Ohio — 14th District

Maria Jukic

Supports universal coverage and Medicare expansion

Jukic views healthcare as a basic human right and proposes multi-pronged federal reforms to lower costs and expand access on the road to universal coverage. She advocates lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 62, breaking up healthcare monopolies, capping prescription drug costs, and building telehealth infrastructure in healthcare deserts.

• Lower the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 62 to match early Social Security retirement benefits.
• Support the Break Up Big Medicine Act of 2026 to dismantle healthcare monopolies across insurance, pharmacy, and doctor networks.
• Allow Medicare to directly negotiate prescription drug prices and cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin.
• Expand funding for community health centers, rural hospital support, and telehealth infrastructure in underserved counties.
• Refuse corporate PAC donations from pharmaceutical and insurance companies.

“Maria believes that healthcare is not a privilege for the wealthy — it is a basic human right and a foundation of a strong, productive society.”

David Joyce

Opposes federal mandates and COVID restrictions

Joyce's documented healthcare platform is defined by his congressional voting record opposing federal pandemic-related mandates and emergency restrictions. He voted to repeal COVID-19 vaccination requirements for foreign travelers and to terminate the national emergency declaration.

• Voted for H.R. 185 to terminate the CDC requirement for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers.
• Voted for H.J.Res. 7 to end the national coronavirus state of emergency.

Maria Jukic

Supports comprehensive reform and due process

Jukic calls for a secure, lawful, and humane immigration system that upholds constitutional due process while creating earned pathways to legal status. She sharply criticizes unconstitutional ICE detentions and highlights that mass deportations create labor shortages that drive up consumer food prices.

• Reorganize ICE enforcement to eliminate warrantless detentions and restore due process rights.
• Establish a clear, structured pathway to citizenship for long-term undocumented residents and permanent protections for DACA recipients.
• Expand funding for immigration courts, judges, and administrative staff to resolve backlogs.
• Modernize legal visa pathways for essential workers in agriculture, construction, and healthcare.

“ICE is violating the Constitution. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining people — including American citizens — based on their appearance, without due process, and in pursuit of daily arrest quotas.”

David Joyce

Supports strict border enforcement and deportation

Joyce consistently votes for stringent border enforcement, mandatory detention of non-citizens charged with crimes, and stricter voter registration requirements. He supported major House Republican border security legislation and voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

• Voted for the Secure the Border Act of 2023 (H.R. 2) to limit asylum eligibility and mandate electronic employment verification.
• Voted for the Laken Riley Act (S. 5) requiring detention of non-citizens arrested for burglary, theft, or larceny.
• Voted for the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections.
• Voted for H.Res. 863 impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
• Voted for H.R. 875 making driving while impaired grounds for inadmissibility or deportation.

Maria Jukic

Supports protecting benefits and raising taxes on wealthy

Jukic promises to safeguard Social Security against benefit reductions, retirement age increases, or privatization. To guarantee long-term solvency, she advocates lifting the payroll tax cap on high earners and expanding the contribution base to include investment income.

• Create a permanent legislative Social Security Lock-Box to prevent Congress from raiding trust funds.
• Lift or eliminate the payroll tax cap so high-income individuals contribute on all earnings.
• Include investment income from wealthy individuals in the Social Security contribution base.
• Form a bipartisan Congressional Middle Class Working Group to address long-term trust fund solvency.
• Oppose privatization, benefit cuts, or raising the retirement age.

“Social Security is not a government handout. It is not welfare. It is not charity. It is a promise — made by the United States government to every working American”

David Joyce

Supports reducing benefit offsets for public pensioners

Joyce supported bipartisan legislation designed to eliminate penalties that reduced Social Security benefits for individuals receiving non-covered government pensions.

• Voted for the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 (H.R. 82) to reduce benefit offsets for public sector retirees and surviving spouses.

Maria Jukic

Supports worker-focused tax reform and higher minimum wage

Jukic contends that 25 years of tax policy have rigged the economy for corporations and investors at the expense of wage earners. She advocates closing corporate loopholes, taxing capital gains at rates equal to wages, raising the federal minimum wage, and ending executive tariffs that act as a hidden consumer tax.

• Close the carried interest loophole and equalize tax rates between investment income and wage income.
• Eliminate offshore corporate tax shelters and corporate tax avoidance loopholes.
• Raise the federal minimum wage to ensure work pays a living wage.
• Oppose executive tariffs, characterizing them as an unconstitutional hidden tax on families that drives up grocery and consumer costs.

