- See Nick Langworthy's sponsored bills →Nick LangworthyRepublicanIncumbent✓ Verified$2.6M raised
- Aaron GiesDemocratic✓ Verified$584K raised
Where they stand
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| Issue | Nick LangworthyRepublican | Aaron GiesDemocratic |
|---|---|---|
| Economy & Jobs | Langworthy supports curbing wasteful government spending, increasing take-home pay, creating good-paying jobs, and promoting pro-growth tax and deregulatory policies to stabilize the economy. Langworthy supports the 2024 Farm Bill to aid farmers and rural communities, including provisions for dairy, maple syrup, grape growers, rural healthcare, and workforce development. Langworthy votes consistently yea on economic bills supporting technology use, capital access, privacy, insurance reauthorization, and financial exploitation prevention. | Gies supports raising wages and strengthening workers’ bargaining power instead of tax breaks and deregulation for large corporations. Gies opposes cuts to childcare support, saying they undermine family stability and economic security. |
| Healthcare | Langworthy supports personalized, affordable healthcare options, lowering prices through transparency and competition, investing in cures, and improving telemedicine access. Langworthy supports expanding access to lower-cost biosimilar prescription drugs through bipartisan legislation to improve affordability. Langworthy votes yea on healthcare bills including rural care improvement, Medicaid reform, premium reduction, patient support, and early act reauthorization. | Gies supports universal healthcare and opposes cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, VA benefits, and rural healthcare systems. Gies supports extending ACA healthcare subsidies, saying they are the difference between affordable coverage and families skipping care. |
| Immigration | Langworthy supports fully funding border enforcement, ending catch-and-release, requiring legal status for employment, and eliminating welfare incentives to combat illegal immigration. Langworthy votes yea on immigration enforcement and security bills, including Secure America Act and deporting fraudsters, but votes nay on a national emergency resolution. | Gies supports strong, secure borders and fair treatment for law-abiding immigrants, including due process and a guest worker program. |
| Where they differ on Immigration: Aaron Gies supports strong, secure borders and fair treatment for law-abiding immigrants, including due process and a guest worker program 1. Nick Langworthy supports fully funding border enforcement, ending catch-and-release, requiring legal status for employment, and eliminating welfare incentives to combat illegal immigration 2. He votes yea on immigration enforcement and security bills, including the Secure America Act and deporting fraudsters, but votes nay on a national emergency resolution 3. | ||
| Public Safety & Crime | Langworthy supports recruiting 200,000 more police officers, opposes defunding the police, cracking down on lenient prosecutors, and criminalizing all forms of illicit fentanyl. Langworthy supports enhanced security measures at the U.S.-Canada northern border to address national security threats and illegal crossings. Langworthy votes yea on public safety bills covering prison staff safety, veterans’ gun rights, cashless bail reporting, and keeping violent offenders off streets. | Gies supports universal background checks and red flag laws to ensure responsible gun ownership and keep guns from criminals. |
| Abortion | Langworthy supports protecting the lives of unborn children and their mothers as part of upholding constitutional freedoms. | Gies supports a woman’s right to choose and codifying Roe protections into law, opposing any national abortion ban. |
| Where they differ on Abortion: Aaron Gies supports a woman’s right to choose and codifying Roe protections into law, opposing any national abortion ban 1. Nick Langworthy supports protecting the lives of unborn children and their mothers as part of upholding constitutional freedoms 2. | ||
| Taxes & Government Spending | Langworthy supports curbing wasteful government spending to reduce inflation and national debt while promoting pro-growth tax policies. Langworthy votes yea on tax relief, budget resolutions, and multiple appropriations acts related to national security, agriculture, and government spending. | Gies would eliminate the cap on Social Security earnings to keep the program strong without raising middle-class taxes. |
| Where they differ on Taxes & Government Spending: Aaron Gies would eliminate the cap on Social Security earnings to keep the program strong without raising middle-class taxes 1. Nick Langworthy supports curbing wasteful government spending to reduce inflation and national debt while promoting pro-growth tax policies 2. Langworthy votes yea on tax relief, budget resolutions, and multiple appropriations acts related to national security, agriculture, and government spending 3. | ||
| Energy & Environment | Langworthy supports maximizing production of reliable, cleaner, American-made energy and cutting permitting process time to reduce reliance on foreign countries and lower gas and utility costs. Langworthy supports the Energy Choice Act to end conflicts over American energy policies and promote energy independence. Langworthy votes yea on environmental and energy bills including EPA rule disapproval, diesel emissions reduction, marine conservation, and fuel retailer choice. | Gies supports environmental stewardship, upgrading water systems, and renewable energy projects to promote resilience and independence. |
| Foreign Policy & Defense | Langworthy supports investing in the military, establishing a Select Committee on China, and exercising peace through strength with allies to counter global threats. Langworthy votes nay on resolutions to remove US forces from Iran and Lebanon, and yea on defense authorization and veterans’ clinic naming bills. | Gies opposes asking another generation to fight wars driven by political convenience. |