John "Drew" Williams

His campaign website proposes a Living Wage Standard Act that would set cost-of-living-based regional wages, with a permanent wage schedule starting at $8 an hour for microbusinesses that rises with the number of employees.⁷

His campaign website says he would prevent worker misclassification by enforcing a three-point test for independent contractors and ensuring employees have access to core benefits such as wage protections, overtime pay and unemployment insurance.⁷

1. Keep them as independent contractors
2. Keep them as contractors, with portable benefits they carry between apps
3. Classify more of them as employees

His campaign website proposes capping overdraft fees at $5, prohibiting fee-stacking and requiring banks to offer a fee-free basic checking account.⁸

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 proposes grants and loan programs for microbusinesses in underrepresented areas, raising federal small-business contracting goals from 23% to 25% with tiered set-asides, and startup grants for worker- and community-owned co-ops.⁹

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 proposes a Family Flex Leave Act creating a paid leave structure for parents, including adoptive and foster parents, and a Paid Sick Days Guarantee Act requiring five paid sick days a year for all workers.^7,10

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 proposes requiring child care providers funded through a Child Care Desert Operating Act to cap family payments at 7 percent of income, and expanding access to universal pre-K through federal-state matching grants.^10,11

His campaign website proposes restoring a tax-free income floor of roughly $100,000, based on the 1913 exemption adjusted for inflation, and replacing tax brackets with a smooth scale rising from 1% at $100,000 to 35% at $1 million and continuing upward.¹²

His campaign website proposes a Wealth Accountability Act that would apply an annual 0.5% tax to net worth above $100 million, excluding retirement accounts and family homes, and a tax on investment growth above $15 million in assets that are not taxed.¹²

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 proposes tying the federal gas and diesel tax rate to an oil price benchmark, reducing or suspending it when oil prices rise and gradually increasing it when prices fall.¹²

His campaign website proposes constructing dedicated high-speed rail lines connecting major metropolitan regions and modernizing existing rail corridors for regional passenger service.¹³

1. Expand funding for passenger rail, including new high-speed lines
2. Fund repairs and current routes, without major new lines
3. Cut federal rail funding or move Amtrak toward private operation

His campaign website proposes capping prices of non-essential brand-name drugs at 1.5 to 2 times the prices in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and capping profit margins at 15% per dose for essential medications.¹⁴

His campaign website proposes insurance reforms including prohibiting fully automated claim denials without human medical review, requiring plain-language denial notices, requiring physician review of medical-necessity denials and banning insurer self-referral practices.¹⁵

His campaign website proposes a Farmhand Healthcare & Dignity Act that would extend Medicaid eligibility to full-time farmers and farmhands earning under $50,000 a year.¹⁶

His campaign website proposes creating visa options for year-round agricultural jobs with fair wage requirements and protections allowing workers to change employers, along with clear application timelines for agricultural hiring programs.¹⁶

His campaign website proposes rapid-response relief payments for small and family farms harmed by droughts, floods, severe storms or major trade disruptions, and expanded insurance options for diversified and specialty crop farms.¹⁶

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 proposes expanding nuclear power by modernizing existing facilities and advancing Generation IV reactors through competitive research grants and milestone-based financing, with community benefit programs and independent safety oversight.¹⁷

His campaign website proposes a National Data Center Moratorium Act that would pause new data center construction and expansion nationwide until Congress establishes national protections, and says data centers should pay the full cost of the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades they require.¹⁸

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 broadband and cell coverage should be treated as essential utilities, with public utility service expanded where it is unprofitable for private companies and open access to publicly funded lines.¹³

His campaign website proposes a Frontier AI Review Act requiring independent approval, including safety testing, before frontier AI models or major upgrades reach the public.¹⁹

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 proposes a State and Local AI Authority Act that would make federal AI protections a minimum standard and protect state and local governments' authority to adopt stronger safeguards.²⁰

1. Override state AI laws with a single national approach
2. Set national rules as a minimum and let states add stronger ones
3. Let states keep writing their own AI laws

His campaign website proposes requiring opt-in consent for data sales and transfers and giving every American a federally protected right to view, correct, delete, download, transfer or sell their personal data, with penalties for refusal or delay.⁸

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 proposes federal-state partnerships for tuition-free community college and tuition-free years at public colleges for students who complete AmeriCorps service.¹¹

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

His campaign website proposes federal incentives for competitive pay and retirement benefits for public safety professionals, funding for body-camera programs, and mental-health professionals working alongside officers on behavioral-health calls.²¹

His campaign website proposes a Term Limits Reform Act limiting members of the U.S. House and Senate to four terms.²²

His campaign website proposes prohibiting members of Congress and their immediate family from trading individual stocks while in office and for four years after leaving.²²

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 proposes banning outside political spending aimed at influencing voters in a candidate's district and giving every registered voter a Federal Democracy Account to replace the influence of large donors.²³

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 proposes independent redistricting commissions in all states to draw congressional maps.²³

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

His campaign website proposes a National Voter Confirmation Act under which the most basic ID accepted for voting would cost nothing and poll workers could confirm a voter's identity from photo and signature records when no ID card is present, and it says voter ID that costs money acts as a poll tax.²³

His campaign website proposes barring publicly traded companies, large private equity firms, REITs and other large corporate landlords from buying or holding single-family homes, phasing hedge funds out of single-family home ownership over 10 years, and a 45-day window in which only owner-occupants and first-time buyers can bid on listed homes.²⁴

1. Tighten the ban, such as by covering smaller investors or ending exceptions
2. Keep the 2026 law as passed
3. Loosen or repeal the ban

His campaign website proposes a federal guarantee covering standard closing costs for qualified first-time homebuyers and a fixed reduction in mortgage rates for first-time buyers.²⁴

His campaign website says it supports improvements in rental housing with enforceable safeguards against excessive rent increases or displacement tied to publicly funded upgrades.¹⁷