Brian Poindexter
His campaign says companies should not be rewarded for shipping jobs overseas, and that corporations wanting the benefits of this country should invest in American workers and communities.
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Issue record
Trade and American manufacturing
In short
Brian Poindexter's campaign says companies should not be rewarded for shipping jobs overseas and should invest in American workers. Max Miller's campaign says investing in infrastructure strengthens supply chains and cuts reliance on foreign competitors. On the record, Miller's two bills to deny a manufacturing tax credit for parts from a foreign entity of concern stalled in committee. A similar rule, worded differently, became law inside the 2025 tax law he voted for.
Campaign positions
What each campaign says.
Max Miller
His campaign says investing in infrastructure strengthens supply chains and reduces dependence on foreign competitors, and his biography says he saw Ohio's middle class damaged by corporations that chose cheap foreign labour.
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Evidence timeline
What the record shows.
official action
Max Miller: Matches stated direction
His two bills to deny a manufacturing credit for parts from a foreign entity of concern stalled in committee, but a similar rule became law in the 2025 tax law he voted for.
Full detail
In an op-ed his House office quoted in April 2025, he wrote that the tax code should support American manufacturing and workers, not companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. He sponsored a bill in August 2024 (H.R. 9338), and again in April 2025 as the Safeguarding U.S. Supply Chains Act (H.R. 2871), to deny the advanced manufacturing production credit for parts made by a foreign entity of concern. Both stopped at referral to the Ways and Means Committee. A restriction of the same kind became law in the 2025 reconciliation act, which he voted for (Roll Calls 145 and 190): its section 70514 denies that credit to specified foreign entities and to parts with material assistance from a prohibited foreign entity. The same section ends the credit for wind components made and sold after 2027. Limit: His own bills never moved. The restriction that became law is worded differently and sits inside a much larger act, so his vote was on the whole act, not this section alone.
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Sources9 source records
- Campaign home page, including On the Issueshttps://www.poindexterforcongress.com/
Poindexter for Congress · Reviewed Sep 21, 2026
Campaign-controlled source and the whole of its issue material: four sections on one page, with no separate issues page. It also links six public profiles: X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Bluesky. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.
candidate statement
For: Brian Poindexter: campaign position
- Prioritieshttps://votemaxmiller.com/priorities
Max Miller for Congress · Reviewed Sep 21, 2026
Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Three other domains carrying his name are not the campaign: maxmillerforcongress.com has no DNS record, maxmillerforohio.com is a registrar parking page, and millerforohio.com is an unconfigured site template.
candidate statement
For: Max Miller: campaign position
- Meet Maxhttps://votemaxmiller.com/about
Max Miller for Congress · Reviewed Sep 21, 2026
Campaign-controlled source, used for biography and for the manufacturing passage. The site's news section still carries placeholder article slugs, which is template residue and not treated as campaign content.
candidate statement
For: Max Miller: campaign position
- Congressman Max Miller Reintroduces Legislation to Prevent American Taxpayer-Funded Subsidies for Chinese Companieshttps://maxmiller.house.gov/posts/congressman-max-miller-reintroduces-legislation-to-prevent-american-taxpayer-funded-subsidies-for-chinese-companies
Office of Congressman Max Miller · Published Apr 11, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
His House office's release on H.R. 2871. It quotes an op-ed he wrote for Crain's Cleveland Business the year before.
candidate statement
For: Max Miller: Matches stated direction
- H.R. 9338, 118th Congress, advanced manufacturing production credit and foreign entities of concernhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9338
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Sponsorship, text and the referral that ended it. The bill has no short title.
official legislative record
For: Max Miller: Matches stated direction
- H.R. 2871, Safeguarding U.S. Supply Chains Act, 119th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2871
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Sponsorship, text and the referral that ended it.
official legislative record
For: Max Miller: Matches stated direction
- Roll Call 145, H.R. 1, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025145
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 21, 2026
Recorded vote of May 22, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list. The question was on passage.
official legislative record
For: Max Miller: Matches stated direction
- Roll Call 190, H.R. 1, on concurring in the Senate amendmenthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 21, 2026
Recorded vote of July 3, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list. The question was on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment.
official legislative record
For: Max Miller: Matches stated direction
- H.R. 1, 119th Congress, Public Law 119-21https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 21, 2026
The act and its published summary, used for what the law does: the permanent individual rates, and the capped deductions for qualified tips and qualified overtime that run through 2028.
official legislative record
For: Max Miller: Matches stated direction