Cedar Rapids Gazette  - 1/27/2025 - Trump returns to Iowa as costs and immigration spark backlash Terry Holt, a former spokesman for George W. Bush said: "Iowa is in the crosshairs of  the inflationary agenda of the Trump administration, and there are really no states feeling it worse."

NBC - 10/11/2025 - Meet the Press NOW  - Broken Economic Promises "We should look back" at Trump's top campaign promise: "lower costs. You interviewed  him shortly after the election & he said he was going to bring grocery prices 'way down. Even Marjorie Taylor Green acknowledged those costs are up now.”