Election 2026 · Public beta
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Issue record
Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
Campaign positions
His campaign says families are being crushed by inflation and proposes cutting wasteful spending, reducing red tape on small manufacturers and protecting the skilled trades. It calls the 2025 Legislature's tax package the largest tax increase in state history and says he fought it.
Her campaign says she is working to bring down the cost of housing and childcare and to cut out the middlemen who raise the cost of health care, and that she has opposed grocery-chain mergers and shrinkflation packaging. It names a better-trained, better-paid workforce and cheap energy as ways to steady prices.
Evidence timeline
official action
His campaign says he led floor opposition to the 2025 income tax, warning that once the door was opened it would inevitably expand to all residents. The income tax the Legislature passed is Senate Bill 6346, titled "Tax on millionaires", in the 2026 session. On February 16, 2026 the Senate Journal records him moving his own floor amendment, number 692, which failed on a voice vote, speaking for other amendments to the bill, and speaking against passage. He voted Yea on three amendments that failed on roll calls, and Nay on Senate passage, which carried 27 to 22. On March 11 the Journal lists him among ten senators who spoke against concurring in the House amendments; he voted Nay on concurrence and on final passage, each carried 27 to 21. It became Chapter 238, Laws of 2026. Limit: His votes and the Journal match the opposition he describes. The year does not: the campaign dates the income tax to 2025, and the one in the record passed in the 2026 session. This desk reads that as a misdated reference to the same bill and has put the reading to the owner. The Journal shows him offering an amendment and speaking against the bill, alongside other Republican senators who did the same; whether he led the opposition is a characterization it does not settle.
official action
Her campaign says she is working to stop manufacturers of farm and consumer equipment from forcing customers to pay the original manufacturer for repairs. She has sponsored four right-to-repair bills. Two concern farm equipment: the Agricultural Right to Repair Act (H.R. 5604, introduced September 20, 2023) and the FARM Act (H.R. 5857, October 28, 2025), which would require manufacturers to make documentation, parts, software and tools for farm equipment available. Two concern equipment the military buys: the Servicemember Right-to-Repair Act of 2024 (H.R. 10401) and the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025 (H.R. 5155). She was the only original cosponsor of the Fair Repair Act, which covers consumer digital electronic equipment, in 2024 (H.R. 8544) and again in 2026 (H.R. 7404), and of the Wheelchair Right to Repair Act (H.R. 5039, 2025), which covers powered wheelchairs. She was an original cosponsor of the REPAIR Act, on motor-vehicle repair, in both Congresses (H.R. 906, 2023; H.R. 1566, 2025). A subcommittee forwarded each version to the full Energy and Commerce Committee, on November 2, 2023 and February 10, 2026. Limit: "Working to" is what sponsorship and cosponsorship show, and none of these bills has become law. The furthest any has gone is a subcommittee vote on the REPAIR Act, a motor-vehicle bill led by another member, in 2023 and again in 2026; her own farm bills were referred to committee and went no further.
official action
Her campaign says she has worked in Congress against unfair business practices, including by opposing mergers of major grocery chains and deceptive shrinkflation packaging. She sponsored the Shrinkflation Prevention Act of 2024 (H.R. 7825), introduced March 26, 2024 and referred to a subcommittee. Separately, she sponsored the Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act (H.R. 8184, April 2, 2026), which would strengthen the Clayton Act's prohibition on price discrimination; it concerns pricing, not mergers. No official record of her opposing a grocery-chain merger was found: none of the titles of her 57 sponsored bills and resolutions concerns a merger, and searches of her House office's site and of news coverage of congressional letters on the Kroger and Albertsons merger did not find her name. Limit: The label rests on the shrinkflation half, where her sponsorship matches the direction she states. The merger half is unconfirmed, not disproved: opposition to a merger usually takes the form of a letter or a comment to the Federal Trade Commission, and the FTC's docket for the Kroger and Albertsons merger was not searched.
official action
His campaign says that as Senate Republican Leader he opposed the 2021 capital gains tax. Senate Bill 5096, the capital gains excise tax, passed the Senate 25 to 24 on March 6, 2021, and its conference report passed by the same margin on April 25. He voted Nay both times. On March 6 the Senate Journal records him moving three floor amendments, numbers 431, 432 and 434, none of which was adopted, and lists him among sixteen senators who spoke against passage. It became Chapter 196, Laws of 2021. Limit: The roll calls and the Journal show his votes, his amendments and that he spoke against the bill. They do not show caucus strategy or anything he did off the floor.
official action
His campaign says that as chairman of Senate Ways & Means he led the 2017-19 operating budget, and that it achieved full state funding of basic education under the McCleary ruling while cutting property taxes for 73 percent of Washington residents. Substitute Senate Bill 5883, the operating budget for the 2015-17 and 2017-19 biennia, lists him as its only sponsor. The Ways & Means Committee's report on the bill lists him as its chair. The Senate passed it 39 to 10 on June 30, 2017, with his Yea; the House passed it 70 to 23 the same day, and it became Chapter 1, Laws of 2017, 3rd Special Session. Limit: Sponsorship of the budget bill is what "led" can be checked against, and it holds. The results the campaign attaches are not tested here. Whether the state met its McCleary duty was for the state Supreme Court to decide, and its orders were not read for this desk. The 73 percent figure was not traced to any official source, and this desk has not established which bill's property-tax changes it measures.
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