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Kristen McDonald Rivet
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, MI-08
Representative since 2025
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- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Michigan US House 8
- Where to vote
- Find your polling place (opens in a new tab) · More ways to vote
- Top priorities
- Fixing A Broken System
- Lowering Costs
- Healthcare We Can Afford
- Supporting Public Safety
- Working With Both Parties to Get Stuff Done
- In Congress
- Representative since 2025 · votes with their party 92% of the time. See the record · Office phone 202-225-3611
- Money
- $6.9M raised, $4.3M spent, $2.7M cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 11% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 32% from Michigan · largest committee giver JSTREETPAC, $23.5K
- Outside groups
- $317.2K supporting, $235.1K opposing Rivet
- Sponsored most in
- Agriculture and Food, Taxation, Armed Forces and National Security
5 priorities from kristenmcdonaldrivet.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.
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Washington is broken – while families are falling further and further behind, politicians and special interests are cashing in. In order to make actual progress, we need to fix the systems that are failing us. First of all, no one should be profiting from their position in elected office. Kristen worked with both parties to introduce legislation to make it illegal for members of Congress to trade stock or participate in prediction markets where they have insider information.
Next, Kristen is fighting to get big, unlimited money out of politics, leading efforts to reverse Citizens United. Kristen also knows that voters should pick their leaders, not the other way around, so she supports bills to expand Michigan’s anti-gerrymandering practices to the rest of the country. Kristen is not scared to take on special interests, and when members of either party put themselves over our communities, Kristen fights back.
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As a mother of six kids, Kristen knows firsthand how rising prices are affecting Michigan families. That’s why she is laser-focused on providing relief and lowering costs. In the State Senate, she passed the largest tax cut for working families in Michigan’s history and ended Michigan’s burdensome retirement tax.
In Congress, Kristen led the effort to pass through the House a tax cut for families buying healthcare. She is working to force prescription drug companies to negotiate prices with Medicaid, put an end to reckless tariffs, and stop Wall Street from buying up our housing. She is also a leader of a bipartisan group of members focused on cutting red tape that is causing sky-high costs of utilities and housing.
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The current state of healthcare in America is crushing working families. MAGA’s $1 trillion cut to Medicaid made things much worse, causing premiums to rise 17% for working families in Michigan. For Mid-Michigan to thrive, healthcare must be affordable and accessible for everybody.
Kristen led the effort to pass through the House a tax cut for families buying healthcare, and she is fighting to let every American have the choice to buy into Medicare. She wrote bipartisan legislation to make pricing more transparent, and she is standing up to pharmaceutical companies by working to force them to negotiate prices with Medicaid.
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Kristen knows that for mid-Michigan families to thrive, they need to feel and be safe. For far too long, local police and sheriffs have been underfunded, and Kristen is working to fix that. As a Bay City Commissioner, she increased funding to hire additional officers, and in the state Senate, she brought back to local departments millions to fund more officers, tools, and training.
In Congress, Kristen has secured millions in federal investments into our local departments, and she co-sponsors the bipartisan bill to fully fund local law enforcement.
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Kristen doesn’t play political games and works with anyone, regardless of party, to solve the problems facing Mid-Michigan. In her first year, she introduced 19 bills, all of which have a Republican partner, and two of her bills were signed into law by President Trump.
When her own party pushed an EV mandate that would kill Michigan auto jobs, she fought back and helped stop it. She consistently works with both parties to lower costs, strengthen our border, and support local law enforcement, and that’s why she is rated the most bipartisan member of Congress from Michigan.
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