(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.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports 32-year-old Michael Dean Wilson, of Council Bluffs, was arrested Tuesday on Montgomery County Warrants for Parole Violation (No Bond) and Controlled Substance Violation (bond $50,000.00). Wilson was arrested in Shenandoah. During his arrest, Wilson was also charged with Possession of a controlled Substance (bond $2,000.00). He was being held in the Page County Jail.

Michael Dean Wilson

(*Clarification) – A central Iowa man who stole an Iowa State Patrol cruiser in April, has failed to return to Zion Recovery Services facility, in Clarinda. According to reports, 31-year old Brandon Eugene Doerring, of Des Moines left the facility on Sunday. *ZION is not a locked down facility and cannot hold anyone. Persons are basically they are free to leave anytime, even under a court order. Laurie Cooley, Director of ZION Integrated Behavioral Health Services, based in Atlantic, said in an e-mail Zion does however, “…follow protocol and inform law enforcement immediately they [in this case, Doerring] have walked out of the facility.”

He had been arrested April 20th on charges that included: of possession of drug paraphernalia, first-degree theft; reckless driving; eluding; assault with intent of injury-to peace officer and others; driving while license denied, suspended, cancelled or revoked; first-offense OWI; speeding; possession of a controlled substance, and second-degree theft/motor vehicle valued at under $10,000/over $1,000.

Brandon Doering

On June 3rd, Doerring was transported from the Dallas County Jail to the Zion Recovery facility for “inpatient treatment.” A warrant for his arrest was ordered Tuesday in the Dallas County District Court.

The incident that initially led to his arrest in April, began on Interstate 80 near Earlham, after an Iowa State Patrol Trooper responded to an accident on the interstate. The vehicle that Doerring was driving, a Monte Carlo stolen out of Dexter, was hung up in the cable barriers. The Trooper saw Doerring walking along the roadway. He found drug paraphernalia on Doerring and took him into custody, but the handcuffed man was somehow able to steal the trooper’s vehicle and lead law enforcement on a high-speed pursuit across southern Dallas County and northern Madison County.

He eventually abandoned the cruiser and was taken into custody at gunpoint.