Des Moines Register: GOP Gov Candidate-Backed Tariffs and Health Care Price Spike Leads to “Extreme Financial Distress” for Iowa Farmers

Des Moines Register: GOP Gov Candidate-Backed Tariffs and Health Care Price Spike Leads to “Extreme Financial Distress” for Iowa Farmers

New reporting from the Des Moines Register details how Iowa farmers are facing “extreme financial distress” thanks to Donald Trump’s tariffs and cuts to health care that the Republicans running for governor support.

Costly and chaotic tariffs have forced farmers to file for bankruptcy and brace for falling profits while they are already feeling the pain from skyrocketing health care premiums and cuts to Medicaid under D.C. Republicans’ disastrous budget law.

One Iowa farmer said “you can’t just have a conversation about high fertilizer prices or where you project soybean prices will be because of trade uncertainty. You also have to look at your health-care insurance premiums that may be doubling in the coming year.”

Despite the cost to Iowans, Republicans running for governor have embraced Trump’s tariffs and health care cuts. Randy Feenstra is a vocal supporter of Trump’s tariffs who voted to back Trump’s trade policy and kick thousands of Iowans off their health care while spiking premium costs for 117,890 people. Zach Lahn also backed the tariffs that are raising prices on working families and has a disastrous record of opposing Medicaid expansion.

“Iowans are already feeling the pain from cost-raising tariffs and health care cuts, but Randy Feenstra, Zach Lahn, and the rest of the Republicans running for governor would rather cheer on a disastrous economic agenda from D.C. than stand up for Iowa,” said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton. “At a time when Iowans need a governor who will be an independent voice, this is just more proof that all of the Republicans running for governor will always put their own extreme partisan politics first.”

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