Ro Khanna

His campaign website says Medicare for All must be passed, says he has cosponsored Medicare for All legislation since arriving in Congress in 2017, and says people could keep private insurance as secondary coverage.^10,11

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 website says he introduced a bill with Senator Bernie Sanders requiring that Americans pay no more for prescription drugs than people in countries such as Canada, Germany and Japan.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 website says he would defend Medicaid from proposed cuts in order to protect funding for rural hospitals.¹⁰

His campaign website says he introduced a bill to bar Medicare Advantage insurers from using the word Medicare in plan names and ads, and proposes cracking down on overbilling by those plans, such as upcoding.^10,12

1. Expand Medicare Advantage and encourage more private plan options
2. Keep current rules
3. Tighten rules on what these plans are paid and when they can require approval for care

His campaign website says Medicare should negotiate drug prices and tie them to what other countries pay, building on the negotiation the Inflation Reduction Act began.¹⁰

His campaign website says Medicare for All would cover dental, vision and hearing care.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would protect the current Social Security retirement age.¹⁰

1. Raise the full retirement age
2. Keep it at 67

His campaign website says he supports raising Social Security benefits and improving cost-of-living adjustments, including through the Social Security 2100 Act, which he cosponsors.¹⁰

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

His campaign website says the Social Security payroll tax should also apply to incomes above $400,000 a year.¹⁰

1. Keep the current cap
2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
3. Apply the tax to all earnings

His campaign website says he proposed a national tax on billionaires' wealth with Senator Sanders, lists a wealth tax on assets over $50 million among ways to pay for Medicare for All, and says he supports the proposed one-time 5% tax on the wealth of California billionaires.¹⁰

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 website says he would restore the top income tax rate to 39.6% and lists taxing capital gains like ordinary income for the top 1% among ways to pay for Medicare for All.¹⁰

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 website says his plan would restore the domestic corporate tax rate to 28%.¹⁰

1. Raise it, for example to 25% or 28%, or back to the 35% top rate in place before 2018
2. Keep it at 21%
3. Lower it below 21% (for example, 15% for companies that make products in the US)

His campaign website says he would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to up to $12,000 for families with children and $3,000 for workers without children, and give renters earning under $150,000 a tax deduction for rent.¹⁰

His campaign website says presidents should not withhold money Congress has approved, and proposes a No Kings Act to end funding freezes and other ways it says the administration bypassed Congress.¹⁰

His campaign website says his plan would bring the deficit down to 3% of GDP by 2034 through cuts to Pentagon spending, Medicare Advantage overbilling and fossil fuel subsidies, along with new taxes on billionaires and corporations.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would end fossil fuel subsidies in the tax code and close loopholes such as carried interest, and supports targeted tax credits for companies that invest in American factories and hire American workers, along with tax credits for employers that take on apprentices, hire veterans or share profits with their employees.¹⁰

His campaign website says he wants to raise the national minimum wage to a livable wage and require large companies with federal contracts to pay a living wage.¹⁰

His campaign website says he cosponsors and supports the PRO Act to protect workers' right to unionize and bargain collectively.^10,12

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 website says he led legislation to bar the president, members of Congress, other senior officials and their families from issuing or promoting cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, and to require them to disclose their crypto transactions.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would repeal broad tariffs on groceries such as coffee, produce and meat, and supports targeted tariffs to protect critical industries from dumping and unfair competition.¹⁰

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

His campaign website says gig and digital workers should be protected from being misclassified as independent contractors and that platforms should share more revenue with creators.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would cap interest rates on consumer loans, including auto loans, at 10% and require stronger oversight of auto lenders.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 website proposes a $1 billion fund raised by private-sector leaders, matched by $1 billion in federal money, to provide capital to small businesses.¹⁰

His campaign website says he cosponsors the Protected Time Off Act, which would guarantee parental leave and paid time off and give all full-time workers at least two weeks of paid family leave a year.¹⁰

His campaign website says child care should be free for families earning under $250,000 with children up to age 6, with a $300 monthly stipend per child for eligible parents or relatives who provide care at home.¹⁰

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 website says he would eliminate tuition at four-year public colleges for families earning under $150,000 and make community college free, and that he is an original cosponsor of the College for All Act.¹⁰

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

His campaign website says he would cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt for working- and middle-class Americans.¹⁰

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 website says minimum staffing levels should be set in law for agencies such as the Department of Education, and that he would triple rural education and Title I funding and have the federal government cover 40% of special education costs under IDEA.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 website says local and state athletic leagues should set fairness standards sport by sport, prioritizing inclusion while weighing safety.¹⁰

1. Require teams based on sex at birth
2. Let each state decide
3. Let schools or sports organizations set rules case by case
4. Teams based on gender identity

His campaign website says he would provide down payment help of up to $50,000 for first-time buyers under 40 and working families, and proposes that people who have worked seven years could buy a home with no down payment and a low-interest loan.¹⁰

1. Large federal grants or tax credits for down payments, such as up to $25,000
2. Smaller help aimed at lower-income first-time buyers
3. No new government help with down payments

His campaign website says he introduced the Stop Wall Street Landlords Act to bar private equity firms from buying single-family homes and to end tax breaks for institutional investors.^10,12

His campaign website says rent should be capped so it cannot rise faster than inflation, and that he supports local rent caps.¹⁰

1. Freeze rents or keep yearly increases low, as in traditional rent control
2. Cap only large yearly increases, such as those above 10%
3. No caps on rent increases

