FILE - In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021 record photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, listens during a Senate Finance Committee proceeding connected the IRS fund petition connected Capitol Hill successful Washington. Grassley, the longest-serving Republican senator, announced Friday, Sept. 24, that helium volition question an eighth word successful 2022. The 88-year-old, who has been successful the Senate for 40 years, said successful an announcement posted connected Twitter that determination is simply a batch much to do, for Iowa. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021 record photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, listens during a Senate Finance Committee proceeding connected the IRS fund petition connected Capitol Hill successful Washington. Grassley, the longest-serving Republican senator, announced Friday, Sept. 24, that helium volition question an eighth word successful 2022. The 88-year-old, who has been successful the Senate for 40 years, said successful an announcement posted connected Twitter that determination is simply a batch much to do, for Iowa. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File) (2020 CQ-Roll Call, Inc.)

DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving Republican senator, announced Friday that helium volition question an eighth word successful 2022.

The 88-year-old, who has been successful the Senate for 40 years, said successful an announcement of his reelection bid posted connected Twitter that determination is “a batch much to do, for Iowa.”

Once proudly bipartisan, Grassley adapted deftly to the caller hyperpartisanship of the Trump era. While immoderate of his chap longtimers successful Washington are calling it quits, fed up with the rightward lurch of the GOP oregon the inertia successful Congress, Grassley has acceptable retired to amusement he's thriving.

Grassley has adapted smoothly to changes successful the party. He's consistently supported Donald Trump's docket and often his governmental tactics. At times, he's adjacent taken a pb relation successful satisfying the party's vocal close wing.

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But the legislator hasn't ever been a Trump acolyte. He voted to number Arizona’s and Pennsylvania’s Electoral College votes the time of the deadly Capitol riot successful January. He besides objected loudly to waivers the Trump medication gave petroleum companies from the national Renewable Fuel Standard, a extremity that helps Iowa farmers.

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