Illinois — 13th District

Nikki Budzinski

Supports middle-class tax relief and domestic manufacturing

Budzinski identifies fighting inflation as her highest priority, advocating short-term price relief alongside structural investments in domestic manufacturing. She supports lowering middle-class taxes while requiring corporations and high earners to pay more.

• Repeal Trump tax cuts for corporations and households earning over $400,000 per year.
• Extend the child tax credit and cap insulin costs at $35 per month.
• Pass the Competes Act to bring manufacturing back to the United States and relieve supply chain pressures.

“Fighting inflation is the most important issue we are facing. Working people in Central and Southern Illinois are hurting, and they need relief right now.”

Jeff Wilson

Supports cutting regulations and expanding local supply chains

Wilson focuses on lowering household utility and food bills by deregulating energy production and strengthening local supply chains. He advocates tax and regulatory relief for small businesses, middle-class families, and farmers.

• Expand Midwest energy production to lower home utility bills.
• Strengthen local farms and supply chains to reduce food prices.
• Crack down on onerous federal regulations impacting small businesses and farms.

“Families in Illinois' 13th District are being hit hard by rising costs. Jeff will focus on real solutuons - like expanding Midwest energy to lower utility bills, strengthening local farms and supply chains to cut food prices, and cracking down on onerous regulation.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports clean energy transition and short-term domestic production

Budzinski supports transitioning the country toward renewable energy sources like wind and solar with union labor, while utilizing nuclear energy and natural gas as bridge fuels. To address immediate consumer price spikes, she supports temporary gas tax freezes and domestic oil production on federal lands.

• Transition to wind, solar, and renewable energy while expanding union job training programs.
• Support natural gas and nuclear energy as transitional energy sources.
• Enact a windfall profit tax on oil and gas companies and expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

“Support energy policies that bridge us to a clean energy economy, including supporting natural gas and nuclear energy”

Jeff Wilson

Supports expanding oil, natural gas, and nuclear power

Wilson advocates expanding oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy production to lower utility bills and power local communities. He emphasizes traditional and nuclear energy expansion as critical for economic growth and affordability.

• Expand nuclear energy, oil, and natural gas production to lower power costs.
• Utilize Midwest energy resources to reduce home utility bills.

“He will focus on expanding nuclear energy, oil, and natural gas to power our towns and lower costs.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports family farms, soil health, and nutrition programs

As a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, Budzinski works to protect small and family-owned farms from corporate consolidation. She supports programs enhancing soil health and climate resilience, alongside preserving food assistance programs such as SNAP.

• Address corporate farm consolidation that pushes family farms out of business.
• Help farmers improve soil health and adapt to extreme weather.
• Protect funding for food security programs including SNAP and school lunches.

“We have to do more to support the families and small businesses that provide the food that we all depend on, as farmers struggle more and more every year to literally put food on the table and make a living.”

Jeff Wilson

Supports defending family farms and local agricultural supply chains

Wilson pledges to defend family farms and the agricultural sector across Central and Southern Illinois. He aims to bolster local agricultural supply chains to reduce food prices for consumers.

• Stand strong to defend family farms and the broader agricultural sector.
• Strengthen local farm supply chains to bring down retail food prices.

“Jeff will stand strong to defend family farms and the agricultural industry.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports comprehensive reform and targeted enforcement

Budzinski supports comprehensive immigration reform including earned pathways to citizenship for DREAMers, farmworkers, and long-term undocumented residents. She also voted for bipartisan legislation like the Laken Riley Act to require the detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for theft.

• Create pathways to citizenship for DREAMers, farmworkers, and TPS recipients.
• Expand H-2A and H-2B worker visas to address labor shortages.
• Voted Yea on the Laken Riley Act (S. 5) requiring DHS detention of unauthorized immigrants arrested for burglary or theft.

“Create a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers, farmworkers, and immigrants covered by Temporary Protected Status (TPS)”

Jeff Wilson

Supports strict border enforcement and stopping drug flows

Wilson argues that illegal immigration is out of control and brings violent crime, human trafficking, and deadly drugs like fentanyl into local neighborhoods. He advocates strict border security and strong law enforcement measures to halt illegal border crossings.

• Secure the U.S. border to halt illegal immigration.
• Stop the trafficking of fentanyl and illegal drugs into local communities.
• Prevent human trafficking and violent crime stemming from border crossings.

“Illegal immigration is out of control, bringing massive amounts of drugs - especially deadly fentanyl - and violent crime into our neighborhoods.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports federal abortion rights and healthcare funding

Budzinski is unequivocally pro-choice, viewing reproductive decisions as personal choices between a woman and her doctor. She advocates codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law, protecting Planned Parenthood funding, and repealing the Hyde Amendment.

• Codify Roe v. Wade to guarantee federal reproductive healthcare rights.
• Protect federal funding for Planned Parenthood and reproductive healthcare organizations.
• Repeal the Hyde Amendment to ensure low-income women have access to reproductive care.

“I am 100% pro-choice. I believe that a woman should be able to make her own reproductive health care decisions.”

Jeff Wilson

Supports protecting life

Wilson lists protecting life as a foundational value alongside liberty and constitutional defense. He aligns with conservative principles opposing federal policies that promote abortion access.

• Pledges to defend the right to life as a core founding value.
• Opposes federal efforts to expand abortion funding or access.

