Chris Pappas

Chris Pappas supports extending and restoring ACA premium tax credits, and backing a public option with stronger accountability for insurers and drugmakers to lower costs. He also backs capping insulin at $35 per month, enabling Medicare to negotiate drug prices, expanding telehealth, and opposing Medicaid cuts.

Pappas says he is focused on lowering costs for working families and small businesses, including food, energy, and drug costs. His campaign also says he supports cracking down on corporate and AI-driven price gouging and protecting nutrition assistance.

Pappas says he is committed to combating climate change, promoting clean energy, and protecting natural resources. He supports maintaining clean energy incentives and tax credits and opposes rolling back environmental protections.

Chris Pappas supports codifying abortion rights and safeguarding access to reproductive health care. He backed the Women’s Health Protection Act and introduced or supported measures to reaffirm the right to travel across state lines for abortion care and to protect access to IVF, and has advocated for maintaining funding for Planned Parenthood health centers.

Pappas has called for congressional oversight of ICE and for preserving local control over immigration-related decisions. He has also said some ICE funding should be redirected to local law enforcement.

Pappas supports universal background checks, closing loopholes such as the Charleston loophole and bump-stock loophole, and safe-storage measures like Ethan’s Law.

Pappas says U.S. foreign policy should be values-driven, emphasizing alliances, democracy, and human rights. He has also criticized open-ended military commitments and said the U.S. should use power carefully.

Pappas has backed police accountability reforms, including the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and supports LGBTQ+ equality. He has also opposed legislation he described as harmful and discriminatory toward transgender students.

Education: Chris Pappas emphasizes investing in public schools and making higher education affordable. He supports expanding Pell Grants, making community college and public universities tuition-free, increasing protections for student borrowers, funding career training and apprenticeships, restoring federal education funds to New Hampshire, and expanding VA education benefits for in‑demand fields, while safeguarding public education from federal cuts.

Pappas has engaged on AI-related policy through Congress, including legislation addressing deepfakes and other digital harms. His emphasis appears to be on regulating harmful uses of AI and protecting consumers.

Pappas’s public campaign materials reviewed here do not lay out a specific election-reform agenda. Available sources emphasize broader governance and constituent-service priorities rather than a detailed election-reform proposal.

Pappas presents himself as focused on New Hampshire-specific concerns, especially infrastructure, affordability, health care, and the opioid crisis. His House issues page says he is fighting for federal investment in New Hampshire’s roads, bridges, and waterways and highlights Medicaid expansion and local public-health needs.