We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.
Derrick Van Orden disagrees:
He voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
He voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
He wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
An estimated 270,000 Wisconsinites will lose health care coverage under Trump's budget bill — and the new red tape and work requirements will cost Wisconsin taxpayers over $284 million more.
We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Derrick Van Orden doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.
We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.
But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.
Derrick Van Orden is on the side of the billionaires and big business. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that he supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans. We deserve better.
We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.
Derrick Van Orden has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.
He has a 6% score from the League of Conservation Voters in 2025, and a 9% lifetime score.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
I think we can all agree that nobody in America, the richest country in the world, should go hungry.
Derrick Van Orden disagrees. He supported the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that dramatically cuts funding for SNAP, and the people that need food assistance most.
Here in Wisconsin, 1 in 6 kids faces hunger every day.
About 39% of SNAP participants are children, and 20% are elderly
A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.
Derrick Van Orden supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
The unemployment rate is 4.6%, the highest level since the pandemic
In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.
Despite acknowledging that tariffs were "going to be painful" for Wisconsinites, Van Orden defended them anyway — and in April 2025 he voted to protect Trump's tariffs, locking Wisconsin farmers and families into a costly trade war.
He voted six times to protect Trump's tariffs; China responded by stopping purchases of American soybeans and buying from Brazil instead — devastating Wisconsin soybean farmers who had depended on that market
He defended DOGE cuts to USDA agricultural programs even after an Athens, WI farmer told him directly that the cuts were affecting her bottom line
He bullied and threatened a veteran who messaged him on LinkedIn asking for help stopping VA layoffs, going so far as to threaten to report the already-fired veteran
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $484 MILLION from Wisconsin
We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.
That's not what we got.
Derrick Van Orden stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Wisconsin suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.
Elon Musk and DOGE:
Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
Under Trump and DOGE, Wisconsin lost 2,400 federal jobs — cutting services Wisconsin families rely on while federal spending actually went up.
We'd like to thank you, Derrick Van Orden, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
As a member of Congress, part of Derrick Van Orden's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. He and his fellow members of Congress from Wisconsin have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
Protected Pedophiles by Blocking Release of the Epstein Files
Jeffrey Epstein ran a global sex trafficking network that sexually abused dozens of girls and women for decades. The FBI identified at least 35 minors with similar abuse histories. When finally released in 2026, the files — over 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images — revealed what UN human rights experts called "disturbing and credible evidence" of a possible global criminal enterprise. Those experts said some of the conduct may meet the threshold for crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, torture, and enforced disappearance.
For months, House Republican leadership blocked every vote to release these files — and Derrick Van Orden went along.
Derrick Van Orden voted to block the bipartisan effort to release the Jeffrey Epstein files (Roll Call 194, 211–210), protecting the accused pedophiles and powerful elites that were named in them, including Donald Trump. He never signed the discharge petition or co-sponsored the bipartisan release resolution — only reversing after Donald Trump gave House Republicans permission, 11 months later.
We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.
In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Derrick Van Orden has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
And Derrick Van Orden is NRA-endorsed, so has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws — even as he was caught carrying a loaded handgun through airport security.
A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
Wants the Government Control to Control Our Bodies
America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.
Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Derrick Van Orden thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.
Derrick Van Orden:
Opposed Roe v. Wade
Supported federal efforts to ban abortion
Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout his career
Has endorsed the abolition of all legal abortion in America
Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don't have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That's what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Derrick Van Orden thinks he knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.
Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Derrick Van Orden's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.
Derrick Van Orden has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Derrick Van Orden and His bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.
But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Derrick Van Orden, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing absolutely nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
ProPublica:They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
ProPublica:Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
New York Times:Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Derrick Van Orden have to say? Nothing.
They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Derrick Van Orden going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
Voted for an Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran
War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.
In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:
We are being dog-walked by Israel, who has been trying to convince presidents to attack Iran forever, and finally found one dumb enough to do so
The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Derrick Van Orden supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Derrick Van Orden work for Israel or the people of Wisconsin? We deserve better.
Avoided His Constituents and Refused to Hold In-Person Town Halls
Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Derrick Van Orden doesn't want to hear what we have to say. He only wants to talk to his rich donors or people who agree with him.
Derrick Van Orden is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
We should hold our leaders to high standards. Here is how Derrick Van Orden behaves in public office:
In June 2021, Van Orden went to the Prairie du Chien public library and confronted staff over a children's-section Pride Month book display — a 17-year-old library page said he complained loudly, was angry, and demanded to know who set up the display so he could "teach them a lesson," then checked out every book in the display
Also in 2021, he was present on restricted Capitol grounds during the January 6th insurrection — crossing police barricades — and used his campaign funds to pay for the trip
In July 2023, Van Orden yelled profanities at high school pages who were photographing the Capitol rotunda — a traditional activity during their final week of service. Both Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer publicly rebuked him as "inexcusable and embarrassing." He refused to apologize.
A constituent filed an ethics complaint against Van Orden over the pages incident
During the 2024 State of the Union, he shouted "lies" from the chamber floor when Biden spoke
In April 2025, he shouted at and belittled a witness testifying before Congress about food assistance programs — screaming at them while defending cuts to food aid
In June 2025, days after a gunman assassinated a Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and shot another, Van Orden called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz a "clown" and "stupid" on social media and pushed the unfounded theory that the suspect was a "Marxist" — even though police had announced no motive. Wisconsin Democrats called the comments shameful and demanded an apology.
He escalated a feud with a fellow congressman by posting a photo of a naked man wearing a ski mask and holding a sex toy on his social media
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
