2026 Congressional Candidate Policy Positions
Michigan
House Candidates District 8
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Women’s Reproductive Rights
Rivet is a committed pro-choice leader. In her tenure, she has played a key role in restoring abortion and IVF access in Michigan and is determined to extend those protections federally. Her belief is that reproductive decisions belong to individuals and their healthcare providers, not to the politicians.Gun Control Laws
Spearheaded Michigan law (PA 16), featuring penalties and storage mandates. Closed private-sale loopholes at state level. Her record reflects a balanced, evidence-based approach emphasizing accountability, working to keep firearms away from those at risk, and supporting community-based violence prevention.Equal Access to Education, Medical Care, and Housing
Voted no on Republicans’ extreme package because working families will lose their health care, children will go hungry, and seniors will lose access to long-term care, all to pay for massive tax breaks. Wants to protect Social Security and Medicare benefits. -
Economy
Amir supports President Trump and his agenda to rebalance our trade deals and restore good-paying blue collar opportunities to our middle class from Flint, to Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland.In Congress, Amir will oppose all tax increases, and will fight for a total income tax-cut for teachers, nurses, cops and first responders making under $100k a year. Together we will restore the kind of economy that once made Michigan the envy of the midwest.
Foreign Affairs
During the Global War on Terrorism, Amir was stationed at Guantanamo Bay. It was there that he protected Americans from the worst of the worst that Al Qaeda and ISIS had to offer and as an intelligence analyst he has helped foil terrorist plots and keep the Homeland safe. He knows first-hand the danger of Islamic extremism abroad.Israel is America’s greatest ally abroad in a dangerous region of the world and a global force for good. We must support Israel’s efforts to combat terrorism in the Middle East, and ensure that they have the resources to defend themselves in our shared mission of combatting terror and preventing nuclear proliferation by state sponsors of terrorism.
As a practicing Muslim Amir knows that 99.9% of Muslims practice peacefully. However, those who attempt to poison the faith to do others harm should be given no quarter.
Environment
Across our state, Michiganders take pride in having the most beautiful lakes and rivers in the country. Yet in the past decade, MI-08 residents have been impacted by dam failures and the infamous contamination of Flint’s drinking water. In Congress, Amir will fight to ensure these crises never happen to our communities again.While the Biden Administration was forced to bend the knee to Saudi Princes for oil, President Trump and his administration are unleashing American energy production at unprecedented rates and lowering the cost of energy for millions of Americans.
In Congress, Amir will join President Trump in this effort while combatting Kristen McDonald-Rivet and other extreme Democrats in their efforts to pass the Green New Deal Scam and other burdensome and unnecessary cost-raising bureaucratic regulations.
Immigration
For far too long Democrat politicians have ignored the border and our broken immigration system for political gain. Amir wholeheartedly supports President Trump’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants, close the border, and stop the flow of fentanyl and other harmful drugs from destroying our children’s lives and community fabric.Other
Where the far-left indoctrination agenda infiltrates our schools, it is our duty to stand up against it. The radical gender ideology of boys becoming girls, using girls bathrooms, and playing girls sports has got to stop.Amir wholeheartedly supports President Trump’s common sense agenda of ending woke DEI nonsense, and defunding these radical ideologies – and will join that fight in Congress to protect our children.
Amir also believes that college is not the only answer for our children and will work in Congress to incentivize trade schools and end the demonization of blue collar work.