Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) discuss Congress’ vision and role in the future of U.S. security engagement in the Middle East at 10:30 a.m. ET on June 8 in a conversation during the American Power & Purpose, a special event held by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Barak […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) questioned U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack at an oversight hearing held by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on Thursday. She expressed her concerns that the taxpayer money is being spent in the wrong places. “What I find problematic is that taxpayer dollars are being doled out as free […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) called for transparency in President Joe Biden’s new budget on Wednesday at the Senate’s weekly press briefing. “I’m forcing our federal agencies to put a public price tag on all of the taxpayer-funded projects,” she said.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) recently wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland expressing her concerns over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) engaging in so-called “knock and talk” investigations for the alleged “straw purchase” of firearms. Straw purchases are a federal crime in which a person buys a firearm or firearms […]
Auditors from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector-General (OIG) are probing whether National Institutes for Health (NIH) officials properly managed research grants that ended up partially funding controversial “gain-of-function” research by China’s Wuhan lab. “The OIG has previously identified NIH’s oversight of grants to foreign applicants as a potential risk […]
