"Matt" Gromlich

His campaign website describes his proposed Small Business Wage Bridge Act, which it says would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 over five years and then index it to the national median wage, with a temporary refundable payroll-tax credit for qualifying small employers.^6,9

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

His campaign website says his Small Business Wage Bridge Act would repeal five specified federal tax provisions benefiting the oil and gas industry and the Section 250 deduction for certain income multinational corporations earn from intellectual property held in the United States, directing the revenue to fund the small-employer wage credit.⁹

1. Expand breaks for investment, research and hiring, such as larger research credits for small businesses
2. Keep current business tax breaks
3. Cut back many of these breaks and use the money for lower tax rates, deficit reduction or other priorities

His campaign website lists the Supporting Teachers Through Tax Fairness Act, which it says excludes the first $50,000 in wages from gross income for K-12 public school teachers, among legislation he will support on day one.¹⁰

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 lists the Billionaires Income Tax Act, which it says eliminates tax loopholes that let billionaires defer tax indefinitely so that they pay taxes annually, among legislation he will support on day one.¹⁰

His campaign website says his proposed Supporting Toddlers and Readiness for Tomorrow (START) Act would expand Head Start and Early Head Start in phases so that every income-eligible child is served within 10 years, and says the plan would keep in families' pockets the average childcare cost of over $13,000 per year that it cites.^6,11

His campaign website says he supports Congressman Cleo Fields' proposal to forgive undergraduate student loans for public-school teachers who complete eight consecutive years in the classroom.⁶

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 campaign website says he supports eliminating the payroll tax cap so that high-income earners contribute to Social Security on all of their wages, and that doing so would help secure benefits for current and future recipients.⁶

1. Keep the current cap
2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
3. Apply the tax to all earnings

His campaign website says Social Security is a promise that must be protected and that cuts to the benefits seniors and people with disabilities depend on must be prevented.⁶

His campaign website says he supports a system in which everyone has reliable health care that is free at the point of service and never tied to employment, with an emphasis on preventive services, rural health care and mental health support.⁶

His campaign website, answering a question about reproductive rights, says medical decisions should be made by individuals with their doctors rather than politicians, including decisions about pregnancy, reproductive health care and family planning, and that better preventive care, maternal health services and family support could lessen the need for difficult decisions.⁶

His campaign website lists the Women's Health Protection Act of 2025, which it says protects a person's ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy and a provider's ability to provide abortion services, among legislation he will support on day one.¹⁰

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)

His campaign website lists the Equality Act, which it says prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation, among legislation he will support on day one.¹⁰

1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states

His campaign website lists the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025, which it says modernizes the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and creates a new framework to determine preclearance, among legislation he will support on day one.¹⁰

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

His campaign website lists the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which it says provides for admitting the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union, among legislation he will support on day one.¹⁰

1. Make most of DC a state, with two senators and a voting House member
2. Keep DC a federal district with its own elected local government
3. Give Congress or the president more direct control over DC's local government

His campaign website says he supports overturning Citizens United to get dark money out of politics, and lists the Citizens Over Corporations Amendment, which it says would overturn that decision and limit corporate spending in politics, among legislation he will support on day one.^6,10

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 says he supports establishing term limits for members of Congress, saying serving in Congress was never meant to be a career.⁶

His campaign website says he supports banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks while in office, with fines and punishments for those caught breaking finance laws.⁶

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 lists the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, which it says imposes a moratorium on building new data centers until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence, among legislation he will support on day one, and says he calls for moratoriums on data centers and carbon capture companies until it can be guaranteed they will not cause additional harm.^6,10

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 the Iran war is unconstitutional because Congress, which has the authority to declare war, has not done so in this case.⁶

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 he is against forever wars and wars without stated win conditions, and opposes sending any troops into Iran.⁶

His campaign website says he does not take AIPAC money, does not support sending money to any country that acts as the aggressor, and will not send additional funding to Israel while, as he describes it, atrocities are being committed.⁶

His campaign website says enormous military contractor budgets should be ended and the money used to support service members and their families.⁶

His campaign website says ICE should be abolished and other immigration organizations strengthened, with adequate training for all immigration control personnel and more judges to hear immigration cases.⁶

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