Charles Booker

His campaign website says he would cut taxes for working and middle-class families.⁹

His campaign website says blanket tariffs act as hidden taxes that raise prices and invite retaliation against Kentucky bourbon, and that he would end the current trade war.⁹

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

His campaign website says that on his first day he would introduce a joint resolution to revoke the national emergency that it says the president has used to raise tariffs.⁹

His campaign website says he would expand access to affordable credit for small businesses through SBA lending and community lenders, with a focus on rural and underserved areas.¹⁰

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 supports a state-run public insurance option that any Kentuckian could choose to buy, while people who like their current insurance could keep it, and calls health care a human right.^10,11

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 the Affordable Care Act subsidies.¹¹

His campaign website says he would cap what drug companies can charge by tying U.S. drug prices to the prices they charge in other countries, such as Canada.¹¹

1. Leave US prices to the market and to negotiation
2. Seek prices like other wealthy countries pay through deals with drug makers, without a law requiring it
3. Require that Medicare and Medicaid pay no more than other wealthy countries do
4. Require that all US buyers pay no more than other wealthy countries do

His campaign website says he would reverse the cuts to Medicaid in the law known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.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

His campaign website says he would make Medicare drug price negotiation permanent and expand it so all Kentuckians could pay the prices Medicare pays.^11,13

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 expand federal investment in telemedicine, including making the telehealth flexibilities adopted during COVID permanent.¹²

1. Add more services by law, such as permanent telehealth from home and testing and treatment by pharmacists
2. Leave new coverage mainly to Medicare's own reviews of the medical evidence
3. Add services only when savings elsewhere in Medicare cover their cost

His campaign website says he would add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare.¹³

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 decisions about pregnancy, contraception, IVF and miscarriage care belong to women, their families and their doctors, not Washington, and that he will respect Kentucky voters' rejection of a constitutional amendment in 2022.¹¹

His campaign website says he would protect access to contraception and IVF.¹¹

His campaign website says he would suspend the federal gas tax for a year.¹⁴

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

His campaign website says he would allow year-round sales of E15 and other fuel blends.¹⁴

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

His campaign website says he supports the $12 billion farm aid package stalled in the Senate and a new farm bill.¹⁵

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 would support a national moratorium on new AI data center construction and a bill requiring large data centers to cover their full utility costs so they are not passed on to families.^16,17

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

His campaign website says he would finish expanding rural broadband so every home, farm and small business can get online.¹⁸

His campaign website says he supports a constitutional amendment setting lifetime term limits for members of Congress.¹⁹

His campaign website says he would ban members of Congress from trading stock while in office.¹⁹

His campaign website says he would work to end the war in Iran and pursue a lasting diplomatic settlement.²⁰

His campaign website says presidents should not enter open-ended conflicts without approval from Congress, and that he would change the War Powers Resolution to stop presidents from continuing military action past 60 days and require new war authorizations to have geographic and time limits.²⁰

His campaign website says he would propose ending the annual U.S. aid commitment to Israel and suspending future military funding and arms sales until a two-state solution is in place.²⁰

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 opposes moving public school funding to private school vouchers.²¹

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 he would oppose federal cuts to Title I and special education funding.²¹

His campaign website says he would refinance high-interest student loans at lower rates, cancel student debt for people in public service and cap interest rates on future loans.²²

1. Narrow or end existing forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness
2. Keep current forgiveness programs, with no new cancellation
3. Add targeted relief, such as more forgiveness for public service workers or through income-based repayment
4. Broad cancellation of student debt

His campaign website says he would propose first-time buyer credits for down payments for young and first-generation homebuyers.²²

His campaign website says he would fund training, recruitment and mental health crisis teams for local police, sheriffs and first responders.²³

His campaign website says he would protect every Kentuckian from discrimination and harassment no matter who they are or whom they love.²³