Alani Bankhead

Her campaign website says she backs the End Congressional Stock Trading Act to ban members of Congress, their spouses and their dependent children from trading individual stocks.⁶

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

Her campaign website says she backs the DISCLOSE Act to reveal who funds dark money, overturning Citizens United, and small-dollar public financing of campaigns with real-time disclosure.⁶

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

Her campaign website says she supports term limits for members of Congress.⁶

Her campaign website opposes the SAVE Act's proof-of-citizenship document requirement, saying more than 21 million voting-age citizens lack ready access to those documents.⁶

Her campaign website says members of Congress should have their pay held in escrow whenever Congress fails to pass its budget and spending bills on time.⁶

Her campaign website calls for making a wealth tax stick by funding IRS audits of the wealthiest, requiring independent valuations of hard-to-value assets and closing the exit for people who give up citizenship to avoid it.⁶

Her campaign website says Congress should vote before the United States strikes, the War Powers Resolution should be enforced with notice to Congress within 48 hours and withdrawal within 60 to 90 days without authorization, and the 2001 war authorization should be repealed and replaced.⁶

Her campaign website says she would end U.S. military assistance to Israel while the fighting in Gaza continues, and keep humanitarian aid reaching civilians.⁶

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

Her campaign website opposes the war with Iran and says a nuclear-armed Iran should be prevented through diplomacy and a verifiable agreement with strict inspections.⁶

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

Her campaign website says she would restore USAID and rebuild it with stronger fraud controls, and reauthorize the PEPFAR global AIDS program.⁶

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

Her campaign website says she would rebuild NATO and other U.S. alliances.⁶

Her campaign website says she would give Ukraine the weapons, intelligence and sanctions it needs and send frozen Russian assets held in the U.S. to Ukraine.⁶

Her campaign website says China should be treated as both an adversary and a partner, with rules against cheating enforced but no trade war.⁶

Her campaign website says she would enact a binding, enforceable Supreme Court ethics code with real gift disclosure and recusal rules.⁶

1. Pass a law setting a binding ethics code, with outside review of complaints and recusal decisions
2. Keep ethics rules in the court's hands, but have it add its own way to enforce them
3. Keep the court's current code

Her campaign website says she supports 18-year term limits and age limits for Supreme Court justices, through a constitutional amendment if needed.⁶

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

Her campaign website says she would defend judicial independence and opposes court-packing.⁶

Her campaign website says she would vote to restore the parts of the Voting Rights Act the Supreme Court struck down in 2013, as the John Lewis Act would.⁶

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

Her campaign website says she would champion the Equality Act.⁶

1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states

Her campaign website says she would raise the federal minimum wage to at least $17 an hour by 2030, phased in and then tied to inflation.⁶

1. Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
2. Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
3. Raise to $15 or more

Her campaign website says she would pass the PRO Act and protect workers' right to organize and bargain.⁶

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

Her campaign website says tariffs should target genuine cheating, dumping, illegal subsidies and intellectual-property theft, not serve as a blanket tax on everyday goods.⁶

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

Her campaign website says Congress should have to vote before any across-the-board tariff takes effect.⁶

Her campaign website says trade deals should include strong, enforceable protections for workers and the environment.⁶

Her campaign website says she would block a national right-to-work law, saying Montana chose not to be a right-to-work state and Congress should not override that choice.⁶

1. Pass a national right-to-work law
2. Leave it to each state
3. Allow union contracts that require fees in every state, overriding state right-to-work laws

Her campaign website says she would pass the Protect America's Workforce Act to restore collective bargaining for the federal workers who lost it under a 2025 executive order.⁶

1. Limit or end union bargaining for most public employees
2. Keep current rules, including the 2025 order's limits at federal agencies
3. Restore bargaining rights at the federal agencies the 2025 order excluded, as the House-passed Protect America's Workforce Act would
4. Guarantee bargaining rights for public employees nationwide

Her campaign website says she backs the HOPE for Homeownership Act, which would tax and fine hedge funds that buy single-family homes, without affecting owners of a few rentals.⁶

Her campaign website says she backs legislation to help people buy their first home, such as the Downpayment Toward Equity Act (up to $20,000) and the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Act (up to $15,000).⁶

1. Large federal grants or tax credits for down payments, such as up to $25,000
2. Smaller help aimed at lower-income first-time buyers
3. No new government help with down payments

Her campaign website says people should be placed in a stable home first so that work, treatment and recovery can follow, and that arresting someone for having nowhere to sleep does not house anyone.⁶

1. Provide permanent housing first, without requiring treatment or sobriety beforehand
2. Provide housing that comes with requirements, such as treatment, sobriety or work
3. Enforce bans on public camping and move people into shelters or treatment, including court-ordered treatment for some

Her campaign website says she supports universal health coverage modeled on TRICARE, the military health program in which public dollars pay for care from private doctors, and says it would not be a government takeover of care.⁶

Her campaign website says medical decisions for children belong to the child, their parents and their doctors, and that she would protect access to gender-affirming care.⁶

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

Her campaign website says she would fight Medicaid cuts, per-person caps and paperwork rules that strip coverage.⁶

Her campaign website says she would delay and repeal the federal Medicaid work-reporting rules, which it says could cost tens of thousands of working Montanans their coverage.⁶

