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.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra is touting his conservative record as part of a statewide ad campaign as he explores a run for Iowa governor.
Iowa House Democratic leader Jennifer Konfrst, of Windsor Heights, announced Thursday she is running for Congress in Iowa's 3rd District, seeking to take on Republican U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn, of Bondurant.
Democratic Iowa Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister from West Des Moines, is looking to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District in 2026. Political forecasters have the district as one of the most competitive in the country.
Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson said she is “humbled by the outpouring of support and encouragement from people all across Iowa” encouraging her to run for the statewide office, but she is committed to her work in Washington.
Asked about why Congress is not reining in President Donald Trump, the Marion representative said, “I think we would probably have a fundamental disagreement in this room about that, because when I look at what Congress is doing, we are working on executing exactly what we campaigned on doing and what the President campaigned on doing.”
House Republicans -- including all four members of Iowa’s delegation -- narrowly approved their budget framework Thursday, a political turnaround after Speaker Mike Johnson worked into the night to satisfy GOP holdouts who had refused to advance trillions of dollars in tax breaks without deeper spending cuts.
The Republican-controlled Senate has approved a budget framework that includes multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts. Passage of the plan paves the way for Republicans in coming months to push a tax cut bill through both chambers of Congress.
Hinson announced the town hall Tuesday on her official Facebook page, and said she will provide an update on her work in Congress and answer questions.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, said she fully intends to continue hosting public town halls across northeast Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. She said her office is working on scheduling them, and will announce them in her newsletter.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson of Marion praised passage of a House GOP-led bill that would bar transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports at schools and institutions receiving federal funds as a victory for protecting the “integrity of girls’ sports.”
The 37-page report by the bipartisan panel includes explicit details of sex-filled parties and vacations that Gaetz, now 42, took part in from 2017 to 2020 while representing Florida's western panhandle.
The comprehensive package supports several key farm and safety net programs, like crop insurance, as well as agriculture research, rural development, conservation projects and food assistance for low-income families. But gridlock over funding for SNAP benefits and incentives for capturing greenhouse gases, among other issues, stood in the way of crafting a new farm bill.
Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst issued a more positive assessment on Monday after a second meeting with Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick to lead the U.S. Department of Defense.
Also, Iowa Department of Education invests $3.5 million to provide first grade students with literacy instruction books to take home
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