Scott Wiener

His campaign website says he would pass Medicare for All so health care is a universal right in law.^5,12

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 protect and expand Medicaid and work to reverse President Trump's cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.^5,12

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

His campaign website says he would restore, protect and expand vaccine access, research and requirements.⁵

His campaign website says transgender youth and their families should be protected from federal prosecution over medically recommended care, and lists among his accomplishments a California law making the state a refuge for transgender youth and their parents.¹³

His campaign website says he would cap insulin at $35 a month nationwide, crack down on pharmacy benefit managers and let Medicare negotiate drug prices directly.⁵

His campaign website says he would abolish ICE, and that he has supported doing so since 2018.¹⁴

1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records

His campaign website says he would unmask federal immigration agents, and lists among his accomplishments a California law barring ICE and other law enforcement officers from wearing face masks on duty.¹⁴

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 he would make DACA recipients citizens and create a pathway to citizenship for immigrant communities.¹⁴

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 reward local governments that adopt pro-housing reforms with grants tied to new homes actually built, and cut federal red tape so housing is faster and cheaper to build.^7,15

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 his plan to build 8 million homes would be paid for by reversing large parts of the Bush and Trump tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.^7,15

His campaign website says he would increase federal funding for public transit operations and construction through predictable formulas and give states and regions more flexibility to shift federal highway money to transit operations.^8,16

1. Shift more money to public transit, walking and biking
2. Keep the current split between highways and transit
3. Spend federal money mainly on highways and roads, and leave transit to states and cities

His campaign website says he would establish dedicated funding to build a national high-speed rail network and clearly authorize Amtrak to fund state-supported routes.¹⁶

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 he would create a federal body to oversee AI safety, require the largest AI developers to publish safety frameworks and report critical incidents, and hold them to minimum safety standards checked by independent third parties, and says the disclosure rules should build on SB 53, a California law he wrote.⁹

His campaign website says he opposes a federal moratorium on state AI regulation and would defend states' ability to act when Congress does not.⁹

His campaign website says he would pass a federal law banning infinite scroll, auto-play, algorithmic push notifications and similar engagement features aimed at minors, and ban surveillance-based advertising aimed at children.⁹

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

His campaign website says he would pass a federal consumer privacy law giving every American the right to know what data companies collect, to delete it and to opt out of its sale, and require data brokers to register with the federal government.⁹

1. Limit collection to what a service needs, and let people sue companies that break the rules
2. Give people rights to see and delete their data and stop its sale, enforced by government regulators
3. One national law with basic rights, such as deleting your data, that replaces state privacy laws
4. No new general privacy law; rely on current laws

His campaign website says he would expand affordable broadband access to every American household and pass a federal net neutrality law.⁹

His campaign website says ratepayers should pay nothing more for electricity or water because of AI data centers, and that new data centers should pay an added fee to fund transmission lines.⁹

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 restore the Inflation Reduction Act's clean energy investments and protect the tax credits for solar, wind and battery storage from rollback.¹⁷

1. End the remaining clean energy credits
2. Keep the credits as the 2025 law left them
3. Restore the credits the 2025 law ended or cut back

His campaign website says he would end new fossil fuel drilling and leasing on federal lands and phase out the subsidies that support oil and gas companies.¹⁷

1. Stop or sharply limit new leases
2. Continue leasing, but keep some coastlines and wildlife areas off-limits
3. Lease more federal land and offshore areas for drilling

His campaign website says he would reform permitting and siting delays that slow the shift to clean energy.¹⁷

His campaign website says he would restore U.S. participation in international agreements on climate and in bodies such as the UN, WTO and WHO.¹⁸

1. Rejoin the Paris Agreement and the UN climate treaty, and set new emissions goals
2. Join only agreements that bind major emitters, such as China and India, to similar cuts
3. Stay out of international climate agreements

His campaign website says he would require platforms to disclose how their recommendation algorithms work and to have regular outside audits of systems that amplify hate or harassment, and would set enforceable standards with penalties requiring platforms to demonetize hate networks.⁹

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 says he would champion passage of the Equality Act.¹³

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

His campaign website says he would pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.¹⁹

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

His campaign website says he would expand the Supreme Court.¹⁹

1. Add justices to the court
2. Keep nine justices under current law
3. Fix the number at nine in the Constitution

His campaign website says he would oppose all federal abortion restrictions, including limits based on weeks of pregnancy, mandatory waiting periods, required counseling and parental consent laws.²⁰

His campaign website says he would write the right to abortion into federal law to restore the rights lost when Roe v. Wade was overturned.²⁰

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 he would protect the FDA's approval of mifepristone and access to medication abortion, including by telehealth, and shield patients and providers in California and similar states from out-of-state legal action.²⁰

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 protect Planned Parenthood and other providers from defunding and make sure federal funding covers the full range of reproductive health services.²⁰

