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13 October
8:13 pm

thanks to the working families tax cut bill, we have the long term tax certainty, so people are willing to make huge capital investments like the fifteen billion dollar one that's coming to Iowa

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Ashley Hinson, at Iowa U.S. Senate General Election Debate (WHO 13 / Nexstar)

8:13 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific $15 billion investment figure attributed to Iowa is a concrete, verifiable claim worth checking
What we foundThe $15 billion Mesabi Metallics steel investment announced for Iowa is real and confirmed by multiple credible sources, and the Working Families Tax Cuts Act does exist and is described as providing tax certainty; however, the specific causal claim that the federal tax law is what drove this particular investment is not supported by available evidence and is contradicted by sourced reporting attributing the project's Iowa location to geographic logistics and state-level MEGA program incentives.
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