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Joni Ernst: “If grift was a government agency, the Department of Fraud would be the fifth largest.”

On the recordJuly 24, 2026
If grift was a government agency, the Department of Fraud would be the fifth largest.
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Joni Ernst
Republican · Iowa

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Senate floor speech on government fraud

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