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13 October
8:42 pm

You skipped the vote to deploy two hundred nine million dollars in funds to rural hospitals

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

8:42 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure and accusation that opponent missed a specific vote — verifiable against congressional voting records
What we foundThe $209 million for Iowa rural hospitals is real and confirmed by multiple authoritative sources, but Turek's missed vote was on a state-level rural health and medical licensing bill — not a vote to 'deploy' the $209 million, which was a federal CMS allocation flowing from the federal Working Families Tax Cuts that Turek, as a state legislator, had no vote on.
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