South Carolina — 3rd District

Eunice Lehmacher

Expand healthcare funding and access

Lehmacher advocates restoring funding for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act while lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 64. Drawing on her career as a medical social worker and psychotherapist, she supports increasing federal research funding for NIH and NIMH and expanding healthcare provider opportunities in rural South Carolina.

• Restore funding cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
• Lower Medicare eligibility age to 64.
• Increase funding for NIH and NIMH health and mental health research.
• Expand healthcare professional training opportunities to address rural provider shortages.

“Increase access to doctors and hospitals, especially in rural areas. I want to restore funding for Medicaid and the ACA and increase access to Medicare (e.g. lower the eligibility age to 64).”

Sheri Biggs

Address healthcare leadership and mental health

Biggs highlights her experience as a board-certified family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner to diagnose Washington's governance as having a health problem. She promises to apply conservative servant leadership to address federal fiscal, mental, and spiritual challenges.

• Leverages professional background as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
• Frames campaign around treating Washington's fiscal, mental, and spiritual health problems.

“Washington has a health problem - mental, fiscal, and spiritual - and it’s awfully close to bringing our nation to its knees.”

Eunice Lehmacher

Support pathways to citizenship and immigrant due process

Lehmacher opposes federal funding for ICE long-term detention of legal immigrants and urges an end to costly enforcement measures. She advocates for creating a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients and long-term Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders while preserving constitutional due process.

• Stop funding ICE and the long-term detention of legal immigrants.
• Create a path to citizenship for DACA recipients and long-term TPS holders.
• Ensure everyone charged with a crime receives access to constitutional due process.

“creating a path to citizenship for DACA recipients and other longer term immigrants (especially TPS holders).”

Sheri Biggs

Enforce strict border security policies

Biggs prioritizes border enforcement by calling for the construction of a southern border wall, stopping illegal immigration, and replacing catch-and-release policies with stop-and-deport. In the 119th Congress, she voted Yea on the Laken Riley Act and the Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act.

• Build the southern border wall and stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs.
• Replace catch-and-release policies with stop-and-deport.
• Voted Yea on the Laken Riley Act (S.5) requiring detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for theft.
• Voted Yea on H.R. 875 to make DUI offenses grounds for deportation.

“As our next Member of Congress, Sheri will work tirelessly to build the wall, stop the flow of illegal aliens and drugs into our country, and replace “catch-and-release” with “stop-and-deport.””

Eunice Lehmacher

Reduce consumer costs and increase assistance

Lehmacher seeks to ease high prices by expanding grants for higher education, subsidizing local agricultural food production, and providing tax credits for affordable housing. She also advocates stopping federal spending on foreign conflicts like the war with Iran.

• Increase grants and loans for college education and job apprenticeships.
• Subsidize local farmers growing food for local communities.
• Provide grants and tax credits for affordable apartments and small homes.
• Halt federal spending on the war with Iran.

“Help residents with high prices including: increase grants and loans for college, stop federal funding of the expensive war with Iran, stop funding ICE and and long term detention of legal immigrants, increase apprenticeships and other job training opportunities, help local farmers grow food for their neighbors (subsidize what people want to eat), and increase grants and tax credits for affordable apartments and small homes.”

Sheri Biggs

Cut federal spending and lower debt

Biggs criticizes excessive federal spending under the Biden administration for driving up inflation and imposing national debt on future generations. In Congress, she voted Yea on the H.R.1 reconciliation bill and the FY 2025 budget resolution to promote fiscal discipline.

• Blames inflation and national debt on excessive federal government spending.
• Voted Yea on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) reconciliation legislation.
• Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.14 setting fiscal targets through 2034.

“The Biden Administration and the career politicians’ excessive and wasteful spending have not only fueled inflation but also greatly harmed our children, grandchildren, and future generations with unconscionable debt.”

Eunice Lehmacher

Support abortion access and reproductive freedom

Lehmacher advocates for a state ballot initiative process to protect women's abortion rights. She criticizes legislative abortion restrictions for infringing on medical decisions and worsening physician shortages by driving gynecologists away from South Carolina.

