Robert People

His campaign website says he intends to back or introduce legislation banning stock trading by members of Congress.⁶

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 affordability plan says overturning Citizens United would require a constitutional amendment, which he would support.⁸

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 his priorities include protecting vote by mail.⁵

His campaign website and healthcare plan say he supports Medicare for All, a universal health care system.^6,9

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 healthcare plan says that until Medicare for All is in place he would vote to increase and extend ACA subsidies.⁹

His healthcare plan says he would vote to reverse Medicaid cuts.⁹

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

His healthcare plan says he would vote to expand Medicaid coverage requirements for all states.⁹

His healthcare plan says he would support a reference-based pricing requirement, under which the government sets a maximum price for a drug based on what the company charges in other countries, as Germany and France do.⁹

His healthcare plan says Medicare coverage requirements should be expanded now to include dental and hearing care.⁹

His Social Security plan says he supports and proposes eliminating the Social Security tax cap on income.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 Social Security plan proposes that monthly income above the 70th percentile add to a higher earner's benefit at a lower rate, phased in for new enrollees, while lower-income recipients keep the same benefits.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 Social Security plan says the talk that comes up every few years about raising retirement ages has gone on long enough.¹⁰

His healthcare plan says he would introduce, cosponsor or vote for federal legislation that protects a woman's right to decide whether to have an abortion.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 affordability plan says other countries' corporate tax rates average around 28% and that adopting that standard and closing loopholes would increase revenue.⁸

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 affordability plan says he would support and vote for legislation that creates an annual wealth tax of 5% on billionaires.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 affordability plan lists ending the tariff war and says he would vote to reclaim the power of the purse and end President Trump's tariff policies.⁸

His affordability plan says he would fight to preserve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and would vote for click-to-cancel legislation requiring subscriptions to be as easy to cancel as to start.⁸

His affordability plan lists cutting war and Defense Department spending and says he would fight against spending taxpayer funds on forever wars, vanity projects and missions with no measurable objectives.⁸

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

His campaign website says he will vote for no further arms to be sent to Israel under the current administration, and his Israel and Palestine plan says he will vote to stop American arms shipments to Israel.^6,11

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 affordability plan says he will back legislation creating a federal carbon pricing model whose revenue would be returned to households as monthly dividends.⁸

1. No tax, fee or cap-and-trade on carbon emissions
2. A fee only on imports made with more emissions than similar US goods
3. A price on emissions from US companies, through a tax, fee or cap-and-trade

His affordability plan lists a data center moratorium while a regulatory framework is developed, and says a moratorium on building these facilities should be enacted until existing facilities are retrofitted and studies are completed.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 clean energy plan says he is against expanding deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and against allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.¹²

His affordability plan says he would support $25,000 in help with the down payment and closing costs for people buying their first home.⁸

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 affordability plan proposes a right of first refusal for tenants, nonprofits and agencies when a landlord sells a home, and prohibiting corporations with more than 50 homes from buying houses in a market with less than four months' supply of existing homes.⁸

His affordability plan lists universal pre-K and child care capped at 7% of a family's income.⁸

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 affordability plan lists reversing the 2025 law's cuts to SNAP benefits and food bank funding and says he would fight to restore SNAP and USDA funding cuts.⁸

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 affordability plan lists paid leave under wages and income, saying he supports reforms of workers' rights, for example requirements for paid family leave.⁸

His affordability plan says he will work to keep funding for disaster preparedness and recovery support, and it names NOAA, FEMA, the National Weather Service and the BRIC resilience program.⁸

His clean energy plan says he will oppose congressional measures that strip protections from public land so that mining, drilling or fracking can take place.¹²

His clean energy plan lists preserving Endangered Species protections and says he will support legislation to enshrine protections for biodiversity.¹²

His clean energy plan lists restoring Environmental Protection Agency standards and says he will support legislation that reinstates and reinforces them.¹²

His campaign website says he will shield the LGBTQ+ community from harmful legislation and practices.⁶