ICYMI: Ryan Mackenzie Recaps Successful First Year in Office
In case you missed it, first-term Congressman Ryan Mackenzie highlighted how he’s delivering on his campaign promises to make life more affordable for Pennsylvanians.
“Congressman Mackenzie wasted no time getting to work to make life more affordable for Pennsylvanians. Thanks to Mackenzie’s leadership, working families in the Lehigh Valley are taking home more of their hard-earned money.” – NRCC Spokesman Reilly Richardson
Read more from RealClear Pennsylvania here or see excerpts below:
Mackenzie Touts Commonsense Policies in Re-Election Bid
Linda Stein
RealClear Pennsylvania
January 26, 2026
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In a recent interview with RealClearPennsylvania, Mackenzie, who represents the Lehigh Valley-centered 7th congressional district, was confident that he’s delivering on his campaign promises.
“I ran in 2024 focused on cost-of-living issues and for working families, seniors, and others,” said Mackenzie. “They had been ravaged by Bidenomics and inflation that compounded over four years and simply made life unsustainable and so expensive for so many people. So the first thing, when I took office, was I introduced a package of bills: the Working Families Tax Package.”
While not all of his proposals passed, Mackenzie noted, “thankfully, I was able to get the expansion of the child tax credit included in reconciliation, so that will now be at $2,200 per child, and it’s permanent. And it will go up with inflation over time.”
“Anybody that’s trying to raise a family nowadays knows how expensive everything is,” said Mackenzie. “So, we were able to include that and a lot of other positives in the tax reconciliation bill, expanding the deduction for seniors and giving an exemption for tipped workers and overtime workers, and even just expanding the standard deduction for every single filer.”
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Mackenzie, who also served for 12 years in the Pennsylvania state House, said much of his work is done in committees and caucuses. He’s on the Education and Workforce Committee and chair of its Subcommittee for Workforce Protections.
“And that’s important because the other side of cost of living is … making sure people have good jobs and good wages.”
He’s also on the Homeland Security Committee.
“Obviously, border security was a hot topic on the campaign trail,” Mackenzie said. “And then the third (committee) is Foreign Affairs, because we have a very ethnically diverse community in the Lehigh Valley and lots of different communities from all over the world who still have strong family connections to their home countries.”
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Mackenzie is also laser-focused on constituent services. He opened four offices and offers service in English or Spanish. “We have handled more than 120,000 inquiries and letters about policy,” he said. “When it comes specifically to casework, we have resolved 5,500 cases.”
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“There was one gentleman who was owed a Bronze Star for his father from World War II that we were able to get him,” said Mackenzie. “Story after story.” A woman needed a visa to come from Germany for a job. Another woman had a passport issue. “She was going to have to miss a trip,” he said. “We were able to resolve that in 24 hours.”
“So, all kinds of issues that we’ve been able to deal with and over $10 million that we have been able to get back for constituents in our community,” Mackenzie said.
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As Reilly Richardson, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, views it, “Voters across the political spectrum support Mackenzie’s commonsense agenda, which is why he’ll win reelection this year.”