Budget Reconciliation Bill- Effects

Health Care and Medicaid

The bill slashes $793 billion from Medicaid nationally—stripping healthcare from more than 17 million Americans over the next decade.

In Iowa alone, nearly 69,000 people are projected to lose coverage.

Cuts to Medicaid threaten the survival of rural hospitals, clinics, and long-term care centers across the state, including facilities in Manning, Newton, and other underserved communities.

Nutrition and Family Support

The legislation cuts nearly $300 billion from SNAP, WIC, and related programs—putting 40,000 Iowans at risk of losing food assistance.

State budgets will face tens of millions in new costs to fill gaps in food security and public health infrastructure.

Economic Impact

Iowa families could lose over $1,600 a year in benefits while the top earners see thousands in tax breaks.

Inflation, wage stagnation, and higher out-of-pocket costs will hit working people the hardest—especially those in rural and agricultural communities.

Public Safety and Disaster Relief

The bill strips funding from FEMA, LIHEAP (energy assistance), and climate resilience programs—despite Iowa’s vulnerability to floods, storms, and extreme weather.

Cuts to the VA system jeopardize care for Iowa’s veterans and their families.

Family Farms and Agriculture

USDA programs are being restructured to favor corporate agribusiness over family farms.

Conservation programs are weakened, enabling pollution, overuse, and land degradation while family farms struggle to stay afloat.

Why This Matters

These cuts threaten food security, healthcare, heating assistance, disaster preparedness, veteran services, and environmental protections—all to pay for mass detention.

The moral imbalance is clear: we're investing more in incarceration than caring for our loved ones, and worse, creating detention camps like "Alligator Alcatraz that normalize inhumane conditions.

What I Stand For

I believe Iowa deserves better. I will fight to:

Protect Medicaid and preserve access to healthcare in every zip code.

Defend SNAP, WIC, and food assistance programs so no Iowan goes hungry.

Support rural hospitals, clinics, and long-term care centers.

Reinstate funding for FEMA, LIHEAP, and emergency response infrastructure.

Prioritize family farms and environmentally sustainable agriculture.

Invest in Iowans, not corporate loopholes or detention expansion.