Sarah Zabel

Her Social Security plan says she supports adjusting the benefit formula rather than raising the retirement age, and rejects the Brookings proposal to raise the full retirement age for higher earners.⁴

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

Her Social Security plan says she would raise the taxable maximum each year until it covers 90 percent of total earnings, while opposing an increase in the payroll tax rate.⁴

Her Social Security plan says she supports a Congressional Budget Office option, either a new bend point in the benefit formula for earners above the 70th percentile or a more progressive formula, that reduces benefit growth for higher earners.⁴

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 Social Security plan says she would subject all benefits of single filers with adjusted gross income above $100,000 and joint filers above $125,000 to income tax.⁴

Her health care plan says she would increase the list of drugs subject to Medicare price negotiation.⁵

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

Her Social Security plan says she supports expanding legal immigration to grow the workforce, and her immigration outline says Congress should set visa goals for each category of worker with periodic revision.^4,6

1. Admit more immigrants, such as by adding work visas or clearing family backlogs
2. Keep green cards and work visas near recent levels
3. Admit fewer immigrants than in recent years
4. Pause most new legal immigration for a time

Her immigration outline says Dreamers should immediately receive green cards, supports the Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act as a pathway to temporary worker status for agricultural workers already here, and says other groups would be handled case by case.⁶

Her immigration outline says people here illegally who have committed serious crimes should be deported, and that she supports gut-level reform of ICE and accountability for those who committed crimes.⁶

Her campaign website and agriculture outline say the tariffs should be dropped because they raise the costs of fertilizer and raw materials and invite retaliation.^6,7

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

Her campaign website says selling federal land to private developers is the wrong answer, and that she supports the Public Lands in Public Hands Act or a durable solution like it.⁷

1. Transfer large areas of federal land to the states
2. Sell limited amounts of federal land, such as near towns for housing
3. Keep federal lands in federal ownership

Her health care plan says a wholesale shift to single-payer does not clearly achieve its goals, and proposes structural reforms within the current system, while saying more fundamental restructuring deserves a serious hearing if those reforms prove insufficient.⁵

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

Her health care plan says she would use international reference pricing to anchor what Medicare pays to what other wealthy nations pay, and apply that discipline to the commercial market over time.⁵

Her health care plan says she would use revenue from a surtax on excess pharmaceutical profits to restore as much of the expired ACA subsidies as possible, as a bridge while structural reforms take hold.⁵

1. Don't bring back the larger credits
2. Instead of the larger credits, give the aid to people directly, such as deposits into health savings accounts
3. Bring them back for a limited time, such as through 2028, with or without changes such as income limits or minimum premiums
4. Bring back the larger credits permanently

Her health care plan says that, as a near-term bridge, she would reverse the Medicaid coverage cuts.⁵

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 fiscal stewardship plan says she favors raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, with further analysis of 30 and 35 percent.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)

Her fiscal stewardship plan says she supports raising the top individual income tax rates, to 39.6% above about $320,000 for single filers and 43% above about $500,000, and leaving all lower rates alone.⁸

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 fiscal stewardship plan says she opposes annual wealth taxes, other than estate and gift taxes, and taxes on unrealized capital gains.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)

Her fiscal stewardship plan says the goal is not to balance the budget but to stop the debt from growing faster than the economy, through control of executive spending, reform of laws that cost more than they deliver, and adequate revenue.⁸

Her fiscal stewardship plan says she supports streamlining federal permitting, including reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act that cut delay and duplicative analysis without weakening substantive environmental standards.⁸

Her federal accountability outline says she supports reforming the War Powers Resolution to require an affirmative congressional vote to sustain military operations, and her campaign website says service members should enter military conflicts only with the authorization of Congress.^6,7

Her federal accountability outline says she supports the Major Richard Star Act, which would end the reduction of retirement pay for combat-injured veterans who are medically retired before 20 years of service, and fully funding the PACT Act.⁶

1. Let all military retirees with service-connected disabilities collect both payments in full
2. Expand benefits for some groups, such as combat-injured retirees with under 20 years of service and surviving spouses who remarry
3. Keep current rules, which already pay both in full to some retirees, such as those with 20 or more years of service and a disability rating of at least 50%

Her campaign website says AI policy is the area it develops least, and that her goal is to capture AI's gains while building guardrails that keep the technology honest.⁷