Iowa Down Ballot with Dave Price 4/25/26
The Iowa Legislature is officially in overtime, and we break down where things stand. A broad budget agreement is in place at roughly a 1.43% spending increase, but property taxes remain the real sticking point — the House and Senate are far apart on a hard 2% revenue cap for local governments, and a dispute over multi-residential property taxes that critics warn would drive up rents.
We also dig into the quiet death of joint House-Senate budget subcommittee meetings, a decades-old practice abandoned after COVID that’s made the process slower and less transparent. And Republicans are pushing…
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