Annie Andrews

Her campaign website says she would advocate for policies such as a public option to expand access to affordable health care, and would protect and expand Medicaid and Medicare.⁶

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

Her campaign website says she would fight to repeal recent federal Medicaid cuts, which its health care plan says will cost 51,000 South Carolinians their health insurance.^3,7

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 health care plan says South Carolina should expand Medicaid, which it says would cover 360,000 more South Carolinians.⁷

Her health care plan says she would work with both parties to bring back the expanded premium subsidies for marketplace insurance plans that expired last year.⁷

Her campaign website says she would work to strengthen vaccine access and public health preparedness.⁶

Her health care plan says she would expand the number of drugs whose prices Medicare negotiates.⁷

Her health care plan says she supports Medicare Advantage but would reform how its private plans are paid, saying they are being overpaid by $76 billion this year.⁷

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 affordability plan says Congress should expand the 2025 tax cut on Social Security and make it permanent.^8,9

Her health care plan says she would reverse recent VA staffing cuts and fill vacant VA positions.⁷

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 health care plan says she would strengthen the VA MISSION Act so veterans can more easily get care outside the VA when they face long waits or distances.⁷

Her campaign website says she supports universal background checks, along with safe storage laws and more funding for violence prevention programs.¹⁰

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 supports banning what it calls weapons of war from the streets.¹⁰

Her campaign website says she would ban members of Congress from trading stocks.^9,11

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 supports term limits, and her taxpayer pledge says she would sponsor legislation for House and Senate term limits and serve no more than two Senate terms.^9,11

Her campaign website says she would ban corporate PAC and dark money, and says she does not take corporate PAC money.¹¹

Her campaign website says she supports immigration reform that strengthens border security and creates a fair path to citizenship for people who work hard and follow the rules.¹²

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

Her campaign website says she would require Congress to approve the use of military force and work to end open-ended wars.^8,13

1. Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
2. Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
3. Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack

Her taxpayer pledge says she would oppose unprovoked foreign wars, including what it calls the current war in Iran.⁹

Her campaign website says she would protect children from social media addiction and online exploitation, including by getting phones out of schools.¹⁴

Her campaign website says she would rein in tech companies that misuse personal data and establish a national digital bill of rights.¹⁴

Her campaign website says she would regulate AI and facial recognition tools that can discriminate or be abused.¹⁴

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

Her campaign website says she would fight to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade.¹⁵

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 would work to guarantee access to contraception and infertility care.¹⁵

1. Guarantee access to both in federal law, including insurance coverage for IVF
2. Lower IVF costs, such as through cheaper drugs and optional employer benefits, without a new federal right or coverage requirement
3. No new federal law; leave current federal and state rules in place
4. Let states limit some methods, such as by giving embryos legal protection

Her campaign website says she would expand access to affordable child care, and her affordability plan proposes a national apprenticeship program for child care workers, federal help to raise their pay and tax credits for child care businesses.^8,16

Her campaign website says she would expand paid family leave.¹⁷

Her affordability plan calls for a permanent, expanded child tax credit.⁸

Her taxpayer pledge says she will fight for a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to pass a balanced budget, and will vote against raising the debt ceiling until a balanced budget passes.⁹

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

Her affordability plan says Congress should expand the tax cut on tips signed into law in 2025 and make it permanent.^8,9

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

Her affordability plan proposes simplifying the income tax to three brackets of 10%, 20% and 35%, and her taxpayer pledge says she will vote against any tax increase on families earning less than $500,000 a year.^8,9

Her campaign website says she would end tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and what it calls corporate polluters, and her taxpayer pledge calls for ending the carried interest tax break and tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas.^9,17

Her taxpayer pledge says she would fight waste and abuse in social programs by auditing spending, punishing people who steal from taxpayers and recovering stolen money.⁹

Her affordability plan calls for ending the tariffs, which it says cost the average American family nearly $2,000 in 2025.^8,9

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

Her campaign plans say she would fight to reclaim Congress's constitutional power over tariffs and end unilateral tariffs.^8,9

Her affordability plan calls for a two-year moratorium on data center construction, laws to keep data centers from passing their costs on to energy bills, and repeal of tax breaks for AI data centers.⁸

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

Her affordability plan says it was a mistake to repeal tax breaks for more efficient and renewable energy and that she would work to restore them.⁸

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 affordability plan says she would work with both parties to cut red tape that makes it harder to build new energy infrastructure.⁸

Her affordability plan calls for suspending the federal gas tax.⁸

1. Raise the federal gas tax
2. Add new fees, such as a yearly fee on electric vehicles or a charge for each mile driven
3. Keep the gas tax as is and cover the gap with other federal money
4. Cut or suspend the federal gas tax

Her campaign website says she would work to fix and modernize roads, bridges and highways and to expand public transit and sidewalks.¹⁸

Her affordability plan says the new federal limit on private equity firms buying more than 350 homes should be lowered to 50 homes, and that such firms should be barred from using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages to buy housing.⁸

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

Her affordability plan supports a proposed $50,000 tax cut to help first-time homebuyers with their down payments.⁸

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