Texas — 24th District

Kevin Burge

Supports lowering costs and cancelling tariffs

Burge identifies affordability as the district's primary challenge, pointing to high costs of housing, healthcare, childcare, utilities, and insurance. He advocates rolling back tariffs due to their inflationary impact, funding Universal Pre-K, and expanding skill-based training eligibility. He aims to build an economy that serves working families rather than billionaires.

• Roll back tariffs and address their inflationary effects on local families.
• Fund Universal Pre-K and expand eligibility for technical skills-based training.
• Focus economic policy on working families, housing, healthcare, and childcare affordability.

“The district's main challenge is affordability. Prices have still not come back down and people in our district now lack access to quality healthcare and childcare, rising utility and insurance costs, and lack of access to quality public education that is under attack from ISDs, State, and Federal governments.”

“In Congress I’ll work to roll back Trump's Tariffs and their inflationary effects, fight to expand grant's and financial eligibility for technical skills based training, and fund programs such as Universal Pre-K.”

Beth Van Duyne

Supports spending restraint and tariff negotiation

Van Duyne advocates for fiscal restraint, balanced budgets, and reducing federal regulations to lower the deficit and stimulate economic growth. She supports using tariffs and trade re-negotiations to secure fair market access for American businesses and workers. Additionally, she proposes Education 401K accounts to help workers pay off student loan debt.

• Exercise restraint on federal spending to reduce the federal deficit and national debt.
• Cut federal regulations that increase costs for businesses.
• Support tariffs and trade renegotiations to ensure fair competition for American workers.

“Congress must show broad restraint on federal spending in order to bring down the federal deficit and eventually reduce debt.”

“United States trade policy should always be focused on gaining fair access to other markets for our products, services, and with the American worker always in mind.”

Kevin Burge

Supports immigration reform and ICE oversight

Burge supports comprehensive immigration reform aimed at fixing systemic flaws in the immigration process. His platform includes funding more immigration judges to handle cases efficiently and revamping work visas. He also advocates cracking down on ICE abuses.

• Crack down on ICE abuses.
• Increase funding for immigration judges to reduce case backlogs.
• Revamp work visa programs to improve legal immigration channels.

“Immigration Reform: Cracking down on ICE abuses, Funding Immigration Judges, Revamping Work Visas”

Beth Van Duyne

Supports border walls and cartel designations

Van Duyne advocates for strict border security, including constructing physical border walls where requested by Border Patrol and hiring more border agents. She supports amending asylum laws, designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and deporting criminal undocumented immigrants in coordination with ICE. For non-criminal undocumented immigrants, she supports a legal status pathway requiring background checks, fines, and learning English, without citizenship.

• Construct physical border walls and hire additional border agents.
• Designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
• Amend asylum laws requiring applicants to apply from the nearest safe country.
• Create a legal status pathway (without citizenship) for non-criminal undocumented immigrants who meet background check and language requirements.

“In addition to closing asylum loopholes, we need to build walls where the border patrol needs them and hire more border agents to deal with surges of illegal immigrants and interdict drug trafficking.”

“For those in our country who are not committing crimes or have been in the US since they were children, we should create a pathway to legal status (not citizenship) that would require them to pass a criminal background check and remain crime free, pay fines for breaking our immigration laws, and learn English.”

Kevin Burge

Supports Medicare for All and universal access

Burge champions Medicare for All and universal healthcare coverage to address rising healthcare costs and lack of care access in the district. He views healthcare as a core element of overall affordability for families.

• Enact Medicare for All and universal healthcare coverage.
• Address local healthcare unaffordability and access barriers.

“Kevin’s top priorities include affordable housing, restoring checks & balances, medicare for all, immigration reform, protecting civil liberties, tuition-free public college & trade education, restoring abortion rights, and building an economy that works for everyone — not billionaires.”

Beth Van Duyne

Opposes ACA; supports free-market healthcare options

Van Duyne strongly criticizes the Affordable Care Act, calling for market-based alternatives to lower costs. She proposes Association Health Plans, expanding Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), enabling insurance sales across state lines, and making health coverage portable. She also advocates reducing federal regulations on doctor-patient relationships.

