Daniel Biss

His campaign website says the country should pass Medicare for All, a national single-payer system providing universal coverage.^6,7

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 will work to reverse the Republican budget's cuts to Medicaid immediately.^6,7

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

His campaign website says the Republican budget cuts Affordable Care Act premium support and that reversing those policies immediately will be step one.⁶

His campaign website says he will defend the right of individuals and families to make private medical decisions, including about gender-affirming care, without government interference.⁸

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

His campaign website says he will expand Medicare's power to negotiate drug prices and strengthen and protect the program that lets Medicare negotiate lower prescription drug costs.^6,7

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 Medicare should be expanded to include vision and dental coverage.⁷

His campaign website says he will champion a bill that would increase Social Security benefits by $200 a month.⁷

1. Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
2. Keep the current benefit formula
3. Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees

His campaign website says he will champion a bill that would increase Social Security benefits by $200 a month, paid for by applying the Social Security tax to incomes over $250,000.⁷

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

His campaign website says the federal minimum wage should be raised to $17 an hour and indexed to inflation.⁹

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 will pass the PRO Act, which it says would make it easier for workers to form unions, ban employer interference and hold lawbreaking companies accountable with real penalties, and that he supports banning captive audience meetings.⁹

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 will defend the right of federal employees, teachers, nurses and other public servants to collectively bargain, and will work to ensure every teacher in the country can join a union and bargain over wages and benefits.^9,10

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

His campaign website says the country should get rid of the tariffs President Trump imposed, which it describes as a tax on working people.³

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

His campaign website says no president should have the authority to create tariffs by social media post, and that he supports pending bipartisan legislation that would limit the president's power to impose tariffs without the approval of Congress.¹¹

His campaign website says he will immediately roll back the Trump tax cuts for the highest earners and tax capital gains at the same rate as wages for anyone making more than $1 million a year.³

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 will reverse Donald Trump's corporate tax cut and close loopholes that let corporations shift profits offshore.³

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 says he will implement a modest wealth tax on the assets of billionaires and ultra-millionaires.³

1. No tax on wealth or on gains from assets that haven't been sold
2. A minimum tax on the very wealthy that counts unsold gains as income
3. A yearly tax on net worth above a high threshold (such as $50 million)

His campaign website says he will end tax breaks for multinational corporations that outsource jobs, end the carried-interest tax break, and repeal fossil fuel subsidies.^3,12,13

His campaign website says he will expand the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit, increase the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit significantly and make it fully refundable, and increase the tax deduction for teachers' school supplies and index it to inflation.^3,6,10

1. Expand these breaks and make more of them refundable, so families who owe little income tax also benefit
2. Add or expand breaks for costs such as education savings, adoption and selling a home
3. Keep the current breaks
4. Cut back these breaks and use the money for lower tax rates or deficit reduction

His campaign website says he will work to pass the Protecting Our Constitution and Communities Act, which it says would create a right of action for individuals, states and local governments harmed by illegal cuts to congressionally authorized funds.¹¹

1. Let presidents withhold or cancel approved money they decide not to spend
2. Keep the 1974 law, under which Congress must agree before approved money is canceled
3. Add penalties and faster court enforcement when approved money is held back

His campaign website says he will expand the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit.³

His campaign website says he will fight for legislation so that no family spends more than 7 percent of its income on child care, and lists building a nationwide public child care system among his priorities.⁶

1. Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
2. Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
3. Keep current child care funding and tax credits
4. Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending

His campaign website says he will reward pro-housing zoning policies, such as legalizing apartments near transit and lowering parking minimums, by making them a condition of receiving federal transportation grants.⁶

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

His campaign website says he will expand rental assistance and provide down-payment support for families shut out of homeownership.⁶

His campaign website says he will work to pass the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act and penalize hedge funds and private equity firms that buy up single-family homes.^6,12

His campaign website says federal investment should make every two-year and four-year public college in the country tuition-free.^10,12

1. No free tuition program
2. Free tuition at community colleges
3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities

His campaign website says Congress should pass legislation forgiving student loan debt for the vast majority of borrowers, and that he will champion loan forgiveness programs for students who enter public service careers.¹⁰

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 will work to stop cuts to the U.S. Department of Education and ensure it is adequately funded and staffed.¹⁰

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 opposes book bans and supports the bill that would provide federal support to school districts fighting book bans in court.^8,10

His campaign website says every gun sale, whether at a store, a gun show or online, should require a background check.¹⁴

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 will work to restore the federal ban on military-style assault weapons and limit high-capacity magazines.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

His campaign website lists red flag laws among the gun reforms he will fight for, saying they work when they are actually used.¹⁴

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 will work to pass the American Dream and Promise Act and provide a clear, fair path to citizenship for DACA recipients and others.¹⁵

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

His campaign website says ICE must be abolished, that immigration enforcement should target real threats such as violent criminals and human traffickers, and that raids should be allowed only in cases involving suspects with violent criminal records.¹⁵

