Ahead of Sunshine Week, Ernst Shines Light on Washington’s Waste, Calls for Transparency in Spending

WASHINGTON—Ahead of Sunshine Week, an annual tradition promoting the importance of government transparency, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), who champions the need to curb government waste and make Washington ‘squeal’, continued to push her efforts to protect hardworking Iowans’ tax dollars. Ernst highlighted a few of her ‘bright ideas’—like her Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act, which requires full public disclosure of the cost and timeline of mammoth government-funded projects costing billions more than promised and behind schedule, and her SWAG Act, to prohibit tax dollars from being spent on mascots and swag to promote government agencies and programs.