1. Require work or community activity for adults who are able to work
2. Keep the requirement but ease it, such as with wider exemptions or less frequent checks
3. No work requirement to keep coverage

Her campaign website says she would defend Montana's Medicaid expansion, which it says covers about 74,000 Montanans and helps keep rural hospitals open.⁶

Her campaign website says she would add dental, vision and hearing coverage to Medicare and require real coverage in private and marketplace plans.⁶

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

Her campaign website says she would rein in claim denials in Medicare Advantage and set deadlines and other limits on prior authorization.⁶

1. Expand Medicare Advantage and encourage more private plan options
2. Keep current rules
3. Tighten rules on what these plans are paid and when they can require approval for care

Her campaign website says she would remove the cap on wages subject to the Social Security tax so the wealthiest pay in on all their income.⁶

1. Keep the current cap
2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
3. Apply the tax to all earnings

Her campaign website says she would end the federal tax on Social Security benefits.⁶

1. End income tax on Social Security benefits
2. Keep the extra deduction for people 65 and older past 2028, or make it permanent
3. Keep taxing part of the benefits of people with higher incomes, and let the extra deduction end after 2028

Her campaign website says she would protect Social Security from an automatic cut it says is coming in late 2032, with no benefit cuts and no privatization.⁶

Her campaign website says she will defend Medicare's power to negotiate drug prices, along with the $35 insulin cap and the yearly out-of-pocket cap in Medicare drug coverage.⁶

Her campaign website says she wants AI rules that reduce catastrophic risk and protect civil liberties, privacy and workers, would hold AI companies legally responsible for harm to children, and would bar an algorithm from being the sole reason an insurer denies care.⁶

Her campaign website says she would fund rural broadband.⁶

Her campaign website says public lands should never be sold and that she backs the Public Lands in Public Hands Act to bar their sale or transfer without an act of Congress.⁶

1. Transfer large areas of federal land to the states
2. Sell limited amounts of federal land, such as near towns for housing
3. Keep federal lands in federal ownership

Her campaign website says public lands should never be opened to exploitation, defends Montana's national monuments against efforts to shrink them, and supports keeping the 130,000 acres of new wilderness in the River Runs Through It Act.⁶

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

Her campaign website says the Department of Education should be kept open.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

Her campaign website says she opposes federal voucher and tax-credit programs that send public money to private schools.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

Her campaign website says she opposes book bans.⁶

Her campaign website says she backs federal investment in paid family and medical leave.⁶

Her campaign website says she would expand the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit.⁶

Her campaign website says she would defend the Respect for Marriage Act.⁶

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

Her campaign website says she backs the Women's Health Protection Act to protect abortion access nationwide and a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights, and opposes any federal abortion ban.⁶

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)

Her campaign website says she backs the Right to Contraception Act and funding for access to all reproductive health care.⁶

Her campaign website says she supports universal background checks.⁶

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

Her campaign website says she backs red-flag laws with due-process safeguards, such as petitions only from police or close family, a judge's review of evidence and a full hearing within days.⁶

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

Her campaign website opposes bans on the semi-automatic firearms Montanans lawfully own, and says she is still listening on questions such as magazine limits before taking a position.⁶

Her campaign website says ICE should be shut down and replaced with whatever structure an independent review recommends.⁶

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

Her campaign website says the military should not be used to police American streets or enforce immigration law, and that she would defend the Posse Comitatus Act.⁶

1. Let the president send troops into cities, even over a governor's objection
2. Send troops only when a state's governor asks for them or agrees
3. Don't use troops for local policing, and limit the president's power to send them

Her campaign website says large data centers should pay their own power and grid costs and get no tax breaks, should be built only after honest studies and with community approval, and should never be built on public lands.⁶

Her campaign website says she would bring back the home solar, battery and EV-charging tax credits.⁶

1. End the remaining clean energy credits
2. Keep the credits as the 2025 law left them
3. Restore the credits the 2025 law ended or cut back

Her campaign website says she would pass the Major Richard Star Act so combat-injured veterans medically retired before 20 years no longer have retirement pay offset by VA disability pay.⁶

1. Let all military retirees with service-connected disabilities collect both payments in full
2. Expand benefits for some groups, such as combat-injured retirees with under 20 years of service and surviving spouses who remarry
3. Keep current rules, which already pay both in full to some retirees, such as those with 20 or more years of service and a disability rating of at least 50%

Her campaign website says she would reverse VA staffing cuts and rehire frontline clinical and claims staff.⁶

1. Hire more VA staff, including to replace jobs lost in 2025
2. Keep staffing near current levels
3. Cut VA staff further, especially in administrative jobs

Her campaign website says she would bring passenger rail back across southern Montana on the North Coast Hiawatha route.⁶

1. Expand funding for passenger rail, including new high-speed lines
2. Fund repairs and current routes, without major new lines
3. Cut federal rail funding or move Amtrak toward private operation

Her campaign website says tribes should regain authority over every crime committed on tribal land, by anyone, and that limits on tribal court sentences should be lifted.⁶

1. Expand tribal governments' authority, including over crimes by non-Native people on tribal lands
2. Keep the current division of authority
3. Give states more authority over crimes, taxes and regulation on tribal lands

Her campaign website says she would create new safety nets for family farmers and ranchers, such as FDIC-style crop insurance and low-interest loans, and pass the farm bill.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