Illinois’ 14th Congressional District: who’s running on Nov. 3, 2026

Proposes cutting nondefense discretionary spending to pre-2020 levels, zero-based budgeting, and a balanced budget amendment with line-item veto.

Proposes lowering household costs through expanded affordable housing and down payment assistance; voted against the 2025 Rescissions Act.

Proposes replacing the ACA with market-based options including expanded HSAs, cross-state insurance sales, price lists and pre-existing condition protections.

Prioritizes making ACA premium tax credits permanent; voted for the 2026 three-year ACA subsidy extension (H.R. 1834).

Supports finishing the border wall, ending DACA and birthright citizenship for children of unauthorized immigrants, with capped legal immigration.

Supports pathways to citizenship and permanent DACA protections; opposes added ICE and CBP enforcement funding until reforms pass; voted against Laken Riley Act.

Supports ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood and abortion providers; described himself as anti-abortion in 2024 without stating a view on a national ban.

Supports access to abortion and IVF without added restrictions; voted against H.R. 21 (Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act).

Ties tax burden to federal spending and backs a balanced-budget amendment; has not offered a specific 2026 tax plan.

Proposes funding food aid, health care, housing and child care through higher taxes on corporations and top earners; voted against 2025 reconciliation law.

Ties crime policy to deporting people charged with violent crimes and treating cartels as threats; in 2024 backed armed school staff and ending gun-free zones.

Supports treating gun violence as public health issue and universal background checks; voted against H.R. 5140 on trying DC minors as adults.

Supports reducing or eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and shrinking the federal role in schools.

In 2020, led Illinois delegation urging Education Secretary DeVos to rescind a rule she said diverted CARES Act relief from public schools to private schools.

Supports expanding domestic energy production under the administration's energy goals; earlier platform stressed energy independence.

Supports a 100% clean energy economy by 2050; voted against overturning California vehicle emission waiver (H.J.Res. 88).

Supports Israel, backs administration efforts to end the Ukraine war, and supports broader authority to act against cartels and terrorist groups.

Voted to end U.S. hostilities with Iran (H.Con.Res. 86) and for 2024 Ukraine aid; favors diplomacy to restore U.S. standing abroad.

Supports the administration's tariffs as a tool to open foreign markets and secure fairer trade terms.

Supports repealing and refunding the administration's tariffs, using tariffs only selectively; voted to end the Canada tariff emergency (H.J.Res. 72).