So much so that we had to start a formal congressional investigation on USAID. I have been engaged in my squeal efforts for a decade now uncovering waste in our federal government,” Ernst ...

Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. “USAID was wasting tax dollars like it was going out of style,” Ernst, who chairs the Senate DOGE Caucus focused on rooting out waste and abuse from the federal government ...

Speaking to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump made a number of claims about what he ...

Joni Ernst spoke at a U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland ... s steps to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), after breaking into agency headquarters and telling employees ...

The press secretary's remarks came as the Trump administration was targeting USAID for cuts or dismantling. Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa repeated the claim on Feb. 13 during a U.S. Senate Committee ...

Joni Ernst (R-IA) credited the Department of Government ... "I have spent years trying to uncover the spending in USAID, and they obstructed my efforts. So much so that we had to start a formal ...

Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst appeared Monday on Newsmax to say that members of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have obstructed and even threatened her efforts to ...

The U.S. is officially cancelling 83% of the programs at the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID), said U.S.

Joni Ernst (R-IA) celebrated how Elon Musk and the ... Musk indicated Monday that USAID is “beyond repair” after several senior officials were placed on leave for not complying with President ...

Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican ... House Republicans, meanwhile, heard testimony on how USAID funneled millions of dollars through a U.S. charity to the Nusra Front, a designated terrorist ...