Liam halawith

2 weeks ago | dailyiowan.com | Liam halawith

Iowans using food assistance will no longer be able to buy soda or candy using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dollars after President Donald Trump's administration granted Iowa's request for a waiver on Thursday. The waiver is one of two Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has applied for under the Trump administration as she aims to implement restrictions on public assistance programs. Reynolds submitted a waiver asking to place work requirements on Medicaid enrollees on April 15.

2 weeks ago | dailyiowan.com | Liam halawith

Iowa's Republican congressional delegation voted Thursday to advance a massive tax and spending cut bill championed by President Donald Trump. The bill would equate to a $3.7 trillion increase in the national debt, including a $660 billion deficit for next year, and roughly $1.6 trillion in spending cuts. Trump's "big beautiful bill" passed the U.S. House of Representatives 215-214, with all of the chambers Democrats and two Republicans voting against the measure.

3 weeks ago | dailyiowan.com | Liam halawith

Iowa lawmakers passed a $9.425 billion budget to fund the state for the next fiscal year that starts on July 1. The budget uses $2 billion in reserve funds to fund the budget as state revenues are expected to decline due to previous years income tax cuts. The $9.425 billion budget is a $478.1 million - or 5.34 percent - increase over the current fiscal year's budget of $8.947 billion.

3 weeks ago | dailyiowan.com | Liam halawith

Iowa House Republicans promised a broad and wide-eyed review of Iowa's higher education system at the beginning of the legislative session in January, however, some of their biggest reforms failed to survive the legislative session. Iowa lawmakers endeavored to review and reform Iowa's higher education system, and the Iowa House made a committee explicitly for that purpose. The House Higher Education Committee, chaired by Rep.

3 weeks ago | mvlsun.com | Liam halawith

Megan Dial-Lapcewich, of Oxford, Iowa, knew her 3-year-old son Eddie was falling behind developmentally with his speech. She said she could only understand about 50 percent of what he said, when at that point in his development, she should be able to understand 75 percent. She said Eddie’s developmental delay in speech caused some frustrations at home as he tried to communicate with the family but couldn’t get his point across.