Washington, DC (RI) — US Senator Joni Ernst says she joins President Trump in calling on Russia’s president to stop the bloodbath in Ukraine. Trump and Putin are set to meet on Friday.
Ernst, as a college student, went on an agricultural exchange to Ukraine in 1989. Ernst has kept in touch with a woman in Ukraine she calls her “little sister.”
Ernst was at the Iowa State Fair on Sunday and spoke with reporters — about 24 hours after U.S. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins hinted some USDA jobs in Washington, D.C. could be moved to Iowa. Rollins has already said 26 hundred USDA positions currently based in Washington are shifting to “hubs” in five other states. Ernst says having one nearby in Kansas City is great, but she says Iowa needs to be one of the USDA hubs.
During President Trump’s first term, Ernst proposed moving 30 percent of USDA positions based in Washington to other locations. The current USDA reorganization calls for moving over half of the DC-based USDA jobs to either Indianapolis, North Carolina, Kansas City, Colorado, or Utah.
