian aid for the war in Ukraine was being spent and discovered “absolute obstruction and lies” from USAID and the agency’s a ...

USAID has been the target of the Department of Government Efficiency as Elon Musk seeks to eliminate government waste.

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Hegseth, a former Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran ... were the best preparation for the job - and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, a key vote, on Tuesday night told local radio station WHO ...

Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, outlined how the U.S. Agency ... and safeguarding U.S. national security. "USAID is the backbone of America’s soft power, helping to stabilize fragile regions and protect ...

Joni Ernst alleged. The Republican Hawkeye State senator and Senate DOGE Caucus chair, listed a slew of examples on social media this week on why “USAID is one of the worst offenders of waste in ...

The Daily Mail reports that during reviews, Senate DOGE Caucus Chair Joni Ernst, (R-Iowa) uncovered about $1.2 million in spending by the National Institutes of Health for research into binge ...

Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst and Reps. Ashley Hinson ... sign a law to spend huge sums of money to move all the U.S. Coast Guard’s operations to Lake Red Rock, a future president couldn ...