State Senator Sarah Trone Garriott

Visitors from Waukee Community School District Waukee Innovation and Learning Center Grant Ragan Elementary School

Every year I sign letters to graduates in my district. So many graduations today—congratulations all around!

5th graders from Shuler Elementary came to visit the Capitol today! Waukee Community School District

I’m back! I heard the students from Maple Grove Elementary were coming to visit and it’s my favorite thing to welcome our young folks to the Senate chamber! Waukee Community School District

The Four Eyed Caucus. It’s almost midnight and these eyes are tired. It’s unclear when we’ll get out of here.

It’s noon…after caucusing (meeting) and waiting the majority party has gone back to caucus. Hours in the chamber: 3
Bills debated on this Saturday session: 0

Pictured below: the student share of public university/college tuition.

Iowa students pay one of the highest percentages in the nation—at 63.3%—because our state investment is so low.

This year there is no funding increase for Iowa’s Regent Universities in the Republican Majority budget. That means there will be even more pressure on students and families with even higher tuition costs.

The Majority in the Senate has enshrined in Iowa law one of the particularly cruel federal policies from this administration—taking away food assistance from people who have LEGAL status in our county.

So in the future, if a different administration. or congress decides to reverse this policy, Iowa will continue to refuse federal food assistance to refugees, humanitarian parolees like the brave people who assisted our military in Afghanistan and sought refuge in our country, and victims of human trafficking.

The one good change in this amended bill—The majority is no longer trying to put privatized Medicaid into Iowa law in advance of a new governor.