Mariannette Miller-Meeks will never shy away from an opportunity to take credit where none is due.
Recent reporting from Iowa Starting Line highlights how Miller-Meeks has intentionally misled voters by taking credit for federal funding she voted against.
After voting against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Miller-Meeks has “publicly touted” the nearly $470 million in investments the legislation brought to Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, and even attended a ribbon cutting where she called the funds “‘critically important’ to Iowa’s economy.”
Nearly three years after she voted against President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa’s 1st Congressional District continues to take credit for the bill and the money it’s delivering to her district.
Although the vast majority of Republicans claim that the bill’s price tag was the reason they voted against it, it is widely believed that many of them simply didn’t want President Joe Biden to get a win.
But now, it’s Miller-Meeks’ own district that is winning, as it’s been promised nearly $470 million in investments from the infrastructure law, despite her vote against it.
POLITICO this week even highlighted how her district is actually receiving the most help of all from Biden’s investments among swing districts held by Republicans seen as “toss-up” races.
Miller-Meeks publicly touted that money over and over again, attending a ribbon cutting for a key highway interchange, for example, and stressing the importance of the modernization of locks and dams on the Mississippi River in her district. She called them “critically important” to Iowa’s economy and thanked the Army Corps of Engineers for their work.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson Mallory Payne criticized Miller-Meeks hypocrisy in a statement.
“Mariannette Miller-Meeks is doing what she does best – trying to mislead Iowans,” she said. “Her record has only hurt middle class families, so her solution is to take credit for game-changing, job-creating investments that she voted against.”
