By rights, Miller-Meeks should lose next year to Democrat Christina Bohannan, and by a wide margin. Members of the audience yelled as the Republican representative spoke about her support of Medicaid changes made in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.

KEOSAUQUA — Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faced a combative crowd Monday during her first in-person town hall of the year, as frustrated constituents booed, heckled and shouted over the congresswoman throughout an hour-long event in Keosauqua that laid bare southeast Iowa voters’ anxieties about the economy, health care and immigration enforcement.

Inside the Roberts Memorial Center, the 1st District Republican tried to stick to a format in which audience questions were written on cards a

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