Issues

Position

Small businesses need clear rules, predictable systems, and fair treatment. Too often, small operators are buried under confusing regulations, inconsistent enforcement, and financial gatekeeping that large corporations can easily absorb.

Government should make it possible to start a business, recover from setbacks, and grow—without fear of arbitrary punishment or bureaucratic traps.

Priorities

• Clear written guidance and cure periods before penalties for non-willful violations

• Expanded access to capital through community banks and minority-focused institutions

• Stronger antitrust enforcement when dominant firms squeeze small suppliers

• Bankruptcy and loan-repayment reforms so failure doesn’t become a life sentence

• Regional investment beyond elite tech hubs

• Expanded access to pro bono legal help for small businesses navigating regulations

Position

Veterans should not have to fight the system created to serve them. Benefits should be timely, understandable, and responsive—especially during health or economic crisis. Delay and opacity aren’t neutral. They cause harm.

Priorities

• Clear decision timelines with automatic escalation for delayed claims

• Expanded access to case managers and pro bono legal assistance

• Trauma-informed training for VA staff

• Public reporting to identify systemic backlogs and failures

Position

Aging Americans deserve dignity, autonomy, and real human review—not automated denials and endless appeals. Complexity should never function as a barrier to care.

Priorities

• Prohibitions on age-based algorithmic discrimination

• Plain-language notices and guaranteed human review for benefit denials

• Stronger advocacy and enforcement tools to protect seniors

Position

Public safety depends on legitimacy. When authority is exercised without restraint or accountability, trust collapses—and communities become less safe.

Priorities

• De-escalation and trauma-informed training tied to federal funding

• Independent review of misconduct in controlled environments

• Expanded DOJ authority to address systemic rights violations

Position

For most families, government isn’t experienced through Congress—it’s experienced through agencies. Fairness in enforcement and access matters as much as wages.

Priorities

• Administrative-burden reviews before new federal programs launch

• Timely, accessible appeals for all federal benefits

• Oversight of state unemployment-insurance practices

Position

Immigration enforcement must respect due process and human dignity. Arbitrary encounters with authority destabilize families and communities.

Priorities

• Limits on ICE law enforcement activity in hospitals, schools, and places of worship

• Independent oversight of large-scale enforcement actions

• Trauma-informed training

• Clear notice and explanation for enforcement decisions

• Strong access to inspectors general and congressional oversight

Position

Financial systems should serve people—not trap them. High consumer prices, regulatory complexity, and hidden fees punish those with the least margin for error.

Priorities

• Restoring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to lower consumer prices and restoreoversight of abusive credit and servicing practices

• Plain-language financial disclosures

• Public and postal banking pilots

• Protections for borrowers during hardship

Position

Housing is foundational to dignity. Bureaucratic delay during illness or job loss can turn a temporary crisis into permanent instability.

Priorities

• Fair-treatment standards in housing assistance

• Streamlined emergency rental support

• Protections against discriminatory screening

• Housing navigators to help tenants assert their rights

Position

Environmental enforcement failures don’t affect everyone equally. Working families pay the price through polluted water, flooding, and health risks.

Priorities

• Transparent enforcement of Chesapeake Bay cleanup commitments

• Audits to identify enforcement gaps

• Whistleblower protections for environmental scientists

• Community-based monitoring with federal review triggers

Position

Schools should be places of safety and opportunity—not fear or financial exploitation.

Priorities

• School-based mental-health and violence-prevention teams independent of law enforcement

• Limits on routine police presence absent clear safety need

• Protection of academic freedom and evidence-based education

• Strong oversight of student-loan servicing

• Department of Education refinancing of federal student loans at cost—not for profit