National Politics

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.

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.

President Donald Trump, during a ceremony Wednesday, held up a chart while speaking, showing the United States would charge a 34 percent tax on imports from China, a 20 percent tax on imports from the European Union, 25 percent on South Korea, 24 percent on Japan and 32 percent on Taiwan.

The Senate confirmed Iowa native Matt Whitaker late Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to NATO, a crucial emissary to the Western alliance at a time of growing concern about the American commitment abroad.

Reina Marroquin arrived at the Cedar Rapids Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office Monday morning for an immigration check-in with her two children and more than 100 community supporters. About five minutes after entering the office, she emerged and was greeted by cheers from the people there to support her.

The man accused of causing the 2016 drunk driving crash that killed Council Bluffs resident Sarah Root was extradited to the United States on Friday.

Iowa's governor this week praised President Donald Trump's plan to dismantle the Department of Education, while some other state politicians and education leaders warned of dire potential impacts for schools and students.

Iowans’ anger over funding cuts and mass firings of federal employees led by billionaire Elon Musk as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash the federal government boiled over during a raucous town hall Friday hosted by Republican Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives.

The Minnesota governor is kicking off a series of town hall meetings in Republican-represented congressional districts across the Midwest, as Democrats cite the need for them after Congressional Republicans were instructed to halt their town halls.

President Donald Trump vowed to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before Congress that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out "lies,” and one legislator’s ejection.

More than a dozen recently fired USDA employees told Investigate Midwest the terminations have stalled irrigation projects, rural housing aid and efforts to combat invasive crop diseases. Remaining staff are overwhelmed, and farmers may not receive needed and timely help.