Adam Zabner

According to a news release, the proposal would have included measures to lower everyday costs and create jobs.

Representative Adam Zabner, a Democrat from Iowa City, said, "Across the state, we're hearing from Iowans about rising costs and economic uncertainty.

Gas and diesel are through the roof, and Iowans want action.

It is a failure for the Republican trifecta to leave Des Moines yet again without doing anything to lower costs for the Iowans who are paying more for groceries, gas, housing, and healthcare." The Mega program, which is administered by the Iowa Economic Development Authority, provides tax incentives for advanced manufacturing, bioscience or research, and development projects with a capital investment of more than one billion dollars.

I'm with you on this.

I thought now Representative Zabner tried to do something in the house i looked at it now full disclosure i went over to senate so i wasn't in the house when that went down but it was sort of a it was kind of more of an affordability resolution that he was behind i thought that they would maybe like push the gas tax suspension or something something very tangible even if it all got thrown out for not being germane I thought they would probably lean into their moment, maybe not as much during the committee and subcommittee work, which would be.

To me, I would think you'd want as much kind of publicity and attention as you could, and maybe you don't want to drag out the debate or whatever, but I thought we'd see more in both both full debates from their caucus using this as a moment to hammer Republicans on how many people are suffering.

And even if you don't really I mean, this project is hard to come after, right? It's a ton of money, so you can come after it like that, but it would be a lot of jobs, potentially a lot of union jobs maybe in that part of the state.