Key Highlights
- Joni Ernst is working to strip more than $1 million of federal funds earmarked for a Somali-led Minnesota addiction recovery organization that shares an address with a Minneapolis Somali restaurant, Fox News Digital learned.
- "The scale and frequency of fraud in Minnesota is staggering, but I fear just the tip of the iceberg," Ernst told Fox News Digital Wednesday.
- "Congress owes it to the American people to clean up the mess instead of letting the same politicians who created it keep pigging out at the trough.
- I am putting a stop to this madness, protecting taxpayers, and empowering the Department of Justice to hold every single criminal accountable."Capitol Hill lawmakers unveiled a new spending package Monday that totals at least $174 billion and is slated to receive a vote from House lawmakers later this week.
- Within the package, Ernst's office found that Omar had earmarked $1,031,000 through the Department of Justice for a group called Generation Hope MN in Minneapolis.
