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Costs and the economy

In short

Miller-Meeks's official economy page blames rising costs on the last administration's spending and energy policy, and lists her work to lift limits on energy production and gas exports. Bohannan's campaign backs ending the tariffs, keeping big investors from buying Iowa homes and land, and capping insulin at $35 for everyone. Bridgford's campaign blames spending by both parties for inflation and backs steady trade policy and a legal deficit target of 3 percent of GDP.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks

Her campaign site carries no issues page. Her official economy page blames inflation and household costs on the previous administration's spending and energy policy, and lists her work to end restrictions on energy production, protect hydraulic fracturing and lift limits on liquefied natural gas exports. The page's examples run to 2024 and it names no measure from this Congress.

Christina Bohannan

Her campaign says lowering costs is her first priority: exercising Congress's power to end the tariffs, barring hedge funds and private investors from buying Iowa homes and land, building and rehabilitating housing, letting Medicare negotiate more drug prices and capping insulin at $35 for everyone, cracking down on utility monopolies and on corporate price gouging on groceries and farm inputs.

Michael Bridgford

His campaign says reckless spending under both parties fuelled inflation and that inconsistent tariffs leave families and farmers unable to plan; he would seek stable long-term trade policy, a legal target holding the deficit to 3 percent of GDP or less, and strict pay-as-you-go rules requiring new spending to be offset.

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  1. Issues: Economyhttps://millermeeks.house.gov/issues/economy

    Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    First-person account of her work on energy production and manufacturing, including the Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act. Its examples run to 2024 and it names no measure from the 119th Congress.

    official office record

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  2. Miller-Meeks for Congress, home and biographyhttps://drmillermeeks.com/

    Miller-Meeks for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    The campaign site answered a plain request directly. It carries a biography and the phrase Proven Conservative but no issues or platform page: its navigation is About, Media, Triple-M Tour, News, Events, Voting Information and Donate, and its newest news item is dated December 6, 2024. Cited on this desk for her own biography and for the absence of a campaign platform.

    candidate statement

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  3. Prioritieshttps://bohannanforcongress.com/priorities/

    Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Eight sections: lowering costs, restoring faith in government, health care, education, family farms and natural resources, seniors and Social Security, freedom, and a family friendly economy. Read directly from the live site; no archive was needed. The government section carries the sentence "I take no corporate PAC money.", which is the statement side of the money card on her.

    candidate statement

    For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position

  4. Issueshttps://bridgfordforiowa.com/Issues

    Bridgford for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Eleven issue panels. The site is a client-rendered application: it answers a plain request with HTTP 200 but serves the same shell for every route and has no content API, so the panels were read twice, once rendered in a browser with each panel expanded and once extracted verbatim from the site's own JavaScript bundle. This is not a block and no archive was used.

    candidate statement

    For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position

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