Candidate · November 3, 2026

Lauren Reinhold

On the ballot for U.S. House · Kansas's 1st District

DemocraticChallenger
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$136K
cash on hand
$33K
issues with public statements
10

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. House · Kansas's 1st District1,2
Party on the ballotDemocratic1,2,3
StatusChallenger
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Lauren Reinhold has been an attorney for 28 years, and her campaign website says she is a longtime federal employee who worked as an attorney advisor at the Social Security Administration.4 Her campaign website says she served as a federal union officer and as an investigator and election officer for the National Labor Relations Board.4 It says she represented low-income Kansans in legal aid organizations, practiced immigration law in a legal clinic and in private practice, and built her own practice before returning to the Social Security Administration.4 It says she resigned from the Social Security Administration after the agency's programs were cut and thousands of jobs were eliminated.4

Why they say they're running

Her campaign website says she is running for Congress to defend Kansas values of community, hard work, economic security, freedom and prosperity for all.4

Websites and accounts

§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Immigration

Her campaign website says she supports common-sense immigration reform that secures the borders while providing a fair path to citizenship for people already contributing to their communities, along with fixing backlogged courts and stabilizing the agricultural workforce.7

  1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
  2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
  3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
  4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Social Security and Medicare

Her campaign website says her Social Security plan would require people with incomes over $400,000 to pay the same 12.4 percent Social Security tax rate as everyone else, while exempting income between the current wage cap and $400,000 from additional payroll tax.8

  1. Keep the current cap
  2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
  3. Apply the tax to all earnings
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says her Social Security plan would raise the revenue to increase monthly benefits by $200 for all current and new retirees and to pay full benefits for at least the next 75 years.8

  1. Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
  2. Keep the current benefit formula
  3. Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Elections and Government Reform

Her campaign website says she would ban members of Congress, their spouses and their dependent children from holding or trading individual stocks, futures or crypto, require blind trusts within 90 days, and penalize violations with three months of salary per violation.8

  1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
  2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
  3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she would require campaigns to report donations of $50 or more within 72 hours and require groups spending more than $10,000 on electioneering to disclose donors who gave over $5,000.8

Her campaign website says she would lock merit-system protections for career federal positions into law so that reclassifying positions, such as under Schedule F, would require an act of Congress.8

Agriculture and Rural Life

Her campaign website says she would reform farm subsidies to prioritize family operations over industrial agribusiness and support new farmers through federal loan guarantees and incentives for land transfers.8

Technology, Privacy and AI

Her campaign website says she would establish a high-speed internet mandate and create a public option for broadband where private providers refuse to build.8

Taxes and Budget

Her campaign website says her American Middle-Class Prosperity Plan would lower taxes for working families through expanded deductions and payroll tax offsets for households under $125,000, and would tax very high earners and large capital gains while closing loopholes.8

Her campaign website says the plan would reform the corporate tax code to reward companies that invest in domestic manufacturing, clean energy, research and development and worker training, while discouraging tax avoidance.8

§4Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.9

Raised$136,351
Spent$103,366
Cash on hand$32,985
Debts owed by the campaign$4,000

Where the money came from

Individual donors$128K · 94%
PACs and other political committees$1,000 · 1%
The candidate's own money (gifts and loans)$4,601 · 3%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$2,919 · 2%

§5Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.