Abdul El-Sayed

His campaign website says he would extend Medicare to every American, from birth on, without premiums, copays or deductibles.⁵

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His campaign website says he would push to immediately repeal the Medicaid and ACA subsidy cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.⁵

1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding

His campaign website says health care decisions, including gender-affirming care, should be made by patients, their parents if they are minors, and their doctors, and no one else.⁵

1. Ban these treatments for minors
2. Allow some with limits, such as minimum ages, waiting periods or no surgery
3. No legal limits; leave decisions to patients, parents and doctors

His campaign website says he would expand Medicare to cover all necessary care, including vision, dental and hearing.⁵

1. Keep current coverage, under which some private Medicare Advantage plans offer these benefits
2. Add some of these benefits, such as hearing aids, to traditional Medicare
3. Add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare

His campaign website says he would expand Medicare drug price negotiation to every prescription drug, start negotiations sooner after drugs reach the market and extend the negotiated prices to all patients.⁵

1. Repeal or scale back negotiation
2. Keep the program as it is
3. Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance

His campaign website says he would write the rights once protected by Roe v. Wade into federal law.⁵

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

His campaign website says he supports targeted tariffs to protect Michigan manufacturing and new industries, tied to clearly communicated benchmarks and phased out once American manufacturers are established.⁶

1. Lower or remove most tariffs
2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
3. Broad tariffs on most imports

His campaign website says he supports legislation that clarifies the rules and legitimate uses of blockchain in financial services while protecting the public from money laundering and fraud.⁶

1. Write separate federal rules for crypto, as the House-passed bill would, with most tokens overseen as commodities rather than securities
2. Write separate crypto rules, but with stricter protections than the House-passed bill, such as tougher anti-money-laundering rules or ethics limits on senior officials' crypto businesses
3. Apply the same rules that already cover stocks, banks and other financial products

His campaign website says he supports raising the tax rate on earnings over $1 million and taxing capital gains over $1 million at the same rate as ordinary income.⁶

1. Replace the current income tax with a single flat rate or a national sales tax
2. Cut rates further, including the top rate
3. Keep current rates
4. Raise rates on high incomes only (for example, above $400,000)

His campaign website says he supports a billionaire tax on wealth over $1 billion.⁶

1. No tax on wealth or on gains from assets that haven't been sold
2. A minimum tax on the very wealthy that counts unsold gains as income
3. A yearly tax on net worth above a high threshold (such as $50 million)

His campaign website says he supports safety testing standards for the most advanced AI models, liability and incident reporting rules, and an independent agency with enforcement power, like the FDA, for AI.⁶

1. Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
2. Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
3. Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI

His campaign website says he opposes efforts to preempt state AI laws before federal legislation is in place.⁶

His campaign website says he would ban large corporations that speculate on housing from owning homes at all.⁶

1. Tighten the ban, such as by covering smaller investors or ending exceptions
2. Keep the 2026 law as passed
3. Loosen or repeal the ban

His campaign website says he would support public schools rather than dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.⁶

1. Close the department and move or end its programs
2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it

His campaign website says he opposes vouchers and other programs that move public education money into private hands.⁶

1. Make them available to every family
2. Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
3. No public money for private school or homeschooling costs

His campaign website says every student deserves a debt-free and tuition-free path to the skills they need, whether an apprenticeship or a four-year degree.⁶

1. No free tuition program
2. Free tuition at community colleges
3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities

His campaign website says he would cap individual farm subsidy payments at $250,000 a year and redirect the money to family farmers and specialty crops.⁶

1. Expand price supports, crop insurance or emergency aid
2. Keep the programs at current levels
3. Cut payments, such as with tighter limits for the largest farms
4. Phase out price-support payments and rely on crop insurance

His campaign website says he supports overturning Citizens United, banning outside spending through super PACs and similar groups, public election funding and campaign spending caps.⁷

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

His campaign website says congressional districts should be drawn by a federal nonpartisan committee of experts working with the Census Bureau.⁷

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

His campaign website says the filibuster should be abolished.⁷

1. Keep the 60-vote rule
2. Keep it, but make exceptions for some kinds of bills, such as voting rights or government funding
3. End it, so most bills can pass with a simple majority

His campaign website says he opposes mandatory voter ID laws such as the SAVE Act.⁷

1. Require a government-issued photo ID, with free IDs for people who need one
2. Require ID but accept other documents, such as a utility bill or bank statement
3. Don't require ID at the polls; confirm identity through registration records and signatures

His campaign website says he supports no-excuse absentee voting and early in-person voting.⁷

1. Mail a ballot to every registered voter
2. Let any voter request a mail ballot without giving a reason
3. Allow mail ballots only for voters with a reason, such as illness, disability or travel
4. End most mail voting, keeping it for military and overseas voters

His campaign website says he supports ending lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court and setting limited terms.⁷

1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
2. Keep lifetime appointments

His campaign website says ICE must be abolished and replaced with a new structure for border security and immigration enforcement.⁷

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 would strengthen air quality standards to account for the combined effect of multiple pollutants on vulnerable communities.⁷

1. Strengthen limits, such as tighter standards for soot and for pollution from trucks and factories
2. Keep current limits
3. Ease limits and give states more leeway, such as for pollution from wildfires or other countries

His campaign website says he opposes the war with Iran and a nuclear-armed Iran, and that diplomacy like the Obama-era nuclear deal is more effective.⁷

1. Tighten sanctions further and use military force if needed to stop Iran's nuclear program
2. Keep sanctions in place, easing them only if Iran ends all uranium enrichment
3. Negotiate a deal that eases some sanctions in exchange for verified limits on Iran's nuclear program

His campaign website says he supports an immediate arms embargo on Israel.⁷

1. Increase military aid to Israel
2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel

His campaign website says he supports immediate reinvestment in foreign aid, including to UNRWA.⁷

1. Restore or increase foreign aid, including programs cut in 2025
2. Keep foreign aid near its current level
3. Cut foreign aid further or end most of it

His campaign website says he supports meaningful U.S. engagement in the Paris Agreement and the UN climate conference.⁷

1. Rejoin the Paris Agreement and the UN climate treaty, and set new emissions goals
2. Join only agreements that bind major emitters, such as China and India, to similar cuts
3. Stay out of international climate agreements