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We don’t hold student leaders to the same standards as local, state, and national politicians. But the Iowa GOP got involved in backing an impeached student president. And what they’re willing to excuse tells us everything.

There’s no such thing as plastic “recycling”—Karin Stein, the Iowa field organizer for Moms Clean Air Force and Eco Madres, explains.

On the Iowa House floor on Thursday, Rep. Josh Turek, D-Council Bluffs, called Republicans’ proposal a double standard for public and private schools.

Every year, Iowa Republicans announce a school funding increase. Every year, it doesn’t keep up with inflation. After a decade, schools are $270 million behind where they need to be. So Republicans aren’t changing the funding. They’re trying to change the story.

Iowa farmers describe the growing crisis facing family farms as tariffs drive up input costs and gut export markets. “There’s no plan,” said Crawford County’s Dave Muhlbaeur, “and all the while we see farmers suffering by no fault of our own.”

President Donald Trump has enacted sweeping tariffs on imported goods, igniting trade disputes and disrupting global markets. Some Iowa farmers are worried about how one president’s policy will impact rural Iowa’s future.

Iowa Republicans are trying to strip the next governor’s powers before the election even happens. They’ve done it before.