“It’s outrageous Miller-Meeks doesn’t care that it is nearly impossible for seniors in IA like myself to get a vaccine, let alone vaccines for the many essential workers and school children who won’t even make the list for months. Miller-Meeks needs to support COVID relief right now when we need it most.”

“We’ve seen first hand that billionaires and corporations don’t care about real Iowans. At the Whirlpool plant in Amana, management made it as hard for us to take leave and dragged their feet on notifying staff about COVID infections, even as an outbreak was moving through the plant. Now Governor Reynolds is lifting the statewide mask mandate while the pandemic is still out of control. Someone has to do the right thing for Iowans who are suffering. Mariannette Miller-Meeks should get behind relief for us now.”

“For the last year, workers in Eastern Iowa have been fighting an uphill battle to protect their families against the pandemic and the economic crisis. Even for those who have avoided serious health effects, COVID-19 still ravaged the lives of our community members. Our center has been overwhelmed by requests for assistance from parents unexpectedly thrown out of work, desperate to keep the lights, water, and heat on and provide food for their children. We’ve seen low-wage workers who lack health insurance infected and hospitalized because they had to keep working even when it wasn’t safe.

“Our work has made a difference, but our communities simply cannot respond to a disaster of this scale without more leadership at a federal level. It is time for the federal government to step up and provide meaningful support for all workers, our communities, and our local economies. With coordination from federal, state, and local governments and nonprofits like ours, our families will pull through this crisis and be prepared to rebuild an even stronger Iowa.”

“Iowans are facing rampant unemployment, lost income, and a growing stack of unpaid bills. This is no time for Mariannette Miller-Meeks to be playing politics with people’s livelihoods. Iowa’s families need recurring survival checks, bolstered unemployment insurance, and universally administered free COVID vaccines. Rep. Miller-Meeks needs to do right by the community that elected her and back the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package. Iowans are looking to her to help secure our path to recovery—Rep. Miller-Meeks would do well to rise to the occasion.”