Amy Klobuchar

Her campaign website says she would require thorough screening of all grants and contracts before state money is awarded, add regular and unannounced in-person inspections, create a state database that automatically blocks anyone convicted of fraud from state grants, contracts and payments, freeze suspicious payments while fraud is investigated, and toughen criminal penalties for fraud.¹¹

Her campaign website says she would require state agencies to find savings, review state programs regularly against their results, and cut duplicative or underperforming programs.¹¹

Her campaign website says she would extend and strengthen Minnesota's reinsurance program, have the state weigh affordability and deny excessive premium increases, and create a state tax credit for small employers that pay for their workers' health coverage.¹²

Her campaign website says she will keep pushing for an extension of the federal premium tax credits and, if Congress does not act, work to create a state tax credit through MNsure for small business owners, self-employed workers and farmers.¹²

Her campaign website says she will advocate for restoring the Medicaid funding cuts in the federal Big Beautiful Bill and work to help eligible Minnesotans keep their coverage.¹²

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

Her campaign website says she led the law that let Medicare negotiate lower prescription drug prices, and that as governor she would expand the state's bulk purchasing of prescription drugs.¹²

Her campaign website says she will protect the reproductive rights written into Minnesota law by the PRO Act.¹²

Her campaign website says she would work toward building 100,000 more homes by rewarding cities that agree to build more housing when they apply for state money, setting deadlines for housing permit decisions and streamlining building codes, while keeping local control.¹³

1. Have states require cities to allow more types of housing, such as apartments near transit
2. Give extra state or federal money to communities that allow more homes
3. Leave zoning decisions to local governments

Her campaign website says large institutional landlords should have to report their acquisitions and rent increases in a public database, and that she supports the ROAD to Housing Act's caps on the number of homes they can own.¹³

Her campaign website says she would combine state, local and federal down-payment assistance into a single application and provide counseling to help buyers use it.¹³

Her campaign website says she would set up a statewide network that connects people to housing and supportive services through a single point of contact, and expand efforts to end veteran and student homelessness.¹³

Her campaign website says she would create state grants for cities and counties to hire and keep more police officers, and give law enforcement more equipment, technology and training.¹⁴

1. Increase police funding, for example to hire more officers
2. Keep funding near current levels
3. Shift some police funding to mental health, housing or other services

Her campaign website says she would sign the gun safety package passed by the Minnesota Senate, which would strengthen safe-storage standards, ban assault weapons and improve school security.¹⁴

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

Her campaign website says she would continue to strongly fund schools and use evidence-based reading and math curricula and tutoring to raise student achievement.¹⁵

Her campaign website says she would combine Minnesota's two child care assistance programs into one scholarship-style program, expand scholarships so more families receive them, and help child care providers open or expand.¹⁶

Her campaign website says she worked in the Senate to make E15 available year-round, and that as governor she would support biofuel production and work to make Minnesota a leader in sustainable aviation fuel.¹⁷

1. Expand biofuel use, such as by allowing E15 sales all year
2. Keep the current requirements
3. Lower the requirements or end the Renewable Fuel Standard

Her campaign website says she would finish building universal broadband, including by fully funding the state's Border-to-Border Broadband program and directing state matching money to the roughly 120,000 households still without fast service.^11,17

Her campaign website says she voted against stripping protections from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and other federal lands, and that as governor she will oppose efforts to shrink the public lands and waters Minnesotans depend on.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she supports wildlife management that meets the goals of the Endangered Species Act while keeping decisions about Minnesota's wildlife in Minnesota, including returning gray wolf management to the states once populations recover.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she has led the effort in the Senate to get rid of President Trump's tariffs, which she has called a tax on farms, businesses and consumers.⁷