President Donald Trump spent Tuesday in Iowa, underscoring his strong private sector meant less need for government hiring, while 900 miles away in Washington, senators were calling for him to put at least one government official’s job on the chopping block: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Under the shadow cast by last weekend’s second fatal shooting of an anti-immigration law enforcement protester in Minneapolis, Trump tried to refocus on the 2026 midterm elections in an hourlong speech in Iowa.
In a state that has competitive congressional and gubernatorial elections this November, Trump told the crowd in Clive, Iowa, that the economy is “booming, incomes are rising, investment is soaring, inflation has been defeated” — and that he is “standing up for the workers and the farmers of our country” despite his trade and
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