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Zach Nunn

His campaign says he is fighting to make it easier for parents to work, raise families and pay the bills, and that he has led the charge to simplify adoption, expand child care options and support working parents.

Zach Nunn for Congress

Evidence timeline

Where statements meet the record.

  1. official action

    Zach Nunn: Matches stated direction

    His campaign says he led efforts to simplify adoption, expand child care options and support working parents. He sponsored bills in both Congresses on adoption and on children in foster care, all of which were referred to committee without further action: an adoption tax-credit bill (H.R. 2510, 2023), the Pre-K for Kids Act (H.R. 8236, 2024), the Brighter Futures for Teens and Young Adults in Foster Care Act (H.R. 9316, 2024), the Fostering the Future for American Children and Families Act (H.R. 6221, 2025) and the HOME for Foster Youth Act (H.R. 9072, 2026). He also sponsored three resolutions supporting foster youth and foster sibling recognition months. On child care he sponsored no bill of his own. Among his 874 cosponsorships, eight carry a title naming child care, and two more, both called the Investing in Rural America Act (H.R. 4736 in 2023 and H.R. 1246 in 2025), name child care in their official titles among other rural services. Seven of those ten were referred to a committee and three on to a subcommittee; none advanced further. Limit: Sponsorship and cosponsorship are official actions in the direction each limb of the statement calls for, and none of these bills advanced beyond a subcommittee. The child-care limb rests on cosponsorship alone: he sponsored no child-care bill of his own. The check read every title Congress.gov carries for all 114 bills and resolutions he sponsored and all 874 he cosponsored, matching on the words child care; a bill that names the same subject differently, such as daycare or dependent care, and a provision inside a larger act that no title names, would both be missed.

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  2. official action

    Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated record claim

    She says she spent three years advocating to let foster children keep their social security survivor benefits. She is the sole sponsor of Senate File 481 (2025), a bill on benefits received by children in foster care, introduced and referred to Health and Human Services on March 3, 2025 with a subcommittee assigned, on which she sat, and no further action. Her post says the change was announced by Governor Reynolds rather than enacted by that bill. Limit: A sponsor list records bills, not advocacy in other forms, so the three-year span her post claims is not something this record can confirm or contradict: the Legislature lists one bill from her on the subject, introduced in March 2025, and none in either earlier General Assembly. Her post says the change was announced by the Governor rather than enacted by her bill, and this card does not say her advocacy brought it about.

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