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Candidates › MI-05 race › 2025–2026
Tim Walberg
R Republican nominee for U.S. House, MI-05
Representative since 2007
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- On the ballot
- Won the general electionNov 3, 2026 · 173,567 votes (53.3%)
- Where to vote
- Find your polling place (opens in a new tab) · More ways to vote
- Top priorities
- Protecting our National Security
- Creating Job and Economic Growth
- Fiscal Responsibility
- Affordable and Quality Health Care
- Defending Our Values
- In Congress
- Representative since 2007 · votes with their party 98% of the time · chairs House Committee on Education and Workforce. See the record · Office phone 202-225-6276
- Money
- $2.2M raised, $1.9M spent, $1.2M cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 7.2% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 43% from Michigan · largest committee giver NORPAC, $27.5K
- Outside groups
- $12.6K supporting Walberg
- Backed by
- President Donald J. Trump · Michigan Right to Life · Michigan Farm Bureau and 7 more. As the campaign lists them
- Sponsored most in
- Labor and Employment, Science, Technology, Communications, Health
6 priorities from walbergforcongress.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
In the face of terrorist threats and dangerous regimes, we are strengthening our resolve and capabilities to keep the American people safe.
Michigan families deserve to feel safe in their own homes and neighborhoods. Tim Walberg has consistently voted to support our nation’s military and their families, give our troops a pay raise, and provide our men and women in uniform with the resources they need to perform their missions and defend our way of life. Tim supports a serious and robust strategy to crush radical Islamic terrorists, stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons to anti-American regimes, combat cybersecurity threats and protect our homeland from missile threats. Tim supported the policies which have largely dismantled ISIS, including the elimination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
When our brave servicemembers return home, Tim Walberg is committed to ensuring they have access to high quality and timely medical care, including mental health and suicide prevention services. Tim voted to expand veterans’ educational opportunities and assistance with college affordability. He has voted to increase cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) for veterans benefits. He has also hosted numerous resource fairs for veterans around the district and his staff is helpful to cut through bureaucratic red tape so veterans can receive the benefits they deserve. Tim is also working in a bipartisan way to increase accountability at the VA and give our veterans more health care choices.
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“Hardworking taxpayers are the strength of our country, and my focus is on expanding economic opportunities, encouraging job creation, and raising incomes.” - Tim Walberg
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Job creation, higher incomes, and expanding opportunities by growing Michigan’s economy are the top priorities for Tim Walberg, who has previously been named Michigan’s most effective congressman by the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking. Tim has advanced policies that built a healthy economy and created a brighter future for the next generation. We need leaders with a vision to spearhead our economic recovery and unleash economic prosperity. We need policies that promote job creation, increase incomes, and expand opportunities.
Tim Walberg’s plan to encourage job creation and boost wages:
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Tim has supported the Working Families Tax Cuts, which would deliver the largest tax cut in American history for working-class families and small businesses. Other provisions in the legislation will also bring back American manufacturing, spurring a boom in new investments, facilities, jobs, and opportunities by incentivizing Made-in-America products. This historic reform will create $284 billion in new economic growth.
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As Chair of the Education and Workforce Committee, Tim is focused on improving education and workforce training opportunities by empowering local institutions and states. Tim voted for:
The Every Student Succeeds Act, which transferred power and resources from Washington, D.C., education bureaucrats to local schools and states, because teachers, administrators, and local school boards know best how to educate students. These bipartisan reforms have been signed into law.
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which improved workforce training by giving more power and input to local educational and training institutions, including community colleges, overwhelmingly passed the House and was signed into law.
The Working Families Tax Cuts, which increases workforce training opportunities by expanding Pell Grant eligibility to individuals enrolling in high-quality, short-term career programs.
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Michigan is blessed with many fine institutions of higher learning. Tim is committed to working with these schools as they provide a tremendous education and help students afford the opportunity. He helped usher through the Education and Workforce Committee legislation to give students clearer information on college costs and outcomes and make college more affordable by reforming accreditation and focusing on student results. He also helped author language to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), helping students and families navigate the process.
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Tim Walberg is working to improve our infrastructure and rebuild Michigan’s roads and bridges. He helped champion a long-term, bipartisan transportation plan to provide greater resources and decision-making authority to state and local governments—without raising taxes. This long-term plan, now signed into law, will help streamline and bring certainty to important road and bridge projects across our state. He also voted in favor of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, which focuses on protecting our water supply, shorelines, and environment. The legislation also streamlines the approval process, requires more accountability, and encourages public-private partnerships to leverage taxpayer resources to complete more water resources projects.
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Tim will continue to support the expansion of broadband access to rural areas in America. An ever-increasing amount of daily life, from shopping to education to work, is conducted digitally. He has supported efforts to better identify and improve access in underserved areas.
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Tim understands that onerous regulations discourage hard work, investment, and job creation. He voted for legislation to prevent Washington, D.C. bureaucrats from creating costly, job-destroying regulations without receiving approval from the American people’s elected representatives, and Tim had a common-sense bipartisan bill to increase efficiency within the federal government signed into law. Tim’s bipartisan legislation to increase government transparency regarding regulations passed the House.
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By meeting regularly with Michigan farmers and manufacturers, Tim Walberg recognizes that 5th District citizens produce many quality goods to sell in the global marketplace. In a bipartisan manner, Tim works to open global markets to our Michigan-made goods, which supports and creates jobs here. He favors trade that is fair and free. If an agreement is not free and fair for Michigan workers and manufacturers, Tim will not support it.
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“The federal government needs to live within its means.” - Tim Walberg
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Tim Walberg understands that the $38 trillion and climbing national debt threatens the future of our country and causes a significant portion of our federal budget to be used for simply paying interest on this debt.
