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Zach Nunn on May 14th: *votes YES on the extreme Republican plan to slash SNAP by nearly $300 billion, even though 31,000 households in IA-03 – 47% of which have children – rely on the program*
In case you missed it…
Des Moines Register: Iowa Republicans vote for reconciliation bill that includes Medicaid, SNAP spending cuts
- Iowa Republicans helped advance out of key committees controversial legislation targeting Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as Congress works to enact President Donald Trump’s major budget priorities.
- And U.S. Reps. Zach Nunn and Randy Feenstra sit on the Agriculture Committee, which was instructed to find $230 billion in cuts, including overhauling SNAP, a program that helps 42 million Americans pay for food.
- The House Agriculture Committee voted along party lines to cut as much as $300 billion from programs it oversees — more than $230 billion it was tasked with finding.
- Nunn told reporters at a May 12 event in Des Moines that he had been working on the legislation and was pleased about where it was ending up. He previously introduced a resolution calling on congressional leaders to prevent benefits cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
- Nunn is another a top target for Democrats as they seek to retake the U.S. house in 2026.
- “While Zach Nunn pretends to care about Iowa’s families and farmers, the only people he’s really fighting for are the ultra-wealthy,” Smith, the DCCC spokesperson said in a statement. “This bill will rip food off the tables of his district’s most vulnerable children and take money directly out of farmers’ pockets so he can give a tax cut to billionaires – Nunn’s vote is a direct betrayal of the very people he vowed to protect and Iowa’s 3rd won’t forget it.”
Heartland Signal: Three Heartland GOP congressmen blatantly go back on promise to protect food stamp benefits
- Last week, Reps. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Zach Nunn (R-IA) and Don Bacon (R-NE) introduced House Resolution 382, a procedural move to oppose legislation that cuts Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP).
- Eight days after the resolution was introduced, all three representatives voted in favor of a plan to slash as much as $300 billion from SNAP.
- HR 382 was a procedural move that isn’t eligible for a vote on the House floor until at least 30 legislative days after it was introduced, making it essentially useless since House Republicans are planning to vote on President Donald Trump’s tax cut bill before that.
- Van Orden, Nunn and Bacon are all members of the House Agriculture Committee, and they voted with their fellow Republicans on a plan to include as much as $300 billion in cuts from SNAP programs to the tax bill. The plan passed in the Agriculture Committee 29-25 on party lines on Wednesday.
- […] A report from the progressive think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows that the Agriculture Committee’s plan shifts at least 5% of food benefit funding to states. The report argues that this requirement alone would put significant strain on state budgets, and the ripple effects will likely see many low-income families lose access to food assistance benefits.
- Van Orden, Nunn and Bacon are all projected to face an uphill battle in their 2026 reelection efforts, and their seats are seen as some of the most attainable for Democrats to flip in the midterms.
- Johnson and the GOP are looking to pass a mega bill to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that disproportionately benefited the ultra-wealthy in the United States. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the extension will add an estimated $4.6 trillion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years. The CBO also estimates that the proposed changes to Medicaid could see up to 13.7 million people lose their health insurance by 2034.
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