I am writing in response to Representative Randy Feenstra’s article “100 days of promises kept under President Trump.” Feenstra is from Hull and is our representative for district 4 including Marshalltown, Ames and gerrymandered all the way up to red Northwest Iowa. We are Iowa’s poor district because Feenstra refuses to earmark infrastructure for us.

A laughable promise Feenstra cites in his article that Trump kept is efficiency. Almost all of Trump’s Executive Orders were reversed the next day by him. Today he changed his mind about Head Start and now wants to reopen the Alcatraz Museum for prisoners. We still don’t know what DOGE did or saved since all the funding legally must be legislated through Congress, so it is all tied up in court. What we know for sure is that our confidential information is no longer private.

The next myth in Feenstra’s article is regarding national debt. He indicates that Biden exploded our national debt. Feenstra should learn how to use Google. When Trump was president during the first term he exploded the national debt. He added more to the national debt that any other president not fighting a foreign war. Third highest overall. Twice the debt of the Biden administration.

Lastly, if you represent Iowa, you should be furious with Trump. In a state that Trump won THREE times, he turned around and destroyed our markets. Iowa grows more soybeans than any state but neighboring Illinois, about half the crop is exported and the largest buyer is China. Iowa farmers, many of whom voted for Trump, are anxious about his tariffs and the trade war he has begun with China. Iowa is also the largest exporter of pork, corn and animal feed. Meanwhile, the cost of fertilizers and seed has risen. The Trump administration has also cut an $11.3 million program that purchased produce from Iowa farms for local school lunch. Trump has dismantled the aid agency USAid that purchased a lot of our grain. Weather is also important to farmers. Iowa also has increasingly unpredictable weather and the weather service is facing cuts. Lastly, during Trump’s first term farmers received payments to compensate for losses caused by tariffs, but the trade war did lasting damage. Buyers went to other countries. Some of those buyers have never come back. We have never recovered from losing the Chinese market for soybeans.

Trump hasn’t been good for Iowa.