NEW: "ASHLEY HINSON AD MISLEADS VOTERS ABOUT HER RECORD"

The following information was released by the Iowa Democratic Party:

Iowa Independent: "A Review of Her Record Casts Doubt on [Claims in Her New Senate Campaign TV Ad]

DES MOINES A new review of Ashley Hinson's first Senate campaign TV ad from the Iowa Independent highlights her lies in claiming she's lowering health insurance costs, supporting veterans, and banning stock trading in Congress. The truth is, Hinson has a long history of doing the exact opposite.

Iowa Independent: Ashley Hinson ad misleads voters about her record

Iowa Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson released a new television ad on May 12 in which she says she is working to address healthcare costs, veterans' benefits, and congressional ethics. A review of her record casts doubt on those claims.

According to data compiled by the research organization OpenSecrets, Hinson has accepted at least $17,000 from HMO corporate political action committees, $20,500 from accident and health insurance industry PACs, and at least $22,500 from pharmaceutical manufacturers' PACs since the start of her 2020 campaign.

She voted against the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, the budget package that authorized the federal government to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries and cap the out-of-pocket costs they pay for prescription drugs and insulin.

Hinson's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.

Hinson voted in 2025 to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Republican budget bill that cut federal health spending by about $1 trillion over 10 years, which the KFF research organization estimates will leave 68,000 Iowans enrolled in Medicaid without health insurance by 2034.

On Jan. 8, Hinson voted against a bipartisan bill to extend for three years an enhanced federal health insurance subsidy that had helped 22 million Americans pay for policies through the Affordable Care Act marketplace until it expired in December 2025. Without the subsidies, more than 120,000 Iowans saw their monthly insurance premiums increase by an average of 95%, according to a Daily Iowan analysis of KFF data.

With the Medicaid cuts and ACA subsidy expiration, KFF estimates that roughly 110,000 more Iowans will become uninsured by 2034.

In March 2021, Hinson disclosed buying and selling tens of thousands of dollars' worth of stocks.

Last December, when Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna introduced a bipartisan discharge petition a procedural maneuver to bring a bill to the floor against the wishes of the majority party's leadership to force a vote on a congressional stock trading ban, Hinson did not join the effort and has not signed the petition as of May 14.

When President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency canceled hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of Veterans Affairs contracts in Iowa and targeted tens of thousands employees at the agency for layoffs in 2025, Hinson defended the cuts, calling the VA a bloated bureaucracy, the Globe Gazette in Mason City reported on April 24, 202

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