Press Releases
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WASHINGTON – After recently scoring a major victory in her longstanding fight to overturn the harmful expansion of the “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, U.S. Senator Joni...
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July 23, 2025
Ernst Pushes to Safeguard American Innovation From China
WASHINGTON – After releasing a bombshell report detailing how critical technology is vulnerable to espionage by the Chinese Communist Party, Senate Small Business and... -
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 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 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 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... -
June 26, 2025
Ernst: Washington-opoly is a Losing Game for Taxpayers
WASHINGTON – With the federal government clinging to a bloated and costly real estate portfolio of 7,700 vacant buildings and 2,265 largely empty properties, U.S. Senator...