His campaign website says states and cities should be given 100 days to change their zoning laws while receiving federal money for roads and schools, and supports removing zoning restrictions that block home building.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 website says federal funding to reduce homelessness among veterans should be increased, and lists among his record securing $3 million to expand emergency shelter and transitional housing for homeless and unstably housed veterans and $500,000 to help Fremont residents move into permanent housing with services such as substance abuse counseling.¹⁰

His campaign website says he supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, introduced a bill to cap contributions to super PACs at $5,000 a year, and introduced legislation to bar members of Congress and candidates from taking PAC or lobbyist money.¹⁰

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 members of Congress should not trade stocks and should hold their investments in independently managed trusts, and lists bills he cosponsored to that end.¹⁰

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 website says members of Congress should be limited to 12 years in office.^7,10

1. Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
2. Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
3. No term limits

His campaign website says he would repeal the executive order that allowed Schedule F, put in place civil service protections that allow firing only for just cause, and rebuild agencies that lost staff.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 website says Supreme Court justices should serve 18-year terms and lists his bill under which the president could nominate a justice every two years.^10,12

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

His campaign website says there should be a binding code of ethics for Supreme Court justices and a ban on undisclosed trips gifted by billionaires with business before the court.^10,12

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

His campaign website says his 2004 campaign called for amending the PATRIOT Act and FISA so that they would not violate civil liberties.¹⁰

His campaign website says no one should face discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, including in the workplace.¹⁰

His campaign website says Section 230 legal protection should end for violent content that platforms amplify.¹⁰

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 website lists war powers resolutions he led on Yemen, Iran and Venezuela, says he introduced a bill to bar unauthorized hostilities in Iran, and says he called a U.S. strike on Iran unconstitutional.^10,11

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 says the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran is real but that another war in the Middle East is not the solution.¹⁰

His campaign website says he supports stopping military sales used to kill civilians in Gaza, no new U.S. taxpayer money for Israel and an end to U.S. funding of Israel's defensive systems, and that he voted against funding offensive weapons for Israel.^10,11

1. Increase military aid to Israel
2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel

His campaign website says he has voted for Ukraine aid every time it has come up and supports providing weapons to Ukraine and Taiwan.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would cut the Pentagon budget, saving $1 trillion over 10 years by ending weapons programs such as Golden Dome and Sentinel, stopping F-35 cost overruns, reducing bureaucracy and cutting excess bases abroad.¹⁰

1. Increase military spending
2. Hold it near current levels, adjusted for inflation
3. Cut military spending

His campaign website says money saved from the Pentagon should go to diplomacy, sustainable development and humanitarian aid, and that minimum staffing levels should be set in law for agencies such as USAID.¹⁰

1. Restore or increase foreign aid, including programs cut in 2025
2. Keep foreign aid near its current level
3. Cut foreign aid further or end most of it

His campaign website says he has called for hearings on the boat strikes in the Caribbean, which he considers illegal, and for them to end.¹⁰

His campaign website says Puerto Rico should have the right to self-determination and that its colonial status should end.¹⁰

His campaign website says he cosponsors the Women's Health Protection Act to write Roe v. Wade into federal law and protect abortion access from state bans.^10,12

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 women should be free to make their own decisions about abortion and that the protections of Roe v. Wade should be written into federal law.¹⁰

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

His campaign website says he supports repealing an 1873 law that could be used to ban mailing mifepristone and other abortion drugs, and protecting telehealth access to abortion care.¹⁰

1. Withdraw the FDA's approval of the pill
2. Allow it only in person, with no prescriptions by telehealth or mail
3. Keep current FDA rules, which allow prescriptions by telehealth and mail
4. Allow it by telehealth and mail, with state laws that block other states' legal action against doctors who send it (shield laws)

His campaign website says he would repeal the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal funds for abortion care.¹⁰

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)

His campaign website says he supports the Right to Contraception Act to put a right to contraception into federal law.¹⁰

His campaign website says he has long pushed for an assault weapons ban.¹²

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 website says he supports stronger background checks and closing gun show loopholes.¹²

His campaign website says he would protect Inflation Reduction Act funding and reverse President Trump's cancellations of renewable energy projects.¹⁰

His campaign website says tech companies must pay their full electricity bills for data centers instead of shifting costs onto communities, and that data center approvals should require new clean energy construction.¹⁰

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 website says he supports nuclear energy as part of a clean energy future, including investment in fusion and small modular reactors.¹⁰

His campaign website says unleased federal areas should again be designated for offshore wind development.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would speed up permitting for transmission lines, with early community input.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would restore the full federal tax incentives for electric vehicles that President Trump's reconciliation bill cut, and proposes a rebate program for used, fuel-efficient vehicles.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would expand public transportation, including high-speed rail and light rail.¹⁰

1. Expand funding for passenger rail, including new high-speed lines
2. Fund repairs and current routes, without major new lines
3. Cut federal rail funding or move Amtrak toward private operation

His campaign website says the VA workforce should be rebuilt after cuts that it says reduced the VA's capacity to provide care and benefits.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 website says he would require third-party safety checks of AI systems, mandatory safety standards for high-risk AI, labels on AI-generated content, and human decision-makers for matters such as health claims, loans and law enforcement.¹⁰

His campaign website lists his Internet Bill of Rights, a set of principles on online privacy, net neutrality and consumer control over data.^11,12

His campaign website says he cosponsors the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which would expand the H-2A farmworker visa program and create a path to residency for longtime farmworkers.¹⁰