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Social Security and retirement

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Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks

Her position is on the taxation of Social Security benefits, and it is in her official newsroom rather than on her issue pages. She sponsored H.R. 7550 of the 119th Congress, the Permanent Tax Relief for Seniors Act, introduced February 12, 2026 with three cosponsors and referred to Ways and Means, which would remove the 2028 expiry from the $6,000 seniors deduction that the Working Families Tax Cuts created; her release that day quotes her saying "My bill ensures those savings don’t expire, because seniors have earned the right to keep more of what they worked their whole lives for." Her February 9, 2026 release carries the same subject, and a February 6 event item from Pella carries the deduction without naming Social Security. On the solvency of the trust funds this desk finds no position: the words solvency and trust fund appear on none of her seven issue pages, in none of those three releases, and in no headline or summary on her official press-release index from December 4, 2024 to September 3, 2026.

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Christina Bohannan

Her campaign says seniors have earned and depend on Social Security and Medicare and that she would shore up the trust funds to fully fund them for future generations, oppose cuts and privatisation, let Iowans buy into Medicare at any age, widen Medicare drug negotiation, and add dental, vision, hearing and family-caregiver home health coverage.

Christina Bohannan for Congress

Michael Bridgford

His campaign says the 2026 Trustees Report puts depletion of the retirement fund at 2032 with an automatic cut of up to 24 percent; he would lift the payroll tax cap above $184,500, vote against changes for current retirees and anyone within ten years of retirement, slow benefit growth for the wealthiest 5 percent of future retirees, and put a legal lockbox around the trust funds.

Bridgford for Iowa

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    Christina Bohannan: Matches stated record claim

    Her campaign says she worked on a bipartisan bill at the Statehouse to prevent abuse against Iowa's seniors and helped pass it. Senate File 522 of the 89th General Assembly relates to older individuals and dependent adults and creates criminal offenses and civil actions with penalties. The Legislature's bill history names her as one of the three members of its first House subcommittee on March 10, 2021, Hite, Bohannan and Kaufmann, and records that subcommittee recommending passage 3 to 0 on March 25, 2021. The bill then stopped: the history marks the end of the 2021 actions with no committee report and no House floor vote. On February 28, 2022 the House named a second subcommittee on the same bill, Hite, Anderson and Kaufmann, which did not include her; it recommended passage 3 to 0 on March 3, 2022, the committee reported the bill on March 15 and the House passed it, as amended, 96 to 0 on March 23, 2022. The Senate had passed it 47 to 0 on March 9, 2021, and the history carries an effective date of July 1, 2022. She is not a sponsor or floor manager of it: the Legislature's sponsor-or-floor-manager list for her carries 33 other measures. Limit: She says she worked on the bill and helped pass it, and the official history shows both: a named seat on the subcommittee that first recommended it, and a bill that passed and took effect. Her seat did not carry it to the floor. The bill advanced no further in 2021, and the subcommittee that moved it in 2022, to the committee report and the floor, did not include her. She did not sponsor or floor-manage it, and the House vote was 96 to 0, so no single member's support decided it. This desk read the bill history and not the House Journal page for March 23, 2022, so her individual floor vote is not separately confirmed here.

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