New Jersey US House District 3 Choose 1
Biographical Information
What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
Border Security & Immigration: Enforce laws, complete barriers, end catch-and-release, prioritize deportation of criminal illegal aliens. Reform legal immigration for skills, merit, assimilation, and protecting American workers.
Economy & Cost of Living: Cut wasteful spending and regulations, expand American energy production, and pursue trade/tax policies to bring jobs home and lower prices for groceries, gas, and housing.
Education: Return control to parents and local communities, expand school choice, protect parental rights, and refocus on core reading, math, and civics.
Fiscal Responsibility: Support America First budgeting that cuts bureaucracy and non-essential foreign aid, redirecting to infrastructure and veterans.
Election Integrity: Back voter ID, secure in-person voting with limited verified absentee options, and safeguards against fraud.
As a grassroots Republican, I will fight to secure borders, lower costs, improve education, reduce debt, and put America First.
What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
To ease the cost of living:
- Energy costs: Expand domestic oil, natural gas, and new technologies to increase supply, lower utility and gas prices, and cut reliance on foreign sources. Reduce federal red tape on energy infrastructure.
- Housing affordability: Cut federal regulations that drive up building costs and encourage more housing supply through market-driven approaches.
- Groceries and daily expenses: Combat inflation by cutting wasteful spending and excessive regulations that raise consumer prices.
For long-term economic stability:
- Tax and regulatory relief: Simplify the tax code and reduce burdensome regulations to help small businesses grow and keep more money in families’ pockets.
- Fiscal responsibility: Support balanced budgeting that reins in national debt and prioritizes core domestic needs.
- Trade and jobs: Pursue trade policies that protect American workers and bring manufacturing jobs back to strengthen local economies.
What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
To improve affordability:
- Increase price transparency so patients see costs upfront.
- Promote competition by reducing unnecessary federal regulations that drive up prices.
- Lower prescription drug costs through faster approval of generics and safe over-the-counter options.
- Encourage market-based reforms like Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and association health plans for more affordable choices.
For accessibility and easier navigation:
- Expand telehealth options, especially for mental health in underserved areas.
- Reduce administrative burdens on doctors so they spend more time with patients.
- Streamline insurance processes to help families understand coverage and find in-network providers.
For mental health specifically:
- Remove barriers to increase the provider workforce and support community-based care to reduce costly ER visits.
- Focus on prevention and early intervention by integrating mental health with primary care.
What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
My position:
- Secure the border first with physical barriers, technology, and ending catch-and-release.
- Enforce existing laws, including mandatory E-Verify and prioritizing deportation of criminal illegal aliens.
- Reform legal immigration to emphasize skills, merit, assimilation, and protection of American jobs and wages.
- End incentives for illegal entry, including expansive sanctuary policies.
The federal government has clear constitutional authority over immigration. Federal enforcement must lead, and state and local governments should fully cooperate — not obstruct. This includes honoring ICE detainers and sharing information on criminal illegal aliens. Sanctuary policies undermine national sovereignty and public safety.
As a grassroots Republican, secure borders and enforced laws are the foundation of a fair immigration system. Only after regaining control can we thoughtfully expand legal pathways that serve America’s interests and New Jersey families.
What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
I believe life begins at conception and support protecting the unborn while respecting women’s rights. Abortion is a deeply personal moral issue that should not be dictated by the federal government.
My stance: I oppose federal taxpayer funding for abortions, consistent with the Hyde Amendment. I support reasonable limits like parental notification, informed consent, and protections against late-term abortions except when the mother’s life is at risk. I also support expanding adoption services and alternatives so women have real choices.
On reproductive healthcare, I favor competition, price transparency, and innovation to improve affordability and access.
Regarding roles: The Dobbs decision correctly returned authority over abortion to the states. The federal government should not impose a nationwide mandate. States should reflect the values of their residents. New Jersey’s law is a decision for its voters and state representatives, not Congress.
What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
I would support:
- Targeted infrastructure upgrades: Prioritize federal funding to harden roads, bridges, utilities, improve stormwater drainage, and reinforce flood barriers for clear protection and high taxpayer return.
- Better permitting and local flexibility: Streamline permitting so states and localities can quickly repair infrastructure and control resilience funds.
- Improved forecasting: Maintain strong support for accurate weather forecasting, early warning systems, and FEMA coordination with state/local governments.
- Market-driven solutions: Encourage private innovation, public-private partnerships, and state initiatives for flood mapping, building codes, and insurance reforms. Avoid one-size-fits-all federal regulations that raise energy costs without proportional benefits.
- Fiscal responsibility: Focus spending on proven mitigation projects with strong benefit-cost ratios.
What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
To expand access: Maintain New Jersey’s in-person early voting, Election Day voting, and no-excuse mail-in ballots. Ensure convenient polling locations and clear voter information.
To restore trust: Require photo voter ID, limit mail-in ballots with strict chain-of-custody and deadlines, prohibit ballot harvesting, ensure rigorous identity checks for same-day registration, mandate secure auditable paper ballots with risk-limiting audits, and allow meaningful bipartisan observation.
The federal government should set high national standards for election security while respecting states’ primary role.
As a grassroots Republican, secure elections that are easy for legitimate voters and hard for fraud build public confidence. Every legal vote should count, and only legal votes should count.
Justin Barbera
America First Grassroots Republican
Candidate for Congress, NJ-3
Biographical Information
What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
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What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
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What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
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What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
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What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
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What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
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What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
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Biographical Information
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What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
We have secured the border and made the tax cuts permanent, but the fight for the American worker is just beginning. In towns across Burlington, Mercer, and Monmouth County, the "cost of existing" is still a weight around your neck. The biggest hurdles we face are affordability, accountability, and a government that ignores its own people.
