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NEW: Just Two Weeks After “Bashing” ACA Tax Credits and Claiming They Raise Costs, Zach Nunn’s Trying to Change His Tune

New reporting finds that just weeks ago, Zach Nunn claimed that ACA tax credits have raised costs for Iowans.

Nunn said that the tax credits “[have] been driving up the health-care costs for everybody” and agreed with a TV host who said he had “no problem letting those [credits] expire.”
Nunn has spent this entire year attacking Iowans’ health care: voting to kick more than one hundred thousand Iowans off their health insurance, rip funding away from Iowa rural hospitals, and give tax cuts to billionaires while refusing to renew health care tax credits for working families. 

REMINDER: If Nunn were serious about this charade to extend tax credits he claims are raising costs, he’d sign on to the discharge petition to force a vote to *actually* extend the credits.

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Iowa Starting Line: Zach Nunn backs extending ACA tax credits two weeks after bashing them

  • US Rep. Zach Nunn’s position on expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits has been all over the place in recent weeks.
  • In Iowa alone, enrollment in the ACA has nearly tripled over the last five years. In 2020, 54,586 Iowans were enrolled in ACA plans and by 2025, almost 137,000 Iowans were enrolled in the ACA, according to KFF.
  • KFF estimates that more than 26,000 Iowans will lose their coverage if the enhanced tax credits expire.
  • In the past, Nunn has been noncommittal on supporting the ACA…
  • During a Nov. 12 interview on Newsmax in the thick of the federal government shutdown that began over Republicans’ refusal to extend these credits, Nunn agreed with “Wake Up America” host Marc Lotter, who wanted to let the credits expire.
  • “Congressman, these were COVID-era tax credits that gave people who made more than half a million dollars taxpayer handouts for health care. I have no problem letting those expire,” Lotter said.
  • “Mark, you nailed it,” Nunn said. “For most of this, this is a COVID-era subsidy that has been driving up the health-care costs for everybody, both those on the ACA and the rest of us, by double digits. It didn’t have to be like this.”
  • In a statement, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) attacked Nunn for his ever-evolving position on the ACA and related tax credits.
  • “After trying to destroy it for years, Zach Nunn is waking up to the reality that his opposition to the Affordable Care Act will cost him his job next year,” said DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith.
  • “No amount of phony rhetoric or lies will change that. The DCCC will not let so-called Republican moderates like Nunn trick voters after refusing to do a single thing to address the health care crisis they created.” 

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