Thomas Smith

Michigan’s 8th (MI - 08)

Updated: September 14, 2026

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Overview

Tom Smith supports extreme policies that will gut healthcare, Social Security, and Medicare all to pay for tax breaks for the rich and give tax breaks for data centers.

SUMMARY

Voters in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, especially non-college educated women and voters in Genesee County, need to see on broadcast and cable TV ads, digital ads and read mail about how:

  • Smith has said that he is in favor of letting the healthcare system “work unobstructed,” which would let insurance and drug companies drive up costs and deny coverage with no repercussions and threaten the future of the Affordable Care Act and Medicare.
  • Smith supports the law that guts Medicaid, kicking more than 32,000 people in his own district off their health coverage and driving up private insurance premiums by over 50%, to pay for one of the largest billionaire tax cuts in history and a tax break for big tech companies to build data centers in mid-Michigan.
  • Smith supports taking away seniors’ earned benefits. He supports a bill the Trump Administration said was a “backdoor for privatizing Social Security,” which would give benefits seniors earned to Wall Street to gamble on the market.​

Black voters need to see ads on digital, especiallyYouTube, hear radio and streaming audio ads, and read mail, about how:

  • Thomas Smith supports the law that guts Medicaid, kicking more than 32,000 people in his own district off their health coverage and driving up private insurance premiums by over 50%, to pay for one of the largest billionaire tax cuts in history and a tax break for big tech companies to build data centers in mid-Michigan.
  • Kristen McDonald Rivet says Social Security and Medicare are promises to seniors who worked hard their whole lives, and we need to fulfill them. That is why she is not only fighting against extreme cuts, but also ended Michigan’s burdensome retirement tax. In Congress, she is working to lower taxes on social security payments by making the wealthy pay their fair share, and when Elon Musk and DOGE tried to shut down Saginaw’s Social Security office, she rallied the community to successfully save it.

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