Mike Sell

His campaign's platform names Medicare for All as the goal and a public option as the immediate step, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Medicare for All Act.^8,9

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 bill tracker lists him as opposing federal Medicaid cuts that it says threaten more than 800,000 Floridians.^8,9

His campaign's bill tracker lists him as opposing a Florida bill, SB 1758, that it says would impose Medicaid work requirements on more than 111,000 Floridians.⁹

His campaign's platform calls for tying U.S. drug prices to an international index, allowing imports of FDA-approved drugs from countries with equivalent safety standards, and letting Medicare negotiate the price of every covered drug.¹⁰

1. Leave US prices to the market and to negotiation
2. Seek prices like other wealthy countries pay through deals with drug makers, without a law requiring it
3. Require that Medicare and Medicaid pay no more than other wealthy countries do
4. Require that all US buyers pay no more than other wealthy countries do

His campaign's platform calls for restoring the enhanced ACA premium tax credits, saying about 1.4 million Floridians are at risk of losing coverage without them.¹¹

His campaign's platform says Medicare should negotiate the price of every covered drug, not a limited list.⁸

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 platform calls for expanding Medicare to cover licensed counselors and marriage and family therapists, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Expanding Seniors Access to Mental Health Services Act.^8,9

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

His campaign's platform calls for funding Social Security for 75 years with no cuts and no privatization.⁸

His campaign's platform calls for banning exclusionary zoning, state preemption of exclusionary zoning near transit corridors, and tying federal housing incentives to local zoning changes that allow more mid-sized housing, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Housing Supply Frameworks Act.^8,9,10

1. Have states require cities to allow more types of housing, such as apartments near transit
2. Give extra state or federal money to communities that allow more homes
3. Leave zoning decisions to local governments

His campaign's platform calls for capping yearly rent increases at a federally defined affordability threshold.⁸

His campaign's platform calls for ending the accelerated depreciation tax break for large real estate investors and limiting like-kind exchanges to smaller portfolios, saying these breaks drive institutional purchases of homes, and for tracking corporate landlord concentration by zip code.^8,11

His campaign's platform calls for a federal ABC test for classifying workers, saying that misclassifying workers as contractors is a violation rather than a business model.⁸

1. Keep them as independent contractors
2. Keep them as contractors, with portable benefits they carry between apps
3. Classify more of them as employees

His campaign's platform says every worker should earn at least $17 an hour, with the minimum wage indexed to inflation and productivity, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Raise the Wage Act.^8,9

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's platform supports the PRO Act, which it says would make it easier to form unions and harder for employers to break them.^8,9

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

His campaign's platform says federal labor standards should be used to remove the restrictions on public-sector unions that Florida enacted in May 2026, and it lists him as opposing those restrictions.^8,9

1. Limit or end union bargaining for most public employees
2. Keep current rules, including the 2025 order's limits at federal agencies
3. Restore bargaining rights at the federal agencies the 2025 order excluded, as the House-passed Protect America's Workforce Act would
4. Guarantee bargaining rights for public employees nationwide

His campaign's platform calls for faster SBA loan applications and SBA technical help for worker-owned cooperatives.⁸

His campaign's platform calls for restoring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to full operation, including its complaint handling, and extending consumer lending protections, such as annual-rate disclosure, to small business credit.^8,10

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

His campaign's platform calls for capping child care costs at 7% of family income, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Child Care for Working Families Act.^8,9

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

His campaign's bill tracker lists him as supporting the FAMILY Act, which it says would make sure workers are paid when they take time off to care for a new baby or a sick family member.⁹

1. Create a national paid leave program for all workers
2. Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
3. Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states

His campaign's platform calls for restoring full federal payment of SNAP grocery benefits and rolling back the change that raised the SNAP work-requirement age from 54 to 64, and says SNAP cuts and housing instability should be addressed directly as the two strongest predictors of mental health crises.^8,11

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

His campaign's platform calls for universal background checks on every gun transfer, with no exceptions, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2025.^8,9

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

His campaign's platform calls for federal funding to help states carry out red flag laws, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act and opposing efforts to repeal Florida's red flag law.^8,9

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

His campaign's platform supports the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025, which it says would ban the sale and manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons, and the Raise the Age Act, which would raise the minimum age to buy semiautomatic rifles to 21.^8,9

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign's platform calls for ending qualified immunity and supports the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.⁸

1. End qualified immunity for police officers
2. Keep qualified immunity as courts apply it now
3. Write qualified immunity into federal law

His campaign's platform calls for ending cash bail for nonviolent offenses so that pretrial detention is based on risk rather than wealth.⁸

1. Require bail or jail before trial for more charges
2. Keep current bail rules
3. End or reduce cash bail, with judges deciding release based on risk

His campaign's platform calls for federal cannabis legalization with automatic expungement of prior records, and supports the MORE Act and the SAFE Banking Act.^8,9

His campaign's platform says active-duty troops should not be deployed to detention centers or sanctuary cities, and that the National Guard, under civilian control, is the force for domestic use.⁸

His campaign's platform calls for restoring the clean energy tax credits.⁸

1. End the remaining clean energy credits
2. Keep the credits as the 2025 law left them
3. Restore the credits the 2025 law ended or cut back

His campaign's platform says data centers should stop getting tax breaks that shift the cost of their power and water onto everyone else.⁸

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's platform calls for canceling predatory for-profit student loan contracts and supports the LOAN Act, which it says would double the Pell Grant, fix Public Service Loan Forgiveness and cut student loan interest.⁸

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 platform calls for funding public education fully and fairly and closing Florida's per-student funding gap.⁸

His campaign's bill tracker lists him as opposing Florida's 2022 law requiring certified media specialists to review classroom library books, which it says led some teachers to empty their shelves, and its platform says challenged books should stay available during any review, with an independent panel of educators, parents and librarians deciding rather than a single complaint.^9,10

1. Statewide rules that require removing books with sexually explicit content
2. Local review of each challenged book by the school or district
3. State limits on removals, such as keeping challenged books available while they're reviewed

His campaign's platform calls for restoring the Education Department's enforcement staff and auditing how Title I money was distributed while enforcement was reduced.¹⁰

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's platform supports a billionaire minimum income tax under which people with $100 million or more in assets would pay at least 20% a year.⁸

1. No tax on wealth or on gains from assets that haven't been sold
2. A minimum tax on the very wealthy that counts unsold gains as income
3. A yearly tax on net worth above a high threshold (such as $50 million)

His campaign's platform says corporations and the wealthy should pay their fair share with no tax shift onto working families, and supports closing the carried interest loophole.⁸

His campaign's platform calls for targeted tax relief for teachers, nurses and first responders, and its bill tracker lists him as supporting a bill to raise the tax deduction for teachers' classroom supplies from $300 to $1,000.^8,9

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's platform calls for ending tax breaks for data centers and for large real estate investors, as part of redirecting about $620 billion a year in tax breaks that it says go mostly to corporations and high-income households toward deficit reduction and public programs.¹¹

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's platform says withholding money Congress has approved is illegal and calls for giving Congress legal standing to sue when funds are frozen, automatic release of frozen funds 30 days after a court order with no appeal pending, and inspector general sign-off before any agency spending freeze lasts more than 30 days.¹⁰

1. Let presidents withhold or cancel approved money they decide not to spend
2. Keep the 1974 law, under which Congress must agree before approved money is canceled
3. Add penalties and faster court enforcement when approved money is held back

His campaign's platform calls for a clear, immediate path to permanent residency for Dreamers and supports the American Dream and Promise Act.^8,9

His campaign's platform calls for eliminating per-country caps on employment-based visas, raising the annual number of green cards to reflect actual demand, and funding the federal immigration services agency to clear its case backlog.^8,10

1. Admit more immigrants, such as by adding work visas or clearing family backlogs
2. Keep green cards and work visas near recent levels
3. Admit fewer immigrants than in recent years
4. Pause most new legal immigration for a time

His campaign's platform calls for more border funding to process asylum seekers humanely rather than detain them indefinitely, fully staffed immigration courts, and timely, fair asylum hearings.⁸

His campaign's platform says immigration enforcement should shift from community sweeps to trafficking networks.⁸

His campaign's platform calls for repealing a Jacksonville ordinance that it says criminalizes undocumented presence, and its bill tracker lists him as opposing that ordinance, which also requires cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, and Florida's state immigration enforcement laws.^8,9

His campaign's platform calls for a federal digital privacy law with real enforcement, data portability and meaningful consent before any commercial use of personal data.⁸

His campaign's bill tracker lists him as supporting the Kids Online Safety Act and COPPA 2.0, which it says would require platforms to protect children from harmful content and bar ads targeted at children and teens.^8,9

His campaign's platform calls for putting consumer AI protections into law, impact assessments before AI systems are deployed, labeling of AI-generated images and video at the source, and congressional subpoena power over AI companies.⁸

His campaign's platform calls for fixing the FCC's broadband map, which it says leaves millions of households out of federal broadband funding.⁸

His campaign's platform says platforms should be held accountable for documented harms to minors without being able to hide behind Section 230.⁸

1. Limit platforms' power to remove or hide lawful posts, for example by tying their legal protection to treating all viewpoints equally
2. Keep current law, letting platforms set their own rules
3. Make platforms more legally responsible for harmful content, such as posts their algorithms promote

His campaign's platform says the government should be barred from buying private data to get around warrant requirements, and supports the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act of 2026.^8,9

His campaign's platform supports the Equality Act and making protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity the law in all 50 states.^8,9

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's platform calls for restoring federal preclearance of voting changes in places with a record of voter suppression and supports the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.^8,9

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's bill tracker lists him as opposing a Florida law that bars local governments from funding diversity, equity and inclusion programs.⁹

His campaign's platform calls for repealing the 2001 and 2002 war authorizations and replacing them with limited ones, and says there should be no sustained military engagement or unilateral strikes without a vote of Congress.⁸

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's platform says the Pentagon should pass a financial audit before the next dollar is approved, and calls for shifting overseas conflict spending, not base operations or military pay, to infrastructure at home.^8,11

His campaign's platform calls for rebuilding USAID after a program-by-program audit, restoring its disease surveillance, food security and democracy programs, and cutting programs that serve no American interest.¹⁰

His campaign's platform calls for fully funding VA health care with no cuts, no privatization and no workforce reductions, and for restoring the VA administrative staff that the Department of Government Efficiency cut, so the claims backlog can be worked down.^8,10

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

His campaign's platform supports term limits.^6,8

His campaign's platform calls for small-donor public financing, barring coordination between candidates and super PACs and counting coordinated spending as a contribution, and supports the DISCLOSE Act.^8,9

His campaign's platform supports the Redistricting Reform Act of 2025, which it says would require every state to draw congressional maps through an independent commission.⁸

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

His campaign's platform supports the Ranked Choice Voting Act, which it says would establish ranked-choice voting in House and Senate elections.^8,9

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

His campaign's platform calls for challenging what it calls proof-of-citizenship registration traps, and its bill tracker lists him as opposing Florida's law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.^8,9

His campaign's platform supports bills that would bar members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading individual stocks.⁸

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's platform supports the Saving the Civil Service Act, which it says would block the reclassification that strips career civil servants of job protections, calls for restoring staff cut at agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the IRS and the Education Department, and would require a 60-day congressional review before any agency lays off more than 100 workers, with reinstatement and back pay for workers laid off in violation of the rules.^8,10

1. Cut the federal workforce further and make more federal jobs easier to fire
2. Keep the workforce near its current size, with current job protections
3. Rehire for jobs cut since 2025 and restore job protections, such as by undoing the 2026 at-will rule

His campaign's platform calls for no-excuse absentee and mail voting nationwide and supports the Voter Empowerment Act of 2026, which it says covers early voting, automatic registration and protections for voting by mail.^8,10

1. Mail a ballot to every registered voter
2. Let any voter request a mail ballot without giving a reason
3. Allow mail ballots only for voters with a reason, such as illness, disability or travel
4. End most mail voting, keeping it for military and overseas voters

His campaign's platform calls for accepting campus photo IDs as valid voter ID and for polling places on every college campus.¹⁰

His campaign's platform supports a binding vote in Puerto Rico on statehood or independence, and says that support is about Puerto Ricans deciding rather than about statehood itself.^8,9

His campaign's platform calls for guaranteed abortion access nationwide, at minimum through the first trimester, and lists him as opposing Florida's six-week abortion ban.^8,9

His campaign's platform calls for restoring nationwide abortion access as a federal floor rather than a state option, and supports the Women's Health Protection Act.^8,9

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's platform calls for protecting access to birth control in every state and supports the Right to Contraception Act.^8,9

His campaign's bill tracker lists him as opposing a Florida bill that it says would allow $100,000 civil suits over abortion medication sent by mail or prescribed through telehealth.^8,9

His campaign's platform calls for federal protection of citizens' right to put initiatives on state ballots, petition verification independent of the legislature and review deadlines that lawmakers cannot extend, and it criticizes Florida's 60% threshold for blocking a measure most voters backed.^8,10

1. Make it easier to get measures on the ballot, and limit lawmakers' power to change voter-approved laws
2. Keep current rules
3. Make it harder, such as by requiring more signatures or 60% approval for constitutional amendments