Michael J. Quirk

His campaign website says the highest earners should pay Social Security taxes on every dollar they earn, as most workers already do.⁷

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 the Social Security retirement age should not go up for people who are retired or close to retiring.⁷

His campaign website says Social Security benefits should not be cut for people who are retired or close to retiring.⁷

His campaign website says he would defend Medicare's power to negotiate drug prices.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 campaign website says he would extend the premium tax credits working families rely on.⁷

His campaign website says he wants to end what it calls grocery-tax tariffs and restore open trade with Canada and Mexico, and calls blanket tariffs a tax families pay at the register.⁷

His campaign website says major tariff actions should get an up-or-down vote in Congress or expire.⁷

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 pursue federal funding for evacuation routes such as I-75 and for reinforcing local bridges over the Myakka and Peace rivers.⁷

His campaign website says he supports a nuclear-first approach to always-on energy, with solar on rooftops and disturbed land before prime farmland.⁷

His campaign website says data centers should be sited where the water and grid can handle them and that a data center should pay for the power it needs, so that utility bills do not subsidize it.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 campaign website says warrantless-surveillance authority should not be renewed without a warrant requirement before the government reads people's communications.⁷

1. Don't renew it, or replace it with much narrower authority
2. Renew it, but require a warrant to search the collected records for Americans' communications
3. Renew it without major changes

His campaign website says LGBTQ Americans deserve equal rights and equal dignity.⁷

His campaign website says he supports a federal privacy law under which companies collect only what they need, people can see and delete what companies hold, and violations bring consequences.⁷

His campaign website says he supports rules for AI that protect people without halting progress, such as privacy protection for what people tell a chatbot, consent before data is used for training, and disclosure whenever AI is used in campaign ads to fake events or voices.⁷

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 says he supports ranked choice voting for general elections.⁷

1. Use ranked-choice voting in more elections
2. Let each state or city decide
3. Ban ranked-choice voting

His campaign website says he supports term limits and describes service in Congress as a tour of duty rather than a career.⁷

His campaign website says he supports banning congressional stock trading, with blind trusts or index funds and no individual trades.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 campaign website says he supports small-dollar public financing and disclosure rules to bring dark money into the light.⁷

His campaign website says that if Congress misses its budget deadline, member paychecks should stop until the job is done.⁷

His campaign website says that when Congress passes an appropriation into law the money should move, and that no president of either party should be able to sit on funds Congress approved.⁷

His campaign website says Congress should debate and vote before Americans fight or fund a war, with no sustained conflict without congressional authorization.⁷

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 would vote against a national abortion ban.⁷

His campaign website says he personally opposes abortion but that the decision belongs between a woman and her doctor, and that he will not legislate against anyone's reproductive choices.⁷

His campaign website says women's sports should remain for biological women.⁷

1. Require teams based on sex at birth
2. Let each state decide
3. Let schools or sports organizations set rules case by case
4. Teams based on gender identity