Sanctity of Life 

Abortion & Alternatives for Mothers & Children

The party states, among its key values, that:
– it encourages respect for all life forms, and increased attention to the preservation of biodiversity
– every woman should be able to access high-quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion.

The party further states that:
– the extreme act of overturning Roe, which had been the law of the land for nearly half a century, eliminated a fundamental constitutional right by denying women across the nation the right to choose, and has already had devastating consequences nationwide.  Over the past two years, more than 20 states have imposed extreme and dangerous abortion bans – many of which include no exception even for rape or incest – that put the health and lives of women in jeopardy, force women to travel hundreds of miles for care, and threaten to criminalize doctors for providing the health care that their patients need and that they are trained to provide.
– more than one in three women of reproductive age, and more than half of Black women and 40 percent of Latinas, now live under an abortion ban. Today, our daughters have fewer rights than their grandmothers.
– it is fighting back to restore reproductive freedom for every woman in every state, including by creating a new path for pharmacies to dispense FDA-approved medication abortion and defending access in court.
– it is expanding reproductive health care for service members, veterans, and their family members, and defending access to emergency medical care, including clarifying that federal law on emergency care pre-empts state abortion bans, educating patients on their rights, making it easier for patients who have been denied emergency care to file a complaint, and ensuring hospitals meet their legal obligations to offer care.
– it is challenging threats to prosecute people who help women travel to a different state for abortion care, and helping states expand access under Medicaid for women who travel from states with bans.
– it is safeguarding patients’ and providers’ privacy, including by strengthening HIPAA protections, cracking down on the illegal sharing of personal information, strengthening consumer data protections, and issuing guidance to protect student privacy in this area; and is ensuring access to accurate information and legal resources, including by launching ReproductiveRights.gov and convening more than 200 lawyers and advocates to support abortion-related legal defense services.
– it is committed to a society in which children can thrive physically, emotionally, educationally, and spiritually, and advocates ending discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in adoption and foster parenting

The party advocates:
– repeal of the Title X domestic gag rule and restored funding for Planned Parenthood
– repeal of the Hyde Amendment, and codification of the right to reproductive freedom.
– correction of discrimination and barriers that inhibit access to reproductive health services
– promoting safe access to abortion to women and girls in other countries

Assisted Suicide & Alternatives for the Stricken and for Families
The party has released no official statement concerning its policies on assisted suicide and alternatives for patients or family.

Human Engineering 

Stem cell & embryo research
The party has released no official statement concerning its policies on on cloning or cell manipulation.

Gender elective surgery
The party has released no official statement concerning its policies on gender elective surgery.

Population & birth control
The party states that:
– nine in 10 women have used contraception, and it is working to expand access to birth control.
– the current administration approved the first over-the-counter daily oral contraceptive, making birth control easier than ever to access, and has built on the Affordable Care Act to make a broader range of contraceptives available to women at no cost through their health insurance.
– it has boosted access to free and low-cost services through the Title X family planning program, and expanded access to birth control for service members and through the VA.
– the Supreme Court’s elimination of the protections of Roe has also had devastating consequences for families who have suffered the heartbreak of infertility. Each year, tens of thousands of Americans start or grow their families with the help of in vitro fertilization. IVF is enormously popular, enjoying the support of the vast majority of Americans. Yet overturning Roe opened the door to laws that rip away access to this vital care – as seen when Alabama families had treatments halted earlier this year.
– it has responded to attacks on reproductive care by expanding IVF access for service members, veterans, and federal employees.- it undertakes to strengthen access to contraception so every woman who needs it is able to get and afford it, and will protect a woman’s right to access IVF.

The party advocates:
– a woman’s full right to reproductive choice
– providing $594 million (an increase of $37 million above the 2023 level) for USAID directed high-impact and lifesaving voluntary family planning and reproductive health programs and America’s voluntary contribution to the United Nations Population Fund. The Budget continues America’s commitment to contributions for the United Nations.

Human trafficking
The party advocates:
– working with partners and allies to address the causes of and eliminate human trafficking

Abortion & Alternatives for Mothers & Children
The party states that:
– women’s rights must be protected and expanded to guarantee each woman’s right as a full participant in society, free from sexual harassment, job discrimination or interference in the intensely personal choice about whether to have a child
– women’s right to control their bodies is non-negotiable. It is essential that the option of a safe, legal abortion remains available
– the “morning-after” pill must be affordable and easily accessible without a prescription, together with a government-sponsored public relations campaign to educate women about this form of contraception
– clinics must be accessible and must offer advice on contraception and the means for contraception; consultation about abortion and the performance of abortions, and; abortion regardless of age or marital status
– contraception and abortion must be included in all health insurance policies in the U.S., and any state government must be able to legally offer these services free of charge to women at the poverty level
– public health agencies operating abroad should be allowed to offer family planning, contraception, and abortion in all countries that ask for those services. We oppose our government’s habit of cutting family planning funds when those funds go to agencies in foreign countries that give out contraceptive devices, offer advice on abortion, and perform abortions
– it encourages women and men to prevent unwanted pregnancies. It is the inalienable right and duty of every woman to learn about her body and to be aware of the phases of her menstrual cycle, and it is the duty for every man to be aware of the functions and health of his and his partner’s bodies. This information is necessary for self-determination, to make informed decisions, and to prevent unintended consequences. Unplanned conception takes control away from individuals and makes them subject to external controls

