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Joni Ernst: “The choice is quite simple: Give this money to fraudsters or return it to the taxpayers.”

On the recordJuly 24, 2026
The choice is quite simple: Give this money to fraudsters or return it to the taxpayers.
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Joni Ernst
Republican · Iowa

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Senate floor speech on government fraud

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