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

His campaign website says asylum is a right and that he will work for an asylum system that ensures speedy processing, access to representation and a fair hearing for every asylum seeker.¹⁵

His campaign website says he will work to fix the visa system, modernize quotas and cut wait times for legal entry.¹⁵

His campaign website says he will fully fund refugee resettlement programs and expand asylum programs.¹⁶

His campaign website says he will pass the Equality Act, which it says bans discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, employment, education, health care and public services.⁸

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 will fully restore the Voting Rights Act, including federal review of new voting laws in states with histories of voter suppression, and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.^8,17

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

His campaign website says he will work to codify an ethics code for federal courts, including the Supreme Court, with disclosure requirements, an independent authority to investigate complaints and a binding recusal process.¹⁷

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

His campaign website says he supports 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices.¹⁷

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

His campaign website says he supports forcing social media platforms to disclose how content is promoted and to allow researchers to study their algorithms, and requiring platforms to strengthen safeguards against coordinated disinformation, bots and overseas troll farms.¹⁸

His campaign website says federal law and the Constitution should guarantee the right to safe, legal abortion in all 50 states, and it lists enacting major abortion rights legislation as a legislator among his accomplishments.^2,8

His campaign website says Congress should codify abortion rights and that federal law should guarantee the right to safe, legal abortion in all 50 states.⁸

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)

His campaign website says protecting abortion rights includes protecting access to mifepristone and misoprostol, the pills used for medication abortion.⁸

His campaign website says he will end the Hyde Amendment and roll back the cuts to Planned Parenthood passed in the Republican budget.⁸

1. Bar public funds for abortions and for groups that provide them, including for their other services
2. Bar public funds for most abortions, but let clinics that provide them be paid for other care
3. Let Medicaid and other public programs cover abortion (ending the Hyde Amendment)

His campaign website says he will enact federal safeguards against state efforts to restrict contraception and reproductive technologies such as IVF.⁸

His campaign website says he will champion federal legislation to ban partisan gerrymandering and ensure districts are compact, contiguous and protect communities of interest, and that he supports a national ban on mid-decade redistricting.¹⁷

His campaign website says the Constitution should be amended to overturn Citizens United and get corporate money out of politics, and that he supports the Government by the People Act, a small-donor matching system.¹⁷

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

His campaign website says members of Congress should be banned from trading stocks, and that he pledges never to trade stocks while in Congress.¹⁷

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

His campaign website says he will work to sunset outdated authorizations for use of military force and require congressional approval for future military actions.¹⁶

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 says he will work to shift resources from the Pentagon budget to diplomatic efforts, humanitarian aid and global development, and to fight back against large military spending.¹⁶

1. Increase military spending
2. Hold it near current levels, adjusted for inflation
3. Cut military spending

His campaign website says he will work to reopen USAID and other diplomatic agencies closed by the Trump administration, increase international climate aid and expand funding for global health.¹⁶

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

His campaign website says a nuclear Iran is unacceptable and that the country should work to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon through diplomacy rather than military strikes.¹⁶

His campaign website says the country should provide Ukraine with military and humanitarian aid, with oversight to ensure accountability and effectiveness, while pushing for a diplomatic path to end the war.¹⁶

His campaign website says the country should rejoin and strengthen global climate agreements, including the Paris Accords.¹⁶

1. Rejoin the Paris Agreement and the UN climate treaty, and set new emissions goals
2. Join only agreements that bind major emitters, such as China and India, to similar cuts
3. Stay out of international climate agreements

His campaign website says he will reinstate the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act and pass a new budget bill to reverse cuts to wind, solar, energy efficiency and electric vehicle infrastructure.¹³

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

His campaign website says he will support regulatory changes that make it easier to build new renewable energy capacity.¹³

His campaign website says he will push back against efforts to weaken protections for public lands, waterways and endangered species.¹³

His campaign website says he will invest in habitat restoration and conservation and push back against efforts to weaken protections for public lands, waterways and endangered species.¹³

His campaign website says he supports laws that give people the right to see the data tech companies have stored about them, ask to have it deleted and take it to other sites.¹⁸

His campaign website says Congress should ban features designed to capture children's attention, such as endless scroll and autoplay, raise the age at which data collection is allowed, and mandate parental control tools.¹⁸

1. Bar children under a set age, such as 16, from having social media accounts, with age checks
2. Require safer designs and settings for minors, and parental consent for younger users
3. Leave it to parents, with no new government requirements on apps

His campaign website says Congress must develop a policy framework that promotes American leadership in artificial intelligence and encourages responsible development to create good-paying jobs, protect the environment and keep kids safe.¹⁸

His campaign website says he will work to ensure VA programs, including VA hospitals, are adequately staffed by a qualified, well-trained and fairly compensated workforce.¹⁹

His campaign website lists among his record as mayor working with police and community leaders to create a program that sends social workers and others, rather than police, to respond to low-risk service calls.²