Ernst: If there are naysayers to DOGE, it’s probably because they’re eating the pork out of the trough and we really do need to be cutting the fat. Iowans sent me to Washington DC to make ‘em squeal.
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Let’s start with the anchors and this being nominated to run cabinet positions and CEOs ripping off employees and clients! Once we cut that fat, might not need to cut further.
Even though she is full of shit, this kind of rhetoric from the right is extremely dangerous and threatens anyone who works for the Federal government at any level.
Rs always seem to put the cart before the horse. They’re anticipating this illegal *branch* of govt & that’s it’s all gonna work out. Should be interesting.
That’s true but I know many feds and the DOGE rhetoric is terrifying to them. They have families and many couples both work for the government. They are hard working and dedicated to the missions of their agencies. Elon is also doxing them on Twitter. It’s horrifying and wrong to demonize feds.
Got them gullible MAGA thinking teachers have litter boxes for the kids who dress up like furries. They swear it's happening in Iowa. It's in my FB memories. 😂
Well she is in the pocket of big Ag, which isn't the family farm it was intended for. So as long as corporate Ag supports her, that probably won't happen.
The Department of Education has a budget of $280B.
DoD has a budget of $820.3B
If Joni wants to trim some fat, she should visit the Pentagon before dismantling the ED.
Her whole "farm" theme of speaking, as an Iowan, is cringe and sounds like she's trying too hard to sound "Iowa Tough" or some shit.
She's hasn't done shit in her decade in D.C. and now she's pontificating about spending? Nah, she angling for a spot on what will be a huge govt expansion.
Ernst thinks she is funny but let's not forget this is not her first time on Capitol Hill. Yes, there is always waste but she has done nothing to get rid of waste since 2015.
As a former Iowan (I thought it was Southern Minnesota - it's not) I expect the Iowa farmers to be first in line when the tariffs cut into exports and Senator Earnest will be squealing for more subsidies. Sooey!!!
"We never eat the pork out of the trough. We're all vegans. We believe in firing honest, hard-working low level government workers, while we stuff our pockets with donor money. To buy veggies, I want to make that clear, just veggies."
The hypocrisy is real, very real. Let’s start with cuts to the Farm Bill, currently at the CBO, after a long tortuous journey through both chamber’s agriculture committees.
If #Ramaswampy & Elonia make all congress members who have a 2nd or 3rd income take $0 congressional salary except for expenses, or make them punch a time clock, this could be a good start
Musk is the biggest piggy there. His corrupt conflicts of interest are huge. He take billions in govt contracts, and his companies are regulated by the agencies he will be cutting.
When I turn off the sound and just watch her, it's so obvious that she considers the voters to be dumb cows she can talk backwards out of a clover field.
Remember 2020, the PPP loans that were supposed to go to small businesses to keep them alive through the pandemic but small businesses didn’t get it but rich, connected guys like Mitch McConnell got it for wife’s Chinese business?
They didn’t pay it back.
Pork?
Joni wants everyone to know that she took a pair of shears to her pigs and cut off their balls (hence make 'em squeal), and she'll do the same thing to federal bureaucracy ... Just another day in MAGASTAN
Uhhh, tell us you’re from Iowa without telling us you’re from Iowa. WAIT! I’m from Iowa, but I sure didn’t vote for this weirdo! 🙅🏼♀️ Been using this same metaphor since her first campaign. Ew!
Ernst of full of Sh!t and she knows it. Federal taxes don’t pay for a god damn thing, and she knows that, too. If she doesn’t then she’s an ignorant fool. She’s also a hypocrite who’s big ol’ mouth is sucking the teet of that porker for her Iowa constituents.
The problem with DOGE is that they plan on cutting everything that the lower and middle class benefit from all to pay for their tax cuts for the top 1%…. A transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top
someone said “let them eat cake”…. This is accurate
If she focused on the pentagon budget and their missing funds and lack of passing audits, she might find massive waste. But that’s not how they lean into their cruel overlord agenda
But if she allows cuts to farm subsidies, they'll yank her home.
I don't think she should, but what gets cut has more to do with who whose ox is gored and she knows that very well.
Oh good grief. If she gets any more homespun my eyes will get stuck in the rolled back position. Both of my parents were born in Iowa, and they did not base their identity on biscuits, pigs, or corn.
