Jonathan Chavez

His platform says he would push Congress to address institutional investor concentration in single-family rental housing, including registry and disclosure requirements for hedge fund and private equity landlords.⁷

His platform says he would introduce legislation to expand the Small Business Administration’s 7(a) loan guarantee program with a Main Street Revitalization tier for businesses in suburban economic corridors.⁷

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 platform says he would press for Opportunity Zone designations in the district and expand and promote the federal paid family leave tax credit for small businesses.⁷

His campaign website says he supports the FairTax, which would replace federal income, payroll, corporate and estate taxes with a 23% national sales tax on new goods and services and abolish the IRS, with a monthly rebate to legal households, and says he would lower the tax burden on working families.^8,10

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 platform says he would expand and promote the federal paid family leave tax credit for small businesses, which it notes Congress made permanent in 2025.⁷

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 healthcare platform says it does not endorse single-payer coverage and that its proposed federal backstop for serious pre-existing conditions is neither a public option nor single-payer; it proposes interstate insurance competition, a uniform federal coverage floor with pre-existing condition protections, and that backstop.^7,11

His platform says negotiated Medicare target prices should be benchmarked to what patients pay in peer nations.⁷

His platform says he would oppose any cut to Medicaid funding that is not paired with a fully funded replacement for the people it covers.^7,11

His campaign website says he would advance affordability through Medicaid expansion.¹⁰

His platform says he would expand Medicare drug price negotiation beyond the current 40 drugs to at least the 100 most-prescribed medications.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 platform says he would push to make Medicare’s telehealth flexibilities permanent before they expire at the end of 2027.⁷

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 platform says he would work to expand loan forgiveness for health care workers who serve in underserved communities.⁷

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 platform says he would protect and strengthen the new federal scholarship tax credit for K-12 scholarship donations, fight to keep it funded and raise its cap, and advocate more funding and oversight for public charter schools; his home page says he would advocate for school choice.^7,8

His platform says he would make sure Georgia’s federal BEAD broadband dollars reach unserved homes and businesses, with a goal of full high-speed coverage across the district within one congressional term.⁷

His platform says he would push to fast-track widening and interchange improvements on the I-20 east corridor and introduce legislation to make suburban jurisdictions outside MARTA more competitive for federal transit capital grants.⁷

His platform says he would support federal rules requiring large new electricity users such as data centers to pay the full cost of the grid upgrades and generation they require, with water-use disclosure and full local control over siting.⁷

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 platform says he supports cooperation between local jails and federal immigration authorities on criminal offenders, as Georgia law now requires, while keeping patrol officers focused on local crime.⁷

His platform says he would fully fund and expand the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act programs and create a federal matching fund for body-worn cameras.⁷

His platform says he would co-sponsor a constitutional amendment setting a 12-year maximum on service in the U.S. House, and commit personally to a maximum of four terms.⁷

1. Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
2. Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
3. No term limits

His platform says he would ban members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from owning individual stocks while in office and require disclosure of any remaining trades within 48 hours.⁷

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 platform says he will refuse corporate PAC money and push to require every campaign contribution of $1,000 or more to be disclosed online within 48 hours.⁷

His platform says he supports requiring that congressional district maps be drawn by independent, nonpartisan commissions using transparent, publicly auditable methods.⁷

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