MILLER-MEEKS BETRAYS IOWANS YET AGAIN, VOTES TO GUT MEDICAID AND RAISE COSTS

For immediate release: July 3, 2025

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MILLER-MEEKS BETRAYS IOWANS YET AGAIN, VOTES TO GUT MEDICAID AND RAISE COSTS

Miller-Meeks Guts Middle Class Health Care For A Billionaire Tax Giveaway

Iowa City, IA – Today Mariannette Miller-Meeks has yet again voted to sell out Iowa families to pay back her billionaire donors.

“This vote is unconscionable,” said Bohannan. “My opponent is well aware of the threat that she is posing to Iowa families, 100,000 of whom will have their health care ripped away as a result of this vote – solely to send a tax giveaway to billionaire political donors. It’s not that she doesn’t know; she just doesn’t care. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has had three terms in Congress–three chances to do right by the people of Iowa. She has failed us every time. If we want to change Washington, we’ve got to change the people we send there.”

Miller-Meeks cast the deciding vote for the out-of-touch plan that will gut Medicaid and make health care unaffordable for more than 100,000 Iowans, increase costs for millions more, raise taxes on working people, and reduce wages–all in order to pay for massive, special tax breaks for out-of-state billionaires like Elon Musk.

Miller-Meeks’s vote will:

Force millions of working families to take a pay cut of up to $1,600 per year
Increase the average Iowa utility bill by nearly $550 per year
Put nearly 350 rural hospitals at risk of closure, including MercyOne Newton Medical Center here in the district
Force more than half of nursing homes to cut beds, and force more than a quarter to close
Bankrupt Social Security and Medicare earlier, putting seniors’ earned benefits at risk
Increase the average mortgage by more than $1,000 per year, driving up housing costs
Add more than $3 trillion to the national debt that will increase interest rates, further raise costs for Iowans, and burden our children with paying the debt

Bohannan continued, “I would have happily joined with Republicans to pass a bill that extends middle class tax cuts and levels the playing field for small businesses – I’ve been saying this for years. What they chose to do instead is to take healthcare away from more than 100,000 Iowans and raise utility bills and housing costs to pay for a tax giveaway to their billionaire donors.”

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Iowa’s 1st Congressional District contains the cities of Davenport, Iowa City, Burlington, and Indianola. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faces a rematch against Christina Bohannan, who came within 0.2% of defeating the incumbent in 2024. Bohannan lost by just 799 votes out of 413,000 and outperformed the top of the ticket by over 8 points – more than any other Red-to-Blue candidate in the country. National forecasters, including the Cook Political Report, universally rate this district as a Toss-Up for 2026. With Rep. Miller-Meeks showing historic weakness at just 31% favorability and facing growing opposition even within her own party, Bohannan has the best opportunity to flip a Republican seat in the country.