Chuck Grassley
United States
Republican
United States senator
government
Charles Ernest Grassley is an American politician serving as the senior U.S. senator from Iowa, a seat he has held since 1981. Since 2025, he has been the president pro tempore of the United States Senate, a position he also held from 2019 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Sep 21, 2026
Center
The Iowa senator is pressing Trump over record-high diesel prices in his state, which have climbed above $6 per gallon amid supply issues from the Iran war.
Grassley's willingness to publicly pressure a Republican president on energy costs shows the political durability of pocketbook issues and gives centrists a rare example of a GOP senator breaking with Trump on substance.
Jul 16, 2026
Lean Left
Senator Chuck Grassley pressed Todd Blanche on the apparent mishandling of Epstein files during the release process.
Grassley's questioning is seen as performative oversight by a Republican committee chair, but it does highlight the Trump administration's pattern of covering up high-profile scandals.
Jun 11, 2026
Center
Senate Judiciary Chair Grassley urged Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to develop a vaccine for New World screwworms after the parasite returned to the US for the first time in 60 years.
Moderates see this as a straightforward competence-and-preparedness issue where bipartisan agricultural policy should be uncontroversial, but Rollins pushing back on a vaccine approach raises questions about ideological interference in routine public health decisions.