Endorsements
President Donald J. Trump
The Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable. It has driven up costs, and North Dakotans are paying the price. I support putting patients—not insurance companies—in charge through policies like direct-to-patient support. We also need greater price transparency, continued action to lower prescription drug costs, including PBM reform, and aggressive efforts to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs.
The U.S. is dependent on adversaries like China for critical supply chains, while U.S. businesses face unfair trade barriers. Pres. Trump addresses both through stronger trade policy. While these policies have impacts for our businesses, they are creating new domestic manufacturing opportunities for ND companies. The Farm Bill that I helped advance in the House includes increased funding for market development. Policies like year-round E-15 will boost domestic demand for U.S. corn & soybeans.
The government impacts cost of living mostly through tax, spending, and regulatory policy. I helped pass the largest tax cut in U.S. history, helping the average North Dakotan pay $2,000 less in federal taxes. This bill increased the child tax credit, cut taxes on tips and overtime, and eliminated tax on Social Security for 88% of ND seniors. We also passed massive regulatory relief to increase energy production, stabilize prices long term and improve reliability.
I ran on securing our border, and we are delivering. We passed the strongest border security bill in history, included $175 million to build the wall, and protected taxpayer funded benefits for U.S. citizens only. Border Patrol has restored order after four years of chaos, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement is working with local law enforcement to remove dangerous criminals and make our communities safer.
North Dakota leads the nation in election integrity, with a seamless and proven system that ensures only American citizens vote. Our model works. The rest of the country should follow what we’re already doing successfully—ensuring secure, transparent elections that voters can trust.
Congress’s role in declaring war is defined in the Constitution. We also have an oversight role, which we are fulfilling. At the same time, the president, as commander in chief, must have the authority to act decisively to protect U.S. interests and national security. The president has demonstrated strong and decisive leadership in foreign policy. We need to unite against anti-American terrorist regimes like Iran and focus on achieving a decisive conclusion to this conflict.
Campaign Phone Number
(701)581-4756
Restore and expand ACA subsidies. This will bring some of the 5 million who have dropped their insurance back into the pool.
2. Extend Medicare's $2,000 annual prescription drug out-of-pocket cap and its $35 monthly insulin cap to people with private insurance as well.
3. Crack down on PBMs and make drug pricing transparent.
4. Equalize payments across care settings.
5. Reverse healthcare market consolidation.
6. Introduce price regulation where markets no longer function effectively.
Congress has ceded it's constitutional authority to levy tariffs to the executive branch. The current administration's approach is capricious and creates instability for the United States and its trading partners while driving up prices. It is a regressive tax falling hardest on those with the least.
Congress needs to reset tariffs and signal to the world that our trade policy has stabilized. We need to regulate corporate and private equity ownership of residential property. Reducing tariffs and ending the conflict in the Persian Gulf will help stabilize the cost of construction materials. Comprehensive immigration reform with a humane and sensible work-visa process would help bring in labor to ease the housing shortage and ag labor shortages.
Heavy-handed immigration enforcement by undertrained and lightly vetted, masked agents has eroded our moral authority in the world. A graduate student was snatched in Massachusetts and jailed in Louisiana because she co-authored an editorial in a university newspaper. That is a clear violation of the First and Fifth Amendments. Congress should demand greater oversight of detention facilities to ensure safe and sanitary conditions,
The federal government should offer help and resources but not insert itself into election administration. The federal government should make partisan and racial gerrymandering illegal at all levels of government and fully reform our broken campaign finance system. Elected leaders at the federal level must stop purposely undermining faith in our elections with disinformation and conspiracy theories.
Congress has the power under Article 1 of the Constitution to declare war and to provide for an Army and a Navy and to call forth the militia. They have a duty to the people to be our voice when our sons and daughters are to be put in harm's way. To cede that authority to the executive branch is a dereliction of duty.
Campaign Phone Number
7022189360
A hospital can exist in someone's community, and the care can still be unaffordable. North Dakota is currently receiving substantial federal Rural Health Transformation funding—about $199 million for 2026 —with additional funding expected through 2030 if it meets performance requirements. The state's plan includes strengthening the rural workforce, expanding preventive care, telehealth, and remote monitoring, improving care coordination, and creating efficiencies through shared infrastructure.
Current Federal Reserve research supports the view that tariffs have contributed to higher U.S. prices. An August 2026 Fed study found that the 2025 tariffs were passed through to retail prices, with lower-income households bearing a disproportionate burden. New York Fed researchers separately estimate that about 26% of tariff increases passed through to consumer prices, both directly through imported goods and indirectly through imported inputs and reduced foreign competition.
AFFORDABILITY
Housing → Food → Energy/transportation → Healthcare → Wages/income
Congress cannot simply set North Dakota rents, grocery prices, utility bills, or gasoline prices. It can influence underlying conditions through housing and tax policy, federal spending, energy and trade policy, competition law, healthcare policy, infrastructure programs, and assistance programs.
ND Housing reports that 37% of North Dakota renters are housing-cost burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of inco
I support enforcing our immigration laws, but enforcement must be lawful and humane. Due process is a constitutional principle, and everyone entitled to it should receive it, regardless of immigration status. Enforcement does not require humiliation, unnecessary confrontation, or a lack of human dignity. We can enforce the law while respecting constitutional protections and treating people humanely.
State and local governments should remain primarily responsible for administering their elections. I would not support federalizing state and local election administration. At the same time, I recognize the federal government's constitutional responsibility in federal elections and its role in enforcing federal voting-rights protections and minimum election standards. And North Dakota has an interesting fact worth remembering for a debate: it is the only state without voter registration.
Congress has the constitutional authority to declare war and to authorize and fund military action. As Commander in Chief, the President can respond to certain emergencies and direct military operations, but prolonged U.S. involvement in hostilities generally requires congressional authorization under the constitutional and statutory war-powers framework.
There is a genuine constitutional dispute over the extent of a President's independent authority to initiate limited military operations with
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