Matt Little

His campaign website says he supports Medicare for All, making Medicare available to all Americans, and warns against incremental patchwork fixes.^7,8

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 oppose any effort to throw the more than 100,000 residents of the 2nd District off Medicaid.⁹

His campaign website says Medicare and Medicaid’s ability to negotiate lower prices should be expanded to most prescription medicines.^8,9

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 the cap on earnings subject to Social Security tax should now be raised to shore up the trust fund.⁹

His campaign website says he would increase taxes on the highest earners, along with raising the corporate tax rate and eliminating loopholes such as carried interest, to finance tax breaks for working people.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 campaign website says he would raise the corporate tax rate.¹⁰

1. Raise it, for example to 25% or 28%, or back to the 35% top rate in place before 2018
2. Keep it at 21%
3. Lower it below 21% (for example, 15% for companies that make products in the US)

His campaign website says he supports a tax on the ultrawealthy.^7,10

His campaign website says the tax code should include a permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit.¹¹

His campaign website says making childcare accessible requires expanding the supply and reforming subsidies, including an expanded Child Care Tax Credit, revising burdensome regulations on small-scale child care, recognizing home-based providers and providing public support for working families.¹²

His campaign website lists protecting Obergefell v. Hodges and ensuring everyone has the right to marry among his LGBTQIA2S+ commitments.¹³

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

His campaign website says the power to set tariffs should shift from the White House to Congress.¹⁴

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 would stand up to tariff policy that it says hurts Minnesota farmers, construction workers and tradespeople.¹¹

His campaign website says he supports unions, calling organizing and bargaining together the best way for working people to win higher pay and better benefits.¹¹

His campaign website says data centers in Minnesota should pay their full costs, and that he will fight for a national ban on data center NDAs, moratoriums on building data centers so state and local governments can assess the costs, and environmental protections.^7,15

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 require companies to build guardrails for AI, create public-interest safety oversight agencies and legal causes of action to hold companies accountable, and have the U.S. lead binding international agreements for a global AI safety regime.¹⁵

His campaign website says every community in Minnesota and the country should have access to the Internet and modern farming technology.¹⁴

His campaign website lists cutting ICE funding to pre-Trump levels and then replacing ICE with a federal immigration agency that obeys the law and Constitution as the first item in his Anti-ICE Bill of Rights.¹⁶

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

His campaign website says he would bar federal agents from wearing masks while on duty and require them to state who they are, their agency, their mission and the charges when they detain or arrest someone.¹⁶

His campaign website says he would limit qualified immunity for federal agents, by amending the civil rights law’s section 1983 so that it clearly covers every federal agent and by writing the Supreme Court’s Bivens standard into law and extending it.¹⁶

His campaign website says he would change the Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Acts to narrow the situations in which a president may send the military or National Guard troops into states.¹⁶

1. Let the president send troops into cities, even over a governor's objection
2. Send troops only when a state's governor asks for them or agrees
3. Don't use troops for local policing, and limit the president's power to send them

His campaign website says he supports police and first responders while holding accountable those who use unnecessary force or violate due process, and that he will work to equip law enforcement for problems such as cyber crime, fentanyl smuggling and human trafficking and to fund pathways for people of all backgrounds to become officers.¹⁷

His campaign website says the U.S. must stop all weapons sales and military aid to Israel, and calls for humanitarian aid access to Gaza, withdrawal of settlements in Palestinian territories and ultimately a negotiated two-state solution.¹⁸

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 backs reversing Dobbs and reinstating Roe nationwide, and making those rights usable in practice through accessible, affordable health care.¹⁹

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

His campaign website says he backs reversing Dobbs and reinstating Roe nationwide.¹⁹

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 protecting legal recognition of parentage and expanding access to IVF and fertility options among his LGBTQIA2S+ commitments.¹³

His campaign website lists passing the Equality Act first among the commitments in his LGBTQIA2S+ Bill of Rights.¹³

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 overturning Citizens United and Buckley v. Valeo and banning super PACs among the items in his Anti-Corruption Bill of Rights.²⁰

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 lists barring members of Congress and the Administration from trading stocks among the items in his Anti-Corruption Bill of Rights.²⁰

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 says he would fight for the Affordable Loans for Students Act, which it says would cap student loans at 2%, for forgiveness for people in public service after ten years, and for forgiveness of all loans after twenty years.²¹

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 will fight to restore the staff and funding at the Department of Veterans Affairs.²²

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