John Duarte

Rep. Duarte voted for the FY24 Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration Appropriations Bill, which repealed an FDA measure allowing abortion medication to be sent to patients by mail.

Rep. Duarte signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of a case that would have dismantled the CFPB. 

Rep. Duarte voted to roll back National Labor Relations Board protections for workers with joint employers. According to a letter to Congress signed by the SEIU, CWA, and other labor groups, Duarte voted to overturn a rule that helps safeguard “the labor rights of millions of workers in subcontracted employment, ensuring that corporations cannot skirt the law simply by outsourcing responsibility for their workers.”

Rep. Duarte voted several times this Congress to rescind funding for the IRS to go after wealthy and corporate tax cheats to make them pay what they owe. 

Rep. Duarte voted for the Default on America Act, which would expand harsh work requirements for SNAP benefits. 

Rep. Duarte voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act, which would require the Bureau of Land Management to hold quarterly auctions for oil and gas leases. 

Rep. Duarte voted for the Default on America Act, which would require the Bureau of Land Management to hold quarterly auctions for oil and gas leases. 

Rep. Duarte voted for H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act, which would limit presidential authority to utilize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve unless the government allows oil and gas companies to drill more on federal lands and waterways.

Rep. Duarte voted for the Default on America Act, which included harsh new work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries.

Rep. Duarte supports legislation to make the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. Rep. Duarte co-sponsored the TCJA Permanency Act, which would make three major TCJA tax cuts that benefited the wealthy permanent. These included individual income tax cuts for the richest Americans, the pass-through business deduction, and the estate tax. Duarte also co-sponsored the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, which would extend tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and give tax breaks to big corporations, and co-sponsored the Death Tax Repeal Act, which would repeal the estate tax. 

Rep. Duarte voted for H.R. 7700, the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act and for H.R. 7637, the Refrigerator Freedom Act, which repealed energy efficiency rules for dishwashers and refrigerators. He also voted for H.R. 6192, the Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act, which would make it more difficult for the Department of Energy to impose energy efficiency standards on home appliances, and easier to revoke current ones.

Rep. Duarte voted for 11 FY24 appropriations bills which contained extreme policy riders, which would create a “license to discriminate” against LGBTQ+ people.

Rep. Duarte voted for 7 FY25 appropriations bills which contain extreme policy riders, which would create a “license to discriminate” against LGBTQ+ people.

Rep. Duarte voted for H.R. 5, the “Parents Bill of Rights Act,” which would require schools to contact parents about any accommodations for transgender students, including using their preferred names and pronouns. It also requires schools to notify parents if their policy allows transgender students to participate in sports or use bathrooms that do not correspond with the gender on their birth certificate. 

Rep. Duarte voted for the FY24 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, which would have cut $14.7 billion from Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies, nearly 80% of the program’s 2023 funding. On the whole, the appropriations bill would have cut the Department of Education’s budget by 28% below FY23 levels. 

Rep. Duarte voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act and for the Default on America Act, both of which would have repealed the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, which cut home energy costs, reduce emissions, and boost energy efficiency. These bills would increase the cost of energy efficiency upgrades for families and endanger thousands of clean energy jobs.

Since 2023, House Republicans have voted 51 times to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, either in whole or in part, including through the Lower Energy Costs Act and the Default on America Act. 

Rep. Duarte voted for 10 FY24 appropriations bills that contained extreme policy riders, which would block President Biden’s executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion or prohibit the use of funds for Critical Race Theory.