His campaign website says he would oppose federal limits on birth control and expand access to IVF and protect surrogacy nationwide.^20,21

His campaign website says he would protect public lands, coastlines and national parks from being sold off.¹⁷

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

His campaign website says he would reverse cuts to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, help pass full funding of IDEA for students with disabilities and increase Title I and Title III funding.²²

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 he would strengthen Public Service Loan Forgiveness to help keep teachers in the profession.²²

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 he will not support offensive arms sales to an Israeli government that is not committed to peace, while the United States should keep providing defensive systems such as Iron Dome, with Israel rather than U.S. taxpayers paying for them.¹⁸

His campaign website says he would fully restore U.S. military and economic aid to Ukraine and keep sanctions on Russia until it withdraws from Ukrainian territory.¹⁸

1. Send more US-funded weapons and money to Ukraine
2. Keep supplying weapons, with European allies paying for most of them
3. End US weapons and aid for Ukraine, including weapons paid for by allies

His campaign website says the United States can protect its interests without escalating conflict with China, should compete by investing in domestic chip manufacturing, AI and clean energy, and should keep its existing policy toward Taiwan.¹⁸

His campaign website says the United States should pursue a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program through multilateral negotiations while keeping multilateral pressure on Iran.¹⁸

His campaign website says military force is a last resort that requires explicit authorization from Congress, and that he would oppose future strikes on Iran without it.¹⁸

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 he would fully restore USAID, protect PEPFAR and expand global health funding.¹⁸

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 would reaffirm the U.S. commitment to collective defense agreements, including NATO.¹⁸

1. Keep the full US commitment to defend all NATO allies, and keep US forces in Europe
2. Stay in NATO, but tie US support to allies meeting their defense spending pledges
3. Stay in NATO, but bring many US troops home and have European allies lead their own defense
4. Leave NATO

His campaign website says he would repeal President Trump's tariffs and replace them with a trade strategy that protects American workers and businesses.¹⁸

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

His campaign website says he would negotiate trade agreements with enforceable labor and environmental standards and work through multilateral trade frameworks.¹⁸

His campaign website says he would pass the PRO Act, including card-check and vote-by-mail union elections, and ban mandatory anti-union meetings at work.¹⁰

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 fight national right-to-work legislation.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would restore and write into law collective bargaining rights for federal employees.¹⁰

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 he supports the Living Wage for All Act, which would raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour by 2031 for large employers.¹⁰

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 create a federal test to stop companies from misclassifying gig workers as independent contractors.¹⁰

1. Keep them as independent contractors
2. Keep them as contractors, with portable benefits they carry between apps
3. Classify more of them as employees

His campaign website says he would require independent congressional redistricting in all 50 states.¹⁹

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

His campaign website says he supports eliminating the Senate filibuster.¹⁹

1. Keep the 60-vote rule
2. Keep it, but make exceptions for some kinds of bills, such as voting rights or government funding
3. End it, so most bills can pass with a simple majority

His campaign website says he supports a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision.¹⁹

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.¹⁹

His campaign website says he would grant statehood to Washington, D.C.¹⁹

1. Make most of DC a state, with two senators and a voting House member
2. Keep DC a federal district with its own elected local government
3. Give Congress or the president more direct control over DC's local government

His campaign website says he would grant statehood to Puerto Rico.¹⁹

1. Make Puerto Rico a state
2. Keep it a US territory
3. Make it an independent country with close ties to the US set by treaty (free association)
4. Make it a fully independent country

His campaign website says cities and counties should have access to federal money for fully staffed police departments and for more crisis and mental health care.²³

His campaign website says he would reform federal sentencing guidelines, including mandatory minimums, and lists among his accomplishments a California law repealing the most common mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.²⁴

1. Reduce or end mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug crimes
2. Keep current mandatory minimums
3. Add or raise mandatory minimums, for example for selling fentanyl

His campaign website says he would pass a federal assault weapons ban modeled on California's law.²⁵

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 would expand and strengthen federal background checks, including closing the gap that lets a sale proceed before a check is finished.²⁵

His campaign website says he would expand red flag laws nationwide, with federal funding and incentives for every state to adopt them.²⁵

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

His campaign website says he opposes national concealed carry reciprocity, which would require states to honor other states' permits.²⁵

1. Require every state to accept other states' permits
2. Let each state decide which permits to accept

His campaign website says he would pass national paid family leave, building on the paid parental leave law he wrote in San Francisco.²¹

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

His campaign website says he would expand access to universal, affordable child care.²¹

His campaign website says he would make the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent, restoring its fully refundable, monthly payments.²¹

1. Make it larger and give the full amount to families with little or no earnings
2. Make it larger, while still requiring parents to have earnings to get the full credit
3. Keep the credit as set in 2025

His campaign website says he would reverse the cuts to SNAP and update the Thrifty Food Plan to reflect the cost of nutritious food.⁶

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