Virginia — 6th District

Beth Macy

Supports progressive tax and affordability policies

Macy advocates for lowering everyday living costs by cracking down on corporate food profiteering, ending blanket tariffs, and protecting social safety nets like Social Security and Medicare. She supports raising taxes on billionaires and capital gains, incentivizing local zoning reforms for affordable housing, and banning stock trading for members of Congress.

• Raise the cap on Social Security taxes so high earners pay a larger share.
• Crack down on corporate food profiteering and eliminate blanket tariffs.
• Create federal incentives for state and local zoning reforms to expand affordable housing.
• Raise taxes on capital gains and billionaires to fund public services.

“Congress needs to reduce the price of food by cracking down on corporate profiteering, preventing Big Ag from secretly colluding to keep prices high. It should end tariffs, which are really a tax on purchased items.”

“Congress should raise the cap on Social Security taxes so the wealthy pay their fair share.”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Supports tax cuts and spending reductions

Cline advocates for fiscal restraint, lower taxes, reduced federal regulation, and balancing the budget to spur economic growth. He opposes what he characterizes as heavy-handed federal mandates and unchecked government spending pushing inflation.

• Voted Yea on the reconciliation bill H.R.1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) addressing tax policy and statutory debt limit provisions.
• Pushes to lower taxes, cut federal red tape, and allow free market growth.
• Advocates reining in federal spending and balancing the national budget.

“Washington does not have a revenue problem — it has a spending problem. Democrats continue pushing unchecked spending, bigger government, and higher taxes. I’m fighting to stop them.”

“I’m fighting to lower taxes, reduce red tape, expand workforce opportunities, and allow the free market to thrive.”

Beth Macy

Supports Medicare for All and Medicaid expansion

Macy views healthcare as a human right and fights for universal coverage, including Medicare for All, while defending Medicaid expansion as vital for addiction treatment. Having authored books on the opioid crisis, she focuses on protecting rural hospitals and substance use disorder treatment programs from funding cuts.

• Supports Medicare for All and universal healthcare coverage.
• Defends Medicaid expansion to preserve addiction treatment access and prevent overdose spikes.
• Seeks to protect rural hospitals and community clinics from closure.

“I will fight for universal healthcare coverage including Medicare for All so that anyone can join and stop worrying about how they’ll pay for an emergency room visit or a hospital stay.”

“Virginia’s expansion of Medicaid allowed increased access to effective treatment for substance-use disorders and played a major role in reducing overdose deaths.”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Opposes government-run healthcare expansions

Cline favors market-based healthcare solutions, fiscal restraint in entitlement spending, and opposing federal healthcare mandates.

• Voted against major Democratic spending and healthcare expansion measures like the Inflation Reduction Act.
• Opposes federal regulatory overreach and government-managed healthcare systems.

“Republicans must stay united in the fight for limited government, lower taxes, and stronger borders.”

Beth Macy

Supports legal pathways and humane immigration policy

Macy supports comprehensive immigration reform with clear legal pathways to permanent status and citizenship. She criticizes mass deportations and ICE enforcement tactics that separate families and disrupt essential labor in agriculture and child care.

• Supports creating legal pathways for permanent status and citizenship.
• Opposes aggressive ICE family separations and deportations that harm local workforces.
• Advocates for long-term investments in the immigration justice system to ensure timely, humane hearings.

“America must restore/preserve legal pathways for permanent legal status and/or citizenship. Immigrants have always been a key part of America’s story, and Virginia relies on them in particular for elder care and manual labor in agriculture and construction.”

“Instead of deporting hardened criminals, Trump and Cline have worked to separate families, including nursing mothers and pregnant women, cruelly kidnapping people who have broken no laws, treating them like animals, sending many to foreign prisons—and terrifying law-abiding citizens who are here legally, using racial profiling and setting up de facto concentration camps.”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Supports strict border security and enforcement

Cline prioritizes stopping illegal immigration and drug trafficking by completing the border wall, ending catch-and-release policies, and strengthening law enforcement tools. He supports legislation requiring proof of citizenship for voting and mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants arrested for crimes.

• Supports completing the southern border wall and ending catch-and-release.
• Voted Yea on the Laken Riley Act, SAVE Act, and Secure the Border Act of 2023.
• Voted Yea to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

“I’m fighting to finish the wall, end catch-and-release, strengthen border security, and give law enforcement the tools they need to stop illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking.”

“Republicans know that a nation without borders is not a nation — and I will not stop pushing for a strong, secure border.”

Beth Macy

Supports family farmers and right-to-repair

Macy advocates protecting family-owned farms by ending trade tariffs that restrict export markets, protecting the federal crop insurance safety net, and establishing a 'right to repair' for farm equipment. She calls for anti-monopoly measures against large meatpacking corporations.

• Enact 'right to repair' laws for farm equipment.
• End blanket tariffs and trade wars that hinder agricultural exports.
• Protect the federal crop insurance safety net and address corporate consolidation in meat processing.

“Allow farmers to the “right to repair” their own equipment without voiding their warranties and letting corporations fatten their pockets.”

