TOM BARTON Lee-Gazette Des Moines Bureau

Iowa’s elected leaders and political parties are pointing fingers in Washington’s latest funding crisis, as a partisan stalemate triggered the first partial federal government shutdown in nearly seven years.

Republicans in Iowa’s congressional delegation accused Democrats of blocking a short-term spending bill and prioritizing what they called a “partisan wish list,” while Democrats countered that Republicans walked away from negotiations and are risking steep health care cost hikes for thousands of Iowans.

Hinson: ‘This is the Schumer shutdown’

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Marion, and the rest of Iowa’s all-Republican U.S. House members, sent letters to the Chief Administrative Officer of the House requesting their pay be withheld until full gove

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