• Establish Association Health Plans allowing small businesses and individuals to pool purchasing power.
• Expand Health Savings Accounts and allow cross-state insurance purchases.
• Increase healthcare plan portability across jobs and reduce federal regulatory constraints on care.

“We need to get rid of the regulations that are strangling doctor/patient relationships.”

“Additionally, we need to expand the use of health savings accounts, allow people to purchase insurance across state lines, and make healthcare plans portable so they follow the individual.”

Kevin Burge

Advocates global alliances and Congressional war powers

Burge draws on his experience as a Marine veteran and defense intelligence officer to advocate for maintaining the post-WWII international order. He calls for rebuilding alliance trust, reasserting Congressional oversight and war authority, and maintaining global intelligence-sharing partnerships. He rejects isolationist sphere-of-influence policies that create openings for authoritarian rivals.

• Rebuild trust with global allies and strengthen intelligence-sharing networks.
• Reassert Congressional authority over war powers, tariffs, and diplomacy.
• Counter authoritarian rivals through international democratic leadership and alliance stability.

“The post-WWII rules-based order forged at Bretton Woods is being eroded, enabled by a Congress that has ceded key powers over tariffs, military action, and diplomacy.”

“My experience in the Intelligence Community equips me to help restore accountability, rebuild allied trust, strengthen cooperation, and advance a national defense strategy rooted in partnership, stability, and democratic leadership.”

Beth Van Duyne

Prioritizes countering China and foreign cartels

Van Duyne identifies China as the top global threat to American national security due to cyber warfare, AI, naval expansion, and human rights abuses. She supports heavy federal investment in defense technologies and weapons systems to prevent technological gaps. Additionally, she advocates treating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations to confront them with full national security resources.

• Invest heavily in military technology, AI, and cyber warfare defenses to outpace China.
• Designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations to employ national security resources against them.
• Maintain a strong defense focus on great-power competition.

“As such, the greatest threat to the US is posed by China who has expanded their Navy, illegally claimed more territory and jurisdiction over international waters, and continues to openly oppose freedom of speech, free and fair elections, all while operating slave labor camps where people routinely die from exposure.”

“The second greatest threat to American security comes from the drug cartels who control routes into the United States, have significant relationships with street gangs, are poisoning a generation of Americans, and damaging untold numbers of lives through human slavery and sex trafficking.”

Kevin Burge

Supports tuition-free college and public education funding

Burge prioritizes fully funding public education and protecting neighborhood public schools from political attacks. He advocates for tuition-free public college and trade school education as well as federally funded Universal Pre-K.

• Fully fund public education institutions.
• Enact tuition-free public college and vocational/trade education.
• Fund Universal Pre-K programs.

“In Congress I’ll work to roll back Trump's Tariffs and their inflationary effects, fight to expand grant's and financial eligibility for technical skills based training, and fund programs such as Universal Pre-K.”

Beth Van Duyne

Supports Education 401Ks and financial literacy

Van Duyne opposes federal student loan forgiveness, favoring tax incentives for employer-matched Education 401K accounts to help workers pay down student debt. She encourages universities with large endowments to serve as primary student lenders to ensure institutional accountability. She also advocates mandatory high school financial literacy courses.

• Create tax-favored Education 401K accounts with employer matching.
• Encourage university endowment funds to serve as direct student lenders.
• Require financial literacy courses in high school curricula.

“Congress should look to leverage the tight labor market by making changes to tax law that would create Education 401K accounts and encourage employers to use those and match contributions from employees with the purpose of more quickly paying down student debt.”

Kevin Burge

Supports restoring federal abortion rights

Burge includes restoring abortion rights as a top priority of his campaign platform. He advocates codifying reproductive freedom into federal law.

• Restore and protect federal abortion rights.

“Kevin’s top priorities include affordable housing, restoring checks & balances, medicare for all, immigration reform, protecting civil liberties, tuition-free public college & trade education, restoring abortion rights, and building an economy that works for everyone — not billionaires.”

