![]() ![]() ![]() I want to do it through the miracle of the free market.”īlum is seeking a third term representing the 20-county district that includes Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Dubuque and Marshalltown. In a rare moment of agreement, Blum said he, too, wants to see wages rise - but then went on to say, 'You probably want to do that though government dependency. You will begin to receive our Daily On Iowa Politics updates. Not only is unemployment at a 50-year low, he said, but wages are rising - 5.1 percent in Iowa during the last quarter. 'I'm not sure what country you've been living in but our economy is absolutely booming, if you haven't noticed,” Blum said, ”and it's due in large part to those tax cuts.” She cited a poll that found people earning less than $90,000 a year were not seeing wage growth. Without identifying any particular congressional action, Finkenauer said it's necessary to raise wages 'so if you're working 40 hours a week you're not just making a living, but making a life.” He said the bottom 50 percent of wage earners pay 3 percent of federal income tax 'so it's hard to give (them) tax relief.” The average family of four in the 1st District will save $2,464 a year over the next 10 years as a result of the federal income tax cuts, Blum countered. This whole ‘be patient’ thing is not working.'Any type of tax relief package we need to be looking at should be leveling the playing field here, making sure that we're closing corporate loopholes,” she said. “A lot of folks right now in the Midwest are feeling as though this administration has used them as poker chips that they have bet on the table, thinking they’re going to get something better, and they have zero plan on what’s actually gonna happen, and seem to be OK with losing those chips,” Finkenauer tells Teen Vogue from her campaign office in the heart of Dubuque, right on Main Street. Three trackers rate the district - where Obama won a majority of its counties in 20 by double digits, before they pivoted to Trump in 2016 - as a “toss-up.” Blum the most vulnerable House incumbent in the country. In July, New York magazine said it “might be 2018’s most important swing district,” and in May, Roll Call named Rep. As the race continues to heat up, Democrats are excited about their prospects for the midterms in this Iowa district. She supports renewing DACA while also strengthening our borders - unlike Ocasio-Cortez, she does not support abolishing ICE.īoth the president and vice president visited Iowa’s 1st District in July, within one week of each other, showing support for Rep. She wants to invest in small towns and improve infrastructure to create more job opportunities in her district - an issue she has championed since she joined the Iowa State House as a legislator. “She’s going to make sure that are getting protection, and they’re going to have a voice once she gets in this government.” “Abby has walked the walk, not just talked the talk,” he tells Teen Vogue. (“The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” the president said in his inaugural speech.) But the difference, says Troy Price, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, is that Abby lives it. Finkenauer’s battle cry rings familiar with some aspects of Donald Trump’s populist message during the 2016 campaign. ![]()
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