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Schools, college and job training

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Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

John Braun

His campaign says parents, not bureaucrats, should know what happens in their children's classrooms and that he supports a federal Parents Bill of Rights. It says he will fight to rein in tuition and expand skilled-trades training.

John Braun for Congress

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Her campaign says many good jobs do not need a four-year degree, and that she is working to widen apprenticeships and technical training, cut degree requirements for jobs and let Pell Grants pay for job training.

Marie for Congress

Evidence timeline

Where statements meet the record.

  1. official action

    Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction

    Her campaign says she is working to let Pell Grants pay for job training, not just college degrees. She joined the JOBS Act of 2023 (H.R. 793), officially a bill to extend Pell Grant eligibility to certain short-term programs, as a cosponsor on May 24, 2023; it had no floor vote. Workforce Pell Grants became law in 2025 as section 83002 of Public Law 119-21, the reconciliation act, which she voted against on passage on May 22, 2025 (Roll Call 145) and on the final House vote on July 3, 2025 (Roll Call 190). Limit: Her cosponsorship shows the direction she states. Her votes against the act that created Workforce Pell Grants were votes on a reconciliation bill of several hundred pages, not on that section, and a vote against a vehicle is not a vote against each of its provisions. They are still the only recorded votes she has cast on a law that did what her campaign says she is working toward, and a reader should see both.

    Marie for Congress Congress.gov GovInfo Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

  2. official action

    John Braun: Matches stated record claim

    His campaign says he authored the College Affordability Program, which it calls the largest cut to public university tuition in the nation. Senate Bill 5954 of 2015, titled "Reducing tuition", names him as its prime sponsor, first of seventeen senators. The Senate passed it three times that year, the last on June 29 by 48 to 0, with his Yea each time; the House passed it 98 to 0 the next day, and it became Chapter 36, Laws of 2015, 3rd Special Session. Limit: The record settles authorship and enactment. It does not settle the superlative: no legislature publishes a ranking of tuition cuts across the states, and his biography words it differently again, as "the first and largest". Testing it would take national tuition data for a defined year and sector, which this desk has not read. Sixteen other senators sponsored the bill with him.

    John Braun for Congress John Braun for Congress Washington State Legislature Washington State Legislature

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