Iowa’s four congressional representatives voted for a continuing resolution to fund the federal government, as Republicans look to cut nearly $2 trillion from the federal budget to enact sweeping $4.5 billion tax cuts.
Iowa’s Republican U.S. Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson, Zach Nunn, and Randy Feenstra all voted for the continuing resolution to fund the federal government until the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30.
The vote comes as Republicans on Capitol Hill are looking to extend and expand President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, which result in a $4.5 trillion cut from federal revenues. To fund the tax cuts, Republicans are looking to slash nearly $2 trillion in spending, including a possible $880 billion cut from Medicaid spending over a decade, leaving a $2.5 trillion deficit.
The continuing resolution would keep spending from last year mostly the same but would increase the military’s budget by $6 billion. The bill would slightly cut spending overall, about $13 billion, and would not include any funding for projects in lawmakers’ districts.
The bill passed with a slight majority, 217-212, with mostly Republicans voting for the bill and mostly Democrats voting against the bill. All four of Iowa’s congressional representatives voted for the measure.
The measure now moves to the Senate, where it will need bipartisan support to pass, requiring eight Democrats to join all Republicans in voting for the bill.
The measure passed with only one Democratic vote in the House, keying it up for a showdown in the Senate. If the bill does not make it to Trump’s desk by midnight on Friday, the federal government would shut down.
In a statement Tuesday afternoon, Miller-Meeks said she supported the resolution to keep the government open and continue negotiations over next year’s budget.
“By passing this [continuing resolution], we protect our military with the largest pay raise in four decades, increase the veteran’s toxic exposure fund by $6 billion, uphold critical services, and move forward the America First Agenda of cutting taxes and out-of-control spending,” Miller-Meeks said in a statement Tuesday.
Hinson said she voted to continue Trump’s agenda as he looks to slash $2 trillion in spending from the federal government and downsize the federal workforce.
“I’ve never liked [continuing resolutions], I don’t like them now, but the work that we have going on right now is too important to put on hold,” Hinson said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday. “So, when I look at what we did today, it’s the common-sense solution to help keep the government operating as we also work to cut wasteful spending and continue to put America first.”
Iowa Democrats Chair Rita Hart said Iowa’s congressional delegation showed they are “more beholden to Donald Trump and Elon Musk than they are to the rest of us.”
“We need a bipartisan solution to keep our government open,” Hart said. “Instead of finding a good solution that helps Iowans, Iowa’s Republican delegation just voted to put money into the hands of ultra-wealthy billionaires like Elon Musk by cutting programs that support police officers, veterans who were exposed to toxic chemicals while they were serving our country, fund researchers at Iowa’s public universities who are studying diseases like cancer and Alzheimers, and to slow broadband expansion in rural Iowa.”