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Only 6% of federal employees work from an office full-time, and a third are fully remote. And some aren’t actually working when they “work from home,” a Senate investigation found.“Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus and the report’s author, wrote.“Just three percent of the federal workforce teleworked daily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, six percent of workers report in-person on a full-time basis, while nearly one-third are entirely remote,” the report states. Government office buildings have an occupancy rate of only 12%, yet the government...

Thursday on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) declined to support former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary. The Iowa Republican said that the vetting process needed to continue. “I did have a very long, lengthy discussion with Pete yesterday,” she said. “I appreciate his service to the nation. I, too, am also a combat veteran. So we talked about a number of those issues and will continue with the vetting process. I think that is incredibly important. So again, all I’m saying is we had a very frank and productive discussion. And...

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has been leading an “aggressive” personal jihad against Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, multiple sources within Trump world with direct knowledge of her outreach to Trump told The Federalist on Wednesday.Ernst’s efforts included personal calls to Trump to urge him to dump Hegseth ahead of her meeting with the Army veteran on Wednesday afternoon. Ernst did not tell Hegseth during her meeting with him about her efforts to derail his nomination, sources told The Federalist.“She’s waging a campaign to replace Pete with herself,” a Trump source familiar with her phone calls with Trump...

Attorney General Ken Paxton sued BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world, for conspiring to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices. Over several years, the three asset managers acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly held coal producer in the United States, thereby gaining the power to control the policies of the coal companies. Using their combined influence over the coal market, the investment cartel collectively announced in 2021 their commitment to weaponize their shares to pressure the coal companies to accommodate “green energy” goals. To achieve...

The company behind the Des Moines Register, which published Ann Selzer’s poorly-aged Iowa poll, has launched an investigation after the poll's findings were allegedly leaked on X prior to publishing, according to a new report. Seltzer's pre-election poll, which set off a multi-day media firestorm, inaccurately showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa. The poll was published by the Des Moines Register on the evening of November 2. But an unknown social media user, who assumes the handle "IllinoisLib," posted the results on X roughly an hour before it went live, according to a report from Semafor. "Selzer is...

Famed Iowa pollster Ann Selzer spent decades building her credibility, but as the saying goes, she lost it all in a moment. For those who are lucky enough not to know — because not knowing means your life is not consumed by politics — Selzer has been hailed for years as a gold-standard pollster. Not only among Iowa pollsters, but among all pollsters. Her Des Moines Register poll is treated as something sacred. So… You can only imagine (and even if you watched in real time, it is still hard to imagine it happened) the reaction among Democrats and the...

Donald Trump has won the Iowa contest, NBC News projects, and secured the state’s six Electoral College votes. In 2020, Trump won Iowa with 53% of the vote to Biden’s 45%. In 2016, Trump won Iowa with 52% to Hillary Clinton’s 42%. Iowa was once a competitive state and favored Democrats in presidential elections since 1988, with the exception of George W. Bush in 2004. But the state swung solidly for Trump in 2016 and hasn’t been viewed as competitive since then.

A new poll from AtlasIntel claimed former president Donald Trump is leading vice president Kamala Harris in each of the seven swing states though the margin is narrow. Trump is favored to win in North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The new poll comes amid Ann Selzer poll sent shockwaves that Kamala Harris is ahead in Iowa which is a reliably conservative turf that Donald Trump won both in 2016 and 2020. The AtlasIntel survey said Donald Trump is holding the widest margin in Arizona -- with a 52.3 per cent to Harris 45.8 per cent. In...

A federal judge ruled Sunday that hundreds of ballots from potential noncitizens can have their validity challenged, while critics say that it will threaten the voting rights of recently naturalized citizens. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, on behalf of the League of Latin American Citizens of Iowa and four recently naturalized citizens who were on the state's list of questionable registrations to be challenged by local elections officials. U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, sided with the state, according to Fox News....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge ruled Sunday that Iowa can continue challenging the validity of hundreds of ballots from potential noncitizens even though critics said the effort threatens the voting rights of people who’ve recently become U.S. citizens. U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher, an appointee of President Joe Biden, sided with the state in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in the Iowa capital of Des Moines on behalf of the League of Latin American Citizens of Iowa and four recently naturalized citizens. The four were on the state’s list of questionable registrations to...

