Sam Forstag

His campaign website says he would offer incentives for communities to reform zoning and other regulations when outdated zoning restrictions keep housing from being built.³

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 he would ban hedge funds and private equity firms from buying residential property and would remove tax breaks that institutional investors and corporations receive.³

His campaign website says he would restore the tax credit for first-time homebuyers to lower the cost of owning a home for young and working people.³

His campaign website says he would let every Montanan choose to join Medicare, with expanded subsidies so that coverage is free for working people.³

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 would restore and expand the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies so that people earning $70,000 or less have free coverage and everyone has affordable coverage.³

His campaign website says he would raise Medicare and Medicaid payment rates so rural hospitals can keep serving Montanans, and would expand the mental health services that Medicaid covers.³

His campaign website says he would add dental, vision and hearing coverage, plus long-term care, for seniors in Medicare.³

1. Keep current coverage, under which some private Medicare Advantage plans offer these benefits
2. Add some of these benefits, such as hearing aids, to traditional Medicare
3. Add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare

His campaign website says Medicare should remain public and that he would end attempts to privatize it through Medicare Advantage.³

His campaign website says he would cut prescription drug costs by letting Medicare bargain directly over the price of every prescription drug.³

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

His campaign website says he would eliminate the Social Security payroll tax cap so that the highest-earning 6% pay Social Security payroll taxes like the other 94%, which it says would leave the program solvent for 75 years.³

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 would support legislation such as the Social Security Expansion Act, which it says would raise seniors' benefits by an average of $2,400 a year while leaving the program solvent.³

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 lists putting Roe v. Wade into law, directing more money to family planning providers, and reversing Medicaid cuts that restrict Medicaid's use with certain reproductive health care providers as ways to protect abortion access and reproductive health.³

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 that, as part of protecting access to abortion, he would undo the Medicaid cuts that bar certain reproductive health care providers from Medicaid.³

His campaign website says he would make child care free for every family that wants it by increasing public investment in child care, and would work toward universal pre-K by putting more money into programs such as Head Start and pre-K offered in public schools.³

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 offer federal matching grants to encourage states to pay for as much as 12 weeks of paid leave for parents of new children.³

His campaign website lists keeping public money in public schools among his education priorities.³

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

His campaign website says he would fully staff public lands agencies and put substantially more money into forest management and fuels mitigation, which it says would create jobs working proactively on wildfire risk. It also says he would set clear timelines for handling appeals, litigation and enforcement of environmental rules such as NEPA, while keeping the public able to comment and object.³

His campaign website says he would end the use of emergency authorizations and fast-track programs to get around environmental protections. It also lists investing in timber harvest and updated mills in western Montana without putting environmental protections at risk.³

His campaign website says he would repeal provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill that he says mostly benefited corporations and the very wealthy, while keeping parts that help working people, such as no taxes on overtime and tips.³

His campaign website says he would increase the tax rate on corporate income to 35%, which it describes as the rate of about a decade ago.³

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 set a minimum tax rate of 30% on income over $1 million a year, known as the Buffett Rule, and says income from the stock market should be taxed at least as heavily as income from a paycheck.³

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 he would create a 5% tax on fortunes over $1 billion, which it calls the Billionaire Tax, and says it would raise revenue for public services without adding to the debt.³

His campaign website says he would set the federal minimum wage at $15 an hour or higher and link it to inflation so that it rises over time.³

1. Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
2. Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
3. Raise to $15 or more

His campaign website says he would pass the PRO Act, which it says would make sure workers everywhere can organize and join a union, and would counter corporate efforts to block unions.³

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 would pass the Protect America's Workforce Act, which it says would give back bargaining rights to over a million public servants at the Bureau of Land Management, the VA and roughly 30 other federal agencies.³

1. Limit or end union bargaining for most public employees
2. Keep current rules, including the 2025 order's limits at federal agencies
3. Restore bargaining rights at the federal agencies the 2025 order excluded, as the House-passed Protect America's Workforce Act would
4. Guarantee bargaining rights for public employees nationwide

His campaign website says tariffs, used carefully, can encourage domestic production and protect jobs, and should be used to discourage companies from moving jobs overseas and other countries from unfair practices, with protections for industries such as Montana agriculture. It says they should not be used to punish allies.³

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

His campaign website lists requiring congressional approval for tariffs as a way to give Montana farmers and ranchers stability.³

1. Give the president broader power to impose tariffs without a vote of Congress, such as under emergency powers
2. Keep current law, which lets the president impose tariffs under specific trade laws but not the emergency-powers law
3. Let tariffs start, but end them unless Congress approves within a set time
4. Require Congress to approve new tariffs before they take effect

His campaign website says he would require that union representatives have input equal to other stakeholders when the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative negotiates a deal, and would make sure labor and environmental rules in trade deals are enforced.³

His campaign website says he would pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, ban corporate election spending and eliminate Super PACs, and set lower limits on contributions to federal campaigns.³

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 he would ban stock trading by members of Congress and their spouses.³

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 he would fully staff public lands agencies, and says that as vice president of his union's local he organized against cuts to the Forest Service and other public land agencies. It also lists letting federal agencies hire directly where appropriate and changing the federal hiring process.^2,3

His campaign website lists banning face masks for immigration agents and requiring body cameras and badges among the basic requirements it says should apply to immigration enforcement.³

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

His campaign website says anyone in the chain of command who broke the law or violated people's basic rights during immigration enforcement or detention should face criminal prosecution and congressional investigations. It also lists requiring judicial warrants for searches, seizures and arrests, and making immigration courts independent and adequately funded.³

His campaign website says he would pass bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform that offers an achievable path to legal status and citizenship.³

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

His campaign website says he would create strict federal oversight and regulation of artificial intelligence companies, saying the technology could threaten the economy and humanity itself.³

His campaign website says he would give every American the right to keep AI companies from using their data, protect the ability of states to regulate or limit invasive technologies such as facial recognition, and require AI companies to pay people when their personal data is used to build AI systems.³

His campaign website says he would limit the way social media platforms use algorithms that amplify outrage and aim advertising at children, which it says can be done without censorship or limits on free speech.³

His campaign website says new data centers should be built only if they meet three conditions. They would have to build enough new energy capacity to supply the power they use, so that other customers are not left paying more for power; adopt advanced cooling systems that conserve water; and use local union labor.³

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 would oppose efforts to privatize the VA and wants VA care to remain public, fully funded and easy to access. It also lists investing in clinics, medical staff and telehealth so veterans can get care where they need it.³

1. Let veterans choose private doctors at the VA's expense whenever they prefer
2. Write wait-time and drive-time limits into law, so veterans can use private care when the VA can't meet them
3. Expand the VA's own hospitals and clinics, using private care mainly when the VA can't provide it

His campaign website says he would undo DOGE's cuts to VA health care staffing.³

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 work on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis by closing gaps in who has jurisdiction inside tribal boundaries so that people who are not tribal members can be held accountable for crimes committed there, increasing funding for tribal law enforcement, and holding the federal government accountable when it fails to investigate. It also says he would propose legislation to protect the government-to-government relationship with tribes and to require consultation with tribes when federally funded programs roll out on tribal lands.³