Sarah Elfreth

Progressive

Democrat

House Representative

Maryland - District 3

Current Position: US House Representative MD-3

Running For: House Representative - District 3

Policy Positions

Against cuts to Medicaid and weakening of the Affordable Care Act
Against Trump's tariffs; has worked to revoke them as price-raising for families

For paid family leave; introduced legislation to provide Maryland workers with up to 12 weeks of paid family leave funded by a payroll tax shared equally by worker and employer

For the DETERRENT Act, which lowers foreign reporting thresholds for colleges and prohibits universities from working with 'countries of concern' without annual approval from the U.S. Secretary of Education

For clean energy and climate action; introduced legislation on sea level rise resilience, banning PFAS chemicals, expanding clean energy loan programs, and requiring climate change to be considered as a financial factor in state pension investments

For abortion rights; supported expanding access to reproductive healthcare in Maryland Senate, co-sponsored a constitutional amendment to enshrine reproductive freedom in Maryland's Constitution, fights to codify Roe v. Wade protections in Congress, and introduced bill to provide abortion clinics with security grants

For voting rights expansion; co-sponsor of the For The People Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, introduced legislation to expand polling place access at colleges and military bases
For a ban on congressional stock trading; supports the TRUST in Congress Act requiring members to divest individual stocks or move investments into a blind trust
Against DOGE and Trump administration firing and reclassifying federal workers; introduced the Protect Our Probationary Employees Act to protect workers fired by the Trump administration

Against ICE enforcement operations as conducted under Trump; opposes funding DHS and ICE under current administration, blocked new ICE facility in Elkridge, and supported impeaching DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
For a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; supports strengthening Israel-U.S. relations, opposes conditioning U.S. aid to Israel, supported a permanent ceasefire in Gaza conditioned on return of Hamas-held hostages and provision of humanitarian aid
Against ICC sanctions bill; voted against placing sanctions on the International Criminal Court for issuing arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, but also signed letter to ICC calling on it to rescind those warrants
Against U.S. military strikes on Iran without congressional authorization; expressed concern strikes would draw U.S. into unnecessary Middle East conflict and criticized strikes for lacking legal justification or congressional consultation
Against U.S. military strikes in Venezuela and regime change operations; criticized strikes as lacking congressional approval and said Americans do not want another regime change war

Against gun rights without restrictions; supports closing loopholes, background checks, assault weapons ban, increased handgun permit requirements, and introduced bill to levy an 11% excise tax on firearm sales
For police accountability; voted for the Maryland Police Accountability Act and supported giving the attorney general prosecutorial power in police-involved deaths