WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -- Sen. Joni Ernst issued the following press release:
During today's Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing, Chair Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) detailed how taxpayer-funded programs designed to help small businesses have become magnets for fraud by highlighting concerning examples of fraud in COVID relief programs and the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program that provides funding for "socially and economically disadvantaged businesses."
She then detailed a slew of bills she is leading that hold fraudsters accountable, conduct a thorough review of government programs susceptible to fraud, and put commonsense guardrails in place to safeguard tax dollars.
Ernst's full remarks:
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