Senator Joni Ernst has obtained a Congressional Budget Office report showing about 750,000 federal employees are likely furloughed today. The agency previously estimated the 2019 government shutdown — which lasted 35 days — cost the overall economy about three BILLION dollars in lost goods and services. Ernst sent the agency a letter in September, asking for […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