“For the past 25 years, tax policy in America has been written by and for the wealthy.”

“The current administration’s tariff policy is not tax reform — it is a hidden tax on every American family.”

David Joyce

Supports fiscal reconciliation, tax relief, and spending controls

Joyce supports Republican fiscal and tax policies, voting for comprehensive reconciliation legislation, debt limit adjustments linked to spending reform, and family tax relief packages. He also voted to establish budgetary levels and continuing appropriations.

• Voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) reconciliation bill in 2025.
• Voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 (H.R. 2811) and the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (H.R. 3746).
• Voted for the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 (H.R. 7024).
• Voted for FY2025 Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res. 14) and FY2026 continuing appropriations.

Maria Jukic

Supports overturning Citizens United and ethics reform

Jukic views campaign finance reform as the essential prerequisite to fixing Washington politics. She supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, full dark money disclosure, public small-dollar matching funds, banning congressional stock trading, and establishing independent redistricting commissions.

• Support a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United to clarify money is not speech.
• Pass the DISCLOSE Act requiring full public disclosure of dark money donors.
• Establish a small-dollar public matching system for federal elections and reject corporate PAC funds.
• Ban members of Congress and immediate families from trading individual stocks.
• Eliminate partisan gerrymandering through independent redistricting commissions.

“Almost every issue on this website — healthcare, Social Security, tax policy, the environment — has a known solution. The ideas are not the problem. The problem is that the people with the power to implement those solutions are financially dependent on the people who benefit from keeping things broken.”

David Joyce

Opposes citizen redistricting commissions and supports SAVE Act

Joyce opposed Ohio's 2024 ballot initiative to create an independent citizen redistricting commission. In Congress, he supported strict voter registration citizenship verification and voted to expel Representative George Santos following ethics findings.

• Opposed Ohio Issue 1 in 2024, which proposed an independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.
• Voted for the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) requiring proof of citizenship to register for federal elections.
• Voted for H.Res. 878 expelling Representative George Santos from the House.

Maria Jukic

Supports Lake Erie protection and clean energy investment

Jukic prioritizes protecting Lake Erie from toxic algal blooms and industrial pollution. She advocates for strong EPA clean water standards, corporate polluter accountability, clean energy manufacturing investments, and voluntary agricultural conservation incentives.

• Increase federal funding for Lake Erie clean water standards and toxic algal bloom prevention.
• Restore EPA clean air and water regulations and prosecute corporate polluters.
• Invest in solar, wind, and next-generation nuclear clean energy manufacturing jobs in Ohio.
• Support voluntary conservation programs for farmers, such as cover crops and nutrient management buffer strips.

“Lake Erie is the heart of Ohio’s 14th Congressional District. It is our greatest natural asset — a source of drinking water for 11 million people, a foundation for fishing, tourism, and recreation, and a defining feature of life in Lake and Ashtabula counties.”

David Joyce

Supports domestic energy expansion and Great Lakes protection

Joyce promotes his record as a protector of the Great Lakes alongside votes supporting domestic oil, natural gas, and coal production expansion. He also supported Ohio's 2023 initiative legalizing recreational marijuana.

• Voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R. 1) to expand oil, natural gas, and coal production and streamline pipeline permitting.
• Positions himself as a dedicated 'Protector of the Great Lakes' in campaign literature.
• Supported Ohio Issue 2 in 2023 to legalize recreational marijuana.

Maria Jukic

Supports comprehensive AI regulations and worker protections

Jukic highlights the urgent need for federal AI safeguards to protect workers, privacy, and public discourse. She proposes a Federal AI Rights Framework, clear deepfake labeling, platform accountability for synthetic media, data privacy protections, and workforce transition funds for AI-displaced workers.

• Enact a Federal AI Rights Framework guaranteeing human review and transparency in high-stakes automated decisions.
• Mandate clear labeling on AI deepfakes and hold platforms accountable for synthetic misinformation.
• Create workforce transition funds and retraining programs for workers displaced by AI automation.
• Establish federal data privacy laws giving citizens control over personal data used by AI models.
• Protect copyright holders and creative workers when their work is used to train commercial AI.

“Artificial Intelligence is unlike any other issue in this campaign. It is moving faster than any technology in human history. It is reshaping the economy, the job market, the information landscape, and the basic fabric of daily life”

David Joyce

Supports regulatory framework for payment stablecoins

Joyce voted in favor of bipartisan digital asset legislation creating a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins.

• Voted for the GENIUS Act (S. 1582) to establish a regulatory structure for payment stablecoins.