J.D. Ford
IN-05
Attacked tax breaks and handouts for Big Tech and data centers
As a State Senator, I voted for efforts to stop the more than $650 million in tax incentives offered to data center owners and developers.Campaign press release, September 10, 2026
Supported stronger oversight of data-center development
We have a monopoly problem, and I’m going to tackle it by restoring competition to the market. I’ll work to block anti-competitive hospital and insurance mergers, block grocery mega-mergers that kill local choice, and ensure our utility bills don't skyrocket just to subsidize energy-hungry data centers for massive corporations.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
she would introduce the same legislation that I did in the Indiana Senate in Congress: putting communities in control of whether and when data centers are built, and ensuring no costs are passed on to ratepayers.Post on X, September 10, 2026
Hold data centers accountable for paying for their own water and utility expenses.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
I filed that bill in the state Senate, you know, to provide that transparency and those regulations to put those communities back into the driver's seat of these decisions.Video, September 15, 2026
requiring more transparency, requiring more regulations, um, you know, I think is what Hoosiers are demanding. We want Hooser communities to be put back into the driver's seat.Video, August 11, 2026
Congresswoman Spartz is not serious about this issue, because if she were, she would introduce the same legislation that I did in the Indiana Senate in Congress: putting communities in control of whether and when data centers are built, and ensuring no costs are passed on to ratepayers.Campaign press release, September 10, 2026
Developer responsibility for infrastructure and utility costs
We have a monopoly problem, and I’m going to tackle it by restoring competition to the market. I’ll work to block anti-competitive hospital and insurance mergers, block grocery mega-mergers that kill local choice, and ensure our utility bills don't skyrocket just to subsidize energy-hungry data centers for massive corporations.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
she would introduce the same legislation that I did in the Indiana Senate in Congress: putting communities in control of whether and when data centers are built, and ensuring no costs are passed on to ratepayers.Post on X, September 10, 2026
Hold data centers accountable for paying for their own water and utility expenses.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Congresswoman Spartz is not serious about this issue, because if she were, she would introduce the same legislation that I did in the Indiana Senate in Congress: putting communities in control of whether and when data centers are built, and ensuring no costs are passed on to ratepayers.Campaign press release, September 10, 2026
Enforceable water, energy, and community protections
Hold data centers accountable for paying for their own water and utility expenses.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Supported reining in or regulating Big Tech and AI companies
AI does good things but can also be used for nefarious reasons and we want to make sure we put some guardrails around that,WISH-TV interview, October 12, 2026
Called to reverse the cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, or ACA coverage
Fight to restore and protect Medicaid funding.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Called for lowering prescription-drug prices
In Congress, I'll fight to cap healthcare and prescription costs and push for corporate accountability to lower your monthly expenses.Campaign website, platform page, October 27, 2026
In the state Senate I fought to lower medication costs, strengthen public education and ensure every Hoosier gets a fair shot, and I'll do the same in CongressNews story, October 29, 2026
Prescription-drug price limits
In Congress, I'll fight to cap healthcare and prescription costs and push for corporate accountability to lower your monthly expenses.Campaign website, platform page, October 27, 2026
Called for restoring ACA subsidies
I'll crack down on predatory investors buying up Central Indiana homes and driving up rents, restore ACA subsidies for the 60,000 Hoosiers who lost help with premiums, and fight the tariffs and war in Iran that Victoria Spartz supported, which have driven up the cost of gas and groceries.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
Called for higher taxes on billionaires and the wealthy
Billionaires and corporations should pay income and property taxes like every other Hoosier, and we should stop handing out billions in tax breaks to companies that can afford to pay their own way.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
I'll require congressional approval before a president can start wars overseas, protect Social Security from being gutted, and make billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
Called for corporations to pay more in taxes
Billionaires and corporations should pay income and property taxes like every other Hoosier, and we should stop handing out billions in tax breaks to companies that can afford to pay their own way.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
I'll require congressional approval before a president can start wars overseas, protect Social Security from being gutted, and make billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
Called for stronger competition and limits on monopoly power