Beth Van Duyne

Opposes abortion; endorsed by pro-life groups

Van Duyne maintains a pro-life record and has earned endorsements from major anti-abortion organizations in Texas. Her platform aligns with restricting abortion access.

• Endorsed by Texas Alliance for Life and Texas Right to Life PAC.

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Kevin Burge

Supports restoring checks and balances

Burge emphasizes restoring constitutional checks and balances, focusing on reasserting congressional oversight over executive war powers, diplomacy, and tariffs.

• Restore constitutional checks and balances.
• Reassert congressional oversight over executive branch decisions.

“Kevin’s top priorities include affordable housing, restoring checks & balances, medicare for all, immigration reform, protecting civil liberties, tuition-free public college & trade education, restoring abortion rights, and building an economy that works for everyone — not billionaires.”

Beth Van Duyne

Supports voter ID; opposes federal election control

Van Duyne opposes federal legislation placing state elections under Department of Justice supervision, arguing Texas elections are secure. She voted for the SAVE Act to mandate documentary proof of citizenship for federal election registration, and voted against certifying Pennsylvania's 2020 electoral votes.

• Voted for the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to register for federal elections.
• Voted against certifying Pennsylvania's 2020 electoral vote results.
• Opposes federal oversight of state election procedures.

“I would not be in favor of any House bill that puts the Department of Justice and the bureaucracy of the federal government in charge of Texas elections.”

Kevin Burge

Holds sustainable development background

Burge holds a Master's degree in Sustainable Development, reflecting a background focused on environmental sustainability, though his specific legislative energy proposals are not detailed in the available materials.

• Holds a Master's degree in Sustainable Development.

“Stateside, I earned my Master’s Degree in Sustainable Development, kept my Top Secret/SCI clearance, and worked my way to the White House Situation Room, representing the White House as the Room’s technical advisor for it’s renovation under President Biden.”

Beth Van Duyne

Supports small nuclear reactors and emission-reducing technology

Van Duyne acknowledges climate change and advocates for market-driven technological solutions rather than federal mandates. She specifically champions next-generation small nuclear reactors for reliable, emission-free baseload power and supports clean-burning natural gas.

• Support development of smaller, safer next-generation nuclear reactors.
• Promote market-driven technology and clean natural gas to lower emissions without federal mandates.

“I am particularly interested in next generation nuclear reactors that are smaller, safer, can be sited virtually anywhere and create much less waste. They are emission free and provide the kind of reliable baseload power that wind and solar simply cannot do.”

Kevin Burge

Prioritizes affordable housing access

Burge highlights affordable housing and homeownership access as vital challenges for district families, placing housing affordability among his core policy priorities.

• Prioritize affordable housing initiatives for district families.

“Kevin’s top priorities include affordable housing, restoring checks & balances, medicare for all, immigration reform, protecting civil liberties, tuition-free public college & trade education, restoring abortion rights, and building an economy that works for everyone — not billionaires.”

Beth Van Duyne

Supports federal infrastructure investment

Van Duyne supports passing a federal infrastructure bill focused on rebuilding roads, bridges, and flood control systems, leveraging her previous experience as Mayor of Irving and regional HUD administrator.

• Pass a federal infrastructure bill to rebuild roads, bridges, and flood control systems.

“...passing a much needed infrastructure bill, and empowering more growth for our hard-working families.”

Beth Van Duyne

Opposes new gun laws; focuses on violent offenders

Van Duyne opposes additional gun control restrictions on law-abiding citizens, advocating instead for strict prosecution of violent criminals and submitting youth felony convictions (ages 15-17) to NICS. She criticizes progressive District Attorneys for failing to prosecute violent crimes and supports armed, trained citizens defending communities.

• Require youth felony and violent offenses (ages 15–17) to be reported to NICS.
• Enforce strict prosecution of violent offenders to ensure criminal convictions appear in background check databases.
• Oppose firearm restrictions on law-abiding citizens.

“Our goal should be to decrease the number of murders committed by firearms by concentrating on criminals who commit those crimes rather than law-abiding citizens.”

“I would also support new measures that require felony and violent offenses by minors (aged 15-17) to be reported to NICS so those individuals would not be able to legally buy a firearm in the future.”