Colorado — 4th District

Eileen Laubacher

Tackle expenses and balance budget

Laubacher focuses on driving down inflation and reducing expenses for working families. She advocates for cracking down on price gouging, providing working-class tax relief, holding utility companies accountable, and balancing the budget responsibly without threatening Social Security or Medicare.

• Crack down on price gouging and cut prescription drug prices
• Hold utility companies accountable for sky-rocketing prices
• Provide tax relief for working people and drive down inflation with common-sense policies
• Balance the federal budget responsibly without manufactured debt crises

Lauren Boebert

Cut spending and balance budget

Boebert argues that federal inflation and fiscal instability stem from a spending problem rather than a revenue problem. She supports free-market competition, capping federal civilian pay, passing a Balanced Budget Amendment, and reducing regulatory burdens on businesses.

• Introduce and vote for a Balanced Budget Amendment every year in Congress
• Cap federal civilian pay and benefits to private sector levels
• Voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 to raise the debt limit while cutting federal spending
• Voted for H.R. 1 (2025 reconciliation bill) providing program funding, raising the debt limit, and altering tax policy

“The federal government doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem.”

“We don’t need tax increases. I will introduce and vote for a Balanced Budget Amendment every year I serve in Congress.”

Eileen Laubacher

Supports congressional reform and transparency

Laubacher prioritizes structural reforms in Washington to restore accountability. She advocates for congressional term limits, stock trading bans for lawmakers, lobbyist restrictions, ending dark money in campaigns, and protecting voting rights.

• Enact common-sense term limits for members of Congress
• Ban members of Congress from trading stock while in office
• Crack down on lobbyist influence and require full transparency to end dark money in campaigns
• Protect voting rights and ensure fair elections

“We can’t solve Colorado’s challenges until we fix what’s broken in Washington.”

“I was 17-years-old the first time I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But I have never felt as much of a threat to our country, our Constitution, our very democracy, as I do at this time. And Lauren Boebert is one of those threats.”

Lauren Boebert

Supports term limits and executive power

Boebert advocates for term limits for all politicians and expanding presidential authority to streamline the executive branch. She voted against certifying the 2020 presidential electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania and opposed Colorado's ranked-choice voting initiative.

• Supports term limits for all politicians
• Advocates giving the President power to fire executive branch employees who do not implement his policies
• Voted against certifying the 2020 electoral vote counts for Arizona and Pennsylvania on January 6-7, 2021
• Opposed Colorado Proposition 131 (Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative) in 2024

“Term limits for all politicians, not just the good ones.”

“Give more authority to the President to take on the Deep State by firing those in the executive branch not implementing his policies.”

Eileen Laubacher

Expand healthcare access and lower costs

Laubacher supports making healthcare affordable and accessible across Colorado, with a focus on rural communities. She advocates for keeping rural hospitals open, expanding telehealth, cutting prescription drug costs, and protecting coverage access.

• Keep rural hospitals open and expand telehealth services
• Cut prescription drug prices
• Ensure every Coloradan receives necessary medical care without going broke

Lauren Boebert

Promotes free-market healthcare options

Boebert supports free-market healthcare solutions driven by private competition and pricing transparency. She emphasizes personal, portable healthcare plans and private-sector options for veterans.

• Promotes personal and portable healthcare options
• Advocates for transparent and competitive healthcare pricing
• Supports providing private-sector options for veterans' healthcare

“Healthcare should be personal and portable with transparent and competitive pricing.”

Eileen Laubacher

Protect reproductive freedom and access

Laubacher advocates protecting comprehensive reproductive healthcare rights for women. Her platform explicitly commits to safeguarding access to legal abortion, IVF treatments, and birth control.

• Protect women’s access to legal abortion
• Protect access to in vitro fertilization (IVF)
• Safeguard access to birth control and contraception

Lauren Boebert

Opposes abortion and defunds Planned Parenthood

Boebert holds a strong pro-life position, believing human life begins at conception. She supports stripping all federal tax funding from Planned Parenthood and similar organizations.

• Maintains that life begins at conception
• Supports completely defunding Planned Parenthood from federal tax dollars

“I believe life begins at conception.”

“Planned Parenthood can go fund themselves. They should never receive a dime of our federal tax dollars.”

Eileen Laubacher

Supports all-of-the-above energy strategy

Laubacher advocates an all-of-the-above energy policy produced within Colorado to foster economic growth and energy security. Her plan includes clean, traditional, and alternative energy sources while ensuring rural communities share in job creation.

