FILE - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds delivers her Condition of the State address before a joint session of the Iowa Legislature, on Jan. 11, 2022, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

The GOP announced last week that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds would give the Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address tonight.

“While Washington Democrats fail working Americans, Republican governors are fighting and winning for families,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a press release announcing Reynolds’ selection.

“While Democrats in Washington have failed, Republicans across the country are stepping up,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in the same press release.

Part of Reynolds’ “stepping up” and “fighting and winning for families” has apparently included cheering the results of Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act funds in her state.

Last March, while ARPA was working its way through the legislature, Reynolds openly opposed it. On Twitter, she declared it would “provide bigger checks to states who chose aggressive shutdowns and mismanaged their state budgets.”

When the funds started flowing, however, Reynolds changed tack.

As previously reported by Heartland Signal last December, Reynolds attempted to take credit for a “historic” investment in Iowa’s water infrastructure. She said in a press release she would “remain committed to improving Iowa’s water quality and providing these historic investments to local communities, landowners and organizations that aim to protect, preserve and restore Iowa’s water resources.”

All $100 million of investment the governor announced came from ARPA funding.

It wasn’t the first time Reynolds had lauded funding coming into her state from ARPA.

Last September, she announced $330 million in tax credit funding for developers to build tens of thousands of new housing units, the Des Moines Register reported.

Of the $330 million, $100 million of what Reynolds called “far and away the most consequential housing policy Iowa has ever implemented” came from Rescue Plan funds.

And in October of last year, she announced $200 million in Rescue Plan funds to expand broadband access across rural Iowa. She said Iowans had told her expanding broadband was crucial to starting businesses, teleworking and connecting with healthcare providers, KAAL TV reported.

“The only thing Kim Reynolds should be saying about President Biden and Democrats’ agenda is ‘thank you’ since they delivered when she and her Republican colleagues in Congress have repeatedly failed,” Iowa Democratic Chair Ross Wilburn told KTVO last week after learning Gov. Reynolds would be giving the GOP response.