When we see the cuts we’ll know what’s common sense
In the meantime , two billionaires and a cpl of looney tunes have been out in charge of Americas money without proper oversight
Well then let's start with all the Iowa farmers who received subsidies from Trump's first term in office when he screwed them over with his tariffs. Some of those farmers are still on the dole. Even Sen. Grassley got subsidies.
From 1995 to 2023, Iowa received approximately $24.6 billion in agriculture subsidies These subsidies support various agricultural programs and help farmers manage the costs and risks associated with farming.
Republicans have been trying to destroy government since Reagan.
Now that they've succeeded in electing a toddler with matches, they brag about their subversion of the institution they've promised to serve and the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.
POLITICO "Here’s your check’: Trump’s massive payouts to farmers will be hard to pull back"
"The massive payments have been a political boon to Trump in farm country — he tweeted in January that he hoped the money would be “the thing they will most remember”
So for the past 10 years Ernst hasn’t been doing a darn thing for Iowans. She was supposed to provide oversight and manage expenses but now she says she is going to start doing her job???
Ernst lied about Impeachment One as well as the 2020 election. She lies for reasons of political expediency. She is undeserving of respect. In short, I can’t stand her.
Soooo,this MAA GAA sheep herder summoned indelible visual images of Ned Beaty in Deliverance to represent themselves, Fascist PIGS “sticking to the man” DOG-E style? Lol works me!
Joni, You ignorant bitch!!
The pork you're bitching about folks eating is coming from your iA farmers!
Ernst, lock step with the party of liars & cheats and their orange god 🤬
#PhoniJoni is so full of 💩. She hasn’t done anything for the people of Iowa. Her main job has been to hold up Moscow Mitch whenever he is making a speech at the podium when he goes blank! She is a Trump Boot Licker and now kisses Elonia’s ass to play along! #FuckTrumpMuskErnst #FuckGOPLiars 🖕🏻
They're all so unserious. You can tell because they have zero concrete idea how to make people's lives better. They only know how to lob grenades and destroy.
So if DOGE will be doing her job (what she was elected to do) by cutting jobs/divisions that are not necessary, she can forgo taxpayer salary and benefits because she is admitting she is one of the "pigs at the trough".
Surprised to hear it but she’s right - I’m sure her Iowa constituents demand corn subsidies be eliminated. As a CA taxpayer I’d appreciate my money back for corn syrup I avoid consuming.
Uhhh so… uhh… I guess you’re going to find this out one way or another. But yeah they do. And it was common farming practice to add pork offal to pig ‘swill’ for many a year. Or these days because it does cause issues (similar to BSE etc). But yep they do and humans used to actively encourage it. 🥺
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Got them gullible MAGA thinking teachers have litter boxes for the kids who dress up like furries. They swear it's happening in Iowa. It's in my FB memories. 😂
You don't know what you are signing up for.
DoD has a budget of $820.3B
If Joni wants to trim some fat, she should visit the Pentagon before dismantling the ED.
She's hasn't done shit in her decade in D.C. and now she's pontificating about spending? Nah, she angling for a spot on what will be a huge govt expansion.
Look at who 'the kettle is calling the pot black'.
It's none other than Joni Ernst herself!
https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/editorials/2014/11/02/ernst-aligned-greedy/18361909/
They didn’t pay it back.
Pork?
someone said “let them eat cake”…. This is accurate
I don't think she should, but what gets cut has more to do with who whose ox is gored and she knows that very well.
In the meantime , two billionaires and a cpl of looney tunes have been out in charge of Americas money without proper oversight
Get a therapist!
https://farm.ewg.org/top_recips.php?fips=19000&progcode=totalfarm
Now that they've succeeded in electing a toddler with matches, they brag about their subversion of the institution they've promised to serve and the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.
Fascist lies sow the seeds of its own demise.
Can you act a little less like a country bumpkin please!
POLITICO "Here’s your check’: Trump’s massive payouts to farmers will be hard to pull back"
"The massive payments have been a political boon to Trump in farm country — he tweeted in January that he hoped the money would be “the thing they will most remember”
👆
The pork you're bitching about folks eating is coming from your iA farmers!
Ernst, lock step with the party of liars & cheats and their orange god 🤬
It's all theater 🙄
It's NOT a "department."
Still, I highly doubt that was her intent and she was just mixing metaphors.