• Supports a state ballot initiative to guarantee abortion access.
• Opposes abortion restrictions passed by male-dominated political bodies.
• Argues abortion bans exacerbate shortages of gynecologists and doctors in South Carolina.

“A state ballot initiative to insure women's rights to have an abortion.”

Sheri Biggs

Oppose abortion and protect sanctity of life

Biggs opposes abortion on religious and moral grounds, asserting that human life begins at conception and is made in the image of God. She shares her personal experiences with miscarriages and pregnancy complications to pledge support for federal pro-life initiatives.

• Maintains a pro-life stance as a core conservative conviction.
• Believes all life is made in the image of God from conception.
• Pledges to use her platform in Congress to protect unborn life.

“AS our Member of Congress, Sheri will use her voice and story to protect the sanctity of life and advance a true culture of life in this country.”

Eunice Lehmacher

Expand renewable energy and regulate data centers

Lehmacher supports expanding federal subsidies for renewable energy and upgrading the electrical grid to lower consumer power bills. She calls for strict regulations on expanding data centers, requiring them to supply their own renewable energy instead of burdening everyday ratepayers.

• Restore and increase federal subsidies for renewable energy and grid improvements.
• Place regulatory limits on new commercial data centers.
• Require data centers to generate their own renewable energy rather than passing costs to utility customers.

“Reduce the cost of electricity by restoring and increasing subsidies for renewable energy and by improving the energy grid.”

Sheri Biggs

Support energy subcommittee oversight

Biggs serves on the Energy Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology during the 119th Congress, though her campaign platform does not outline specific legislative energy proposals.

• Serves on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Energy.

Eunice Lehmacher

Expand voter access and adopt ranked choice voting

Lehmacher opposes restrictions on mail-in voting and argues that protecting democracy requires expanding ballot access. She advocates for adopting ranked-choice voting and reducing the political influence of wealthy campaign donors and corporations.

• Opposes SAVE Act proposals that limit mail-in voting.
• Supports the adoption of ranked-choice voting.
• Signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge.
• Advocates limiting the campaign influence of billionaires and large corporations.

“Unless the United States protects the vote of all Americans, I am concerned that only those with money (or backed by rich supporters) will be leaders in government.”

Sheri Biggs

Require citizenship proof for voting and support term limits

Biggs supports strict voting qualifications and congressional reform. In Congress, she voted Yea on the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) to require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, and she signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge as part of her effort to disrupt career politicians.

• Voted Yea on the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
• Signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge.
• Positions herself as a political outsider committed to returning power to the American people.

“Our District and our nation need more political outsiders - just like President Trump - to prioritize the issues most important to the people and return the power to the American people.”

Eunice Lehmacher

Expand affordable housing and college financial aid

Lehmacher proposes expanding tax credits and federal grants to build affordable apartments and small homes. On education, she supports student loan forgiveness, increased college grants, and protecting curriculum selection by local teachers and librarians.

• Expand grants and tax credits for affordable apartments and small homes.
• Support student loan forgiveness and higher education funding.
• Empower teachers and librarians to direct classroom content without state censorship.

“increase grants and tax credits for affordable apartments and small homes.”

Sheri Biggs

Restrict transgender participation in school sports

Biggs voted Yea on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 (H.R. 28) to restrict public school athletic participation based on biological sex.

• Voted Yea on H.R. 28 prohibiting male-sex students from competing in female school athletic programs.

Sheri Biggs

Increase veteran healthcare and honor commitments

Biggs draws on her service as an Air National Guard lieutenant colonel to champion veteran services. She criticizes federal spending on accommodations for illegal immigrants while veteran needs are neglected, promising to ensure military veterans receive adequate healthcare and honor.

• Uses military background as a combat veteran and Air National Guard lieutenant colonel to advocate for veterans.
• Opposes federal expenditures on undocumented immigrants while veteran services remain underfunded.
• Pledges to protect healthcare, dignity, and federal promises owed to veterans.

“Sheri has worn the uniform in combat and volunteers to support local veterans. That’s why, as our next Congresswoman, Sheri will fight as hard as ever to ensure those who sacrifice and have sacrificed for our nation receive the honor, dignity, respect, and care they deserve.”