Joni Ernst: “The absence of children at the child care center should have been another dead giveaway.”

In Iowa, we believe in a simple rule: you plug in, you pay up.

In 2024 alone, 10,100 million-dollar earners received nearly $97.4 million in unemployment compensation. That amounts to each being paid $9,650, roughly the cost of a new Rolex watch.

Fraud is not a victimless crime, either.

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.