William Lawrence

His campaign website says he supports Medicare for All, which it says would remove the profit motive from health insurance and let everyone access quality care for a lower price.^3,5

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

His campaign website says he supports a Housing First approach, along with more affordable housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing and permanent supportive housing.⁵

1. Provide permanent housing first, without requiring treatment or sobriety beforehand
2. Provide housing that comes with requirements, such as treatment, sobriety or work
3. Enforce bans on public camping and move people into shelters or treatment, including court-ordered treatment for some

His campaign website says he supports a billionaire minimum tax, which it describes as a minimum wealth tax rate that the very wealthy must pay.⁵

His campaign website says billionaires and corporations should be taxed at least at the rate other people pay, and that no small business in the district should face a higher tax rate than multinational corporations do.⁵

His campaign website says he supports the PRO Act, which it says would make forming a union easier by holding companies responsible when they break labor law.⁵

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 supports lifting the Social Security payroll tax cap, and lists protecting Social Security by taxing the wealthy among his priorities.^3,5

His campaign website says he will push for a 12-month federal pause on building new data centers.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 AI and data center development need to be regulated and that the negative effects of AI and surveillance must be faced, while saying he does not have the answers.⁵

His campaign website says the United States must stop arming Israel and lists stopping arms sales to Israel and other human rights violators among his priorities.^3,5

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 calls for ending what it describes as the illegal and expensive war with Iran and says the country should seek diplomatic solutions to global challenges rather than more war.³

His campaign website says the country spends about a trillion dollars a year on the military and war while needs at home go unmet, and says stopping spending on wars would help pay for housing, health care, Social Security, child care and education.⁵

His campaign website says he supports continued military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, along with multilateral negotiations to end the war, and that he is very open to more sanctions on Russia if they are used with care.⁵

His campaign website says he will work to defend the VA against proposed layoffs of 80,000 workers, which it says would lower the quality of service and veterans' access to benefits.⁵

His campaign website says he supports a National Family Care Agenda that includes paid family leave, expanded pre-K, a re-evaluation of senior care and defending and expanding home health care options.⁵

His campaign website says he wants families to have access to quality, affordable education and child care, and supports expanded pre-K as part of a National Family Care Agenda.⁵

His campaign website says he will seek to write the right to choose abortion into federal law.⁵

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 will defend women's right to choose an abortion and calls reproductive health care a deeply personal decision for each family.⁵

His campaign website says he supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.⁵

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 calls for ending what it describes as the ICE occupation of American cities and streets and says ICE should be held accountable for unconstitutional conduct.^3,5

His campaign website lists banning stock trading by members of Congress and the executive branch among his priorities.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