To fix affordability, we have to stop the madness in D.C. That means a hard cap on federal spending, shrinking the bloated bureaucracy, and an immediate end to the printing and borrowing of money that devalues every dollar in your pocket. We cannot spend our way into prosperity with money we don't have.
On accountability, we need more than just term limits and a ban on insider trading. I support a total lobbyist ban for former members of Congress and moving federal agencies out of the D.C. bubble and into the heartland where they have to face the people they affect. We need a government that answers to you, not the special interests.
My commitment
What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
Locking in the tax cuts was a start, but families in Burlington, Mercer, and Monmouth counties are still being bled dry. To restore stability, we must attack the root causes of why your paycheck doesn't go as far as it used to.
I support an immediate moratorium on all non-defense discretionary spending. We must shrink the size of the federal government until it fits back inside the Constitution. This means eliminating sub-agencies that exist only to create red tape. When we stop the reckless printing and borrowing of money, we stop the inflation that acts as a stealth tax on every working family in NJ-03.
I will fight for a "Productive Economy" over a "Financialized" one. We need to incentivize domestic manufacturing right here in Central Jersey so we aren't reliant on globalist supply chains. Stability comes from making things in America again and keeping our wealth within our own borders. No more bailouts for big banks while our small businesses struggle.
What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
Healthcare in America has become a racket for insurance companies and Big Pharma. In NJ-03, families are paying more for less coverage while bureaucrats tell you which doctor you can see. I support breaking the healthcare monopolies and putting the power back in your hands.
We need real price transparency so you know the cost of a procedure before you get the bill. I support expanding Health Savings Accounts and allowing insurance to be sold across state lines to force companies to compete for your business. We must also stop the legalized bribery from drug lobbyists that keeps medicine costs high for our seniors in towns like Manchester and Berkeley.
For mental health, we need to stop the top-down federal mandates that treat every person like a number. I will fight to redirect federal administrative funds directly to our local community clinics and faith-based organizations in Central Jersey. These are the people who actually know our neighbors and can provide real support without t
What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
The border is finally closed and the wall is being finished, but the job is not over. For years, the people of Burlington, Mercer, and Monmouth counties watched as our resources were drained by those who broke our laws. My position is simple: No amnesty and no excuses. We must prioritize the safety and wages of American citizens in NJ-03 above all else.
The relationship between federal and local government must be one of total cooperation. I will fight to strip every cent of federal funding from "sanctuary" jurisdictions that refuse to work with ICE. If a criminal is in our country illegally, our local police should have the full backing of the federal government to ensure they are deported immediately.
We need a system that puts the American worker first. That means mandatory E-Verify for all employers and an end to the "catch and release" policies of the past. Our communities in towns like Hamilton and Freehold deserve to feel safe in their own neighborhoods.
What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
The Supreme Court did exactly what was right by returning this power to the people and their elected representatives. I am unapologetically pro-life and believe our society is measured by how we protect the most vulnerable. This is no longer a decision for nine unelected judges in D.C. to make for every town in Burlington, Mercer, and Monmouth counties.
The federal government’s role should be focused on supporting a culture of life and the American family. I support expanding adoption tax credits and ensuring that crisis pregnancy centers in Central Jersey have the resources they need to help mothers in need. We should be making it easier for families to choose life, not harder.
The states now have the authority to set their own standards, and I trust the people of New Jersey to make those decisions through their local representatives. My focus in Congress will be on protecting the sanctity of life and ensuring that federal tax dollars are never used to fund abortions. We need to be
What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
In NJ-03, we need real-world protection, not the "Green New Deal" scams that tax our families to enrich globalists. My focus is on Hard Infrastructure that keeps our neighborhoods safe and our power on across Burlington, Mercer, and western Monmouth counties.
I support aggressive funding to modernize our aging electrical grid and reinforce our inland waterways to prevent the flash flooding. We must streamline federal permitting so local projects aren't stalled for years by radical activists.
Resilience means using American steel and workers to build things that last. I will fight to keep your tax dollars here in Central Jersey to fix our bridges and drainage systems, rather than sending that money overseas for climate treaties. We are going to protect our communities with common sense and engineering, not with new taxes that only serve to make us poor and cold.
What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
Trust is the foundation of our Republic, but right now, many in NJ-03 feel their voice is being drowned out. To restore that trust, we must make it easy to vote but impossible to cheat. I support One Day, One Vote, and a Paper Trail. I am a "Yes" on Universal Voter ID. You need an ID for almost everything in life; you should certainly need one to choose the leaders of our country. I also support a federal ban on "ballot harvesting" by partisan hacks and a requirement for proof of citizenship to register. If you aren't a citizen, you don't get a say in our future.
We need to return to precinct-level voting where results are delivered on election night, not weeks later. When the process is transparent and the rules are followed, trust returns to the system. I will fight for a system where every legal vote is counted and every citizen in Central Jersey knows the results are legitimate.
Biographical Information
What are the most important challenges facing our country, and how do you propose to address them?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What policies would you support to ease the cost of living and strengthen long-term economic stability for families in this district?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What changes would you support to make healthcare and mental health services more affordable, accessible, and easier to navigate?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What is your position on immigration reform? What do you think the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and state or local government institutions should be?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What is your stance on access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare? And what roles should the federal government and the states each play on reproductive healthcare?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What actions would you support to strengthen climate resilience and protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from the impact of extreme weather?
Candidate has not yet responded.
What measures do you support to expand voter access and restore trust in our elections?
Candidate has not yet responded.