News Releases - 2026 Archive

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird joined a letter urging Congress to fully fund the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fiscal Year 2027 security request, warning that threats against the Justices and their families have become a serious and escalating danger. The bipartisan letter from 45 state attorneys general to congressional leaders, called...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird joined President Donald Trump, Governor Kim Reynolds, Senator Joni Ernst, Representative Ashley Hinson, and Representative Marianette Miller-Meeks in the Oval Office today for the announcement of the largest steel manufacturing investment in American history, rebuilding American manufacturing. This investment highlights the Trump administration’s focus on...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced a $35 million settlement in a bipartisan multistate case brought with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Corteva, Inc. The FTC and states sued Corteva for conducting a loyalty program that violated monopoly laws and illegally limited the sale of generic, less-expensive competing...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird today highlighted the success of her office’s program for nurses who are trained to help victims of sexual assaults.  As part of a significant overhaul of the Victim Assistance Section under Attorney General Bird’s leadership, in November 2025 she hired a nurse to serve as...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird joined 19 other state attorneys general in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the federal government to crack down on knock-off GLP-1 drugs made with ingredients from Chinese warehouses with ties to fentanyl production.    The Chinese-sourced active pharmaceutical ingredients used in...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today how her office will distribute the recent $126 million settlement from Meta. Per terms of the settlement, half (approximately $68 million) must be used to address harms at issue in the lawsuit. This includes $25 million which will be returned to Iowans hurt by Meta’s practices aimed at children. The settlement comes after Attorney...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she joined the first annual Quad City Back the Blue Flight to Washington D.C. to honor active and retired law enforcement officers from the Quad City area. The flight left the Quad City International Airport this morning, Wednesday, September 9, 2026.   The flight is...

DES MOINES— Attorney General Brenna Bird and a bipartisan coalition of 48 other attorneys general are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to strengthen its “Know Your Upstream Provider” (KYUP) requirements to prevent scammers from using the U.S. phone network to make illegal robocalls. KYUP rules require voice service providers to...

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today her office has awarded over $1.6 million in the first wave of funding grants for programs in Iowa that fight opioid addiction.  Legislation passed in 2025 directed 25% of Iowa’s opioid settlement money to the Attorney General’s office to fund programs, services, and initiatives that tackle the opioid crisis...