Zach Nunn (IA-03) Research Report

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• May 2025: Nunn reversed course and voted against cracking down on China buying US farmland.
• 2025-2026: Nunn skipped nearly half of his China Select Committee hearings while writing an AI fiction book on the subject.
  • Nunn wrote an AI thriller fiction book on China…
  • …While skipping nearly half of his China Select Committee hearings on how to take on the country, including its AI threat and economic espionage of Americans.

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• In Congress, Nunn doubled his net worth to $1.4 million and increased it each year he had been in Congress.
• Nunn voted eight times to support Trump’s tariffs and said they were “winning” despite causing costs to skyrocket.
  • Nunn voted eight times to support Trump’s tariffs and said they were “winning.”
  • Trump’s tariffs caused Iowans’ costs to skyrocket and were projected to cost them over $2,500 in 2026.
  • Trump’s tariffs were causing financial pain for Iowa farmers who lost access to China’s soybean market.
• 2025: Nunn voted to increase Iowans’ energy bills by $350 a year while voting for deep cuts to a program to help Iowans afford their energy bills.
  • July 2025: Nunn voted for the Big Beautiful Bill, which was projected to increase Iowans’ energy bills by $350 a year.
  • September 2025: Nunn voted for a bill which included “deep cuts” to programs that helped reduce Iowans’ energy bills.
• 2026: Nunn praised and voted four times to continue the Iran War which caused gas and fertilizer prices to skyrocket.
  • 2026: Nunn praised the Iran War as “highly successful” and voted four times to continue it despite the war causing Iowans’ gas and fertilizer prices to skyrocket.
• 2023-2025: Nunn repeatedly voted to increase housing costs.
  • April 2023: Nunn voted for a debt limit package that would have raised housing costs for 1.4 million Americans, including 5,100 Iowans.
  • September 2023: Nunn voted for a spending bill which would have put 850,000 households at risk of losing their access to vouchers and cut housing support for rural America.
  • July 2025: Nunn voted to increase Iowans’ mortgage costs by $450 a year and by $13,500 over a 30-year span.

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• Nunn’s campaign accepted over $40,000 from big pharma and health insurance companies.
• Nunn voted for the largest Medicaid cut in history, threatening to cost thousands of Iowans their access to care and shuttering hospitals across the 3rd Congressional District.
  • July 2025: Nunn voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which made the largest Medicaid cut in history and threatened to cost over 26,000 thousands Iowans in the third district’s access to care.
  • After Nunn said it was a “myth” that Medicaid cuts he voted for would hurt local hospitals, multiple facilities across Iowa’s Third Congressional District closed and cut services.
• Nunn opposed the Inflation Reduction Act which allowed Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug costs and capped insulin costs at $35 a month for Medicare recipients.
  • 2022: Nunn said he opposed the Inflation Reduction Act.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act allowed Medicare to lower the cost of prescription drugs and capped insulin at $35 a month for Medicare recipients.
• Nunn wanted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, threatening to kick nearly 137,000 Iowans’ off their health care.
  • January 2026: Nunn wanted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and compared the bill to slavery.
  • Nearly 137,000 Iowans, including those with pre-existing conditions, would lose their access to care if the ACA was repealed.

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• Despite saying he was holding credit card companies “accountable,” Nunn accepted over $260,000 from the credit card industry…
  • January 2026: Nunn praised a proposed ten percent cap on credit card interest rates and said it was time to hold credit card companies and big banks “accountable.”
  • Nunn’s campaign has taken over $260,000 from the credit card industry, including big banks.
• …While voting twice to jack up credit card fees.
  • April 2025: Nunn voted to let credit card companies jack up late fees by as much as six times on consumers.
  • April 2024: In the Financial Services Committee, Nunn voted for a resolution that would prevent a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule capping credit “credit card penalty fees” at $8 from going into effect.

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• Despite repeatedly claiming to be bipartisan, Nunn increased the percentage of time he voted with his party from 80 to 95 percent while receiving over $1.6 million from House Republican leadership.
  • Nunn repeatedly claimed to be bipartisan, Nunn increased the percentage of time that he voted with his party from 80 to over 95 percent of the time during his career in Congress.
  • Nunn’s campaign accepted over $1.6 million from House Republican leadership.

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• 2024: Elon Musk’s PAC spent $817,700 in Iowa’s Third Congressional District race to re-elect Zach Nunn.
  • 2024: Elon Musk formed America PAC and donated $119 million of his own money to it.
  • 2024: Elon Musk’s PAC spent $817,700 in Iowa’s 3rd District on mostly digital ads and canvassing to reelect Zach Nunn, the most money spent on any Republican in Iowa.
• Nunn said he supported DOGE after it cut millions in funding for his district along with hundreds of jobs across Iowa, including in his congressional district.
  • June 2025: Nunn said he gave DOGE “a lot of credit” for getting their recommended cuts into law and said he wanted to “see all” of DOGE’s executive orders “be able to come to Congress and get through.”
  • Nunn’s comments came after Iowa’s Third Congressional District experienced 45 DOGE cuts to grants and leases in the district, the most in the state of Iowa.
  • DOGE cuts caused IA-03 to lose out on millions in funding and cost dozens of Nunn’s constituents their jobs at AmeriCorps, Lutheran Services, and other programs, including the potential shutdown of a Job Corps center in Ottumwa, Iowa.
  • DOGE cut more than $1 billion in funding for two local food bank programs, putting over 300 Iowa family farms at risk of “large financial losses” by cutting off markets to sell their products.