Candidate · November 3, 2026
Ashley Hinson
On the ballot for U.S. Senate · Iowa
- raised through Oct 14, 2026
- $14M
- cash on hand
- $2.2M
- issues with public statements
- 23
- outside spending for or against
- $76M
§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. Senate · Iowa1 |
|---|---|
| Party on the ballot | Republican1 |
| Status | Open seat — Currently serves in the U.S. House, representing Iowa's 2nd District.2 |
| Also on the ballot |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Hinson was born and raised in Iowa and worked as a reporter on local news.3 She represented the 67th District in the Iowa House of Representatives, which then included Hiawatha, Robins, Cedar Rapids and Marion, where she lives.3 She represents Northeast Iowa in the U.S. House, where she serves on the Appropriations Committee, the select committee on China and the Ethics Committee.3
Why they say they're running
Her campaign website says she wants to make Washington run more like Iowa, working with President Trump to secure the border, cut wasteful spending and put the country back on a path to prosperity.3,
Service in Congress since 2023
Websites and accounts
- Official websitehinson.house.gov2
- X (Twitter)x.com/RepAshleyHinson5
- Facebookfacebook.com/RepAshleyHinson5
- Campaign websiteashleyhinson.com4
- Facebookfacebook.com/AshleyHinsonIowa4
- X (Twitter)x.com/hinsonashley4
- Instagraminstagram.com/hinsonforiowa4
- YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCaPhZwEDLgaDU-Q4ehMSvHA4
§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Housing
Her campaign website says first-time homebuyers should be able to save tax-free for a down payment through the First Home Savings Opportunity Act.6
Her campaign website says large institutional investors should not be able to buy up single-family homes in Iowa neighborhoods.6
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for cutting red tape to spur more housing construction, including through bipartisan permitting reform.7
Family and Social Policy
Her campaign website says she would make child care more affordable by expanding tax relief for working families, supporting parents who work nontraditional hours and encouraging employers to invest in child care, and says she has introduced and supported bipartisan legislation to improve child care access for working families in Iowa; her affordability plan adds modernizing federal child care grants so the money reaches communities faster.3,
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for protecting the enhanced child tax credit.7
- Make it larger and give the full amount to families with little or no earnings
- Make it larger, while still requiring parents to have earnings to get the full credit
- Keep the credit as set in 2025
Taxes and Budget
Her campaign website lists balancing the budget and cutting taxes among her accomplishments as a state representative.3
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for making no tax on tips and overtime permanent.7
- Make the tax break permanent or expand it
- Keep it as passed, with its current limits and end date
- Let it end, or replace it with tax relief not tied to tips or overtime
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for making the tax cuts for working families permanent.7
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for defending the tax cuts for small businesses.7
Her campaign's affordability plan would let working parents use tax-free dollars in 529 accounts to pay for child care and would let Iowans save more money tax-free for a down payment.7
- Expand these breaks and make more of them refundable, so families who owe little income tax also benefit
- Add or expand breaks for costs such as education savings, adoption and selling a home
- Keep the current breaks
- Cut back these breaks and use the money for lower tax rates or deficit reduction
Abortion and Reproductive Health
Agriculture and Rural Life
Her campaign website says she opposes policies like California's Proposition 12, which it says hurt Iowa family farmers.6
Her campaign website says she supports year-round sales of E15 and strengthening biofuels, and her affordability plan calls for restoring the $1-a-gallon biodiesel tax credit.6,
- Expand biofuel use, such as by allowing E15 sales all year
- Keep the current requirements
- Lower the requirements or end the Renewable Fuel Standard
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for protecting Iowa farmland from China and other foreign adversaries.7
Immigration
Her campaign website says she would secure the southern border by enforcing immigration laws and deporting dangerous immigrants here illegally who have committed crimes.6
Elections and Government Reform
Her campaign website says members of Congress should be banned from trading individual stocks and betting on prediction markets.6
- Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
- Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
- No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports
Education
Her campaign website says parents should have a stronger voice and more transparency in their children's schools, citing what it describes as policies in some Iowa schools that let children secretly change their gender identity at school.6
Foreign Policy and Defense
Her campaign website says she would hold China accountable for taking American jobs and innovation, buying American farmland and using unfair trade practices.6
Social Security and Medicare
Her campaign website says she would defend Social Security and Medicare benefits while rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in those programs.6
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for making no tax on Social Security permanent.7
Infrastructure and Transportation
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for temporarily suspending the federal gas tax, along with the state gas tax.7
- Raise the federal gas tax
- Add new fees, such as a yearly fee on electric vehicles or a charge for each mile driven
- Keep the gas tax as is and cover the gap with other federal money
- Cut or suspend the federal gas tax
Energy and Climate
Her campaign's affordability plan calls for more permitting reform to allow more refining capacity and domestic energy production.7
§4Popular bills that never got a vote
Why this matters: Many bills with wide support from both parties never reach a vote, so no member of Congress is ever on record for or against them. Signing on as a sponsor or cosponsor is the only public record of support.
