Nikki Budzinski

Her campaign website says she is focused on passing the PRO Act to protect workers' rights.⁷

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

Her campaign website says she is a cosponsor of the American Family Act, which it says would create a permanent tax cut for working parents.⁸

Her campaign website says she is a cosponsor of the Child Care Stabilization Act to strengthen child care programs, support workers and help ensure families can access the care they need.⁷

Her campaign website says she fought to restore SNAP funding in the Farm Bill and has signed on to support the Enhance Access to SNAP for College Students Act.⁹

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

Her campaign website says she led the effort to pass legislation in the House allowing the year-round sale of E15, and that she is focused on increasing the use of biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel.^8,10

1. Expand biofuel use, such as by allowing E15 sales all year
2. Keep the current requirements
3. Lower the requirements or end the Renewable Fuel Standard

Her campaign website says Congress must provide stability and support for agricultural communities and that she fought for a Farm Bill that would deliver relief and long-term certainty for farmers.⁹

Her campaign website says the Affordable Care Act's enhanced tax credits saved families hundreds of dollars a month, and that she is working to restore and extend those savings.⁸

Her campaign website says she voted no on what it calls the largest cut to Medicaid in history and has made it her mission to protect care and bring down costs.¹¹

Her campaign website says she introduced a bipartisan bill to make farm and ranch workers eligible for public service student loan forgiveness.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

Her campaign website says she supports doubling the Pell grant and ensuring that students have access to affordable college, such as free community college.¹²

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

Her campaign website says she is strongly opposed to efforts to privatize the school system through vouchers.¹²

1. Make them available to every family
2. Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
3. No public money for private school or homeschooling costs

Her campaign website says she chaired the Broadband Advisory Board to expand internet access to rural communities.³

Her campaign website says the current 2.8 percent cost-of-living adjustment is not enough and that she will continue fighting to pass the Boosting Benefits and COLAs for Seniors Act, and that she will oppose any changes that undercut Social Security and Medicare.¹³

1. Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
2. Keep the current benefit formula
3. Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees

Her campaign website says she is proud to support giving Medicare the ability to negotiate drug prices.¹³

Her campaign website says she has opposed calls to defund the police and has supported a variety of federal grant programs that provide more resources to local law enforcement agencies, particularly in rural communities.¹⁴

1. Increase police funding, for example to hire more officers
2. Keep funding near current levels
3. Shift some police funding to mental health, housing or other services

Her campaign website says she will fight to restore the protections granted under Roe v. Wade.¹⁵

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

Her campaign website says she will fight to restore the protections granted under Roe v. Wade, and that she has cosponsored legislation to create a statutory right for providers to give abortion care and for patients to receive it, free from bans and medically unnecessary restrictions.¹⁵

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)

Her campaign website says she will fight to protect access to medications such as mifepristone.¹⁵

Her campaign website says she has cosponsored legislation to reverse the Hyde Amendment.¹⁵

1. Bar public funds for abortions and for groups that provide them, including for their other services
2. Bar public funds for most abortions, but let clinics that provide them be paid for other care
3. Let Medicaid and other public programs cover abortion (ending the Hyde Amendment)

Her campaign website says she is a cosponsor of legislation to protect a woman's right to in vitro fertilization nationwide.¹⁵

Her campaign website says she is a cosponsor of the American Energy Independence and Affordability Act, which it says would restore key clean energy tax incentives.¹⁶

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

Her campaign website says she has supported the bipartisan CERTAIN Act, which it says would streamline infrastructure and energy permitting while maintaining strong standards.¹⁶

Her campaign website says she supports an all-of-the-above energy approach, including accelerating the deployment of clean energy sources such as nuclear, wind and solar alongside transition fuels such as natural gas.¹⁶

Her campaign website says she supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and stop corporations and dark money from buying elections.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

Her campaign website says she supports banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks.¹⁷

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 campaign website says she supports legislation to ban luxury gifts, improve donor transparency and establish a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices.¹⁷

1. Pass a law setting a binding ethics code, with outside review of complaints and recusal decisions
2. Keep ethics rules in the court's hands, but have it add its own way to enforce them
3. Keep the court's current code

Her campaign website says she supports the American Dream and Promise Act to offer Dreamers a pathway to citizenship and provide other undocumented immigrants with work authorization.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she is a cosponsor of the No Secret Police Act and the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act, which it says would require ICE officers to clearly identify themselves and wear body cameras and prohibit masks that conceal officers' identities during routine enforcement.¹⁸

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

Her campaign website says she voted three times against legislation that would have given ICE and Customs and Border Protection an additional $70 billion without meaningful oversight, accountability or reforms, and that she is a cosponsor of the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she supports funding for stronger border measures, including better border patrol technology between ports of entry and fentanyl detection devices, and that she supported legislation to hire 22,000 additional Border Patrol agents.¹⁸