While University of Iowa officials declined to share details of how many grants and contracts have been terminated across campus, U.S. Health and Human Services and NSF disclosures indicate millions of UI research funding has been lost.
Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst was being criticized Friday after a comment she made earlier in the day during a town hall meeting in Parkersburg. While answering a question about proposed cuts to Medicaid, a member of the audience yelled “people will die.” Ernst responded, “Well, we all are going to die.”
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, in Cedar Rapids for a Republican Party of Iowa fundraiser Thursday, questioned President Donald Trump’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on other countries by edict, and applauded a federal court ruling blocking Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
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.
A government report released on Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some of the most contentious views on vaccines, the nation's food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs held by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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.
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.
Sage is the first Democratic challenger to formally launch a campaign to run for the seat now held by Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst in what is expected to be a competitive Democratic primary.
Also in the notebook, President Donald Trump endorsed Iowa GOP U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn for Congress
Nearly 90 Jewish faculty, staff, students, and alumni across Iowa’s higher education landscape have issued a collective statement condemning threats to and attacks on their college and university campuses “in the name of the Jewish community.”
The impacts of the Trump administration’s DOGE-driven cuts at federal institutions that support arts and humanities are trickling down to museums across Iowa. The grant cancellations could impact direct funding for specific programs alongside indirect funding for things like research on making museums more accessible or on traveling exhibits.
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will headline an in-person town hall May 13 in Cedar Rapids focused on Republican President Donald Trump's handling of veterans' issues.
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