Hinson Statement on End to Schumer Shutdown

Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-02) released the following statement on the passage of a bipartisan Continuing Resolution (CR), as well as a package of several Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) appropriations bills—including Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA), Legislative Branch, and Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration (Ag-FDA). Hinson secured key investments for Iowa in this package. 
 
“For over 40 days, Democrats held government funding hostage — creating uncertainty for military families, forcing air safety officials to work without pay, and depleting WIC and SNAP for vulnerable families as ‘leverage.’ Iowans are fed up with D.C. dysfunction, and I fully support this commonsense bill to open the government following Chuck Schumer’s senseless shutdown antics. Now, we need to advance bipartisan solutions to ensure working families have affordable and accessible health care and lower costs across the board. Good things happen when we work together, and I’ll continue reaching across the aisle to make life easier and more affordable for Iowans.” — Congresswoman Ashley Hinson 

This legislation included funding Rep. Hinson secured for several projects in Iowa’s Second Congressional District.

• $1,000,000 for the Aplington Protective Services Building: This project will fund a new facility for Aplington’s Fire and EMS departments, replacing a severely outdated building, to provide adequate space for vehicles and gear, dedicated decontamination areas, and training and office space to better serve the city and surrounding rural communities.
• $4,000,000 for the Belle Plaine Drinking Water Resiliency Project: This project will support upgrades to the City of Belle Plaine’s drinking water infrastructure to provide clean, reliable, and abundant drinking water to Belle Plaine’s residents.
• $265,451 for the Dysart Public Works Maintenance Facility Renovation: This project will support the construction of a new public works facility to safely hold equipment for the City of Dysart to support water treatment efforts, road maintenance, and snow removal.
• $1,000,000 for the Grinnell Regional Medical Center Labor and Delivery Unit Expansion: These funds will support the expansion of the Grinnell Regional Medical Center’s labor and delivery unit, increasing their delivery capacity to meet the demands of the rural six-county region that the hospital serves.
• $700,000 for the WinnMed Surgical Department Upgrade: This project will equip WinnMed with state-of-the-art surgical technology to expand access to safe, minimally invasive surgeries in rural Iowa, reducing the need for residents to travel long distances for care.

More information about these projects is available here.