Tim has voted for a Balanced Budget Amendment to force the federal government to live within its means, and he voted for fiscally responsible budgets that dramatically reduce the deficit and place our government on a path to long-term balance.
Tim's Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act passed the House and was implemented in 2024, providing an online inventory containing program descriptions and expenses by various agencies, increasing transparency and allowing easier identification of waste.
Additionally, Tim has been fighting to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. As Chair of the Education and Workforce Committee, Tim ushered through his portion of the Working Families Tax Cuts, which saved taxpayers over $281 billion. No other piece of enacted legislation in recent congressional history has saved as much as this historic legislation.
Tim helped pass the Rescissions Act to claw back over $9 billion in wasteful government spending. He also supported funding bills that would reverse course from Biden’s reckless spending levels to get our fiscal House back in order.
Tim Walberg is dedicated to preserving and strengthening Social Security and Medicare. He introduced a lockbox bill, preventing the raid of these funds that citizens paid into and expect during their retirement years.
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“Lowering the cost of prescription drugs, developing cures for diseases, combating the drug addiction epidemic, protecting people with pre-existing conditions, and making healthcare more affordable are all important, life-touching priorities.” - Tim Walberg
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All Americans deserve a health care system that puts patients first, and Tim is fighting to fix what’s broken, restore integrity into our nation’s health care system, and lower premium costs. Tim helped pass the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, which would lower premiums by at least 11%, expand access to quality care, and bring greater transparency to America’s health system.
The legislation also included a bill that Tim championed, the Association Health Plans Act, to allow small businesses to join together to purchase more affordable health care insurance.
Tim is pushing for other policies to make health care more affordable, including ending lawsuit abuse, letting people purchase health insurance across state lines, expanding the flexibility of health savings accounts, reducing fraud, and giving individuals the same tax treatment as corporations when they purchase health insurance. Additionally, Tim voted to repeal the medical device tax, which is costing Michigan medical manufacturing jobs and increasing the costs for life-saving medications and devices.
Prescription drug prices are also too high, and Americans deserve more transparency regarding costs. The Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act would require pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to provide employers with detailed data on prescription drug spending, empowering plans and workers with the transparency they deserve.
Research and innovation are crucial to improving health care quality and finding ways to heal our loved ones. Tim Walberg voted for the 21st Century Cures Act to encourage medical research and speed up the development of life-saving cures and treatments for diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cancer. He also voted for bipartisan legislation to overhaul our nation’s broken mental health care system to help those suffering from mental health issues get the care they need.
As a member of the Bipartisan Heroin Task Force, Tim Walberg has been actively collaborating with state and local leaders to develop best practices and tackle the alarming heroin and opioid epidemic that hits close to home in our communities. He voted for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) to enhance prevention, treatment, and recovery programs and provide hope for those struggling with addiction. This comprehensive response overwhelmingly passed the House and was signed into law. Along with a Democratic colleague, Tim also introduced “Jessie’s Law”, named after a Michigan resident who tragically died of an opioid overdose. “Jessie’s Law” was signed by President Trump into law in December 2018, and it provides doctors and medical professionals with access to information they need so they can make informed decisions and safely treat their patients. While both opioid and heroin overdoses are beginning to decrease across America, Tim has supported legislation to crack down on synthetic opioids and other fentanyl analogues as their usage rates are spiking.
Tim Walberg voted to let people keep their health coverage if they liked it, and has repeatedly voted to protect people with pre-existing conditions. Tim has also helped lead congressional efforts to end the practice of surprise medical billing.
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“I have voted repeatedly to support our veterans and military, religious freedom, 2nd Amendment, and right to life.” - Tim Walberg
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Tim Walberg will defend the values that serve as the backbone of our country. He voted repeatedly to support our veterans and military, because they and their families have sacrificed so much to keep us safe and free. Tim will preserve the promise of Social Security and Medicare. Tim will defend religious institutions and individuals with deeply held beliefs, so government will not force them to violate their conscience. He believes wholeheartedly in the sanctity of life, the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, and that government should be colorblind in order to truly be just. Tim’s legislation to identify, locate and recover victims of human trafficking was incorporated into the Missing Children’s Assistance Reauthorization and signed into law. As a lifelong outdoors-man, Tim is a staunch defender of our right to keep and bear arms, and he works to preserve and restore our Great Lakes to their natural splendor. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence are his fundamental guides for our great republic.
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“We must correct course by reversing the policies implemented by Joe Biden, which have cut into our nation's security and prosperity. It's time for commonsense solutions.” - Tim Walberg
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During Joe Biden’s four years in office, he enacted policies that harmed everyday people financially and often put America last.
Under the failed policies of his administration, inflation soared to 9.1%, the worst inflation crisis in decades, and gas prices reached the highest they have ever been during a presidential term.
While President Biden took the country down the wrong path, Tim has been fighting in Congress to correct blunders and lower costs for hardworking Michiganders. As a member of the Natural Resources Committee, Tim has helped advance legislation to protect America’s energy interests, fast-track American energy production by reforming our permitting system, and regain our energy independence.
Tim has also championed legislation to reduce inflation and encourage the government to live within its means. To lower costs for families, Tim has helped reverse Joe Biden’s burdensome and costly regulations, saving taxpayers a collective $180 billion or $2,100 per family of four.
He was proud to support the Working Families Tax Cuts to offer vital economic relief to hardworking Michiganders. This historic legislation prevented residents of Michigan’s 5th District from facing a 27% tax hike and will increase take-home pay by up to $11,700. Other critical policies like no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for 88% of seniors will ensure that families can pocket more of their hard-earned money.
As a proven leader, Tim knows how to get the job done and fix the many crises created by bad governance.
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