While Ashley Hinson served, these bills had broad support from both parties but never reached a floor vote. No officeholder ever had to vote on them. Ashley Hinson sponsored or cosponsored 26 of the 52. How bills die without a vote.
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- Lets combat-disabled veterans get full military retirement pay plus disability pay (H.R. 2102, 119th Congress · 340 cosponsors)8Cosponsored
- Allows Medicare to cover multi-cancer early detection screening tests (H.R. 2407, 118th Congress · 319 cosponsors)9Cosponsored
- Sets electronic prior-approval and reporting rules for Medicare Advantage plans (H.R. 3514, 119th Congress · 308 cosponsors)10Cosponsored
- Expands and revises the low-income housing tax credit for affordable rental housing (H.R. 3238, 118th Congress · 273 cosponsors)11Cosponsored
- Ends waiting periods for disability benefits and Medicare for metastatic breast cancer (H.R. 549, 118th Congress · 272 cosponsors)12Cosponsored
- Ends disability benefit and Medicare waiting periods for metastatic breast cancer (H.R. 2048, 119th Congress · 271 cosponsors)13Cosponsored
- Requires new vehicles to include AM radio as standard equipment (H.R. 3413, 118th Congress · 270 cosponsors)14Cosponsored
- Sets electronic prior-approval and reporting rules for Medicare Advantage plans (H.R. 8702, 118th Congress · 231 cosponsors)15Cosponsored
- Lets businesses deduct research costs right away instead of over five years (H.R. 2673, 118th Congress · 223 cosponsors)16Cosponsored
- Restores fines for charging veterans unauthorized fees for help with VA claims (H.R. 1139, 118th Congress · 221 cosponsors)17Cosponsored
- Requires health plans to cover birth defect care for the eyes, ears, teeth, mouth or jaw (H.R. 3277, 119th Congress · 214 cosponsors)18Cosponsored
- Sends False Claims Act fraud recoveries to the Crime Victims Fund through 2029 (H.R. 8061, 118th Congress · 210 cosponsors)19Cosponsored
- Keeps paying military members and support staff during a shutdown in fiscal 2026 (H.R. 5401, 119th Congress · 210 cosponsors)20Cosponsored
- Lets surviving military and veteran spouses keep benefits after remarrying (H.R. 1004, 119th Congress · 183 cosponsors)21Cosponsored
- Expands U.S.-Israel military cooperation on counter-drone and emerging technology (H.R. 1229, 119th Congress · 178 cosponsors)22Cosponsored
- Authorizes CIA payments to former Air America employees and survivors for 1950-1976 work (H.R. 2192, 119th Congress · 178 cosponsors)23Cosponsored
- Adds military spouses to a tax credit for employers who hire from certain groups (H.R. 1277, 118th Congress · 170 cosponsors)24Cosponsored
- Requires FHA mortgage notices to compare costs with VA home loans (H.R. 4335, 118th Congress · 169 cosponsors)25Cosponsored
- Gives new-car dealers through 2025 to restock 2020-21 inventory without triggering tax (H.R. 700, 118th Congress · 169 cosponsors)26Cosponsored
- Requires employer health plans to offer exceptions to step therapy drug rules (H.R. 5509, 119th Congress · 169 cosponsors)27Cosponsored
- Expands and revises the low-income housing tax credit for affordable rentals (H.R. 2725, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)28Cosponsored
- Requires nursing homes and similar facilities to let essential caregivers see residents (H.R. 6766, 119th Congress · 160 cosponsors)29Cosponsored
- Requires annual VA reports and studies on preventing veteran suicide (H.R. 4157, 118th Congress · 159 cosponsors)30Cosponsored
- Requires VA clinicians to certify a veteran's death within 48 hours (H.R. 4398, 119th Congress · 158 cosponsors)31Cosponsored
- Directs a Justice Department grant to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (H.R. 3381, 118th Congress · 156 cosponsors)32Cosponsored
- No-down-payment, federally insured mortgages for first responders and teachers (H.R. 2094, 119th Congress · 154 cosponsors)33Cosponsored
- Ends pay reductions for combat-disabled military retirees with under 20 years of service (H.R. 1282, 118th Congress · 326 cosponsors)34Did not cosponsor
- Extends the parks maintenance fund and adds higher park fees for foreign visitors (H.R. 9250, 119th Congress · 263 cosponsors)35Did not cosponsor
- Expands federal anti-soring rules for show horses and raises penalties (H.R. 3090, 118th Congress · 248 cosponsors)36Did not cosponsor
- Expands Medicare telehealth coverage by removing location limits and other restrictions (H.R. 4206, 119th Congress · 248 cosponsors)37Did not cosponsor
