‘The key to all this is Joni Ernst’: How one Republican Senator could tank Pete Hegseth’s nomination Dec. 4, 202407:31 UP NEXT Supreme Court blocks some deportations under the Alien Enemies Act 08:21 Nicolle Wallace on Trump's new tariff ...
The first-term senator said she’s interested in joining the newly formed Senate DOGE Caucus, led by Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), which currently does not have any appropriators on its roster. Britt is a junior member of the spending panel but served as chief of staff to longtime Appropriations Ch...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst:A Senate Armed Services member whose name was briefly floated for the Pentagon job, Ernst could be somewhat of a bellwether for GOP support. Ernst has been a vocal critic of the military’s handling of sexual assault in the ranks. She was the only Republican to vote...
When Joni Ernst began her response to Obama, my initial reaction was that it was smart for Republicans to change the topic to their 2014 campaign message instead of trying to respond to Obama. But she probably lost a big chunk of the audience right off the bat with an extended version of...
There are allegedly two Congressional subcommittees set up to work with DOGE, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House, and Joni Ernst in the Senate (source), but I could find no information on either one. I attempt...
While polls in Iowa are competitive, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has neither made the sort of mistakes that would typically lead to an incumbent’s ouster and has done a great job maintaining ties to the entire state by visiting all of Iowa’s ninety-nine countieseach of the six...
The reason “we were so vicious with Joni is because she was trying to get the job for herself,” the Hegseth ally said. “We’re not gonna tolerate that.” The pressure campaign took on a life of its own. Ernst and her staff received a barrage of threatening messages. Some people ev...