Elise Stefanik focused on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, overhauling the tax code and a new nationwide energy policy in the weekly Republican response to President Obama Saturday.
Stefanik is the Republican candidate running for New York’s 21st Congressional District seat.
“President Obama has piled on more taxes, more regulations, more debt for future generations and higher health care costs — hurting our Main Street economy,” she said in the speech.
Stefanik says her Obamacare solution is to replace it with “commonsense proposals that lower costs, improve health care quality and increase accessibility, especially for rural communities like New York’s North Country.”
If elected, Stefanik also advocates for making the federal tax code “flatter, fairer and simpler.”
High energy costs, which she said hurt businesses and households, could also be fixed with an “all-of-the-above energy policy that promotes energy independence.”
She closed her rebuttal by highlighting the importance of the upcoming midterm elections for Republicans.
On Nov. 4, Stefanik said voters can choose between sticking with the “status quo of more government, more spending and higher taxes” or a “new direction of new ideas to unleash job creation and economic growth.”
If elected, Stefanik, 30, would become the youngest woman elected to Congress. The seat — which usually leans Democratic — is open because U.S. Rep Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, is not seeking reelection.
Stefanik held a double-digit lead over Democratic opponent Aaron Woolf in mid-September, a Siena Research Institute poll showed.
