President Donald Trump in Iowa on Thursday promised to keep the state a central part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration, celebrated Congressional approval of his sweeping tax and spending legislation, and snuck in a few of his greatest campaign-style rally hits.
Iowa’s U.S. House members — all Republicans — voted Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill, sending it to him to sign before the Fourth of July holiday weekend and just a few hours before Trump was set to speak in Des Moines at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
Also in The Gazette’s Capitol Notebook, Canadian National Railway announces $38 million investment in Iowa
Two months after launching his bid to try to unseat Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, former U.S. Attorney Kevin Techau of Cedar Rapids announced Monday he is suspending his congressional campaign, citing poor fundraising.
Iowa U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson said legislative efforts are being considered to sever Iran's financial pathways to nuclear weapons development and financial support of terrorism across the region. A sanctions package may be developed to support President Donald Trump’s pressure strategies against Iran, Hinson told reporters Wednesday.
Also in the Capitol Notebook, Iowa nonprofits have sent a letter to Sens. Ernst and Grassley warning of harmful provisions in Trump’s tax bill
Federal legislation signed into law in 2022 expanded VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances during their service. But while the PACT Act includes glioblastoma as a presumptive condition related to burn pit exposure, it’s not included for Agent Orange exposure.
Politics reporters across the state talk through this week in Iowa Politics, including recent town halls and the big, beautiful bill.
Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who was in Davenport for a campaign fundraiser Thursday, said of Medicaid recipients who would lose coverage because they don’t meet proposed work requirements and don’t qualify for an exception, “that's their choice to lose coverage.”
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson was met with a mix of boos and applause from the approximately 100 people in the audience at her town hall meeting in Elkader Wednesday morning.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, will hold back-to-back in-person town halls Wednesday in Elkader and Decorah.
Doctors, nurses, food bank directors and other social safety net providers across Iowa warn major cuts to public health insurance and food assistance programs could lead to crowded emergency rooms, more rural hospital closures, drained family budgets, overworked providers and reduce care for veterans, seniors and children.
Over 5,600 callers tuned into an hourlong tele-town hall held Monday evening, Hinson said.
Two Eastern Iowa lawmakers are doubling down on their support of a massive package of tax breaks and spending cuts despite pushback from Democrats — as well as some of their Republican peers.
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ tele-town hall Tuesday evening came nearly a week after she committed to hosting an in-person town hall in her southeast Iowa district. She has not held an in-person town hall meeting this year, and protests across Iowa’s 1st Congressional District have called on her to do so.
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