“A Nation that forgets God cannot remain free. Whether it's standing up for free speech, safeguarding the Second Amendment, or fighting federal overreach, Jeff believes our founding values are not negotiable - they are worth defending.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports public education, universal pre-K, and debt relief

Budzinski champions public education investments from early childhood to higher education. She supports universal pre-K, limiting child care costs, free two-year community college, student debt relief, and voted against prohibiting transgender girls from participating in female sports.

• Make pre-K education universal and cap child care expenses for working families.
• Provide two years of tuition-free community college and expand student loan forgiveness.
• Voted Nay on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 (H.R. 28).

“I am a strong believer in the need to invest in our public education system, because I believe that public schools are our greatest opportunity to be an equalizer in our communities”

Jeff Wilson

Supports parental rights, opposing DEI, and single-sex sports

Wilson advocates empowering parents in school decisions over educational administrators. He opposes political indoctrination and mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, and pledges to restrict school sports participation based on biological sex.

• Safeguard parental rights to decide educational choices for their children.
• Oppose political indoctrination and forced DEI programs in public schools.
• Protect the integrity of single-sex girls' and boys' athletic programs.

“Jeff believes parents - not bureaucrats - should decide what's best for their children. He'll fight against political indoctrination in schools, oppose forced DEI programs, and protect the integrity of girls' and boys' sports.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports community policing and criminal justice reform

Budzinski believes safety and justice can be advanced together through smart community policing and criminal justice reforms. She supports removing illegal firearms from streets, addressing mental health causes of crime, and reforming bail and sentencing rules.

• Focus law enforcement resources on removing illegal guns from communities.
• Invest in community-based policing techniques to build public trust.
• Reform bail regulations and sentencing guidelines to eliminate systemic unfairness.

“We don’t have to make a choice between safety and justice. In fact, we can create a criminal justice system that not only keeps our communities safe by addressing the root causes of crime and getting illegal guns off our streets, but also that ensures all Illinoisians are treated fairly.”

Jeff Wilson

Supports defending law enforcement officers

Wilson prioritizes supporting law enforcement officers to uphold the rule of law and maintain community safety. He focuses on backing police agencies in their efforts to stop violent crime and drug trafficking.

• Stand with law enforcement officers who work daily to protect neighborhoods.
• Uphold the rule of law and crack down on violent crime.

“He will fight to secure our border, stop the flow of illegal drugs, and stand with law enforcement officers who work every day to protect our communities and uphold the rule of law.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports union rights, a $15 minimum wage, and the PRO Act

Budzinski has a career background in labor organizing and prioritizes protecting union rights. She advocates passing the federal PRO Act to protect collective bargaining, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, requiring mandatory paid sick leave, and protecting worker pensions.

• Lead efforts to pass the PRO Act to expand collective bargaining rights.
• Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
• Enact mandatory paid sick and medical leave and safeguard worker pensions.

“When workers can collectively bargain, they not only earn better wages and benefits, but can ensure safer working conditions.”

Jeff Wilson

Supports job growth and workforce development

Wilson focuses on promoting job growth and workforce training programs to help working families. He emphasizes fostering a strong economy by reducing regulatory burdens on employers.

• Focus on workforce development and promote regional job growth.
• Support working families by creating economic opportunities and lowering living costs.

“Jeff will focus on workforce development and promote job growth.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports expanding voting access and dark money disclosure

Budzinski supports federal voting rights legislation, including restoring the Voting Rights Act and establishing automatic voter registration. She advocates overturning Citizens United to eliminate dark money in politics and voted against the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship for voting registration.

• Restore the Voting Rights Act and enact automatic voter registration.
• Require disclosure of dark money donors and overturn Citizens United.
• Voted Nay on the SAVE Act (H.R. 22).

“We cannot fix Congress without fixing our elections. Attacks on voting rights and access to the ballot box have become widespread in recent years.”

Jeff Wilson

Supports constitutional liberties and limited government

Wilson emphasizes protecting constitutional liberties against federal government overreach. He stresses defending free speech and Second Amendment rights as core non-negotiable principles.

• Defend free speech and Second Amendment rights from federal infringement.
• Oppose federal government overreach into state and individual liberties.

“Whether it's standing up for free speech, safeguarding the Second Amendment, or fighting federal overreach, Jeff believes our founding values are not negotiable - they are worth defending.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports a public option and lower drug prices

Budzinski views healthcare as a right and advocates expanding coverage through the Affordable Care Act and a public option. She supports allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, capping insulin at $35, expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing, and making rural telehealth permanent.

• Introduce a public option to expand health insurance access.
• Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and cap insulin costs at $35.
• Expand Medicare coverage to include dental, hearing, and vision services.

“I believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.”

Nikki Budzinski

Supports full VA funding and mental healthcare expansion

Serving on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Budzinski advocates full funding for the VA to eliminate benefit backlogs. She supports expanded mental health and suicide prevention programs, housing assistance, and career training via the VET TEC program.

• Serve on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
• Ensure full funding for the VA to clear benefit backlogs and expand care access.
• Increase funding for veteran suicide prevention, PTSD services, housing, and VET TEC career training.

“Quite simply, we cannot ask for such a huge sacrifice from so many of our best and brightest young people if we aren’t willing to fully support and invest in their lives after the military.”