Gabe Evans

Elections

Tenure

Evans voted in favor of the Laken Riley Act. The bill was introduced by Republican Mike Collins.^[13]

In April 2025, two of Evans' bills advanced through U.S. House committees. The first bill, the Law Enforcement Support and Counter Transnational Repression Accountability Act, would educate the public on transnational repression, which refers to foreign governments silencing or harming diaspora people who advocate for human rights and democracy in their former homelands. The second bill, the Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act, would "streamline the permitting process and help broadband providers reach rural and underserved communities."^[14]

Committee assignments

• Committee on Energy and Commerce
  • Subcommitte on Energy
  • Subcommitte on Environment
  • Subcommitte on Trade
• Committee on Homeland Security
  • Subcommitte on Emergency Management and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence

Caucus membership

• Problem Solvers Caucus
• Republican Main Street Partnership
• Republican Governance Group

Abortion

Evans said the issue of whether to ban access to abortion should be left up to states, but that he believes abortion should be banned except in cases of rape, incest, or when a mother's life is at risk.^[15] He opposes a nationwide abortion ban.^[16]

Foreign policy

In March 2026, after the second Trump administration launched the 2026 Iran War, Evans said he was concerned that the Trump administration would send ground troops to the Middle East. Evans also said he did not want to restrain Trump, "if you paint a hard line and say, ‘We’re absolutely not going to do this,’ you’ve taken that off the table as a negotiating point."^[17]

Immigration

Evans cosponsored the American Families United Act, proposed legislation to reform the immigration process, which under current law limits U.S. citizens ability to sponsor their spouses.^[18]

Evans said the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should remain in place and that people who received deportation protections under that initiative should not be deported.^[15]

In 2026, Evans was a cosponsor of the DIGNIDAD Act, which proposes a pathway to legal status for up to 12 million illegal immigrants, paired with stricter border enforcement and mandatory work and restitution requirements.^[19][20]