We have a monopoly problem, and I’m going to tackle it by restoring competition to the market. I’ll work to block anti-competitive hospital and insurance mergers, block grocery mega-mergers that kill local choice, and ensure our utility bills don't skyrocket just to subsidize energy-hungry data centers for massive corporations.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
Let's expand the child and dependent care tax credit, establish national minimum staffing standards for nursing homes to ensure safety, and lower healthcare premiums by stopping anti-competitive hospital mergers.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
Banning non-competes, you know, fighting for lower prescription drugs, the cost of prescription drugs. These are the things that I've done in the state Senate and I'm going to continue to do as a member of Congress.Interview, WTHR, September 15, 2026
Blocking anticompetitive mergers
We have a monopoly problem, and I’m going to tackle it by restoring competition to the market. I’ll work to block anti-competitive hospital and insurance mergers, block grocery mega-mergers that kill local choice, and ensure our utility bills don't skyrocket just to subsidize energy-hungry data centers for massive corporations.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
Let's expand the child and dependent care tax credit, establish national minimum staffing standards for nursing homes to ensure safety, and lower healthcare premiums by stopping anti-competitive hospital mergers.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
Called for campaign-finance reform to reduce big money's influence
You know, money in politics, I hate it, but it is the system that we're currently operating in until we can actually get to Congress and do meaningful campaign finance reform. We got to keep raising the cash.Indy Politics interview
Called for banning stock trading by members of Congress
"I'll fight corruption by banning members of Congress from trading stocks," he said.Quoted in Yahoo News, October 29, 2026
I'll fight corruption by banning members of Congress from trading stocks,Candidate interview, October 29, 2026
Supported stronger conflict-of-interest and ethics rules
I'll fight corruption by banning members of Congress from trading stocks,Candidate interview, October 29, 2026
Called for reversing tariffs that raise household costs
I'll crack down on predatory investors buying up Central Indiana homes and driving up rents, restore ACA subsidies for the 60,000 Hoosiers who lost help with premiums, and fight the tariffs and war in Iran that Victoria Spartz supported, which have driven up the cost of gas and groceries.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
Called for making child care more affordable
Let's expand the child and dependent care tax credit, establish national minimum staffing standards for nursing homes to ensure safety, and lower healthcare premiums by stopping anti-competitive hospital mergers.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
Called for lowering household utility bills
But look, we need a member of Congress who's going to stand up to these utility companies that are causing these rates to go through the roof and also stand up to the data center companiesVideo, September 15, 2026
Blamed high gas and fuel prices on the Iran war, tariffs, or oil companies
Meanwhile, the war in Iran has driven up the price of gas and everything else.Candidate questionnaire, IndyStar, October 28, 2026
She voted, yet again, to continue this unauthorized war that's driving up the price of gas and everything that depends on it: groceries, plane tickets, the products we buy every day.Post on X, September 17, 2026
Named policies to lower child-care costs: universal child care, public funding or subsidies, or caps on family costs
Let's expand the child and dependent care tax credit, establish national minimum staffing standards for nursing homes to ensure safety, and lower healthcare premiums by stopping anti-competitive hospital mergers.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
Public funding, subsidies, or child-care tax credits
Let's expand the child and dependent care tax credit, establish national minimum staffing standards for nursing homes to ensure safety, and lower healthcare premiums by stopping anti-competitive hospital mergers.Ballotpedia candidate survey, February 1, 2026
Supported stronger union organizing and collective-bargaining rights
Labor & Jobs: Fight for fair wages, safe working conditions, and the right to organize without interference.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Supported stronger workplace protections
Labor & Jobs: Fight for fair wages, safe working conditions, and the right to organize without interference.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Workplace safety and labor-law enforcement
Labor & Jobs: Fight for fair wages, safe working conditions, and the right to organize without interference.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Called for making housing more affordable
How we make housing more affordable for Hoosiers is by banning international investors and big corporations from buying homes to use as rentals, which limits the housing stock and drives up costsHamilton County Reporter, August 11, 2026
Make housing more affordable for Hoosiers by banning international investors and big corporations from buying homes and driving up housing costs.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Called for restricting corporate, private equity, and hedge fund purchases of homes
