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Joni Ernst

Joni Ernst is a Republican senator from Iowa. A former state senator, she won the 2014 GOP primary for an open U.S. Senate seat and defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in November. She was sworn into Congress in January 2015, replacing long-time Senator Tom Harkin.

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Latest Fact-Checks Of Joni Ernst

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By Lyle Muller
August 31, 2022

“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says with the supersized staff, the IRS audit rate ‘would rise for ALL taxpayers’ regardless of income, and would even…

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By Nina Baker
June 16, 2022

$3 million per day in "your tax dollars" are being spent to guard "unused border wall materials."

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By Eleanor Hildebrandt
March 30, 2022

“Gas prices have been going up since the president’s first day in office, starting with his move to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.”

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By Lyle Muller
January 26, 2022

In Iowa, “since we have put a number of the voting laws into place over the last several years — voter ID is one of…

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By Madison Black
October 29, 2020

“I have been very clear with DACA. Even in my campaign six years ago I stood for those Dreamers.”

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By Rylee Wilson, Rachel Schilke
October 26, 2020

Says she is ranked "one of the most bipartisan senators in the Senate in the last 25 years."

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By Tom Kertscher
March 12, 2019

"At $93 trillion, the Green New Deal would cost more than the entire recorded spending of the U.S. since the Constitution went into effect in…

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By Louis Jacobson
February 1, 2017

The Obama administration issued an "11th-hour rule that entrenches federal family planning funding for Planned Parenthood."

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By Louis Jacobson
January 21, 2015

"A strong majority of Americans support" the Keystone XL pipeline.

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By Louis Jacobson
October 15, 2014

"Iowa has the fourth fastest-growing personal income in the United States, while nationally, the real wage has decreased over the past eight years that Congressman…

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