Ted Lieu — Democrat Candidate for U.S. House in California, 2026

Congressman Ted Lieu opposes the Secure the Border Act, a measure designed to enhance border security and immigration enforcement. He also opposes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act), which mandates proof of citizenship for voter registration, and the Equal Representation Act, aimed at prohibiting non-citizens from being counted for congressional apportionment. Additionally, Representative Lieu has called for ICE and CBP interior operations to cease and co-introduced legislation to ensure detained individuals have access to constituent casework services.

“I think it's easy for people like you and me who wear suits and ties and work in offices to cast aspersions on those with a tenth-grade education . . . But let's talk about some of these folks with a tenth-grade education . . . I have had the opportunity to meet over the years many farmworkers who have had families die under brutal conditions in the heat so that you or I can have less expensive orange juice, cheaper artichokes, or less expensive garlic . . . and I just want to suggest that these people have given far more to American society than you or I ever will." - Congressman Ted W. Lieu”

Ted Lieu criticized Republicans for failing to address rising healthcare costs and for cutting the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid, and Medicare. He stated that people are suffering due to these cuts and rising costs. Lieu urged for the extension of ACA tax credits to ensure millions of Americans do not lose health insurance or face increased premiums. He opposed a government funding bill that ignored these healthcare concerns.

““Republicans and Donald Trump have spent this past year waging an all-out assault on healthcare by cutting the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Medicare. People are suffering. My constituents are worried about how they’re going to afford to go to the doctor, especially while paying exorbitant prices for groceries and other goods thanks to Trumpflation. These are working families, children, and seniors who simply can’t afford life under Donald Trump’s economy. I cannot in good conscience support a spending bill that ignores both the devastating healthcare cuts and the crushing cost of living facing the American people.” - Congressman Ted W. Lieu, in a press release from his official house.gov website, following a House vote on a government funding bill.”

Congressman Ted Lieu strongly supports climate action, having coauthored California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) and introduced the Climate Solutions Act in Congress. He voted against H.R.4758 and H.R.4626, bills related to homeowner energy and home appliances. Lieu views climate change as a massive problem and advocates for America to lead in green energy investment and carbon pollution reduction. He also supported an amendment to reduce the defense budget, linking it to climate efforts.

“I believe climate change is a massive problem. I’m a strong environmentalist, and one reason I ran for Congress is to make the environment better." (Ted Lieu, The Bulletin, January 2024)”

Representative Ted Lieu supports abortion rights and access to reproductive health care, believing individuals should make their own medical decisions free from government interference. He is a member of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and voted "Yes" on House Roll Call Vote 360, which aimed at restoring abortion access. He also opposed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 962). He is endorsed by Reproductive Freedom for All for the 2026 election.

“I also believe that the government has no place to influence an individual's decision to use family planning services such as birth control or abortion. Congress should be working to create American jobs, rebuild our transportation infrastructure, and combat climate change, not to orchestrate ideological attacks on a high-quality health provider. I'm going to continue to fight against any attempts to attack Planned Parenthood or undermine access to reproductive health care." - Representative Ted Lieu”

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“I am concerned about AI being an accomplice to destroying the world. As these language models get more and more sophisticated, eventually they can tell someone how to build a virus that could become a pandemic and give them the 23 steps to do so, or they can tell someone at a college laboratory how to make a deadly chemical weapon. Those are issues I’m concerned about. - Ted Lieu, dailynews.com, 2025/12/19”

Congressman Ted Lieu supported H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which proposed universal background checks for all firearm sales, including private transactions, with specific exceptions. This indicates his position in favor of regulations aimed at controlling firearm acquisition.

“Lieu: If a member of Congress is a strong believer in the Second Amendment, you’re probably not going to change their mind and get them to vote for a ban on assault weapons, right? That’s not going to happen.”