Taxes, Immigration and Abortion Access

JOHNSTON, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) – If Iowans in the state’s 2nd Congressional District were undecided about their vote in November, they got some help with their decision after the two major party candidates spoke at theirs Monday night Election expressed numerous differences in an hour-long live debate on Iowa PBS.

The district includes 22 counties in northeast Iowa, including Cedar Rapids, Grinnell, Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Dubuque.

Here is a map of Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District.

Ashley Hinson, a former Republican television anchor from Marion, is seeking her third term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sarah Corkery, a Democratic nonprofit manager from Cedar Falls, is running for political office for the first time.

Immigration:

Hinson said she supports mass deportations of undocumented immigrants (a policy proposed by presidential candidate Donald Trump); U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were scheduled to conduct the raids; and immigrants force schools and health centers to be overwhelmed with people who don’t speak English.

Corkery said she supported the bipartisan immigration deal that Congress refused to pass after Trump pressured Republicans to oppose it; She said mass deportations would shrink the workforce on farms, farms and meat processing plants. and they will cause the cost of products like milk to rise significantly.

Access to abortion:

Hinson supported a bill in Congress called the Life at Conception Act, which bans all abortions. However, she maintained during the debate that she would not sign a federal law that did not provide exceptions such as rape, incest and protection of the mother’s life and fetal anomalies.

Corkery said she does not support restrictions on abortion.

Steer:

Corkery wants Congress to let the tax cuts passed during Trump’s term expire. She also called on Congress to eliminate the cap on Social Security taxes. For income over $169,000 per year, earners pay no taxes to Social Security.

Hinson wants Congress to renew the tax cuts and has not called for raising the income cap on Social Security taxes. Instead, she called for a bipartisan commission to examine ways to make Social Security solvent in the future.

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