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Joni Ernst , chair of the Senate DOGE Committee, may lead one of the more hip caucuses in Congress – which has attracted young conservatives to policy debates – but no one has done that better than Charlie Kirk, she told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday.

Ernst’s daughter, a West Point graduate, first broke the news of Kirk’s death to her during a Senate committee hearing.

"I was actually sitting in a Small Business Committee meeting and my daughter texted me that Charlie had been shot," Ernst recalled. "I was trying to pay attention to the hearing while getting updates from her on what was happening."

Her daughter, who had seen videos circulating online, told her, "There’s no way that Charlie is alive." Ernst re

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