Election 2026

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Issue record

Costs and the economy

In short

Nunn's campaign says government spending drove inflation and that he passed legislation to rein in bureaucracy. Trone Garriott's campaign backs a crackdown on price gouging, ending tariffs she says raise prices, and bigger tax credits for families and workers. On the record, two Nunn bills on small business paperwork passed the House; neither became law. Trone Garriott cosponsored Iowa paid family leave bills in 2023, 2025 and 2026; none reached a committee vote.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Zach Nunn

His campaign says out-of-control government spending drove inflation that hit every Iowa family's budget, that he passed legislation to rein in government bureaucracy, and that the tax-and-spend policies behind record cost levels must stop.

Sarah Trone Garriott

Her campaign says she would crack down on corporate price gouging, end a tariff policy she says raises prices on ordinary families, expand the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and eliminate junk fees and surprise medical bills. On the economy she says she would invest in apprenticeships, vocational schools, community colleges and job training, build rural broadband, and pursue companies that commit wage theft.

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. official action

    Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction

    She cosponsored Iowa paid family and medical leave bills in 2023, 2025 and 2026, and none of them reached a committee vote.

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    Her campaign says she would make life more affordable for Iowa families. She is one of sixteen Senate sponsors of Senate File 2239 (2026), one of fifteen of Senate File 109 (2025) and one of sixteen of the same bill in the 90th General Assembly (Senate File 95, 2023), each creating a paid, job-protected family and medical leave insurance program. Each was introduced, referred to the Workforce Committee and assigned a subcommittee, with no further action. Limit: Sponsorship in the minority caucus is an official action in the direction the platform calls for; none of these bills reached a committee vote, and each carries fourteen or fifteen other sponsors. The check reads the sponsor lines and histories the Legislature publishes; floor amendments, committee votes she cast and advocacy outside the bill list would not appear.

  2. official action

    Zach Nunn: Matches stated record claim

    Two of his bills on federal paperwork for small businesses passed the House, in 2023 and 2025, and neither became law.

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    His campaign says he passed legislation to rein in government bureaucracy. Two of his bills on federal reporting burdens passed the House: the Protect Small Business and Prevent Illicit Financial Activity Act (H.R. 5119) on December 12, 2023, and the Protect Small Businesses from Excessive Paperwork Act (H.R. 736) on February 10, 2025. Both were received in the Senate; neither became law. Six more of his measures passed the House on other subjects, two of them resolutions. Limit: House passage is not enactment: neither bill became law, and the card tests only the narrow claim that he passed legislation to rein in paperwork, not the plank's wider sentence about spending, inflation and the economy, which names no measure to check.

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Sources11 source records

How we use sources

  1. Issueshttps://zachnunn.com/issues/

    Zach Nunn for Congress · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    Campaign-controlled platform text, fetched live 2026-09-10 (HTTP 200).

    candidate statement

    For: Zach Nunn: campaign position; Zach Nunn: Matches stated record claim

  2. Where I Stand: Making life more affordable, for all of ushttps://sarahforiowa.com/issue/making-life-more-affordable-for-all-of-us/

    Sarah for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    The campaign's own issue page, read from the Internet Archive snapshot of September 4, 2026, because the live site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers. Snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20260904190055/https://sarahforiowa.com/issue/making-life-more-affordable-for-all-of-us/.

    candidate statement

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: campaign position

  3. Where I Stand: Growing our economy by investing in people, not special interestshttps://sarahforiowa.com/issue/growing-our-economy-by-investing-in-people-not-special-interests/

    Sarah for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    The campaign's own issue page, read from the Internet Archive snapshot of September 4, 2026, because the live site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers. Snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20260904190055/https://sarahforiowa.com/issue/growing-our-economy-by-investing-in-people-not-special-interests/.

    candidate statement

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: campaign position

  4. Issueshttps://sarahforiowa.com/issues/

    Sarah for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 11, 2026

    The campaign's own issues page. Its wording was read from the Internet Archive snapshot of 4 September 2026 because the live site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the owner then opened the live page in a browser on 11 September 2026 and captured it: all twelve issue headings, the introduction and the biography sentence are identical to the snapshot. The twelve individual issue pages this page links to have not been confirmed live.

    candidate statement

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction

  5. Senate File 2239 (2026), family and medical leave insurance programhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?ga=91&billName=SF2239

    Iowa Legislature · Published Feb 9, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    One of sixteen Senate sponsors; introduced and referred to Workforce, subcommittee assigned, no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction

  6. Senate File 109 (2025), family and medical leave insurance programhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?ga=91&billName=SF109

    Iowa Legislature · Published Jan 22, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    One of fifteen Senate sponsors; introduced and referred to Workforce, subcommittee assigned, no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction

  7. Senate File 95 (2023), family and medical leave insurance programhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?ga=90&billName=SF95

    Iowa Legislature · Published Jan 18, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    One of sixteen Senate sponsors in the 90th General Assembly; referred to Workforce, no action after the 2023 session.

    official legislative record

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction

  8. H.R. 5119 (118th Congress), Protect Small Business and Prevent Illicit Financial Activity Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5119

    Congress.gov · Published Dec 12, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    Sponsored by Nunn; passed the House 2023-12-12, the first of his bills to do so; received in the Senate and not enacted.

    official legislative record

    For: Zach Nunn: Matches stated record claim

  9. H.R. 736 (119th Congress), Protect Small Businesses from Excessive Paperwork Act of 2025https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/736

    Congress.gov · Published Feb 10, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    Sponsored by Nunn; passed the House 2025-02-10, received in the Senate, not enacted.

    official legislative record

    For: Zach Nunn: Matches stated record claim

  10. Representative Zach Nunn, sponsored and cosponsored legislationhttps://www.congress.gov/member/zach-nunn/N000193

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    114 sponsored bills and resolutions plus 9 floor amendments, and 874 cosponsorships, across the 118th and 119th Congresses; pulled 2026-09-10.

    official legislative record

    For: Zach Nunn: Matches stated record claim

  11. Eight measures sponsored by Representative Nunn that passed the Househttps://www.congress.gov/member/zach-nunn/N000193?q=%7B%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%7D

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    H.R. 5119 (12 December 2023), H.R. 3722 (29 April 2024), H.R. 2969 (22 July 2024), H.R. 736 (10 February 2025), H.R. 3301 (23 June 2025), H.R. 2384 (21 July 2025), H.Con.Res. 96 (13 May 2026) and H.Res. 375, considered passed as amended on 22 January 2026; each carries the Passed or agreed to in House action code.

    official legislative record

    For: Zach Nunn: Matches stated record claim