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← United States Politicians
Ernst, Joni
Senate · Iowa · Rank #201 of 621
Score
-$5.5T
Voting record
Budget votes.
At 929 dollars per patient, the military dollars this office backed could have funded pragmatic trials for about 5.9B patients.
Military $ Backed
$5.5T
Bills this office backed that expand military spending
Clinical Trials $
$5B
Bills this office backed that include clinical trial funding
Military : Medicine
1,181:1
Higher means more military than medicine
Score
-$5.5T
Clinical-trial funding voted for, minus military spending voted for.
Military spending voted for
$5.5T
Clinical-trial funding voted for
$5B
Counted as 3.3% of NIH funding, the share NIH spends on clinical trials
Military-to-trials ratio
1,181:1
Federal budget as a whole: 1,112:1
Spending Scale (vs All Politicians)
Military spending$5.5T
Clinical-trial funding$5B
Both bars use the same scale. Clinical-trial funding is 0.08% of the military spending
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Vote Record
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Voted NAY
Not Voting / Absent
NDAA FY2026 ($900.6B)NOT VOTING
How We Calculate
Military $
Military $ = Σ (bill amount for each YEA vote on NDAA, supplementals, or omnibus military portion)
NDAA and supplementals count at face value. Omnibus bills count only the military appropriation (~$858–886B/yr).
Clinical Trials $
Trials $ = NIH budget × 0.033
Only 3.3% of the NIH budget funds clinical trials ($1.56B of $47.3B). The other 96.7% is basic research, overhead, and administration. Source: JAMA.
Score
Score = Clinical Trials $ − Military $
Positive = net investment in medicine. Negative = net investment in military. Everyone is negative.
Ratio
Ratio = Military $ ÷ Clinical Trials $
Higher means more military spending per dollar of clinical-trial funding. ∞ means the politician voted for military spending but for no bill with clinical-trial funding.
The Maths
Ernst, Joni voted for $1,181 in military spending for every $1 of clinical-trial funding. The federal budget as a whole spends 1,112:1.
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