Rebecca Bennett

Her affordability priorities page lists leading efforts to reduce red tape, build more housing, and lower housing costs for people buying or renting.⁶

Her housing one-pager says investors are buying a large share of homes, raising rents and shrinking the supply for buyers, and says she will have the FTC and the Justice Department investigate that consolidation and change tax policy to favor homeowners.⁷

The same one-pager suggests a first-time homebuyer tax credit or better terms on VA loans to help families afford a home.⁷

The same page lists restoring the SALT deduction in full, which it says would end the double taxation of New Jersey taxpayers' income.⁶

1. Remove the cap
2. Keep a higher cap, like the one passed in 2025
3. Return to a lower cap or limit the deduction further

The same page lists making the current administration answer for disregarding court rulings and constitutional limits on presidential power, including Congress's authority over spending.⁸

Her family policy one-pager would pay for its child care cap by returning the top tax rate to its pre-Trump level, and her housing one-pager says help for homebuyers could be paid for by reversing part of the Trump tax cuts for people earning more than $500,000 a year.^7,9

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)

Her affordability priorities page lists passing paid family leave so that parents can balance work with caring for their children and loved ones, and her family policy one-pager says she will push for one federal standard of 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all workers, building on state programs such as New Jersey's.^6,9

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

Her family policy one-pager proposes capping child care costs at 7% of a family's income, with tax credits covering the difference, and says letting the top tax rate go back to its pre-Trump level would pay for it.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

Her economy priorities page lists backing unions and workers' rights so that the right to organize is protected, and strengthening fair wage and labor laws.¹⁰

The same one-pager says the President's trade war has raised costs, especially for housing, and says she will vote on her first day to end the trade war on U.S. allies.⁷

Her infrastructure policy one-pager says she will fight for federal investment in NJ Transit buses, including programs like the Hunterdon County Link, and will fight to make sure tax dollars are used to fix aging roads and bridges.¹¹

The same one-pager lists improving NJ Transit passenger rail and delivering a one-seat ride, and says she will fight to make sure New Jersey gets all the funding it is owed so the Gateway tunnel project stays on track; her economy priorities page also lists investing in the Gateway Tunnel.^10,11

Her healthcare priorities page lists restoring cuts to Medicaid and Medicare among her goals.¹²

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

Her healthcare priorities page lists much more support for mental health care, especially for children and young adults, and holding social media companies responsible for harmful practices; her one-pager on protecting families online calls for barring children under 16 from social media, enforcing strict age verification, and extending federal children's online privacy protections and fines to everyone under 16.^12,13

1. Bar children under a set age, such as 16, from having social media accounts, with age checks
2. Require safer designs and settings for minors, and parental consent for younger users
3. Leave it to parents, with no new government requirements on apps

Her one-pager on protecting families online says a company whose AI drives a child to self-harm should be fully liable in civil court for the harm it causes.¹³

Her public safety priorities page lists removing weapons of war from the streets, saying civilians without training should not find them easier to obtain than service members do.¹⁴

The same page lists reinstating the tax on silencers.¹⁴

The same page lists supporting the work of law enforcement officers and building trust with the communities they police, and ensuring local police and other law enforcement agencies are properly resourced and equipped.¹⁴

Her freedoms priorities page lists, at the federal level, restoring the right to choose, and protecting reproductive rights and health for women in New Jersey.⁸

The same page says the right to choose should be restored at the federal level.⁸

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)

The same page lists passing a law that bars members of Congress from trading 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

The same page lists passing campaign finance reform so that billionaires cannot buy elections.⁸

The same page lists advancing the Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ rights and bar discrimination based on identity or whom a person loves.⁸

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

Her environment priorities page lists maintaining essential environmental regulations that limit air and water pollution.¹⁵

1. Strengthen limits, such as tighter standards for soot and for pollution from trucks and factories
2. Keep current limits
3. Ease limits and give states more leeway, such as for pollution from wildfires or other countries

The same page lists encouraging renewable energy use through incentives, including for solar installations and electric vehicles.¹⁵

Her energy costs policy one-pager says the country should invest in nuclear power, drawing on Navy experience, by expanding existing plants and investing in traditional and small modular reactors, with sustained federal investment rather than higher costs for ratepayers.¹⁶

The same one-pager says she will fight to make data centers cover their own electricity costs and avoid misusing local water supplies.¹⁶

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