Wisconsin Congressional District 1: 2026 Voter Guide

Supports lowering costs by cutting government spending, expanding American energy production, and reducing regulatory costs; supports lower taxes and making the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions permanent (per his campaign site and voting record).

Supports securing the U.S. southern border, including finishing the border wall, to stop the flow of illicit drugs such as fentanyl; favors working with local law enforcement on community safety (per his campaign site).

States he strongly supports Social Security and Medicare and is committed to protecting both programs for older Americans and those who rely on them (per his campaign site).

Introduced the Make Elections Great Again Act, which would set federal baseline requirements including photo ID to vote, citizenship verification at registration, voter-roll maintenance, and bans on ballot harvesting and ranked-choice voting for federal elections (per his campaign statements).

Supports banning members of Congress from trading stocks; introduced legislation to ban lawmakers, their spouses, and dependent children from wagering on prediction markets involving government actions or political outcomes (per his campaign statements).

Opposes gun control measures; voted against the Bipartisan Background Checks Act in 2019 and 2021 while supporting funding for the existing federal background-check system. Opposes abortion and supported overturning Roe v. Wade (per his voting record).

Supports restoring Affordable Care Act subsidies and reversing Medicaid cuts; lowering prescription drug costs including Medicare negotiation of more drugs and a $35 insulin cap; creating a public option; prior-authorization reform; and staffing standards set by bedside nurses (per bermanforcongress.com/priorities).

Supports raising the federal minimum wage, expanding the child tax credit, lowering child care and housing costs (including Low-Income Housing Tax Credit expansion and down-payment assistance), preventing private equity from buying single-family homes, and investing in clean energy and grid reliability (per his campaign priorities page).

Pledges not to take corporate PAC money; supports overturning Citizens United, ending dark money with full disclosure, banning stock trading by members of Congress, the president, and vice president, and imposing ethics rules on Supreme Court justices (per his campaign priorities page).

Supports the PRO Act to protect the right to organize, federal contract and tax incentives favoring companies that hire in local communities, apprenticeship and skilled-trades expansion, and opposing subsidies for corporations that move jobs overseas (per his campaign priorities page).

Supports protecting reproductive freedom, stating health care decisions belong to patients and their doctors; supports funding rural maternity care and fixing Medicaid reimbursement rates that lead hospitals to close OB wards (per his campaign priorities page).

Supports increased investment in VA staffing and mental health care and opposes VA privatization; supports passing the Richard Star Act. Opposes cuts to Social Security and supports lifting the cap so high earners pay in on all income (per his campaign priorities page).