• Power America with energy produced in Colorado
• Pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy incorporating clean, traditional, and alternative sources
• Invest in local businesses to create good-paying energy jobs in rural communities

Lauren Boebert

Promotes domestic fossil fuels and nuclear

Boebert strongly advocates for expanding domestic oil and gas extraction alongside nuclear energy to achieve national energy independence. She rejects federal green energy mandates like the Green New Deal and voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act.

• Supports increased domestic oil and gas extraction ('Drill baby, drill!')
• Supports adding advanced nuclear technology as a clean energy source
• Opposes the Green New Deal and federal subsidies picking energy winners and losers
• Voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R. 1 in 118th Congress)

“I support an all-of-the-above strategy where the government does not choose winners and losers. Drill baby, drill!”

Eileen Laubacher

Expand VA services and cut red tape

Drawing on her background as a retired Rear Admiral, Laubacher advocates expanding VA partnerships, mobile clinics, and burn pit exposure care. She supports streamlining administrative processes for benefits and expanding job, mental health, and childcare resources for military families.

• Expand VA partnerships, mobile clinics, and telehealth access
• Ensure full healthcare access for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits
• Cut red tape to reduce waiting periods for earned veteran benefits
• Expand job training, certification, mental health, and childcare programs for veterans and spouses

Lauren Boebert

Supports private-sector veteran care options

Boebert supports strengthening national defense and expanding healthcare options for veterans by introducing private-sector options. She has voted for defense authorization bills and military construction appropriations.

• Advocates for giving veterans private-sector healthcare choices
• Voted for the FY 2024 and FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Acts
• Voted for military construction and veterans affairs funding extensions in 2025

“I’ll always vote for a strong national defense, better care for our Veterans, stronger trade agreements and to keep the promises we’ve made to our seniors.”

“Veterans should have a private-sector option, too!”

Eileen Laubacher

Protect local farmland and water

Laubacher focuses on safeguarding Colorado's agricultural foundation by blocking foreign ownership of state land and water rights. She advocates for supporting family farms, ranches, and small businesses to sustain rural economies.

• Prohibit foreign entities from acquiring Colorado water rights and farmland
• Support family farms, ranches, and rural small businesses
• Strengthen rural economies for future generations

Lauren Boebert

Promotes natural resources and water rights

Boebert emphasizes water rights, natural resources, and agricultural protections through her congressional committee roles. She serves as Vice Chair of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and on the Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee.

• Serves as Vice Chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
• Serves on the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries
• Advocates against federal regulatory interference in western water and land management

Eileen Laubacher

Equip first responders and preparedness

Laubacher emphasizes community security through enhanced resources for law enforcement, firefighters, and EMTs. She advocates investing in updated safety gear, mental health support, wildfire prevention, and community policing.

• Equip first responders, EMTs, firefighters, and police with modern gear and training
• Invest in public safety mental health resources and cancer prevention measures
• Fund disaster preparedness, wildfire prevention, and community policing

Lauren Boebert

Supports law enforcement and criminal penalties

Boebert supports law enforcement through committee oversight and legislation targeting specific offenses. She serves on the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement and supported bills penalizing driving under the influence for undocumented immigrants.

• Serves on the House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement
• Voted for the Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act of 2025 making impaired driving grounds for deportation

Lauren Boebert

Enforce immigration laws and build wall

Boebert prioritizes strict border enforcement, completing the southern border wall, and ending sanctuary city policies. In Congress, she consistently voted for border restriction bills and voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

• Supports full enforcement of current immigration laws, ending sanctuary cities, and constructing the border wall
• Voted for the Laken Riley Act to require DHS detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for theft crimes
• Voted for the Secure the Border Act of 2023 (H.R. 2)
• Voted to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2024

“A country without borders is not a country at all.”

“We must enforce our current immigration laws, put a stop to sanctuary cities and build the wall.”

Lauren Boebert

Opposes gun control regulations

Boebert is an outspoken defender of Second Amendment rights and strongly opposes any federal restrictions on firearm ownership. Her campaign identity centers on protecting gun rights against legislative action.

• Promotes a explicit pro-guns platform
• Pledges to block gun control legislation and protect Second Amendment rights

“I won’t let them take away our guns.”

Lauren Boebert

Supports school choice and local control

Boebert strongly supports school choice, charter schools, and local control over education. She advocates for eliminating the federal Department of Education, arguing parents make better choices for students than bureaucrats.

• Supports expanding charter schools and universal school choice
• Advocates for abolishing the federal Department of Education
• Emphasizes parental rights and local decision-making in schooling

“Parents know better than bureaucrats. There shouldn’t even be a federal Department of Education.”