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Ashley Hinson’s Taxpayer-Funded “Luxury” DC Apartment Topping $50,000+ Exposes More Self-Dealing in Another Setback for Her Senate Campaign

Ashley Hinson’s Taxpayer-Funded “Luxury” DC Apartment Topping $50,000+ Exposes More Self-Dealing in Another Setback for Her Senate Campaign

In This Week’s Edition of the Ashley Accountability Alert, Hinson’s Self-Dealing Is on Full Display As New Headlines Reveal the Extent of Iowa’s Healthcare Crisis Under Her Watch

DES MOINES – Ashley Hinson’s week got off to a terrible start after a new report from the Daily Mail revealed she’s been cosplaying as a “working-class mom” while “living in a luxury DC apartment” using $50,000 in taxpayer dollars and taking lavish international trips paid for by special interest groups.

And that wasn’t the only news that dragged her campaign down this week…

  • Longtime Iowa Republicans who are now being forced to travel farther for care or are at-risk of losing their Medicaid coverage are telling Hinson that “something needs to change” and are ready to “vote Democrat now.”
  • To round out the week, CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs became the latest health clinic in Iowa to announce it will be ending labor and delivery services because of provider shortages. Since Ashley Hinson’s vote for the biggest cuts to Medicaid in history a year ago, health clinics across Iowa have been closing or ending services, leaving many with no nearby clinic to see a doctor.

See What Iowans Were Seeing and Reading This Week: 

  • An Iowa representative gunning for the Senate paints herself as a working-class mom who understands the struggle at the gas pump, all while sitting on an estimated net worth of up to $8million, living in a luxury DC apartment, and having taken several international trips while in office. 
  • ‘I know prices are too high,’ Hinson said in an interview with Fox News this week. ‘I’m also a working mom, I have two teenage boys who are out of school for the summer, so I understand what it’s like to have your whole fridge go empty after only two days of filling it again. 
  • All the while, Hinson has a net worth between $1million and $8million, she reported on her 2024 financial disclosure form, which was filed in August 2025, and viewed by the Daily Mail. 
  • Hinson has claimed more than a total of $50,000 of her office’s funds for personal lodging since 2023, House forms, viewed by the Daily Mail, showed. 
  • While in the House, Hinson also took at least five international trips – many with her husband Matthew Arenholz as her plus one – that were paid for by special interest groups. 
  • The five trips, which took place between 2022 and 2025, cost in total $110,622, according to House Disclosure records. The dates traveled and interest groups were verified by the Daily Mail through House Disclosures records.
  • Shannon Gooden has voted Republican her entire life, including for Donald Trump three times. But the looming closure of the rural Iowa health clinic where she works has her questioning that loyalty ahead of November’s midterm elections.
  • Her unease over medical costs and access represents an opportunity for Democrats.
  • “I was raised a Republican, and I’ve always voted Republican, but it’s gotten to the point now, more what are you going to do for us?” said Gooden, 56, who is a receptionist at the River Hills Community Health Center in Centerville, a two-hour drive south of Des Moines. “Something needs to change.”
  • For Bev Leffler, a 72-year-old longtime Republican, the explanation matters less than the outcome. She sees the closure and the Medicaid cuts as part of a broader erosion of healthcare access for vulnerable Americans and worries about her great-grandson, who relies on Medicaid to manage diabetes.
  • “They are targeting the people that need it most, the very poor,” Leffler said. “I would vote Democrat now.”
  • One of the issues holding up the farm bill is Hinson’s Save Our Bacon Act, a measure included in the House version of the farm bill that would override certain state and local animal-cruelty laws. The measure did not make it into the Senate’s version of the farm bill, and it has proved divisive within the industry. Hinson faces $2.6 million in attack ads from the American Meat Producers Association over the Save Our Bacon Act, according to the nonpartisan ad-tracking firm AdImpact.
  • CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs will soon end its labor and delivery services.
  • Bailey Nielsen, CHI Health communications manager, confirmed to The Nonpareil Wednesday that local services would be transferred to CHI Health birth centers in Omaha effective Aug. 31.
  • In June, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen released a report that said Medicaid spending cuts put 446 hospitals at risk of closing or reducing services.
  • The report named three hospitals in Iowa as at risk of closing, including CHI Health Mercy in Council Bluffs […]
  • “Over the last 20 years in Iowa, there has been a major decline in the number of hospitals that provide labor and delivery services, most often in rural areas,” Cass Health in Atlantic said in a 2023 statement.
  • Rural patients, especially those with higher risk pregnancies who were already commuting to a larger regional center such as CHI Health Mercy, will likely need to add more time to their commute in Omaha — though many may be traveling to there for maternity care now as well.
  • Iowa Republican Representative and U.S. Senate Candidate Ashley Hinson has repeatedly said in interviews that she feels the financial pain of Americans in this economy because her family struggles to keep food in the fridge, despite the fact that she is a documented millionaire based on recent financial disclosures.
  • Hinson was recently caught lying about selling all her shares in individual company stock when she took office while she advocates for legislation that would ban stock trading for members of Congress. Disclosures revealed that despite her pledge to sell her stock, Hinson’s husband retained between $1 and $5 million in individual stock in his former company.

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