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 ...

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 ...

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 former sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth told senators in a sworn affidavit that he caused his second wife to fear for her personal safety and abused alcohol over the course of many years.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior military and Defense Department officials to draw up plans to cut 8 percent ...

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 ...

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, R-Iowa—widely seen as a key vote due to her advocacy against military sexual misconduct—told an Iowa radio show she will support Hegseth, saying he was “adequately able to answer ...