How we make housing more affordable for Hoosiers is by banning international investors and big corporations from buying homes to use as rentals, which limits the housing stock and drives up costsHamilton County Reporter, August 11, 2026
Make housing more affordable for Hoosiers by banning international investors and big corporations from buying homes and driving up housing costs.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Supported protecting or expanding abortion access
Protect a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions by codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law.J.D. Ford campaign platform, October 14, 2026 capture, captured October 14, 2026
Restoring nationwide abortion rights
Protect a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions by codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Putting abortion rights into federal law
Protect a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions by codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Restoring Roe's protections
Protect a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions by codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
Supported stronger rights and safeguards in immigration enforcement
Reform the system to hold ICE accountable — mandating body cameras, ending masked raids, increasing training standards, and taking on politicians who suspend our constitutional rights and endanger our communities.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
these so-called cosplaying federal agents are doing, right? And so, let's talk about that, right? I mean, we need them to be unmasked, right? And I think I think that they're doing a lot of this stuff right now because they can hide behind their mask.Video, February 17, 2026
and then the final thing I'll say on the topic is that uh bodywn cameras, they need to happen with these federal agents.Video, February 17, 2026
Again, those ICE agents, we want them to follow the laws. We want them to ensure that they are doing what they say that they're doing, but when they're going rogue, then there needs to be accountability, and I think that's where Congress can step in and provide that oversight.Video, September 15, 2026
we need to make sure that they have more training. If we're going to get them a firearm and go out there and have them enforce our laws, they got to get more training than 47 daysVideo, August 11, 2026
we also need to make sure that we have signed warrants. Signed judicial warrants so agents are just busting into people's doors and dragging, you know, some of our elderly neighbors or even kids for that matter outside of their home.Video, February 17, 2026
But what we're seeing now isn't law enforcement. It's reckless deportation without due process, and it's wrong.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
Due-process protections
But what we're seeing now isn't law enforcement. It's reckless deportation without due process, and it's wrong.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
Stronger enforcement accountability
Reform the system to hold ICE accountable — mandating body cameras, ending masked raids, increasing training standards, and taking on politicians who suspend our constitutional rights and endanger our communities.Campaign website, priorities page, October 27, 2026
and then the final thing I'll say on the topic is that uh bodywn cameras, they need to happen with these federal agents.Video, February 17, 2026
Again, those ICE agents, we want them to follow the laws. We want them to ensure that they are doing what they say that they're doing, but when they're going rogue, then there needs to be accountability, and I think that's where Congress can step in and provide that oversight.Video, September 15, 2026
Supporting a path to citizenship
We need to make sure that there's a path to citizenship, and how we do that is look at the courts.WFYI candidate interview
Abolishing or replacing ICE
I think at this moment, uh, we need to repeal and replace. I think that's the best option moving forward.Meet the Candidates interview, August 11, 2026
Supported stronger checks on executive power
The executive is out of control. The executive has picked the judicial. And so it really t behooves the United States Congress and even the Senate to step up and to hold this administration accountable to the things that we're seeing.Video, October 30, 2026
Supported strengthening voting rights
I also believe that we need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.WFYI interview, September 22, 2026
When I'm elected as your member of Congress, yes, I want to make sure that our elections are safe, secure and fair, but I also believe that we need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.WFYI voter guide interview, published September 21, 2026
Opposed war with Iran or called for ending it
I'll crack down on predatory investors buying up Central Indiana homes and driving up rents, restore ACA subsidies for the 60,000 Hoosiers who lost help with premiums, and fight the tariffs and war in Iran that Victoria Spartz supported, which have driven up the cost of gas and groceries.IndyStar voter guide, October 28, 2026
an unauthorized war which by the way my opponent continued to vote for uh numerous times you know and so that's one thing I think that needs to be debated on the United States House floor it hasn't been um and that's a constitutional thing that uh we need to do that we're not doingVideo, October 30, 2026