David Kustoff
Nationalist
Republican
House Representative
Tennessee - District 8
Current Position: US House Representative TN-8
Running For: House Representative - District 8
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For historic tax cuts (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act); supports reducing regulations on businesses
Health Care
- Against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); voted for the American Health Care Act to repeal it and supports dismantling Obamacare entirely; supports repeal of the individual mandate
Education
- Against Common Core national education standards; supports local control of education
Civil Rights
- Against abortion rights; believes life begins at conception
- Against same-sex marriage; believes marriage is between a man and a woman, and voted against the Respect for Marriage Act in December 2022
- Against LGBT anti-discrimination protections; voted against the Equality Act which would protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity
Voting Rights & Democracy
- Against the certification of the 2020 presidential election results; signed an amicus brief supporting Texas v. Pennsylvania to contest Joe Biden's victory
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- Against illegal immigration; supports border wall funding, increased border law enforcement, and deportation of criminal immigrants
- For Trump's 2017 travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries
- For strong U.S. support of Israel; opposes the Iran Deal as a threat to U.S. and Israeli interests
Public Safety
- For gun rights; believes in an unequivocal constitutional right to keep and bear arms
- For the death penalty; advocated for and used the death penalty as U.S. Attorney