“Commitment to personally issue a "Squeal Award" every month that identifies a specific federal expense, program, or concept she deems wasteful and says must be cut.”
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All three cited sources were fetched and verified. (1) Ernst's official Senate "Make 'Em Squeal News" feed is reachable and contains the exact quote "November 2025 Squeal Award - Fast Food Stamps"; it also shows a consistent monthly cadence of dated Squeal Awards (Nov 2025, Dec 2025, Jan 2026, Feb 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026 — seven consecutive months), each naming a specific federal expense/program/concept she deems wasteful and says must be cut. (2) The official make-em-squeal page contains the exact quote "I will be giving out my Squeal Award each month, which recognizes a Washington expense, program or concept that has proven to be wasteful and must be cut," documenting the monthly commitment in her own words. (3) Iowa Starting Line (opposition-leaning secondary) is reachable and contains the exact quote "Ernst's press team sends monthly updates on the latest 'squeal award' recipient," independently corroborating the ongoing monthly practice. She did what she promised — personally identify a specific wasteful item each month and call for its cut — so FULL is supported. Not CHAMPIONED: this is her own recurring accountability practice, not sponsored/authored/led legislation, so the higher bar does not apply. Confidence held at 0.9 rather than higher because the directly verified official record covers a recent multi-month window with slightly uneven posting dates, so a literally unbroken every-single-month streak across the full decade is corroborated only by the secondary source, not exhaustively confirmed from the primary record.
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