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.
Litigants trade allegations of forum shopping in state and federal court
The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democrats opposed.
President Donald Trump is set to speak in Des Moines later tonight at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Here’s how to attend or watch, and what to expect.
The move by the Trump administration will withhold $8 million in 21st Century grants from Iowa. The grants fund after-school and summer school programs that serve more than 10,000 Iowa kids. No immediate changes are being made to current grant contracts, but if the funding is not reinstated by next fiscal year, it would be ‘devastating.’
Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird will not run for governor in 2026. Bird said on social meida she plans to run a "fierce re-election campaign" for attorney general and still has “more work to do.”
State and local leaders gathered Tuesday to celebrate the grand reopening of a wind turbine factory in West Branch, just hours after U.S. Senate Republicans passed Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” that would roll back federal green energy tax credits that spurred the company to restart production that had been idled since 2013.
Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session.
President Donald Trump, Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and a former state lawmaker refiled a lawsuit in state court against Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register on Monday.
National bus tour rolls through Cedar Rapids to rally opposition to Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts package
This week on the podcast, Donald Trump returns to Iowa, Rob Sand is going on tour, and a Western Iowa Republican primary field grows. Listen for a recap in this week in Iowa politics.
Nearly 100 protesters registered their opposition to the “one big beautiful” reconciliation bill with representatives in U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s Cedar Rapids office on Wednesday.
Trump previously pitched a ‘Great American State Fair’ celebrating all 50 U.S. states to be hosted at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in 2026.
Iran announced the attack on state television as martial music played. A caption on screen called it “a mighty and successful response" to "America’s aggression.”
The National Weather Service, which is responsible for tracking storms and warning the public about them, has lost hundreds of employees to federal cuts and voluntary resignations. Five former NWS heads released a letter last month outlining their concerns regarding the cuts.
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