U.S. Rep. Michelle Fischbach said Monday that she will be seeking a fourth term in Congress. Fischbach, who represents the Seventh Congressional District in western Minnesota, announced her campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. House seats will be up for election in November 2026.

In a Monday release, Fischbach said current U.S. political leadership was helping to advance campaign goals like cutting spending and regulations.

“It is a new day in Washington, D.C., with President Trump in the White House and Republican majorities in Congress,” Fischbach said. “We have been given an opportunity by voters to do the things that are needed to save our great nation. I launched my campaign in 2020 to push for stronger rural communities by cutting federal spending, rolling back burdensome regulations, and defending individual rights. We’re seeing these priorities being put into action under the America First agenda, and I want to continue working as the advocate for western Minnesota.”

Fischbach was first elected to Congress in 2020. In November she won re-election in CD 7, with more than 70% of the vote, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office. Fischbach currently serves on the House Ways & Means Committee and Rules Committee.

Before running for Congress, Fischbach served in the Minnesota Senate from 1996 to 2018. She served as lieutenant governor of Minnesota, and was also the first woman to serve as president of the Minnesota Senate.

The Minnesota DFL Party also released a statement Monday, after Fischbach’s campaign announcement.

“Rep. Fischbach’s constituents want to know why she is trying to pass a budget that would kick thousands of their friends and neighbors off of their health insurance,” Minnesota DFL executive director Heidi Kraus Kaplan said in the statement. “But instead of answering for why she is trying to gut Medicaid and food assistance programs, she has gone into hiding and attacked her constituents as ‘garbage.’ If she wants another term in Congress, Rep. Fischbach should stop attacking the people she represents and the programs that working families in her district rely on.”

In the DFL statement, Kraus Kaplan referred to a February radio interview where Fischbach said of protests at her Moorhead and Willmar offices,

“I’m sure someone is financing that garbage,” she said.