Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) announced a bill Tuesday that would bar the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from providing arms and ammunition to agents with taxpayer money. The measure would prohibit the federal tax agency from purchasing, receiving, or storing guns and ammunition, according to Ernst’s office. Under the bill, ammunition and firearms that are currently…

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) discuss Congress’ vision and role in the future of U.S. security engagement in the Middle East at 10:30 a.m. ET on June 8 in a conversation during the American Power & Purpose, a special event held by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Barak…

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) discuss Congress’ vision and role in the future of U.S. security engagement in the Middle East at 10:30 a.m. ET on June 8 in a conversation during the American Power & Purpose, a special event held by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Barak…

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined fellow Republicans on March 15 in criticizing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ comments that U.S. support for Ukraine was not one of its “vital” national interests. “I speak for myself and I hope to be able to visit with a number of candidates or hopefuls and just explain the position where…

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) sounded the alarm Tuesday about whether the Biden administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is harassing or intimidating firearms owners into legally questionable investigations. In a letter (pdf) sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Ernst asked whether the ATF is unlawfully harassing or coercing gun owners amid viral…

Two days after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a roadmap on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works questioned the EPA’s Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water, Radhika Fox, about how her agency plans to address PFASs, which are still used in…

Auditors from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector-General (OIG) are probing whether National Institutes for Health (NIH) officials properly managed research grants that ended up partially funding controversial “gain-of-function” research by China’s Wuhan lab. “The OIG has previously identified NIH’s oversight of grants to foreign applicants as a potential risk…

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is introducing legislation to ensure federal grant recipients like the EcoHealth Alliance disclose to the funding agencies whenever they in turn pass funds to other recipients like China’s Wuhan lab. “Despite skirting federal law and refusing to disclose how much U.S. taxpayer money was funneled to Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of…

A proposed amendment to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s “Endless Frontier Act” to reform the National Science Foundation (NSF) would require the government to disclose all costs of research projects the agency funds. The amendment to Schumer’s proposal requires NSF grant recipients to make public the percentage of the total cost of a project that…

Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst led Republican senators in sending a Monday letter urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services not to use Title X funds to support programs that provide abortions, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The GOP lawmakers urged HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to withdraw the Biden administration’s proposed…