Yassamin Ansari is the incumbent U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District, first elected in 2024. A former Phoenix City Council member and UN climate policy adviser, she is the youngest woman serving in the 119th Congress and serves as Democratic Freshman Class President. Ansari has focused on climate action, reproductive rights, and affordability issues, and in April 2026 introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Ansari supports expanding access to affordable healthcare and lowering patients’ costs, including expanding prescription-drug price negotiations, addressing pharmacy-benefit-manager and corporate-hospital profiteering, and reducing out-of-pocket costs. She has also made reproductive healthcare a healthcare priority, including sponsoring the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act (H.R. 8158), which would provide paid leave for symptoms related to reproductive-health conditions and procedures.
Ansari’s campaign says federal leaders should reduce the rising cost of living for working families to promote economic stability and financial freedom, and advocates addressing barriers faced by minority-owned small businesses by expanding access to economic resources. In Congress, she cosponsored H.R. 8555, the Living Wage For All Act, which would phase in a $25 federal minimum wage, eliminate subminimum wages, and tie future increases to typical wages.
Ansari supports climate action and expanding renewable energy. Her campaign’s climate plan identifies extreme heat and water scarcity as priorities, while as a representative she sponsored the Geothermal Gold Book Development Act, which passed the House and would establish standardized, environmentally responsible procedures for geothermal leasing, permitting, and development. The League of Conservation Voters lists her with a 100% 2025 environmental score and records pro-environment votes on 2026 climate and energy measures; the available sources reviewed did not show a newer campaign-platform change after August 24, 2026.
Ansari supports reproductive healthcare access and bodily autonomy. In March 2026, she introduced the HER Agenda and sponsored the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act (H.R. 8158), which would provide 96 hours of annual paid leave for reproductive-health conditions and care, explicitly including pregnancy terminations, fertility treatments, and vasectomies.
Ansari supports expanding protections for certain immigrants and limiting abusive immigration enforcement. In 2026, she introduced legislation to rescind $75 billion in ICE funding, require reporting and oversight of detention conditions, and study the economic effects of mass deportation; she also introduced the Iranian Temporary Immigration Relief Act to provide temporary protected status and work authorization to eligible Iranian nationals already legally present in the United States while their cases are pending.
Ansari supports gun-safety measures, including banning the sale of assault weapons, strengthening background checks, raising the minimum purchase age for certain firearms to 21, and closing access loopholes affecting domestic abusers and people at risk of harming themselves or others. As a U.S. representative for Arizona’s 3rd District, she cosponsored H.R. 3115, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025, and sponsored H.Res. 1342 recognizing June 2026 as National Gun Violence Awareness Month.
Ansari has called for holding Iran's government accountable for violence against its people and supporting Iranians seeking freedom and democracy, while opposing unauthorized U.S. military action and emphasizing that Congress—not the president alone—has the constitutional authority to declare war. In a March 5, 2026 statement, she said she voted for a War Powers Resolution to stop what she described as an illegal war and also voted for a nonbinding resolution reaffirming Iran's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Ansari has supported expanding civil-rights protections, including cosponsoring the Equality Act (H.R. 15) and the Transgender Bill of Rights. She also supports immigration protections and a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and certain TPS/DED recipients through the American Dream and Promise Act of 2025.
Ansari has criticized Arizona’s universal school-voucher program, arguing that it directs public resources toward wealthier students and private schools while weakening public schools. She has advocated protecting federal education funding for public schools, including support for after-school activities, student services, and teacher training, and has highlighted her role on the House Education and Workforce Committee.
In an April 16, 2026 House Oversight subcommittee roundtable on artificial intelligence, Ansari raised concerns about the Trump administration’s use of AI in the war with Iran, AI’s intensive energy consumption, and potential climate effects. The available campaign policy pages do not state a separate AI platform; her documented comments indicate support for proactive attention to AI’s risks, particularly national-security and environmental risks.
Ansari supports protecting and expanding voter access, including no-excuse early voting and vote-by-mail, and opposes federal political interference in state-administered elections. In June 2026, she introduced the Voting Systems Protection Act, which would keep election administration with qualified state officials, require notice before any federal seizure of election infrastructure, add penalties for tampering, and prohibit such seizures during a 120-day period before and after federal elections; she also publicly supported an Arizona initiative to constitutionally protect early and mail voting.
Ansari has emphasized directing federal resources to Arizona’s 3rd District for local infrastructure, public safety, transportation, environmental resilience, and homelessness services. Her official district funding requests included projects for Glendale drainage and pedestrian safety, Tolleson multimodal-path lighting and wastewater treatment, Phoenix airport and wildfire-response improvements, heat preparedness, a shelter renovation, and Valley Metro community-safety teams; she also reported securing more than $17.7 million in district investments, including funding for Phoenix, Arizona State University, Biehn Colony Park in Guadalupe, and Central Arizona Shelter Services. Sources describe requests and reported investments, not guaranteed appropriations.
Ansari supports expanding access to affordable healthcare and lowering patients’ costs, including expanding prescription-drug price negotiations, addressing pharmacy-benefit-manager and corporate-hospital profiteering, and reducing out-of-pocket costs. She has also made reproductive healthcare a healthcare priority, including sponsoring the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act (H.R. 8158), which would provide paid leave for symptoms related to reproductive-health conditions and procedures.
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Background
Career History
U.S. Representative2025 – Present
U.S. House of Representatives
Serving Arizona's 3rd Congressional District; Democratic Freshman Class President
Member, Phoenix City Council2021 – 2024
City of Phoenix
Represented the 7th District; created Office of Heat Response and Mitigation; helped pass the city's Climate Action Plan
Senior Policy Adviser2017 – 2021
Office of UN Secretary-General António Guterres
Advised on climate policy and the Paris Agreement
Adviser2014 – 2016
Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Served on the climate team that helped deliver the Paris Climate Agreement
Education
University of Cambridge (St. John's College)MPhil in International Relations and Politics (2018)
Stanford UniversityBA in International Relations (2014)
Chaparral High SchoolHigh School Diploma (2010)
Top Donors
Raised approximately $1.44M in the 2025–2026 cycle per FEC filings (coverage through July 1, 2026), with $1.12M from individual contributors ($977K itemized) and $226K from other committees. The campaign also reported $899K in disbursements and $547K cash on hand. Specific industry-level breakdowns were not available in the public sources reviewed.
Incumbent U.S. Representative serving Arizona's 3rd District since January 3, 2025. In the 119th Congress she has missed only 12 of 645 roll call votes (1.9%) and sits on the House Natural Resources and Oversight and Government Reform committees. She has sponsored legislation including the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act (H.R. 8158), the Iranian Temporary Immigration Relief Act (H.R. 8740), and an impeachment resolution against Secretary of Defense Hegseth (H.Res. 1177).