Brad A. Meyer

His campaign website says he would establish a $20-an-hour national minimum wage.^5,6

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

His campaign website says he would end tariffs that it says caused higher prices, unstable markets and lost opportunities, and roll back tariffs that raise the cost of goods, raw materials and farm inputs.^5,6

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 would pass the PRO Act to protect the right to organize and restore workers' bargaining power.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

His campaign website says he would restore Small Business Administration staffing and funding and expand SBA lending capacity.^5,6

1. Expand SBA loans, research awards and contracting help for small businesses
2. Keep the programs near their current size
3. Shrink the SBA or close it, leaving small business lending to private lenders

His campaign website says he would strengthen and expand the capacity of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and ban exploitative lending traps such as balloon payments and predatory refinancing.⁶

1. Strengthen rules and consumer protections, such as limits on overdraft fees and tougher oversight of large banks
2. Keep current rules
3. Ease rules on how companies raise money from investors, and let more people invest in private companies
4. Ease rules further, including closing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

His campaign website says he would raise tax rates only for households above $383,000 and for large corporations, and would increase the standard deduction to $20,000.^5,6

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 would increase tax rates for large corporations.⁵

1. Raise it, for example to 25% or 28%, or back to the 35% top rate in place before 2018
2. Keep it at 21%
3. Lower it below 21% (for example, 15% for companies that make products in the US)

His campaign website lists maintaining clear limits on how public money can be redirected among steps to restore guardrails on the exercise of power.⁷

His campaign website says he would increase the FICA tax cap to strengthen Social Security for the long term.⁶

His campaign website says Social Security must be protected and that retirees' income should keep up with the real cost of living.⁶

His campaign website says he would expand Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing coverage.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

His campaign website says he would strengthen Medicare Part D bargaining to lower prescription drug costs.⁶

His campaign website says he supports Medicare for All, a nonprofit universal health care system that it lists as his first legislative priority, so that coverage is not tied to employment.^5,6,8

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 restore ACA subsidies to reduce out-of-pocket costs right away.⁶

His campaign website lists work requirements for Medicaid recipients among provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that it says must not be allowed to succeed.⁸

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

His campaign website says, under reproductive rights, that he trusts women and their doctors, not politicians, to make deeply personal medical decisions.⁵

His campaign website says he supports full federal protections so that every person can live, work and raise a family with dignity and freedom.⁵

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

His campaign website says he supports universal background checks.⁵

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

His campaign website says he supports gun safety policies that include red flag laws and preventing gun purchases by people on terrorist watch lists.⁵

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

His campaign website says he would expand legal, controlled and documented immigration and modernize visa programs so that legal immigration meets workforce needs.^5,9

1. Admit more immigrants, such as by adding work visas or clearing family backlogs
2. Keep green cards and work visas near recent levels
3. Admit fewer immigrants than in recent years
4. Pause most new legal immigration for a time

His campaign website says legalizing the status of undocumented immigrants who already contribute could boost the economy, and that they should be able to become contributing members of the country through legal pathways.⁹

His campaign website says mass deportation would cost billions and shrink the economy, and that while laws must be enforced, enforcement alone cannot fix the immigration system.⁹

His campaign website says the United States has a moral obligation to prioritize vulnerable refugees and people seeking asylum from the abuse of dictators, with careful vetting.⁹

His campaign website says he would protect the Department of Education and that efforts to eliminate it remove oversight and accountability.^10,11

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 would make public colleges and trade schools tuition-free for low-income families and make the first year of public college free for all students.^6,10

His campaign website says he would ban interstate corporate speculation to prevent companies from buying up family homes.⁶

His campaign website says he would expand pathways to homeownership through targeted first-time buyer support and increased housing supply, and strengthen federal loan programs so first-time buyers can compete.⁶

His campaign website says he would complete the expansion of rural broadband and restore the Affordable Connectivity Program to keep internet service affordable.⁶

1. Pay to build networks where service is lacking, and help low-income households with monthly bills
2. Pay to build networks where service is lacking, but not to help with monthly bills
3. Cut government broadband spending and leave expansion mainly to private companies

His campaign website says he would establish a Data Bill of Rights guaranteeing access, deletion and portability and give data protection authorities enforcement and subpoena power.⁶

1. Limit collection to what a service needs, and let people sue companies that break the rules
2. Give people rights to see and delete their data and stop its sale, enforced by government regulators
3. One national law with basic rights, such as deleting your data, that replaces state privacy laws
4. No new general privacy law; rely on current laws

His campaign website says he would mandate transparency and independent audits for algorithmic and automated decisions and require disclosure of AI-generated content and political advertisements.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 supports reforms that reduce the influence of money in politics and are crafted to withstand Supreme Court review.⁵

His campaign website says Congress should exercise its power to decide when and if war is necessary, and that the use of force should always be a last resort.^5,11

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

His campaign website describes carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems as approaches that make polluters pay, says industry lobbying has weakened or defeated most proposals, and says clean alternatives will stay disadvantaged until pollution has a cost for polluters.¹²

His campaign website says emission limits and clean air laws are effective when implemented but are frequently rolled back, and lists enforcing pollution limits near schools and neighborhoods among his priorities.¹²

His campaign website says federal support should shift from large corporate farming operations to independent family farms, and lists permanent disaster relief and expanded Whole Farm Revenue Protection insurance among his proposals.^5,6

His campaign website says he would reform the H-2A program and align immigration policy with agricultural labor needs.⁶