Denise Powell

Her campaign website says she wants to stop the president's tariffs to help lower costs for families, and also to use tariffs aimed at specific imported goods, such as beef and soybeans, to raise domestic prices and gain leverage for better trade deals.³

Her campaign website says she would increase funding and support for small businesses in Nebraska.³

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

Her campaign website says she would work to create a public option, similar to Medicare, that every American could choose, while keeping private insurance for those who want it, and would build on the Affordable Care Act so families are not spending too much of their income on premiums and deductibles.³

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 push to have Medicare negotiate the prices of a larger number of prescription drugs.³

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

Her campaign website says she would protect Social Security to secure a dignified retirement for Nebraskans.³

Her campaign website says she has defended reproductive rights in Nebraska for a decade, including by pushing back on a proposed total abortion ban and collecting signatures for a ballot measure to protect access to care, and that she wants to restore Roe v. Wade as national law.³

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

Her campaign website says she is fighting to restore Roe v. Wade into law nationwide.³

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 supports the Right to Contraception Act, which it describes as protecting the right to obtain and use contraception, and wants to pass legislation such as the Right to IVF Act to expand insurance coverage for fertility treatments.³

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 wants to manage deficits and debt responsibly so that the next generation inherits a more stable future.³

Her campaign website says she would fully fund police departments, provide training and mental health support for officers, and invest in social workers to help address community needs.³

Her campaign website says she supports universal background checks, aimed at keeping guns from people convicted of felonies and from gang members.³

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 red flag laws, aimed at keeping guns from domestic abusers.³

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

Her campaign website says she wants more guardrails and regulation for artificial intelligence, balancing investment in new technology with protection of American jobs.³

Her campaign website says she would push to use tariff revenue to fund Farmer Bridge Assistance programs, which support farms affected by disruptions.³

Her campaign website criticizes President Donald Trump's cuts to the Department of Education and says she will not let them stand.³

Her campaign website says she would work to make the Child Tax Credit permanent and bring it back up to $3,600.³

Her campaign website says she wants more affordable child care, including investing in Head Start and child care centers and advocating for legislation to raise pay for child care workers without raising costs for parents.³

Her campaign website says she would ban stock trading by members of Congress.³

Her campaign website says she would enact term limits in Congress.³

Her campaign website says she wants to overturn Citizens United and remove dark money from politics.³

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

Her campaign website says she would pass an ethics code for the Supreme Court that bans gifts from special interests, requires financial disclosure and sets recusal requirements when there is a conflict of interest.³

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

Her campaign website says she supports securing the border but criticizes the administration's expansion of immigration raids and arrests, and says she will demand accountability from ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.³

Her campaign website says she would work toward a fair path to citizenship for immigrants, including Dreamers, who have lived and worked in the country for decades as essential workers and paid taxes.³

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 create legal avenues for workers needed in Nebraska industries such as agriculture, manufacturing, health care and hospitality.³

Her campaign website says she would fight to reestablish USAID and other key U.S. programs.³

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

Her campaign website says she would demand congressional oversight of military actions and wants to stop unchecked actions that lack a strategic plan and a clear exit strategy.³

Her campaign website lists the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement among actions it says damaged the United States' position in the world.³