“We should end Trump’s ruinous trade wars so that farmers can sell their products for a fair price in a fair market.”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Supports deregulation and expanding rural infrastructure

Cline supports rural agricultural communities by fighting federal regulations and mandates on farmers while pushing for rural broadband expansion and infrastructure investments.

• Opposes federal mandates and environmental regulations that burden agricultural operations.
• Promotes expanding rural broadband access and infrastructure.
• Serves on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration.

“Democrats’ federal mandates and regulations are hurting our farmers and threatening rural communities.”

“I’m working to defend family farms, expand rural infrastructure, improve broadband access, and fight back against policies that make it harder for agriculture to succeed.”

Beth Macy

Supports fully funding and staffing the VA

Macy pledges to fully fund and staff the Veterans Affairs healthcare system, opposing efforts to privatize VA services or cut benefits. She criticizes reductions in VA staffing and funding for disabled veterans.

• Opposes privatization of the VA health system.
• Fully fund and staff the VA to reduce wait times and improve service.
• Protect funding for PACT Act healthcare for disabled veterans.

“I support fully funding and staffing VA because VA works well, with years of research proving that it’s better, faster, and less expensive than the private sector.”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Supports improving VA care and veteran benefits

Cline emphasizes improving VA healthcare, expanding benefits, and ensuring support systems for veterans and their families.

• Supports improving VA healthcare services and veteran benefits.
• Pledges to strengthen support systems for military families and veterans.

“I’m working to improve VA care, expand benefits, and strengthen support systems for veterans and their families.”

Beth Macy

Supports doubling Pell grants and expanding workforce training

Macy prioritizes making education affordable by doubling Pell Grants, supporting short-term workforce training initiatives at community colleges, and restoring federal higher education research grants.

• Double the maximum Pell Grant value to increase higher education affordability.
• Support Sen. Tim Kaine's workforce initiative expanding Pell Grants for short-term community college certificate programs.
• Restore federal research funding for institutes like the Fralin Biomedical Research Center.

“While not everyone should have to go to college to get a good job, everyone who wants to go should be able to afford it. We should double Pell grants, which helped me claw my way out of poverty by paying the full freight of my four-year tuition in the 1980s”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Supports local control and classroom-focused spending

Cline advocates for focusing education spending directly in classrooms rather than administrative bureaucracy and previously sponsored state legislation requiring two-thirds of education funds to reach classrooms.

• Emphasizes classroom-focused funding over administrative bureaucracy.
• Supports local control and high-quality vocational and academic workforce preparation.

“I believe that the focus of education should be learning, not administrative bureaucracy. We need to make sure the money spent in schools gets to the classroom where it can impact results because nothing less than the future of children is at stake.”

Beth Macy

Supports congressional stock ban and transparency

Macy advocates for prohibiting members of Congress from trading individual stocks and criticizes the influence of corporate PAC money in elections. She pledges to hold regular town halls and make government accountable to working people.

• Supports the bipartisan Stock Trading Ban discharge petition for members of Congress.
• Criticizes corporate PAC funding and politician accountability.

“Cline is not a co-sponsor of the bipartisan Stock Trading Ban discharge petition, a wildly popular bill supported by 90 percent of Americans that would forbid members of Congress from trading stocks.”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Supports proof of citizenship voting laws

Cline supports stricter voter identification requirements and voting regulations to ensure election integrity. He voted for the SAVE Act and objected to certifying 2020 electoral votes in Arizona and Pennsylvania.

• Voted Yea on the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) requiring documentary proof of citizenship for federal election registration.
• Voted against certifying the 2020 electoral college results for Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Beth Macy

Supports reproductive rights

Macy is endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund and advocates for protecting healthcare access for women, including maternal care and reproductive freedom.

• Endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
• Focuses on reducing high rural maternal mortality rates and preserving healthcare access.

“Rural mothers are dying in childbirth at twice the rate of urban moms, a situation that will only make hospital closures more dire.”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Opposes abortion and protects the unborn

Cline takes a pro-life stance, advocating for policies that restrict abortion and protect the unborn.

• Lists 'Protecting the Unborn' as a core campaign issue.

Benjamin Lee Cline

Supports law enforcement and public safety funding

Cline positions himself as a strong supporter of law enforcement, advocating for increased resources, training, and support for police officers to maintain law and order.

• Supports providing law enforcement with resources, training, and tools.
• Positions Republicans as the party of law and order.

“I’m working to make sure law enforcement has the resources, training, and support they need to keep Virginia safe.”

“While Democrats have spent years attacking police and weakening public safety, I have stood firmly with the men and women who protect our communities.”

Benjamin Lee Cline

Supports Second Amendment rights

Cline defends Second Amendment rights against federal firearm restrictions, treating gun ownership as a fundamental constitutional liberty.

• Opposes federal restrictions on gun ownership.
• Defends Second Amendment rights as essential constitutional freedoms.

“Our constitutional freedoms have come under increasing attack from the left — from free speech to the right to bear arms to religious liberty.”