Miller-Meeks Asked 'To Return Donations Over Ties To Project 2025'

Miller-Meeks received money from supporters of the Heritage Foundation, which organized Project 2025

DES MOINES – In one more say one thing and do another move, Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks accepted “between $9,000 and $127,000 in donations from people affiliated with the Heritage Foundation,” according to a new report.

House Republicans have spent the past two years pushing some of Project 2025’s most extreme policies – including creating a national pregnancy surveillance system,  abolishing the Department of Education, raising prescription drug prices, and raising taxes on middle-class families.

DCCC battleground polling shows that a majority of registered voters dislike Project 2025, including 62% of independents.

“It shouldn’t be a surprise that Mariannette Miller-Meeks stands with Project 2025 since she has already voted to ban abortion and has led the charge to expand school vouchers nationwide,” said IDP Spokesperson Paige Godden. “But, it is disturbing to see how far Miller-Meeks will go to put her extreme Project 2025 donors over the needs of Iowans.” 

Project 2025 would ban abortion, shutter public schools, decimate teaching positions and more by:

- Aggressively restricting abortion, banning birth control, and tracking where women live.

- Shuttering public schools across the country, harming communities.

- Worsening teacher shortages by decimating 180,000 teaching positions.

- Calling to dismantle the Department of Education.

- Eliminating Head Start which serves over 800,000 children in all 50 states.

- Raising costs for families and students struggling with high education costs.

Miller-Meeks co-sponsored the Life At Conception Act – a total nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the woman’s life and would essentially ban IVF access.

Miller-Meeks has already attacked public education, leading legislation in Congress to expand school vouchers, voting for precursors to Iowa’s deeply unpopular school voucher program that diverts taxpayer dollars to private and charter schools, and voting against funding for Head Start–twice.