Miller-Meeks grandstands in constituent emails

Rep. Miller-Meeks does it again and sends another performative email. In this latest she touts her Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act as if government waste isn’t already being publicly reported. In fact, the very examples she cites — from the Postal Service’s vehicle delays to NASA’s budget overruns — come from publicly available reports. Transparency isn’t the issue; accountability is.

What Miller-Meeks fails to mention is that under the Trump administration, independent watchdogs who investigate government waste — the inspectors general — were fired or sidelined. If she truly cared about fiscal responsibility, she’d focus on restoring these oversight mechanisms rather than pushing a bill that pretends to solve a problem that’s already being addressed.

Meanwhile, real crises — like attacks on our democracy, book bans, and threats to voting and civil rights — go unmentioned in her messaging. Instead, we get another attempt to convince Iowans she’s doing something, while the real work of governance is ignored.

Iowans deserve leaders who fight for meaningful oversight and accountability, not political grandstanding.

Stephanie Westlake

Solon