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Joni Ernst
@SenJoniErnst
Mother, grandmother, and combat veteran, fighting for a more accountable and less wasteful Washington 🇺🇸 U.S. Senator serving the people of Iowa 🌽🐖
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Jan 17 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Washington's end of year use-it-or-lose-it approach encourages waste by binge-buying bureaucrats.

In Sept 2024, the Pentagon went on its largest spending spree since 2008 (reminder: in ‘08 America was fighting 2 wars).

What did they spend tax dollars on?

Glad you asked.👇 Image Who needs a 5-star restaurant when you can dine at Bistro Le Taxpayer @DeptofDefense.

In September alone, it spent $6.1 million on lobster tail, $16.6 million on ribeye steak, $6.4 million on salmon, and $407,000 on Alaskan king crab!
Dec 5, 2024 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
🧵After nearly two years of investigating telework abuse, I unveiled my report showing how broken the bureaucracy in DC is.

Here is my plan to work with @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, and the Trump admin to get the federal workforce working for the people and save tax dollars.👇 Image First, just how prevalent is telework in Washington?

❗️90% of bureaucrats telework
❗️6% of bureaucrats show up 5 days a week
❗️Nearly 33% of employees are entirely remote
 
Why is this a problem?
Nov 25, 2024 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
🧵We can eliminate more than $2 trillion of waste in Washington in 22 easy steps.
 
Here is how @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, and @DOGE can begin to trim the fat and #makeemsqueal. 👇 1. Ghost Workers 👻
 
We are spending $15.7 billion a year on underutilized buildings.

Many are vacant!

Bureaucrats refuse to show up to work, so why are we paying for empty buildings?
Nov 23, 2024 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
🧵😸Happy Caturday!
 
What is Caturday?

A pawesome time to examine how, just like cats, waste in Washington has nine lives.

Here are nine examples of wasteful spending by the federal government studying our feline friends that are purrfect for @DOGE to cut. Image Starting off we have the $6.8 million question:
 
What food, toys, scents, and humans do cats enjoy the most?

Good news: they like tuna, catnip, playing with humans, and moving toys.

Bad news: we aren't within a whisker of all the waste.
Jul 29, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
🚨The spirit of 1776 is still alive and well with a tax revolt happening right now at the most unlikely of places in Washington, the IRS.

My audit of the IRS reveals more than 5,800 IRS and contractor employees owe nearly $50 million in overdue taxes.

And it only gets worse... While the IRS warns tax evasion is a serious crime punishable by imprisonment, fines, and civil penalties, and even though the IRS has the authority to fire these tax cheats - just 20 of the 5,800 IRS tax evaders were fired.