(Radio Iowa) – Republican Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks is visiting two companies in the first congressional district today (Monday) to tout the “Big Beautiful Bill” President Trump signed last month.

Miller-Meeks says the bill will boost U-S manfacturing and reduce reliance on foreign competitors. Miller-Meeks was at the Iowa State Fair last week and she describes it as a walking town hall.

As Miller-Meeks spoke with reporters, a man stood nearby criticizing changes in Medicaid that were in the legislation. Miller-Meeks faces potential rematches in both the 2026 Republican Primary and next year’s General Election.

A Davenport pastor who lost to Miller-Meeks in the 2024 G-O-P Primary by 12 points, says he’ll run again in 2026. Democrat Christina Bohannan, a University of Iowa law professor who finished about 800 votes behind Miller-Meeks last November, is also running again. Taylor Wettach, a lawyer from Muscatine, is another Democrat in the race for the first congressional seat. Democrat Bob Krause of Burlington says he’ll run, too. Krause, who served in the state legislature in the 1970s and worked in the Carter Administration, ran for Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat in 2010 and 2022.