Infrastructure
What is your approach to federal infrastructure investment, and how would you prioritize funding for energy, transportation, flood mitigation, and resilience needs in your district?
The federal government has gotten too big, too slow, too intrusive—and Texas knows TX-07 better than Washington ever will. Congress’s job is to fund and unblock the work, while Houston’s job is to do it. That means block grants: flexible dollars so local engineers design flood-control projects that fit Houston’s geography, not Washington dictating bayou-by-bayou standards. On transportation, the next Congress writes the highway bill: I’ll fight for formula flexibility to fix chokepoints like the West Loop, Texas’s most congested road and this district’s daily commute. On energy, the job is permitting reform, so pipelines, transmission, and export terminals get built. Resilience means a grid that stays on and neighborhoods that stay dry.
Inflation
If elected to office, what will you do to address rising costs, especially with regard to groceries, childcare, and housing?
Prices are high because Washington keeps making them higher. My answer isn’t for government to pick up more of the tab—it’s to fix what’s driving prices up in the first place. Start with energy: energy costs are embedded in the price of groceries, housing materials, and everything on the shelf, so unleashing American production and reforming permitting lowers costs across the board. Second, fiscal discipline: deficit spending drove the inflation and interest rates that put mortgages out of reach for young families. Third, supply: in housing and childcare alike, regulation restricts supply while subsidies chase it. I’ll oppose federal zoning mandates, cut regulatory costs, and let families—not bureaucracies—direct their own dollars.
Immigration
What is your position on federal immigration enforcement and detention policies? What specific changes, if any, would you support to how those policies are implemented?
I support enforcing the laws we already have. That means funding ICE and CBP, enforcing the Laken Riley Act, and ensuring detention capacity matches the caseload so enforcement isn’t dictated by bed shortages. On implementation: prioritize criminal aliens, cartel networks, and national-security threats first. Hold agencies to professional standards and honor the due process our Constitution guarantees to all persons. Enforcement and legal immigration are partners, not opposites—TX-07 is full of families who immigrated the right way, and I support a merit-based system that honors them. What I won’t support is defunding or freezing the very agencies charged with enforcing our laws.
Voting
What changes, if any, to current laws related to voter registration, voter ID, and mail-in ballots would you support and why?
My framework is simple: keep things verified, transparent, auditable. Verified—American elections should be decided by American citizens, so I support the SAVE Act’s documentary proof of citizenship to register, with an alternative process for those lacking standard documents, and modernizing the NVRA so states can maintain accurate rolls. I support Texas’s photo ID requirement, which over 80% of Americans favor. On mail ballots, I’d keep Texas’s approach: available to seniors, voters with disabilities, and military serving away from home, with ID-number verification and secure chain of custody. Elections should stay state-run—I’ll support federal election-security grant funding while opposing any federalization of election administration.
