Nunn brings Pete Hegseth back to Iowa for the “Top Nunn” fundraiser he was forced to cancel in March. Iowans are still paying more for gas and groceries because of a war Nunn keeps voting to continue.

DES MOINES, IA — Today Zach Nunn finally announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is returning to Iowa to headline his rescheduled “Top Nunn” campaign fundraiser at the Iowa State Fair.

It is the same event Nunn had to postpone in March after Iowans expressed outrage over their Congressman and the Secretary of Defense fundraising together during the opening days of the war in Iran following the deaths of Iowa service members.

Nothing about the situation has improved since then. The war is still going. Analysts now describe it as a forever war that will outlast this administration. Iowa families are still paying more at the pump. Iowa farmers are still paying more for fertilizer, with no relief expected for years. Farm bankruptcies are climbing toward levels Iowa has not seen since the 1980s farm crisis. And Iowa families have buried their sons.

REMINDER: It’s disgusting that this event is billed as an opportunity to “honor and celebrate the service and sacrifice of our military members and veterans,” when it is actually a campaign fundraiser that celebrates Zach Nunn and benefits his reelection, not members of our military or veterans.

This is what abandoning “America First” looks like.

America First was supposed to mean no more endless wars overseas and lower costs at home. Zach Nunn has delivered the opposite. He is cheerleading the war on Iowa airwaves. He has voted again and again to keep it going. And now he is selling access to the Secretary of Defense at the Iowa State Fair while Hegseth neglects our service members overseas.

Statement from Sarah Trone Garriott:

“It’s disgraceful that Zach Nunn and Pete Hegseth are partying together at a campaign stop in Iowa while our service members are under threat and facing poor conditions overseas. Our leaders should be focused on ending this war and keeping Americans deployed overseas safe, not fundraising for Zach Nunn’s campaign.

“This war has caused higher prices at the pump, higher costs at the grocery store, and skyrocketing diesel prices farmers cannot afford, and there’s no end in sight because Zach Nunn keeps voting to continue it and Pete Hegseth has no plan to end it.

“In Congress, I will vote to end the war and put Iowans first.”

For more information, please visit www.sarahforiowa.com.

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