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Hinson’s Haunted by Her Vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill in Another Bad Week

Hinson’s Haunted by Her Vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill in Another Bad Week

Welcome to the Ashley Accountability Alert, a Weekly Roundup of the Headlines, Stories, and Gaffes That Are Sinking Hinson’s Campaign

DES MOINES – Welcome to the first edition of the Ashley Accountability Alert, a weekly roundup of the headlines, stories, and gaffes that are dragging down Ashley Hinson’s flailing Senate campaign.

Ashley Hinson’s failing record in Congress was front and center this week as Iowans came together to call her out for voting to pass the so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ one year ago, which now threatens to kick over 110,000 Iowans off their health care.

And there’s more…

  • Then, it was confirmed that Hinson-backed, chaotic tariffs are killing 288 Iowa jobs at Whirlpool’s Amana plant. She has voted four times to keep the tariffs in place, despite Iowans calling them a “growing disaster” and Whirlpool workers saying they are feeling “betrayed” by Hinson’s empty promises and misguided support for tariffs.
  • To round out the week, local Iowa leaders and Iowans impacted by Medicaid cuts held a virtual press conference slamming Hinson for voting one year ago for massive cuts to Medicaid as part of the so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’

See What Iowans Were Seeing and Reading This Week: 

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  • Reporter: “Disability advocates and Medicaid recipients in Iowa say they’re already worried about the impacts [from the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’] on their care.”
  • Michele Steepleton, a Cedar Rapids resident who is a caretaker for a family member on Medicaid: “The $121 billion tax cut to the one percent was given off the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable among us.”
  • Reporter: “According to Disability Rights Iowa, the state could lose about $904 million dollars annually in federal Medicaid funding because of the [‘One Big Beautiful Bill’]. The organization says that reduction is contributing to concerns about Iowa’s Medicaid budget and the future of services for recipients.”
  • Zach Mecham, SD-19 candidate who relies on Medicaid for their care: “[The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’] just put a lot of fear – a lot of wondering. Will I still get to live on my own? Will I still have access to the personal care that I have now? Will I have to move into a home or [with] family”
  • While telling Iowans she didn’t go to Congress to get wealthy, Ashley Hinson spent years championing a tax provision that directly benefits her family’s multimillion-dollar private business holdings.
  • LLCs are what’s known as pass-through entities — businesses where profits flow directly to the owners and are taxed at the individual rate. And there is a provision in the federal tax code, Section 199A, that lets pass-through business owners shield 20 percent of their business income from federal taxes.
  • Hinson has fought to make that provision permanent since before she was even sworn in.
  • The nonpartisan Tax Law Center found that the vast majority of the provision’s benefits flow to the top one percent of income earners, saying it creates opportunities for tax gaming.
  • Planned Parenthood is closing its Iowa City clinic as the organization faces political and financial headwinds.
  • The reduction in services leaves just one brick-and-mortar clinic location in the state after others have closed their doors over the past year amid funding threats from the Trump Administration and GOP lawmakers, state laws restricting abortion access and an increase in uncompensated care due to Medicaid cuts.
  • […] the damage across the country and in Iowa is done: Four of the state’s six Planned Parenthood clinics closed from the combined effects of the Medicaid and Title X defundings.
  • Medicaid does not cover abortions as a rule, so the provision—passed by Congressional Republicans, including Iowa’s Rep. Randy Feenstra, Rep. Ashley Hinson, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Rep. Zach Nunn, and Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst—was going after low-income Americans seeking a host of other medical services, from cancer screenings to preventative care.
  • “These attacks are making it harder for Iowans to get access to just the basic healthcare services they need,” said Ruth Richardson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States. 
  • Whirlpool was among those expected to benefit from the tariffs, which have since been reshaped by legal challenges. […] Yet only one assembly line now runs at the plant, down from five that once turned out nearly a million units a year. Another 288 workers are set to lose their jobs in July.
  • […] But tariffs have not halted the job losses in Iowa or the decline in Whirlpool’s stock, now at its lowest since the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
  • Tariffs have raised Whirlpool’s costs for steel and imported components while demand tied to a weak housing market has softened.
  • Many of the remaining Whirlpool workers in Amana are despondent. […] Others are more outspoken. Aaron Southard said he is a Republican and voted for Trump in the last election. But he said he is looking to support Democrats in the midterms. “We thought we’d be getting our jobs back,” ⁠said the 44-year-old auto press operator. “I feel betrayed – they’re out there stomping and saying Make America Great and bring jobs back.”

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