A final poll by the New York Times has Donald Trump behind Kamala Harris in four critical swing states: Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin. They are tied in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Trump is up by one point in Arizona. It's a razor-thin race with just two days to go to Election Day. A shock poll released Saturday night had Trump behind Harris three points in Iowa, a solidly red state. The vice president is also closing the gap with Trump in the betting markets, in a sign of momentum for her in the final days of the campaign....

Kamala Harris is seeing a last-minute surge in momentum over Donald Trump in the final days of one of the closest presidential elections in history. The vice president was given a surprise jolt on Saturday night with a poll showing she is ahead in the reliably Republican state of Iowa, while DailyMail.com's election forecast shows her gaining on the 78-year-old former president. The final Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll has Harris leading Trump 47 percent to 44 percent among likely voters, less than three days before Election Day. It was a shocking result in a state the Democrats haven't won...

The widely respected Des Moines Register/Selzer poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by THREE points. Harris: 47% Trump: 44% Independent women voters have led to a major boost for Harris. This is very unexpected.

Vice President Kamala Harris holds 47% to former President Donald Trump’s 44% among likely voters

Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris in Iowa by more than 10 percent, according to a recent poll. An Emerson College poll conducted between November 1-2, 2024, which surveyed 800 likely voters in Iowa, found that 53 percent of respondents expressed support for Trump, while 43 percent of respondents expressed support for Harris.

Iowa’s elections chief revealed on Tuesday that his office has identified 87 individuals who self-reported they are noncitizens after already casting ballots in elections.“It is absolutely critical that eligible citizens are able to vote and we are not disenfranchising any eligible voters,” Secretary of State Paul Pate said in a statement. According to an office press release, the 87 foreign nationals were discovered as part of a regular audit of the state’s voter rolls. The analysis also uncovered 67 self-reported noncitizens who registered to vote, but did not cast ballots in elections. The names of these individuals are being turned...

My wife was working near our Trump yard sign. It didn't take long for a bicyclist to to yell, "Trump sucks!" At least he didn't call her a racist, fascist, or a Nazi as he whizzed by. The same can't be said of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, or any number of members of Congress and the media who disparage Donald Trump with these insults. At a recent hearing, Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett called Trump a "would-be Fuhrer." Some neighbors who support Trump are afraid of putting up yard signs for fear Trump haters will allow their dogs to...

For the first time, the Democratic National Committee will invest in an advertising campaign dedicated entirely to LGBTQ publications in large metropolitan areas and several key battleground states. The DNC will roll out the ad campaign, worth at least $100,000, on Friday morning in 16 publications across eight states, and it is estimated to reach more than 1 million voters in the first week. Those publications include the Washington Blade and Metro Weekly in the Washington, D.C., area; Out South Florida; Qnotes in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Las Vegas Spectrum; Georgia Voice; GoGuide Voter’s Guide in Iowa; Dallas Voice; Philadelphia...

The state of Iowa is suing a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws. The lawsuit alleges that over the past seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions has failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations across Iowa. The lawsuit, filed in Iowa District Court for Jasper County, seeks payment of civil penalties and a court injunction to prevent any additional violations of the state’s solid-waste laws. Global Fiberglass Solutions and its CEO, Donald Lilly, are named as defendants in...

CV NEWS FEED // Iowa’s Supreme Court has declined to rehear a case challenging a law banning most abortions after six weeks in the state, setting the pro-life law to go into effect on July 29, according to the Iowa-based news publication the Gazette. Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa, and the Emma Goldman Clinic requested the rehearing, which was ultimately denied on July 22, the Gazette reported. The pro-abortion organizations said in a statement that the Supreme Court’s decision to not rehear the case “will push abortion care almost entirely out of...