Articles Tagged: Chuck Grassley

National bus tour rolls through Cedar Rapids to rally opposition to Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts package

Plans by Senate Republicans to scale back a Medicaid provider tax that states like Iowa use to fund their Medicaid program could deal a greater financial blow to rural hospitals, state and national hospital groups warn.

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley praised President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" Wednesday as 80-plus Iowa faith leaders warned of devastating impacts on vulnerable populations in Iowa from changes to federal social safety net programs.

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 Campaign Almanac, Rob Sand announces 100-stop town hall tour

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

Clean energy advocates say Iowa stands to lose jobs, manufacturing facilities, renewable energy project expansions and face more expensive utility bills if Congress passes the budget reconciliation bill as is.

Iowa’s senior senator said the U.S. Senate hopes to send the president a bill by July 4

Leif Olson, a deputy Iowa Attorney General who came to Iowa from the Texas Attorney General’s Office and previously served in the U.S. Department of Labor, has been nominated to be the next U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Iowa.

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.

Some of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress — including Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, of Davenport — are embracing the strategy of GOP leaders who say there is no benefit to hosting in-person town hall meetings and creating more viral moments like the pointed questions that have faced U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley this month.

The room of about 100 people in Worth County, near the Minnesota border, was largely critical of the Trump administration.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday he’s not worried by China’s unusually large purchase of soybeans from Brazil this month because President Donald Trump is working to protect U.S. farmers by reducing tariffs that will benefit them.

Hours after global stock markets tumbled, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) introduced a bill Thursday requiring Congress to approve any tariffs within 60 days of their proposal by the president.

Also on the podcast this week: A couple of interesting legislative forums in Western Iowa and an Iowa Sheriff’s Facebook post has caused quite the kerfuffle