(Radio Iowa) – Republican Senator Joni Ernst says President Biden has proposed a federal budget that would spend too little on the military and too much on the Internal Revenue Service. “Who does the president think he will be able to call on should we need to fight off foreign threats? His new army of IRS agents?” Ernst asks. “…Americans may fear an IRS audit, but ‘Red China’ won’t.”

Biden has proposed increasing the number of I-R-S agents by 15 percent in each of the next 10 years in order to beef up efforts to catch Americans who aren’t paying what they owe in taxes. Ernst, the first female combat veteran elected to the U-S Senate, says Biden’s proposed budget is far less generous to the military.

“The small number of new ships added to the Navy will not keep pace with the growth of communist China’s ship building,” Ernst says. “This is especially concerning since the CCP now boasts the world’s largest Navy and is attempting to expand its Naval presence in the Atlantic.”

Reports indicate China is trying to establish a port on the west coast of Africa that would be home base for Chinese submarines and air craft carriers. Ernst made her comments this (Wednesday) afternoon during a speech on the Senate floor.