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RYAN MACKENZIE IS THE CLEAR CHOICE

PROTECTING TAXPAYERS & GROWING OUR ECONOMY

  • Never voted for a tax increase


  • Opposes cuts to Social Security & Medicare, and will work to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits so seniors keep more of their money

  • Opposes deficit spending that drives inflation on the goods and services Americans use every day

  • Prime sponsor of legislation that eliminated the state inheritance tax on small family businesses and closed corporate tax loopholes – called “The Most Significant Tax Reform in 20 years” by the PA CPA Journal

  • Supports a Balanced Budget Amendment to force Washington to spend only what we have, and requirements to pass a full budget on-time, every year

  • Leading the fight against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Pennsylvania. Authored proposals to address the sale of agricultural land and land near military bases to CCP, and prohibit PA retirement plans from holding CCP assets.pposes cuts to Social Security & Medicare

Ryan Mackenzie:

  • Voted for a nearly $2 Trillion spending program that pushed inflation to its highest point in more than four decades (Roll Call 49, 2/27/21)

  • Voted to allow $1 Trillion in new tax hikes on American workers and businesses (Roll Call 385, 11/19/21)

  • Voted against cutting federal spending and reducing the federal deficit to help taxpayers (Roll Call 199, 4/26/23)

  • Supported government over-spending that has ballooned U.S. debt more than $10 trillion since she took office. (U.S. Debt clock)


  • Made Medicare More Expensive by voting for a law that independent experts say increased Medicare Part D premiums by 33% and reduced choices for PA seniors (Forbes, 5/31/24)


  • Raided the Medicare Trust Fund to give billions of dollars in subsidies to large insurance companies (NY Times, 9/27/24)

Susan Wild:

Helping Workers & Families

  • Author of the law that expanded the use of E-Verify in Pennsylvania to stop illegal immigrants from being hired in the construction industry to protect American jobs and wages.


  • Voted to stop a radical climate agenda and RGGI that would increase energy costs for all Pennsylvanians


  • Recognized leader on expanding job training and career and technical education


  • Consistently voted to protect American jobs through Made In PA/USA efforts


  • Proven record of fighting the shipping of manufacturing jobs to China and other countries

Ryan Mackenzie:

  • Co-sponsored legislation to increase payroll taxes on American workers by 20% (HR860, 1/20/19; HR 5723, 10/26/21)


  • Voted against the Lower Energy Costs Act to promote domestic energy production, energy jobs, and reduced costs for households (Roll Call 182, 3/30/23)


  • Voted for a new natural gas that would cost Pennsylvania jobs and increase consumer energy costs by as much as 20% (Roll Call 420, 8/12/22)


  • Voted to allow $1 Trillion in new tax hikes on American workers and job-creating small businesses (Roll Call 385, 11/19/21)


  • Voted to support allowing states to ban gas-powered vehicles and eventually force American working families to pay for expensive, unproven electric vehicles. (HR 1435, 9/14/23)

Susan Wild:

FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

  • Supports completing the border wall, increasing resources for border patrol law enforcement, and reinstating commonsense policies like “Remain In Mexico”


  • Author of the law that expanded the use of E-Verify in Pennsylvania to stop illegal immigrants from being hired in the construction industry to protect American jobs and wages


  • Voted to prohibit Sanctuary Cities in Pennsylvania


  • Author of a comprehensive legislative package that would end Sanctuary Cities; require EVerify for all public contracts and ICE background checks for firearms purchases; prohibit non-citizens from voting; and, clean voter rolls of non-eligible illegal immigrants


  • Opposes giving illegal immigrants the right to vote and other rights reserved for American citizens

Ryan Mackenzie:

  • Supported expanding eligibility for federal student aid and $10.5 billion in tax credits to illegal immigrants (Roll Call 385, 11/19/21)


  • Voted against construction of a border wall at least ten times (Roll Call Votes: 472, 12/20/18; 9, 1/13/19; 31, 1/15/19; 39, 1/16/19; 46, 1/23/19; 49. 1/23/19; 51, 1/24/19; 94, 2/26/19; 127, 3/26/19; 553, 9/27/19)


  • Voted against increasing the number of border patrol agents on the border (Roll Call 209, 5/11/23)


  • Voted against banning illegal immigrants from voting (HR192; 5/23/24)


  • Supported Sanctuary Cities calling them “safer” than other cities (Morning Call, 3/30/18; WFMZ, 4/9/18)


  • Voted against prohibiting gang members who are illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-paid benefits (Roll Call #90, 3/18/21)


  • Voted against condemning the use of elementary and secondary school facilities as shelters for illegal immigrants (Roll Call 286, 6/22/23) 

Susan Wild:

SECURING OUR COMMUNITIES

  • Supported local police, fire companies, and EMS through increased grant funding


  • Voted for numerous initiatives to combat the drug and opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania


  • Author of law that helps local volunteer fire and rescue companies focus resources on community protection by exempting them from realty transfer taxes


  • Voted against dangerous Sanctuary Cities and proposed legislation to prohibit them in PA


  • Opposes Defund The Police efforts and voted to hold radical public prosecutors accountable for not following the law and prosecuting criminals

Ryan Mackenzie:

  • Wild has been endorsed and taken more than $50,000 from groups that pushed to Defund The Police (Twitter, 7/22/21, 6/5/20, 4/25/18, 10/10/19; Sierra Club, 11/10/22, 11/9/20, 6/23/20, 11/8/18; PP Action Fund, 7/9/20; Federal Election Commission records)


  • Voted for legislation that would have decreased punishments for violent crime (Roll Call 119, 2/9/23)


  • Voted against a motion to condemn calls to “defund,” “disband,” “dismantle,” or “abolish” the police (Roll Call 59, 3/3/21)



  • Voted against our police by supporting legislation that would have eliminated qualified immunity for police officers doing their jobs (Roll Call 119, 6/5/20; Roll Call 60, 3/3/21)

Susan Wild:

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