The Constitution comes first
Every vote Carlton Bowen casts in the U.S. House will begin with one question: Where is the Constitutional authority? If Congress has no constitutional authority for a bill, then the bill is unconstitutional — and it cannot be supported by anyone who takes their Constitutional oath of office seriously.
Key issues
Most candidates tell you what you want to hear. Here's what I actually believe — and what I'll actually do.
Top three issues
The Constitution Comes First
Every vote should begin with the same question: where is the constitutional authority?
The National Debt
The clearest verdict on decades of failure by the two-party system.
Box Elder Data Center
Carlton opposes the project and if elected will use every Constitutional power of the US House to undo the MIDA approval.
Additional issues
First Principle
The Constitution Comes First
Members of Congress do not take an oath to a party, a president, a donor class, or the political mood of the moment. They take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Carlton Bowen has taken that oath twice before: first when joining the United States Air Force, and again when serving as an elected member of the American Fork City Council.
He kept his oath then. He intends to keep it in the U.S. House.
As your representative, Carlton will expect every major piece of legislation to answer a basic question: what constitutional authority allows Congress to do this? If there is no constitutional authority, the answer should be no.
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National Issue
The National Debt
The national debt is not a Democrat problem or a Republican problem. It is an American problem.
Nothing exposes the failure of the two-party system more clearly than the national debt.
Washington keeps spending money it does not have, then tells American families to absorb the higher costs caused by irresponsible government. When the two-party system fails to govern responsibly, the debt grows, interest costs rise, and American families pay the price.
Carlton Bowen will fight for fiscal responsibility, honest budgeting, and a Congress that remembers it is not authorized to spend without limit simply because both parties want to avoid hard choices.
Northern Utah Issue
Box Elder Data Center
Carlton Bowen opposes the Box Elder Data Center.
The public still has no complete answer about where the water will come from, what the facility will be used for, why this project was pushed through the MIDA approval path, or whether public officials connected to the decision will profit privately.
Those are not side issues. They go to water security, constitutional liberty, honest government, and public trust.
This is not blanket opposition to all data centers, technology, private investment, jobs, or honest business profit. Carlton Bowen opposes this project because of its scale, unanswered water and intended-use questions, special handling, the approval process, and the risk that public power could produce private gain without adequate accountability.
Additional Issue
Strengthen Families
Families are the foundation of a strong society and a free nation. A married husband and wife raising children together remains the ideal family structure and should be acknowledged as such, while honoring the many parents, grandparents, adoptive families, foster families, and extended families doing their best in difficult circumstances.
The federal government did not create the family and cannot replace it. But Washington can stop weakening families, stop punishing marriage, respect parental rights, protect religious liberty, and reduce the federal burdens that make ordinary family life harder.
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Additional Issue
National Security
Carlton Bowen believes in peace through strength: a strong military, clear constitutional purpose, fiscal discipline, and the judgment to avoid reckless foreign entanglements.
The national debt is now a direct threat to America’s security. Last fiscal year, the United States spent more on interest on the national debt than on national defense. That is not just wasteful. It is dangerous. A nation that cannot control its debt will eventually struggle to provision its military, replenish munitions, rebuild its industrial base, and respond to real threats.
Carlton supports a strong, modern military, expanded domestic munitions production, a rebuilt defense industrial base, better protection for critical infrastructure and supply chains, and building out America’s icebreaker fleet with proper Coast Guard support. He opposes unconstitutional domestic surveillance, reckless foreign entanglements, and the misuse of national-security language to justify questionable projects or special treatment.
America should be respected by its allies, feared by its enemies, and trusted by its own citizens.
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