Joni Ernst: “This is an important program. But it is critical that we are protecting our folks here on our own homeland.”

We owe it to all Americans to stop the government grift.

From the fields in Iowa to the battlefields in Iraq, I have worked my entire life. Unlike most of my colleagues in the Senate, I am not a millionaire. I know what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck.

While government boondoggles abound, the term is now officially in the law books for the first time. No politician wants their prized pet project to carry that label, but now there's no escaping it.

Watt’s fair is fair—and passing these costs on to Iowans isn’t.