[2][3] He graduated from Wyoming Valley West High School in 2007 and earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in government and law and international affairs from Lafayette College in 2011.

[14] For the 2015-2016 legislative session, Kaufer was named the deputy chairman of the State House Majority Policy Committee.

[16] Kaufer was a co-founder of the PA HOPE (Heroin, Opioid, Prevention and Education) Caucus as part of his effort to improve Pennsylvania's drug and alcohol services.

Kaufer said he agreed with U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr's assessment that no major irregularities occurred to alter the election results.

[23] According to Kaufer himself, he has never supported an outright ban on abortion and believes in exceptions for rape, incest, health of the mother, and viability of the child.

[28] In 2024, Kaufer signed a discharge petition that would force a vote in the State House on a proposed amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution that would require voter ID.

[29] He previously called since-repealed voter ID laws a bad idea during a 2012 forum, but left open the possibility of supporting something similar.

Prior to being elected, Kaufer worked at Mohegan Sun Pocono where he would see customers repeatedly taking out, often large, sums of money on their credit card "just so they could play one more game.

[31] Following Ben & Jerry's 2021 announcement that the company would not longer sell its ice cream in the Israeli occupied West Bank,[32] Kaufer called for the enforcement of 2016 Act 163, which says the state will not associate with businesses that boycott Israel.

[23] In 2017, Kaufer cosponsored legislation that called for a constitution convention to review and possibly reduce the size of the Pennsylvania legislature.

[45] In 2012, Kaufer slammed Republicans in the state legislature for making more partisan districts in the recent redistricting cycle that stifled competitive elections.

The change meant that state inmates would count towards the districts they lived in prior to incarceration and not where they were currently imprisoned.

[47] In 2023, Kaufer and Representative Alec Ryncavage were the only two Republicans in the State House who voted for the passage of an LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination bill.

[31] Kaufer believes that decriminalizing marijuana would aid law enforcement in prioritizing the seizure of opioids and fentanyl, something he describes as "larger priorities.

[28] During his first term as a state representative, Kaufer supported a homestead exemption so that property tax would be eliminated on a person's primary residence.

[3] In 2023, Kaufer was among a group of Republicans who signed onto several bills meant to give tax breaks to families in areas such as child care, school supplies, and home improvement.