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EXCLUSIVE: Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who chairs the Senate Small Business Committee, is urging 24 federal agencies to halt funding for a Biden-expanded program for “socially and economically disadvantaged” business owners now under fire for alleged fraud and corruption, Fox News Digital has learned.

“Despite concerns with the 8(a) program, Joe Biden opened the floodgates to fraud,”Ernst told Fox News Digital about the program. “I have found evidence of alarming, potentially fraudulent 8(a) awards made across government that need to be investigated. The program must be halted at every agency while a thorough review is conducted to ensure taxpayers are not being ripped off by con artists. Tax dollars designed to help small businesses must

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