Aaron Flint

His campaign website says he supports deporting people who are in the country without legal permission, starting with people who have been found guilty of violent offenses or drug trafficking and continuing until every such person has been deported from Montana. It also says Border Patrol and ICE should have the staff and equipment needed to secure the borders, including the northern one.⁵

1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records

His campaign website says he opposes sanctuary city policies and supports local law enforcement working with ICE, including honoring lawful immigration detainers.⁵

His campaign website says he wants noncitizens taken off all taxpayer-funded welfare programs.⁵

1. Let some immigrants without legal status qualify too, such as children or longtime residents
2. Let refugees, people granted asylum and other lawfully present immigrants qualify along with citizens and green card holders
3. Keep the 2025 limits, under which mainly citizens and green card holders qualify
4. Limit benefits and services mainly to US citizens

His campaign website says he would make sure that only US citizens are on voter rolls.⁵

His campaign website lists a ban on stock trading by members of Congress among the steps in his plan to clean up Washington, saying politicians should not profit from privileged information.⁵

1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports

His campaign website lists a ban on Wall Street buying single-family homes among the steps in his plan to make living in Montana affordable.⁵

His campaign website lists making permanent the recent tax breaks for working families, including no tax on tips and overtime, among the steps in his affordability plan.⁵

1. Make the tax break permanent or expand it
2. Keep it as passed, with its current limits and end date
3. Let it end, or replace it with tax relief not tied to tips or overtime

His campaign website lists a mandatory balanced budget amendment, which it compares to the one Montana has, among the steps in his plan to clean up Washington.⁵

1. Add a balanced budget requirement to the Constitution
2. No amendment; limit spending by law instead, such as with spending caps
3. No constitutional requirement or new spending limits

His campaign website lists withholding pay from politicians when there is no budget, and during a government shutdown, among the steps in his plan to clean up Washington.⁵

His campaign website lists no tax on Social Security among the recent tax breaks for working families that he would make permanent.⁵

His campaign website lists the Public Lands in Public Hands Act, which it says keeps federal land from being sold or handed over in large amounts, among the steps in his public lands plan.⁵

His campaign website says public lands should be managed under the multiple-use mandate and describes his public lands plan as weighing conservation, recreation and development of resources. The plan also lists spending federal funds to maintain and add public access, such as trails, campgrounds, boat ramps and restrooms, and upholding the Taylor Grazing Act. Its jobs plan lists expanding timber harvests and resource extraction to create jobs, and its forest plan lists ending the Roadless Rule, which it says blocks access for recreation, timber harvest and firefighting.⁵

1. Protect more land, such as with new national monuments or wilderness areas
2. Keep roughly the current mix of protection and development
3. Open more federal land to mining, logging and grazing

His campaign website lists maintaining healthy forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires among the steps in its public lands plan. Its forest plan lists overturning the Cottonwood legal decision and ending what it calls analysis paralysis on forest management projects, expanding the Good Neighbor Authority to let Montana help manage federal forests, and ending the Roadless Rule.⁵

1. Focus mainly on making homes and towns near forests harder to burn
2. Fund more thinning and controlled burns under current review rules
3. Speed up thinning and logging by shortening reviews and limiting lawsuits