Fred Wellman

His campaign website says Congress must immediately raise the federal minimum wage.³

His campaign website says he supports protecting workers' rights to form and join unions and strengthening laws against illegal union-busting.³

His campaign website says he will roll back the tariffs that raise grocery prices.⁶

His campaign website says tariff power should be put back in Congress, where it says the Constitution places it.⁶

1. Give the president broader power to impose tariffs without a vote of Congress, such as under emergency powers
2. Keep current law, which lets the president impose tariffs under specific trade laws but not the emergency-powers law
3. Let tariffs start, but end them unless Congress approves within a set time
4. Require Congress to approve new tariffs before they take effect

His campaign website says he supports creating paid family and medical leave for all employees.^3,6

1. Create a national paid leave program for all workers
2. Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
3. Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states

His campaign website says he will expand the child tax credit.⁶

His campaign website says he will expand the child care credit, noting that day care in Missouri can cost $14,000 a year per child.⁶

His campaign website says Washington cut food assistance and that he will fight to reverse the cuts.⁶

1. Undo the 2025 changes or expand benefits and eligibility
2. Keep the program as changed in 2025
3. Tighten eligibility and work rules further

His campaign website says he will protect Social Security and Medicare, defend pensions and strengthen retirement benefits.³

His campaign website says Medicare should negotiate more drug prices, building on the program that already lowers prices for seniors.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 universal coverage should be the goal and lists creating a strong public option, restoring ACA subsidies, reversing Medicaid cuts and lowering the Medicare eligibility age among the immediate reforms he supports.^3,7

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 fight to restore the ACA tax credits that Congress let expire.^3,6,7

His campaign website says the 2025 budget law cut Medicaid and that he will fight to reverse the cuts.^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

His campaign website lists a tax credit of up to $5,000 for family caregivers and letting families use pre-tax accounts for a parent's care among the things he will fight for.^6,7

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 wants to stop Wall Street from outbidding families on homes, including by ending tax breaks that let investors beat first-time buyers.⁶

His campaign website says he would bring back the $30 internet discount, which it says 23 million households had before Congress let it end.⁶

His campaign website says data centers should have strong guardrails and pay for their own power so that families in the community do not bear the cost.⁶

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 speed up permitting so that power lines get built.⁶

His campaign website says he would reverse the staffing cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs and reinstate personnel.³

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

His campaign website says he will focus on protecting Department of Veterans Affairs health care from privatization.³

His campaign website says Congress must take back its constitutional role in decisions of war and peace and that military force should not be used without legal authority.³

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 U.S. military aid must be used in line with American and international law, and that he supports the Stop the Bombs Act, the West Bank Violence Prevention Act and enforcement of the Leahy Law.³

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 supports continued military assistance to help Ukraine defend itself.³

His campaign website says he supports a strong, united NATO able to deter further Russian aggression.³

His campaign website says Congress must act to end the Iran war, conduct oversight and pursue serious diplomacy, and that the country should not be in an open-ended conflict without congressional authorization.³