Will work to ensure national security, military strength, and defense capabilities remain a top priority.

Joe Wilson · South Carolina · Republican

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I will work to ensure our national security, military strength and defense capabilities remain a top priority.

Wilson commits to making national security, military strength, and defense capabilities a top priority while serving on the NDAA conference committee.

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He works closely with fellow members of Congress to enact the Trump agenda and promote a strong national defense promoting peace through strength, creating jobs, and limiting the size and scope of the federal government.

Campaign site says Wilson is committed to promoting a strong national defense and peace through strength in Congress.

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Evidence

GovInfo records that Rep. Joe Wilson introduced H.R. 8718 on May 7, 2026; the bill was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and additional committees. The measure would impose sanctions on foreign persons and governments facilitating recruitment from African countries for the war in Ukraine.

Concrete national-security action in the lookback window: Wilson moved a sanctions bill targeting Russia-linked recruitment for Ukraine, but it remained at introduction and referral.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 8718 (IH) - Countering Russia’s Forced Recruitment and Kidnapping in Africa Act - BILLS-119hr8718ih | Content Details | GovInfo
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Wilson's office said he and Rep. Jonathan Jackson introduced the Countering Russia’s Forced Recruitment and Kidnapping in Africa Act. The release says the bill imposes sanctions on foreign persons and governments participating in or facilitating recruitment for Putin’s war in Ukraine, framing it as a response to national security threats.

Publicly documented within the lookback window as a national-security/defense-related legislative push, reinforcing that Wilson is actively working on the stated priority, though not showing enacted results.

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Wilson and Jackson Introduce Bipartisan ‘Countering Russia’s Forced Recruitment and Kidnapping in Africa Act’ | Representative Joe Wilson
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Wilson has documented same-term activity on national security and defense priorities, including introducing H.R. 8718 in May 2026 to sanction actors facilitating Russia-linked recruitment from African countries for the war in Ukraine. That is relevant federal legislative work and supports candidate credit for advancing the stated priority. However, the evidence shows introduction and committee referral, not enactment or a completed policy outcome ensuring national security, military strength, or defense capabilities remained a top priority, so this is partial rather than delivered.

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