Juliana Stratton

Her campaign website says she supports a $25 federal minimum wage.^2,4

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

Her campaign website says she would work to end President Trump's trade war, which it calls a tax on working families.⁴

Her campaign website says she would invest in grant programs for small business owners, and her campaign's opportunity blueprint calls for expanding SBA grants for women- and minority-owned businesses, creating federal grants for start-ups, raising SBA loan caps and expanding microloans.^4,5

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's blueprints say she would cap credit card interest rates and crack down on banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders that engage in discriminatory lending.^5,6

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

Her campaign's opportunity blueprint says she would pass the PRO Act to strengthen unions.⁵

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

Her campaign website says she supports Medicare for All.^2,4

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's affordability blueprint says she would protect Medicare and Medicaid from President Trump's funding cuts.⁶

Her campaign website says she would pass a middle-class tax cut paid for by raising taxes on people who make more than $1 million a year.⁴

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)

Her campaign website says that as lieutenant governor she worked with Governor Pritzker to eliminate the state grocery tax.^4,6

1. Lower sales tax rates or stop taxing necessities such as groceries
2. Keep current sales taxes
3. Raise sales taxes or apply them to more goods and services, to replace other taxes or fund state programs

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would make sure corporations pay their fair share in taxes.⁶

Her campaign website says she wants to get corporate PACs out of politics.^2,4

Her campaign website says she would restore the Department of Education.⁴

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

Her campaign website says that in Illinois she helped lead efforts to increase funding for public schools and address teacher shortages.^4,5

1. Increase state funding for public schools
2. Hold funding near current levels
3. Reduce state school funding or slow its growth

Her campaign's opportunity blueprint says she supports tuition-free community college and would create incentives for states to guarantee universal access to community college and technical programs.⁵

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

Her campaign website says she supports abolishing ICE.⁴

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

Her campaign website says she would pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.⁴

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

Her campaign website says she would restore the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade.⁴

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 would restore the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade.⁴

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's affordability blueprint says she would write access to the full range of reproductive health care, including IVF and contraception, into federal law.⁶

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's affordability blueprint says she would write access to medication abortion, along with abortion and other reproductive health care, into federal law.⁶

Her campaign website says that as lieutenant governor she worked with Governor Pritzker to raise the minimum wage.^4,6

Her campaign's blueprints say she would expand the Child Care and Development Block Grant to subsidize child care for more families and protect funding for Head Start and early childhood programs from President Trump's cuts, and her campaign website says she helped invest in early childhood programs such as Head Start and Smart Start in Illinois.^4,5,6

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

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would expand the Child Tax Credit.⁶

Her campaign's opportunity blueprint says she would expand SNAP eligibility for students pursuing higher education.⁵

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

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would impose a tax penalty on hedge funds that buy single-family homes and roll back their incentives, and would hold big banks and corporations that are pushing middle-class families out of the housing market accountable.⁶

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would fund down payment assistance for first-time home buyers with revenue from a tax penalty on hedge funds that buy single-family homes.⁶

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would cut red tape and remove barriers to building affordable housing, make federal grants conditional on increasing affordable housing and create tax incentives to build starter homes priced below the median.⁶

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would restrict the use of artificial intelligence in setting rents and screening rental applications.⁶

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

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would expand Medicare to cover vision and hearing care.⁶

1. Keep current coverage, under which some private Medicare Advantage plans offer these benefits
2. Add some of these benefits, such as hearing aids, to traditional Medicare
3. Add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would expand Medicare to cover long-term home care services.⁶

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

Her campaign's affordability blueprint says she would expand Medicare's negotiations with drug companies to lower prescription drug costs.⁶

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