Iowa Capital Dispatch: Some Iowa groups protest lawmakers’ vote on budget resolution

Days after Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn jeopardized health care coverage by voting with their extreme party bosses for House Republicans’ cruel budget blueprint, Iowans held a protest to hold the vulnerable Republicans accountable.

In IA-01 alone, this dangerous vote risks health care coverage for 66,000 people and food assistance for nearly 29,000 households.

In IA-03, Nunn’s vicious vote risks health care coverage for 74,000 people and food assistance for more than 31,000 households.

DCCC Spokesperson Ellie Dougherty:
“Iownas are fed up with Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn constantly siding with extreme party bosses who are taking a hatchet to critical programs like Medicaid. With each passing day, Miller-Meeks and Nunn’s extremist loyalties will prove perilous for them come next November.”

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Iowa Capital Dispatch: D.C. Dispatch: Some Iowa groups protest lawmakers’ vote on budget resolution
Robin Opsahl | February 28, 2025

KEY POINTS: 

• Iowa’s House delegation voted in favor of the House GOP budget resolution, despite criticisms from members of some Iowa groups who said the proposal will cut Medicaid and food assistance benefits for Iowans.

• But some Iowans with Fairness for Iowa, a group targeting Nunn’s voting record, criticized the GOP plan, anticipating cuts to funding for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

• Robyn Agu, an Altoona resident who works for REM Iowa in a “host home” program providing 24-hour care for adults with disabilities, said cuts to Medicaid could leave the people she works with without coverage for the care they need.

• “We are terrified of the consequences of losing Medicaid coverage,” Agu said in a statement. “Nunn promised to defend Medicaid when he was campaigning, and now he won’t side with the people he made those promises to. He needs to remember who he works for: all Iowans, including the most vulnerable, not unelected billionaires trying to play king.”

• Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks was also criticized for supporting the measure. She and Nunn, who represent more purple districts… both had protesters gather outside office locations in Iowa.

• The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the House Democrats’ campaign arm, said in a news release Miller-Meeks’ vote showed she prioritized  “her D.C. party bosses and billionaires over Iowans.”

• “Mariannette Miller–Meeks just sealed her political fate by inflicting this massive pain on Iowa families, and no amount of her desperate lies will save them from the political fallout of this vote,” DCCC Spokesperson Justin Chermol said in a statement.