Press Releases
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June 13, 2023
ICYMI: Ernst at The Senate Project Foreign Policy Debate: “I believe in America first always, but never America alone.”
BOSTON – Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, participated in a bipartisan debate on foreign policy... -
RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Precision Optical...
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June 09, 2023
Ernst Works to Address Childcare Access in Rural Iowa
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is supporting the bipartisan, bicameral Expanding Childcare in Rural America (ECRA) Act of 2023 to expand childcare access in... -
WASHINGTON — The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) program, one of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) core entrepreneurial development programs, has...
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) called out the Biden administration and federal bureaucrats for out-of-control spending without proper oversight and...
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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, slammed Biden’s nominee to be Deputy Administrator of the Small...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is fighting to stop taxpayer funding of organizations that disregard the law, such as EcoHealth Alliance, which refuses to provide...
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June 05, 2023
Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Classroom Clinic
RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Classroom Clinic of... -
June 01, 2023
Ernst Tracks Over $1.3 Billion of U.S. Tax Dollars Sent to China and Russia, Promises Accountability for Every Penny
WASHINGTON – More than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars were sent to Russia and China since 2017, according to a new analysis released today by Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and... -
May 31, 2023
Ernst Leads Effort to Save Taxpayers $300 Billion by Blocking Biden’s Student Loan Scheme
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) voted to save taxpayers more than $300 billion by overturning President Biden’s pause on student loan payments. The resolution... -
RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Swenson’s Do it...
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May 26, 2023
Ernst Works to Keep Iowa Resources in Iowa
RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is renewing her effort to ensure resources for Iowans stay in Iowa through the Rural Housing Accessibility Act. The... -
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rightfully ruled in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, overturning Biden’s ill-conceived Waters of the United States...
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May 23, 2023
Ernst Calls Out ATF Bureaucrats Posing as Law Enforcement to Scam Taxpayers, Waste Millions
WASHINGTON — According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) whistleblowers and confirmed by an Office of Special Counsel report, the ATF has... -
RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Geothermal Eco...
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WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has been advocating for her bipartisan Disrupt Fentanyl Trafficking Act, which she introduced alongside Senator Tim...
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May 19, 2023
Ernst Fights to Protect the Food Supply
WASHINGTON —Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is joining a bipartisan effort to improve resources for animal disease preparedness, including Highly Pathogenic Avian... -
WASHINGTON – During Mental Health Awareness Month, U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, are building off...
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May 17, 2023
Ernst Works to Stop Military, Federal Employee Retirement from Bolstering Communist China
WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined the bipartisan Taxpayers and Savers Protection (TSP) Act, which would ban the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment... -
May 16, 2023
Ernst Slams Biden for Sidelining Women in Sports
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), and 19 Republican colleagues issued a clear rebuke of U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel...