Sarah Elfreth

Sarah was raised in a working-class, union household – and she is fighting to make sure the voices of families like the one she grew up in are heard in the halls of Congress. She has worked to lower costs for Maryland families by revoking the President’s reckless, price-raising tariffs. She has fought to expand access to affordable child care, reduce the burden of student loans, build more housing, and rollback BG&E utility rate increases. As a first-time home owner and young professional with student loans, these economic issues aren’t abstract – they are personal to Sarah. In Congress, she is committed to tackling the affordability crisis head-on and making sure families in the Third District don’t just get by, but get ahead.

Sarah understands that protecting the Bay isn’t just the right thing to do for our environment. It’s the right thing to do for our economy and the thousands of Marylanders who earn their living on the Chesapeake Bay. On the House Natural Resources Committee, Sarah is fighting for a clean energy future, tackling rising tides by helping our neighbors become more resilient to climate change, and expanding access to the Bay for generations to come. Her first bipartisan legislation to pass the House floor independently was the MAWS Act, which tackles invasive blue catfish and saves keystone Maryland species like blue crabs, oysters, and rockfish.

Baltimore’s economic reality also changed instantly. The Port generates 15,300 direct jobs and supports another 140,000 – it’s a critical supply chain artery with economic implications far beyond Maryland. Sarah knows we must invest in the Port, support the workers and businesses affected by the collapse, and mitigate the disaster’s environmental impact. Sarah continues to work tirelessly with her colleagues in the Maryland Delegation to rebuild the bridge.

As one of the youngest women serving in Congress, Sarah is a champion for reproductive justice. She believes that health care decisions should be made between you and your doctor – not extreme elected officials or judges. In the Maryland Senate, Sarah proudly voted to expand access to reproductive healthcare and co-sponsored a constitutional amendment to enshrine reproductive freedom as a fundamental right in Maryland’s Constitution. On Capitol Hill, Sarah is fighting to codify the protections once afforded by Roe v. Wade and ensure every Marylander has the freedom they deserve.

Sarah believes everyone deserves access to affordable, quality health care. Her record reflects a commonsense approach: lower costs, expand access, improve quality of care, and protect science-based decision making. In Congress, Sarah has been on the frontlines fighting against extreme cuts to Medicaid in the Big Ugly Law and Republican attempts to weaken the Affordable Care Act. A cosponsor of Medicare for All, Sarah is committed to building a health care system that doesn’t leave anyone behind.

For years, Maryland’s Third Congressional District was represented by Congressman John Sarbanes, a giant in the fight to protect and strengthen our democratic institutions. A cosponsor of the For The People Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, Sarah is committed to build on his historic legacy to protect voting rights, election integrity and security, campaign finance, and government ethics. Sarah has proudly pushed for a ban on Congressional stock trading to ensure our elected officials are working in your best interest – not the interest of their stock portfolio.

Here in the Third District, we’ve seen the tragic impact of gun violence firsthand. In the Maryland Senate, Sarah worked to rebuild and keep our communities safe – and since coming to Congress, she has proudly supported commonsense gun safety legislation to close loopholes, ensure proper background checks, and ban assault weapons. Sarah believes that Congress has a responsibility to address the gun violence epidemic in our country – because no one should be scared to attend their home of worship and no parent should be scared to send their kids to school.

Protecting the Chesapeake Bay & Leading on Climate Change

Protecting our Democracy

Revoke tariffs that raise prices for Maryland families.

• Preserve the explicit trade-policy direction and affordability objective.

Expand access to affordable child care.

• Preserve the access and affordability objectives without inventing a subsidy design.

Reduce the burden of student loans.

• Preserve the debt-relief objective without inventing an amount or eligibility rule.

Increase housing construction to improve affordability.

• Preserve the supply objective without inventing a zoning or finance mechanism.

Has fought Baltimore Gas and Electric rate increases and favors lower utility costs; the cited source names no congressional rate-setting mechanism.

Advance a clean-energy future for Maryland.

• Preserve the outcome-level climate commitment.

Help Maryland communities become more resilient to rising tides and climate change.

• Preserve the adaptation outcome without inventing a program.

Expand access to the Chesapeake Bay for future generations.

• Preserve the access objective.

Advanced the bipartisan MAWS Act through the House to address invasive blue catfish and protect Maryland species.

• Preserve the completed legislative record and ecological purpose.

Increase oversight and accountability for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

• Preserve the oversight objective without adopting surrounding allegations as established facts.

Worked with Howard County to block a proposed ICE facility in Elkridge.

• Preserve the campaign-attributed completed action.

Conducted oversight of the Baltimore ICE holding facility.

• Preserve the completed oversight record.

Refused to support funding for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the stated conditions.

• Preserve the completed funding position without broadening it beyond the campaign's statement.

Introduced and cosponsored legislation strengthening protections for federal civil servants, including bipartisan protection from DOGE actions.

• Preserve the completed legislative record and workforce focus.

Rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

• Preserve the infrastructure outcome as a continuing priority.

Invest in the Port of Baltimore and support workers and businesses affected by the bridge collapse.

• Preserve the investment direction and two beneficiary groups.

Mitigate the environmental effects of the Key Bridge collapse.

• Preserve the recovery objective without inventing a remediation program.

Codify the protections previously provided by Roe v. Wade in federal law.

• Preserve the federal legislative mechanism.

Enact Medicare for All.

• Preserve the named federal health-care mechanism.

Protect Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act from benefit and coverage reductions.

• Preserve the two named programs and protective direction.

Pass the For the People Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

• Preserve both named federal bills.

Ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks.

• Preserve the ethics mechanism without inventing implementation details.

Close gun-law loopholes, require proper background checks, and ban assault weapons.

• Preserve the three stated firearm-policy mechanisms.