¶ How To Win Against Brad Finstad
Since he entered Congress, Brad Finstad has worked to make life harder for Minnesotans and has been nothing but a rubber stamp for Trump’s destructive agenda throughout 2025. He voted to kick more than 19,000 Minnesotans off their health coverage by supporting the Big Ugly Bill, forcing hospitals in his state to make “difficult choices” about the care they could provide and forcing local clinics to drastically cut their services. In the same vote, he passed the biggest cuts to SNAP in history, ignoring that more than 25,000 households in his district relied on the program. Finstad was also a member of the Republican Study Committee, a group that has staunchly advocated for raising the retirement age and turning Medicare into a voucher system. Finstad was an early supporter of DOGE, joining the Congressional DOGE caucus and touting how eager he was to partner with the agency. He praised Trump’s tariffs despite even though they raised prices on Minnesotans and created uncertainty for Minnesota businesses. Finstad was also an anti-choice extremist who supported a nationwide abortion ban.
¶ Finstad Voted For Devastating Health Care Cuts
- Finstad voted for a bill that would kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance, including nearly 12 million Americans off of Medicaid. More than 19,000 Minnesotans could lose their health coverage as a result of his votes. The Minnesota Hospital Association also warned that funds the state received through the Rural Health Transformation Program would not cover the losses incurred by Republican budget bill cuts.
- Finstad also voted against extending critical health care tax credits, allowing them to expire and dooming Minnesotans to higher premium costs.
Message: Finstad voted to take health coverage from Minnesotans to give billionaires tax breaks.
¶ Finstad Supported Policies That Would Raise Costs And Reduce Benefits For Seniors
- The first vote Finstad took after being sworn into congress in August 2022 was against the Inflation Reduction Act, which allowed Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug costs and capped the cost of insulin for Medicare enrollees at $35 per month.
- In 2025, Finstad voted for Republicans reconciliation bill, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated would trigger more than $500 billion in cuts to Medicare, absent future congressional action.
- Finstad was a member of the Republican Study Committee, which has been a staunch advocate for raising the age at which seniors would be eligible to collect Social Security. The Committee claimed the age increase was essential for keeping Social Security solvent, ignoring that a higher retirement age would cut the median-wage retiree’s benefits by thousands of dollars every year. The Committee also advocated for switching to a “premium support” healthcare system with Medicare, which would raise health care costs for most beneficiaries.
Message: Finstad worked to make health care more expensive and less accessible for Minnesota seniors.
¶ Finstad Voted To Cut Food Assistance Minnesotans Rely On To Afford Groceries
- Finstad voted for a bill that made the largest SNAP cut in history. More than 21,000 households, making up 8.7% of his district, relied on SNAP to afford groceries.
Message: Finstad voted to cut food assistance Minnesotans relied on to afford groceries, all to give tax cuts to billionaires.
¶ Finstad Was The Deciding Vote To Protect Tariffs That Raised Costs On Minnesotans
- Finstad praised Trump’s tariffs, claiming they were the “shake-up needed” to get foreign nations to the negotiation table.
- Then, he voted six times to protect the tariffs, including in April 2025 when he was the deciding vote to protect them, dooming Minnesota families who relied on him to a trade war, causing the price of hockey gear to skyrocket and paralyzing Minnesota businesses. Tariffs contributed to higher food prices and “mega-layoffs” across the nation.
Message: Finstad thought a strategy that resulted in Minnesotans paying higher prices and paralyzing Minnesota businesses was “needed.”
¶ Finstad Supported An Agency That Laid Off Federal Workers And Weakened Social Security
- Finstad was a vocal supporter of Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency.” As soon as Trump was elected Finstad joined the Congressional “Delivering Outstanding Government Efficiency (DOGE)” Caucus in order to support the agency’s agenda, and said he was “eager” to help DOGE enact its agenda.
- While Finstad was enabling DOGE, Minnesotans were suffering due to the agency’s actions. DOGE’s downsizing efforts were affecting the federal government’s ability to deliver services to seniors, and the $296 million in federal grants cut by DOGE threatened to put a hole in Minnesota’s state budget. More than 158,000 Minnesotans in Finstad’s district relied on Social Security benefits and more than 3,000 were employed by the federal government.
Message: Finstad was “eager” to eliminate his constituents’ jobs and cause seniors to wait longer for services.
¶ Finstad Was An Anti-Abortion Extremist Who Supported A Nationwide Abortion Ban
- Finstad vowed to “always protect the sanctity of life” after voting for the so-called “Born-Alive” bill. Then he doubled-down on that belief by cosponsoring the Life at Conception Act, a nationwide abortion ban.
- In 2025, Finstad cosponsored legislation to establish a federal consent requirement for women seeking to use abortion medication – the legislation was based on a premise that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said was “not based in science.”
Message: Finstad was an anti-choice extremist who supported a nationwide abortion ban.
¶ It Took Finstad 11 Months To Vote To Release The Epstein Files
- Finstad voted twice to protect the accused pedophiles named in the Epstein files, and never cosponsored legislation or signed Rep. Thomas Massie’s discharge petition that called for the Epstein files to be released. Only after Trump signaled it was okay did Finstad vote to release the files and claim that the victims deserved the truth.
Message: Finstad claimed to care about Epstein’s victims, but voted to protect the accused pedophiles named in the Epstein files until Trump signaled it was okay to vote to release the files.
¶ Issue Briefs
¶ Brad Finstad Supported Policies That Hurt Everyday Minnesotans
Finstad Voted To Take Health Coverage From Minnesotans
Finstad Supported Policies That Would Raise Costs And Reduce Benefits For Seniors
Finstad Voted To Cut Food Assistance Minnesotans Relied On
Finstad Voted To Protect Tariffs That Raised Prices On Minnesotans
Finstad Supported An Agency That Laid Off Federal Workers And Hamstrung Social Security
Finstad Was An Anti-Choice Extremist Who Supported A Nationwide Abortion Ban
It Took Finstad 11 Months To Vote To Release The Epstein Files
Finstad Key Votes In Congress