Since 2013, Launert has been a member of the CSU executive board, under the leadership of successive chairs
Horst Seehofer (2013–2019) and
Markus Söder (since 2019). Launert first became a member of the Bundestag after the
2013 German federal election. She was a member of the Committee for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 2013 until 2021 before moving to the Committee on Internal Affairs and the Budget Committee in 2021. On the Budget Committee, she was the parliament's
rapporteur on the
annual budget of the
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. From 2022 to 2025, she chaired the Budget Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs. In the negotiations to form a
fourth coalition government under the leadership of
Chancellor Angela Merkel following the
2017 federal elections, Launert was part of the working group on families, women, seniors and youth, led by
Annette Widmann-Mauz,
Angelika Niebler and
Katarina Barley. In the negotiations to form a
Grand Coalition between the Christian Democrats (
CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) under the leadership of
Friedrich Merz and the
Social Democratic Party (SPD) following the
2025 German elections, Launert was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on domestic policy, legal affairs, migration and integration, led by
Günter Krings,
Andrea Lindholz and
Dirk Wiese. ==Other activities==