Make Life Affordable

Clint has spent his career helping Iowa families make ends meet. Through Matthew 25, the organization he founded, he built and rehabbed over 1,000 homes and apartments and opened a grocery store and café to bring affordable, healthy food to a neighborhood that had none. He has sat with families forced to choose between fixing a leaky roof and putting food on the table. He knows this struggle is real.

And right now, it's getting harder. Prices keep climbing while wages stay flat. President Trump has called the affordability crisis a "hoax" — but Clint has met too many hardworking Iowans who are making painful choices every month about what they can afford: groceries, gas, health care, or keeping a roof over their heads. According to the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, the average Iowa family is paying over $1,300 more than they were a year ago.

That has to change. Clint will fight to:

• Stop the tariff-driven price hikes. The administration's chaotic across-the-board tariffs are driving up the cost of everyday goods. Clint will fight to rein them in and bring some stability back.
• Lower health care costs. Restore tax credits that make insurance premiums affordable, push for a public health care option, work toward universal coverage, protect Medicare and Medicaid, and expand Medicare's ability to negotiate lower drug prices.
• Lower housing costs. Build more affordable housing, support programs to fix up existing homes, and expand down payment assistance so more Iowans can buy their first home.
• Lower grocery bills. Strengthen local food systems, break up the monopolies driving up food prices, and expand programs that help families access healthy, locally grown food they can actually afford.
• Lower energy costs. Restore investments in cheaper, cleaner energy, cut red tape to get it built faster, and make sure big tech data centers aren't driving up everyone else's electric bills.