| As Arizonans continue to pay the price for Juan Ciscomani’s loyalty to Donald Trump and his reckless economic agenda, Marine Corps and Navy veteran JoAnna Mendoza is centering her campaign on lowering costs and fighting for Arizona’s working families, Copper Courier reports.
As the Courier writes, Ciscomani has made life unaffordable for Arizonans by “vot[ing] with Trump 100% of the time” including to:
- Greenlight reckless tariffs,
- Gut food assistance, which in Arizona have caused “steepest drop in SNAP enrollment in the nation,” including kicking over 77,000 Pima County residents off the program,
- Strip “as many as 246,000 Arizonans of Medicaid coverage,” despite admitting how devastating doing so would be for AZ-06,
- End clean energy tax credits, a vote that resulted in Lucid Motors laying off 1,000 workers at its Casa Grande factory, and
- Support the war in Iran, which has caused gas and diesel prices to skyrocket.
In contrast, Mendoza supports restoring funding to SNAP and Medicaid, reestablishing ACA tax credits to lower monthly premiums, ending cost-hiking tariffs, ending the war in Iran, supporting local hiring and technical education, and lowering taxes for working families.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Juan Ciscomani sold out Arizonans to his D.C. party bosses. Unlike spineless Ciscomani, JoAnna Mendoza is an independent champion for Arizona families who will fight to lower costs for families, improve health care, and create good-paying, local jobs.”
Read for yourself:
The Copper Courier: JoAnna Mendoza vs. Juan Ciscomani is a fight over what things cost
- Democrat JoAnna Mendoza, a US Marine Corps and Navy veteran, says families… are feeling the economic strain every day. If she unseats US Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-Tucson), she says she’ll start with the economy.
- To lower costs, Mendoza said Congress needs to check on President Donald Trump, starting with reversing tariffs that she said have led to economic uncertainty and job losses in the district. The tariffs, which the president began imposing in April 2025, have raised costs for consumers.
- Ciscomani, who’s represented the district since 2023, has voted with Trump 100% of the time in his second term, according to a scorecard from the Center for American Progress Action Fund… In February, six House Republicans broke ranks to vote for a resolution ending Trump’s tariffs on Canada. Ciscomani wasn’t one of them. At their Sept. 10 debate, Mendoza said Ciscomani had voted for tariffs nine times.
- Mendoza also pointed to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed in July 2025 with support from Arizona’s Republican House delegation. Since then, Arizona has seen the steepest drop in SNAP enrollment in the nation, down 52%, according to Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In Pima County, more than 77,000 people have lost benefits, including single mom Angelica Garcia, who confronted Ciscomani at the nation’s capital.
- The law could strip as many as 246,000 Arizonans of Medicaid coverage once its work requirements take effect in 2027.
- Mendoza said she’d work with members of both parties to restore funding for SNAP and Medicaid.
- She also pointed to Ciscomani’s shifting position on the bill. He wrote a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson raising concerns about Medicaid cuts, then voted for the law, which is projected to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid, SNAP, and other safety-net programs over the next decade.
- Mendoza also said she’d work with both parties to restore the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that expired at the end of 2025, leading to an average premium jump of nearly 30%. Without them, KFF projected the average marketplace enrollee’s annual premium payments would roughly double this year, from $888 to $1,904. Ciscomani… voted against a three-year extension that passed the House in January.
- “Whatever is going to allow us to bring people immediate relief,” Mendoza said. “That’s going to really include having to work across the aisle, having to talk to Republicans who understand that their constituents need healthcare, to be able to feed their families.”
- Mendoza also pointed to the Iran war, which began in February. The military conflict—widely opposed by Americans—has driven up costs for local families including at the pump and at the register. Arizonans are paying $4.70 for a gallon of gas, compared with $3.52 a year earlier.
- Ciscomani has voted with his party against numerous resolutions to limit Trump’s war powers and has voiced support for the war.
- Growing up in Eloy as the daughter of farmworkers, Mendoza lived in communities that depended on rural jobs to stay afloat. She wants to expand apprenticeships, technical education, and other job training in the district as alternatives to a four-year degree, and to strengthen local unions to protect workers and raise pay.
- She also wants businesses in the district to hire locally. The 6th District, home to farm towns and a large defense industry, needs engineers, farmworkers, and health care workers, she said.
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