- Bans slaughtering horses and other equines for human food (H.R. 1661, 119th Congress · 238 cosponsors)38Did not cosponsor
- Sets new federal care standards for dogs kept by commercial dog dealers and breeders (H.R. 1624, 118th Congress · 237 cosponsors)39Did not cosponsor
- Permanently bans slaughtering horses and other equines for human food (H.R. 3475, 118th Congress · 236 cosponsors)40Did not cosponsor
- Requires employer health plans to allow exceptions to step-therapy drug rules (H.R. 2630, 118th Congress · 235 cosponsors)41Did not cosponsor
- Targets crimes against postal workers; authorizes money for more secure mailboxes and keys (H.R. 1065, 119th Congress · 231 cosponsors)42Did not cosponsor
- Adds Medicare coverage of blood tests to screen for early Alzheimer's disease (H.R. 6130, 119th Congress · 231 cosponsors)43Did not cosponsor
- Bans most animal testing of cosmetics and sales of cosmetics developed with it (H.R. 5399, 118th Congress · 227 cosponsors)44Did not cosponsor
- Bars insurers from discriminating against living organ donors (H.R. 2923, 118th Congress · 225 cosponsors)45Did not cosponsor
- Raises Medicare physician fee schedule payments by 6.62% for April through December 2025 (H.R. 879, 119th Congress · 198 cosponsors)46Did not cosponsor
- Orders a study of Holocaust education in public schools across the states (H.R. 603, 118th Congress · 183 cosponsors)47Did not cosponsor
- Raises the tax credit for maintaining short line railroad track (H.R. 516, 119th Congress · 183 cosponsors)48Did not cosponsor
- Expands Medicare coverage to all services chiropractors provide (H.R. 1610, 118th Congress · 180 cosponsors)49Did not cosponsor
- Expands Medicare coverage to all services chiropractors are licensed to provide (H.R. 539, 119th Congress · 174 cosponsors)50Did not cosponsor
- Ties yearly Medicare physician payment increases to the Medicare Economic Index (H.R. 2474, 118th Congress · 172 cosponsors)51Did not cosponsor
- Counts recovery from organ donation surgery as a serious health condition for family leave (H.R. 4582, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)52Did not cosponsor
- Bars insurers from discriminating against living organ donors (H.R. 4583, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)53Did not cosponsor
- Extends U.S.-Israel defense, energy and development cooperation programs (H.R. 3792, 118th Congress · 163 cosponsors)54Did not cosponsor
- Lets 529 education savings plans pay for aviation mechanic and pilot training (H.R. 1818, 118th Congress · 162 cosponsors)55Did not cosponsor
- Doubles the amount of profit from selling a primary home that is exempt from tax (H.R. 1340, 119th Congress · 159 cosponsors)56Did not cosponsor
- Lets 529 education savings pay for job certifications and other credentials (H.R. 1477, 118th Congress · 150 cosponsors)57Did not cosponsor
- Funds research on firefighter protective gear made without PFAS chemicals (H.R. 3184, 119th Congress · 150 cosponsors)58Did not cosponsor
- Bans betting on animal fights and allows private lawsuits over animal fighting (H.R. 3946, 119th Congress · 150 cosponsors)59Did not cosponsor
§5Money
Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.
Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.60
| Raised | $14,147,973 |
|---|---|
| Spent | $13,903,059 |
| Cash on hand | $2,172,989 |
Where the money came from
Outside spending
Groups spending independently reported $17,439,890 supporting and $58,346,481 opposing Ashley Hinson this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through October 26, 2026.61
| Group | Supporting | Opposing |
|---|---|---|
| WinSenate | — | $33,486,802 |
| VoteVets | — | $9,878,609 |
| Americans for Prosperity Action, Inc. (AFP Action) DBA CVA Action and DBA LIBRE Action | $7,631,407 | — |
| FIGHT ON IOWA | $4,574,013 | — |
| AB PAC | — | $4,201,285 |
| LCV Victory Fund | — | $3,139,422 |
| American Meat Producers PAC | — | $2,513,500 |
| Lower Costs Now | — | $1,909,683 |
Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.
§6Financial disclosures
Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.
Senate candidates and senators file with the Senate's own disclosure system, which asks each visitor to agree to its terms before searching, so we can't link straight to a filing. You can search for Ashley Hinson at efdsearch.senate.gov62.