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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Sponheim Sales and Services of...
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July 18, 2025
Ernst: Eliminating $9 Billion of Waste in Washington
Over the past decade since my fellow Iowans sent me to Washington to make the big spenders squeal, I’ve been exposing waste, fraud, and abuse almost too insane to believe. This... -
July 16, 2025
Ernst Stops Secret Pentagon Spending
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) secured a major win for taxpayers in the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 with the... -
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship advanced a pair of Chair Joni Ernst’s (R-Iowa) bills to unleash domestic manufacturing and hold COVID...
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July 16, 2025
Ernst Supports Mental Health Care for Iowa Farmers
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced the bipartisan Farmers First Act to support access to critical mental health resources for Iowa... -
July 15, 2025
Ernst Calls on Senate to Make DOGE Cuts Permanent
WASHINGTON – After exposing sweeping abuses at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) spoke on the Senate floor to urge her... -
July 14, 2025
Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Groom Curriculum
RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Groom Curriculum of Palo Alto... -
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a combat veteran, secured meaningful provisions in in the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to build...
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July 10, 2025
ICYMI: Ernst Saves Taxpayers $100 Million
WASHINGTON – In addition to the One Big Beautiful Bill delivering the largest tax cut in history, the law will also save taxpayers $100 million by eliminating freebies for... -
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) urged her Senate colleagues to confirm Mr. William Briggs to serve as...
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July 09, 2025
Ernst Works to Mitigate Flood Risks
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, are working to mitigate flood risk and improve water... -
July 07, 2025
Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Edd the Florist
RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Edd the Florist of Wapello... -
July 03, 2025
Ernst: American Dream is Strong
From the fireworks to the waving American flags, the Fourth of July is all about patriotism. While this weekend is a time of celebration with backyard barbeques and hot dogs, we... -
July 02, 2025
Ernst Secures a Win for Iowa Farm Families
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst’s (R-Iowa) bipartisan Family Farm and Small Business Exemption Act that keeps higher education accessible for Iowa farm families has passed the... -
July 01, 2025
Ernst Ends Handouts to the Idle Rich
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senator Joni Ernst’s (R-Iowa) Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act as an amendment to the One Big Beautiful Bill... -
July 01, 2025
Ernst Celebrates Big Beautiful Win for Iowans
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) released the following statement celebrating the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: “President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill... -
June 30, 2025
Ernst: Washington Going Bankrupt While Wasting Billions of Taxpayer Dollars on Unused and Unneeded Properties
Despite being the nation’s largest landlord, Uncle Sam will never win a round of Monopoly, the classic boardgame where players try to make money—and avoid going bankrupt—by buying,... -
June 30, 2025
Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Continuum Ag
RED OAK, Iowa – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Continuum Ag of Washington... -
June 27, 2025
Ernst Celebrates National Women’s Sports Week
WASHINGTON – To mark the anniversary of the passage of Title IX in 1972, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Congresswomen Claudia Tenney (R - N.Y.) introduced a resolution that...