WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Joni Ernst issued the following press release:
In honor of Sunshine Week, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is shining a light on how Washington spends tax dollars and introduced the Cost Openness and Spending Transparency (COST) Act (https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cost_act_2025.pdf) to require a public price tag on all taxpayer-funded projects.
From monkey mind reading to octopus hypnosis, Ernst exposed how tax dollars are being spent on ridiculous projects but are not being disclosed as required by law. This is even more concerning after Ernst shined a light on the Government Accountability Office's new discovery that $77.5 billion (https://nypost.c...