Iowa's Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Tuesday she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Department of Defense, ending weeks of speculation about whether she would stand in ...

Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa stayed quiet after President Donald Trump announced that Pete Hegseth would be his nominee to head the Department of Defense. She didn’t jump on the ...

Iowa's Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Tuesday she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Department of Defense, ending weeks of speculation about whether she would stand in ...

THE MINI: Thank you Sen. Joni Ernst for voting to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. After fully vetting Pete for this position, you found him highly qualified. He will return the ...

Joni Ernst is lucky she has already completed her military career because she would certainly be rejected now for cowardly conduct. I think with her vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the ...

Abuse takes many forms, especially physical threats, which Hegseth carefully refrained from denying. Nonetheless, Joni Ernst, who says she suffered spousal abuse, has supported him even as he ...

Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, said that because Samantha Hegseth had denied the allegations, the affidavit “carries no weight.” Karoun Demirjian covers Congress with a focus on ...

The Hegseth braintrust’s strategy meant going after their own party, and they decided to make an example of one in particular: Sen. Joni Ernst. The thinking went like this: If a survivor of rape ...

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth late Friday, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon.