Missi Hesketh

Her Affordability page says she would lift the cap on wages that count toward Social Security contributions and extend the tax to investment income for people earning above $400,000.⁵

Her Healthcare page says she would widen Medicare’s power to negotiate prices to cover 50 drugs a year and extend the resulting lower prices to private insurance plans.⁶

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

Her Affordability page says she would ensure 12 weeks of paid leave, funded through a payroll insurance fund, and bar employers from firing a worker who takes it.⁵

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

Her Affordability page says she would tax carried interest as ordinary income and set a minimum tax that billionaires would pay.⁵

Her Accountability page headline on auditing the Pentagon says the goal is to cut waste and fraud.⁷

Her Protect Our Kids’ Future page says she would back the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act as a way to ban partisan gerrymandering.⁸

Her Accountability page says members of Congress should be barred from owning individual stocks and securities during their service.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

Her Accountability page says she would prohibit for-profit corporations from forming PACs, require immediate disclosure of large donors, and work toward overturning Citizens United.⁷

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

Her Accountability page says she supports establishing term limits for members of Congress.⁷

Her Protect Our Kids’ Future page says she would pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, along with the Freedom to Vote Act.⁸

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

Her Protect Our Kids’ Future page says she wants data privacy standards modeled on the GDPR to limit how businesses gather, retain and sell personal information, particularly minors’ information.⁸

Her Healthcare page says she supports a public plan option open to everyone, priced on a sliding scale by income, that leaves private insurance in place.⁶

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

Her Healthcare page says she backs a three-year pilot program that would let veterans enrolled in the VA choose care from any provider in the covered care system, removing location requirements that limit access.⁶

Her Healthcare page says she supports prohibiting government restrictions on providing and getting abortion services, including limits on prescribing certain drugs, offering services by telemedicine, or providing services immediately when a provider decides a delay risks the patient’s health.⁶

Her Healthcare page says the government restrictions on abortion services that she would prohibit include limits on a provider’s ability to prescribe certain drugs and to offer services by telemedicine.⁶

Her Farmers and Natural Resources page says she would ban adversarial foreign governments, including China, from buying American farmland, and create a beneficial ownership registry so shell companies cannot hide foreign ownership.⁹

1. Ban farmland purchases by all foreign buyers
2. Ban purchases by buyers tied to China, Russia, Iran or North Korea
3. Require more reporting and national security reviews of purchases, but no outright bans
4. Keep current reporting rules, with no new limits on foreign buyers

Her Farmers and Natural Resources page says she would amend the federal crop insurance program so beginning and veteran farmers and ranchers receive a higher rate of premium assistance, by raising an added amount from 10 to 15 percentage points in each of the first two reinsurance years.⁹

Her Farmers and Natural Resources page says she would put a moratorium on new AI data centers and have the Secretary of Energy report on each facility’s water use, energy use, infrastructure needs, emissions, wastewater, cooling chemicals and noise.⁹

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

Her Accountability page says she would demand a full, independent audit of the Pentagon and apply what it finds to remove waste, moving the savings toward veterans, infrastructure and working families.⁷