Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said a far-left Democrat in Congress tried to sneak through an earmark of over $1 million for a suspicious “substance abuse clinic” housed at a Somali-owned restaurant.
In the Jan. 8 interview on “Varney and Company” that resurfaced via the Libs of TikTok X
account early Tuesday morning, Ernst highlighted the supposed clinic and said that fraud like the Somali day care scandal could extend to earmarks requested by “members of Congress.”
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“One of our spending bills making its way through Congress was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork,” Ernst told Varney. “Tons of red flags.”