Mike McGuire

His campaign website says that in Congress he would fight to pass Medicare for All, guaranteeing health care to every American.^7,8,9,10

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's rural plan says he would reverse the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts it attributes to President Trump, which it says threaten rural hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and coverage for more than 3 million Californians.^9,10

1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding

His campaign's rural plan says he would restore the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies and make them permanent.⁹

1. Don't bring back the larger credits
2. Instead of the larger credits, give the aid to people directly, such as deposits into health savings accounts
3. Bring them back for a limited time, such as through 2028, with or without changes such as income limits or minimum premiums
4. Bring back the larger credits permanently

His campaign's rural plan says he would defend and expand Medicare's power to negotiate lower drug prices, and protect Medicare's yearly out-of-pocket cap, insulin protections and no-cost vaccines.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's rural plan says he would expand loan forgiveness and other incentives for doctors, dentists, behavioral health workers and other providers who commit to practicing in rural communities, and expand loan forgiveness for teachers who commit to rural and underserved schools.⁹

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's rural plan says he would restore full funding and operations to the U.S. Department of Education and its Office for Civil Rights.⁹

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

His campaign website lists tuition-free community college among the things higher taxes on the wealthy should pay for, and his rural plan calls for expanding federal support for it.^9,11

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

His campaign's rural plan says he would protect federal funding for reproductive health care and reverse the administration's cuts to Planned Parenthood funding.⁹

His campaign website says he will defend abortion rights and that federal leaders should make reproductive freedom the law of the land, and his rural plan calls for permanent federal protections for abortion care, contraception and other reproductive health care in all 50 states.^9,12

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 says he would protect access to contraception and IVF and make those rights the law of the land.^8,12

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

His campaign's rural plan says he would pass a federal renter's tax credit modeled on state programs such as California's.⁹

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 says he would repeal what it describes as $2.2 trillion in Trump tax cuts for the very wealthy, close loopholes for the rich, and have billionaires and big corporations pay more.¹¹

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's rural plan says he would expand Small Business Administration, USDA Rural Development and Economic Development Administration investment in rural Northern California, and make federal loans, grants and technical help easier for small and family-owned businesses to get.⁹

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 campaign website calls for increasing the minimum wage.¹³

His campaign website calls for repealing President Trump's tariffs, and his rural plan calls for eliminating them, saying they raise costs for North State families and expose rural industries to retaliation.^9,13

1. Lower or remove most tariffs
2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
3. Broad tariffs on most imports

His campaign's rural plan says he would reinstate federal funding for local renewable energy and storage projects, including solar, wind, battery storage, biomass and geothermal.⁹

His campaign website says he has fought offshore oil drilling along California's coast.¹⁴

His campaign website says money from higher taxes on billionaires and big corporations should go to needs including universal child care, and his rural plan calls for more federal investment in affordable child care slots, with priority for rural areas.^9,11

His campaign website says he would push for major federal investment in affordable housing, help for first-time homebuyers, and renter tax credits and protections, and his rural plan calls for expanding federal assistance and loan programs for first-time homebuyers.^9,15

His campaign website says that in the State Senate he led efforts requiring ICE agents to remove their masks, and that in Congress he would require federal agents to wear body cameras.¹⁶

1. Let officers cover their faces and keep their names private
2. Require visible ID and body cameras, but allow face coverings
3. Require visible ID and body cameras, and ban most face coverings

His campaign website says he would make ICE agents liable in court for violating constitutional rights, set a use-of-force policy for federal law enforcement, and require judicial warrants to search homes and businesses.¹⁶

His campaign website says he would fight to overturn Citizens United.¹⁷

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 would fight to impose term limits on the U.S. Supreme Court.¹⁷

1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
2. Keep lifetime appointments

His campaign website says no president should be able to take the country to war without congressional authorization and that he would work to reassert Congress's war powers.¹⁸

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 calls the war with Iran illegal and says he would work to stop it, while supporting diplomacy, regional de-escalation and a strategy to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.¹⁸

His campaign website says he would double the U.S. Forest Service budget for firefighting and forest management, restore Forest Service cuts, and increase prescribed burns and home hardening, and his rural plan calls for expanding and speeding up fuel reduction, prescribed fire and thinning near at-risk communities and for modernizing federal reviews with clear timelines while keeping public input.^9,19

His campaign website says he would reverse cuts to FEMA and improve emergency response and disaster recovery, and his rural plan calls for faster federal disaster reimbursements and simpler recovery programs for wildfire survivors.^9,19

His campaign website calls for expanded rural broadband, and his rural plan says he would protect committed federal broadband funding, deliver high-speed internet to unserved and underserved rural communities, streamline permitting for broadband and cell projects, and protect programs that help low-income families afford internet service.^9,20,21

1. Pay to build networks where service is lacking, and help low-income households with monthly bills
2. Pay to build networks where service is lacking, but not to help with monthly bills
3. Cut government broadband spending and leave expansion mainly to private companies