¶ How To Win Against David Rouzer
North Carolinians in the 7th congressional district deserve better representation than David Rouzer. He has repeatedly voted to strip them of their health coverage with his support of the Big Ugly Bill and support for repealing the Affordable Care Act. He has voted against helping North Carolina’s seniors by opposing a bill that lowered prescription drugs, supporting a bill that could trigger Medicare cuts, and joining a group that wanted to turn Medicare into a voucher system and raise the Social Security retirement age. He voted to take food assistance that North Carolinians relied on to afford groceries while at the same time supporting tariffs that raised costs on North Carolinians and hurt North Carolina farmers. He even supported the tariffs during Trump’s first term and co-sponsored a bill to give Trump more tariff power during that first term. In addition to the agenda he supported, Rouzer had become just another DC swamp monster, even spearheading water permitting reform legislation that had the backing of industry groups that had contributed thousands of dollars to his campaign over the years. Last but not least, before Rouzer entered congress he made money lobbying for a foreign tobacco company.
¶ rouzer voted to strip thousands of north carolinIans of their health coverage
- Rouzer voted for a bill that would kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance, including nearly 12 million Americans off of Medicaid. As a result of his vote, more than 52,000 North Carolinians in the 7th congressional district could lose their health insurance. Rouzer vote could also threaten North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion, which has helped 650,000 people in the state obtain health insurance.
- Rouzer has also vocally supported repealing the Affordable Care Act and has repeatedly voted in congress to do so. More than 760,000 North Carolinians had enrolled in ACA exchange plans for 2026, which was a 22 percent drop in enrollment compared to 2025 – the largest drop in the United States. The drop could be partially attributed to the expiration of the enhanced ACA premium tax credits, which Rouzer voted against extending.
Message: Rouzer voted to take health coverage from North Carolinians, all to fund tax breaks for billionaires.
¶ Rouzer’s supported policies that threatened medicare and social security
- Rouzer voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, which allowed Medicare to negotiate prescription drug costs and capped the cost of insulin for Medicare beneficiaries at $35 per month.
- Rouzer also voted for House Republicans’ reconciliation bill, which would trigger nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts, absent future congressional action. He was also a member of the Republican Study Committee, which has advocated for raising the retirement age and turning Medicare into a voucher system.
- Rouzer also joined the congressional DOGE caucus and defended Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as it was weakening Americans’ ability to access the Social Security Administration. When constituents expressed concerns about the impact of DOGE to him he even responded with a letter about an entirely different subject. More than 214,000 North Carolinians in Rouzer’s district relied on Social Security benefits.
Message: Rouzer against lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and supported policies that threatened services North Carolina seniors rely on.
¶ Rouzer voted to take food assistance from north carolinians who relied on it to afford groceries
- Rouzer voted for a bill that made the largest SNAP cut in history, while also telling his constituents it would actually strengthen SNAP. His vote threatened food assistance for more than 40,000 North Carolina households in the 7th congressional district.
Message: Rouzer voted to cut food assistance for North Carolinians, all to fund billionaire tax breaks.
¶ Rouzer defended tariffs that raised costs on north carolinians and hurt north carolina farmers
- Rouzer voted six times to protect Trump’s tariffs including in April 2025, when Rouzer was the deciding vote to protect Trump’s tariffs. Rouzer even defended the tariffs from Trump’s first term and co-sponsored legislation to increase Trump’s tariff power. As a result of the tariffs, North Carolina farmers were paying more for equipment and other inputs than they were earning from crop sales. Tariffs contributed to higher food prices, struggles for small businesses, and amounted to a $1,000 tax increase on Americans.
Message: Rouzer supported tariffs that raised prices on North Carolinians and hurt farmers.
¶ Rouzer supported policies that threatened public education in north carolina
- Rouzer joined the congressional DOGE caucus and defended Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as the agency made massive cuts to grants that supported students, expecting mothers, and Black youth in North Carolina.
- His support for DOGE’s cutting rampage aligned with his agenda to abolish the federal Department of Education. Ever since getting elected to congress, Rouzer has introduced a bill (six times total) to abolish the agency, even though 63 percent of North Carolina voters opposed doing so. North Carolina’s K-12 schools relied on $1.5 billion in federal funding and more than 211,000 North Carolina college students were supported by federal funding.
Message: Rouzer pushed an agenda that would put North Carolina public schools in a worse position.
¶ rouzer is just another DC Swamp monster
- In 2024, Rouzer, as the chair of the Water Resources and Environment subcommittee, spearheaded legislation that sought to change permitting rules around water. More than 40 environmental groups opposed the bill arguing that it “put polluter profits ahead of public health.” As it turned out, Rouzer had also accepted thousands of dollars in campaign contributions over the course of his career from industry groups that supported the legislation. The bill was so jargony that one expert even questioned who actually wrote the legislation.
- In June 2017, Rouzer accepted a campaign donation from the chemical company DuPont’s PAC. His campaign received the donation ten days after representatives from Chemours, a DuPont spinoff company, had met with Rouzer in his DC office. Chemours was facing scrutiny at the time for having been discharging a unregulated chemical into the Cape Fear River. Rouzer’s campaign tried to defend the donation by claiming it happened during a May 2017 fundraiser and that the check had not been cut and delivered till later – they also pointed out that Chemours was separate from DuPont.
- When Rouzer was running for congress in 2011 he sat by while state lobbyists exploited a loophole that allowed them to donate to his campaign. North Carolina law prohibited state lobbyists from making campaign contributions to state legislators – Rouzer maintained his position as a state senator while he ran for congress. However, state lobbyists hosted a fundraiser for Rouzer’s congressional campaign. The fundraising invite even said, “federal law recognizes the first amendment rights of NC lobbyists and allows personal contributions to be made to congressional candidates!”
Message: Rouzer was a self-serving politician in the North Carolina state legislature and became just another DC swamp monster in Congress.
¶ before entering congress, rouzer lobbied for a foreign tobacco company
- From 2007 to 2008, Rouzer lobbied the federal government on behalf of the U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese tobacco company that had strong ties to the Japanese government and in which the Japanese government was a major shareholder. Some of the disclosures noted that “Japan Tobacco Inc. exports cigarettes to the United States and is concerned about FDA regulation of tobacco products.”
Message: Rouzer made money lobbying for a foreign tobacco company.
¶ it took rouzer 11 months to vote to release the epstein files
- In November 2025, Rouzer finally voted to release the Epstein files, but only after Donald Trump gave House Republicans permission to do so. Previously, Rouzer had cast the deciding vote against releasing the Epstein files, protecting the accused pedophiles named within them. Rouzer also never signed the discharge petition that called for their release and he never co-sponsored Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna’s resolution calling for their release.
Message: It took Rouzer 11 months to vote to release the Epstein files and he did only after Trump gave Republicans permission to do so.
¶ Issue Briefs
¶ David Rouzer Supported Policies That Hurt Everyday North Carolinians
Rouzer Voted To Strip Health Coverage From Thousands Of North Carolinians
Rouzer Supported Policies That Threatened Services North Carolina Seniors Relied On
Rouzer Voted To Cut Food Assistance North Carolinians Relied On
Rouzer Voted To Protect Tariffs That Raised Prices On North Carolina
Rouzer Supported Policies That Threatened Public Education In North Carolina
¶ David Rouzer Used His Power To Benefit The Powerful And Himself
Rouzer Was Just Another DC Swamp Creature
Before Entering Congress, Rouzer Made Money Lobbying For A Foreign Tobacco Company
It Took Rouzer 11 Months To Vote To Release The Epstein Files
Rouzer's Key Votes In Congress