Human Engineering

Population control
The party states that:
– humans have a unique responsibility for stewardship of the Earth. No species, especially on the upper end of the food chain, can have unchecked exponential growth without depleting the Earth’s carrying capacity.  Human population expands at the expense of other species
– limiting the discussion to population numbers and birthrates diverts attention from over-consumption in the industrial world and historic patterns of exploitation of developing countries
– consumption-oriented lifestyles have resulted in a minority of people consuming a majority of resources. This is as significant a threat to the Earth’s carrying capacity as the high birth rates in low-consumption countries
– current global demographics demonstrate that economic wellbeing promotes low birthrates.
– documented evidence suggests that when women have control over their lives, birthrates decrease
– a major barrier to the improvement of women’s reproductive health is a lack of shared responsibility between men and women in family planning
– higher human consumption rates and populations increase the pressure on the environment in every ecological problem area.  Those living in the industrialized world must end the habits of waste and over-consumption that place as much stress on the environment as does population growth in developing nations
– funds must be allocated for expanded scientific research into safer and more effective birth control techniques and devices

Genetic engineering
The party states that since the efforts to clone animals — and eventually humans—has been undertaken by profit-making corporations, the purpose behind such projects is to manufacture commodities. To classify a human (or any part thereof, including human DNA and body organs) as a commodity is to turn human beings into property

Gender Identity & Election
The party states that:
– it affirms the right of all persons to self-determination with regard to gender identity and sex
– it affirms the right of choosing non-binary and gender fluid identification, and therefore supports the right of individuals to be free from coercion and involuntary assignment of gender or sex

Human Trafficking
The party states that:
– of the millions of humans trafficked worldwide, the large majority are women and children who are bought and sold as slaves.  Most are sold over and over again for forced sex prostitution. Estimates of human trafficking in the U.S. vary greatly from 18,000 to 50,000 to over 100,000 with a worldwide estimate of 12.5 million

The party advocates:
– new U.S. legislation relating to prostitution modeled on the Swedish law passed in 1999, now adopted by other countries and being considered by more, that has drastically reduced human trafficking and prostitution in Sweden, which criminalizes the purchase of services from prostitutes, pimps and brothel keepers instead of criminalizing the prostitutes
– all efforts to eradicate this extreme abuse of human rights, including but not limited to enforcement of existing laws and passage of tough new ones, punishing traffickers, aiding victims, increasing public awareness, reforming immigration laws, supporting existing programs and creating new ones
– enforcement of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (HR 3244) signed into law on October 28, 2000. This Act authorizes funding for the prevention of trade in human beings and for protecting victims

The party has published no official statement of its positions on
– assisted suicide, or alternatives for patients and families

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The campaign states that:
– America is more polarized and divided now than at any time in living memory
– both sides seem to agree that the basic problem is the horrible people on the other side
– both sides are wrong. The basic problem is the division itself. A divided public lacks the strength to resist exploitation or to overcome the inertia of the status quo
– the classic American can-do spirit exhausts itself in endless battles, while powerful undemocratic forces have a death grip on the nation
– there is only one way to break that grip and restore power to the people: a broad popular movement that unites left and right, Black and White, urban and rural, young and old, and working people of all ethnicities.
– the candidate has clear positions on most of today’s divisive trigger issues like abortion, guns, and immigration, but he knows that both sides have legitimate concerns and legitimate moral positions. No one is deplorable. Furthermore, most of the disagreements obscure deeper shared values.
– everyone wants their children to be safe. No one wants more abortions, nor do they want to force women to undergo unwanted pregnancies. Everyone wants safe streets, yet few wish for millions of people to languish in prison.

The campaign advocates:
– drawing on the broad moral agreements that exist beneath our divisions. Candidate Kennedy will model careful listening, and create conditions where each group can hear the stories of the other.
– promoting national reconciliation, respectful dialog, and willingness to change, to grow, and to forgive, starting during the campaign. In Kennedy’s own words, “Every nation, like every individual, has a darker side and a lighter side. The easiest thing for a politician to do is to appeal to our greed, to our anger, to our fear, to our xenophobia, our bigotry, all of the alchemies of tribalism. I will appeal instead to our generosity as a people, our goodness, our kindness, and our courage.”

The campaign has published no further public statement concerning its policies on:
– Abortion & alternatives for Mothers & Children
– Assisted Suicide & Alternatives for the Stricken and for Families
– Human Engineering
* Stem cell & embryo research
* Gender elective surgery
* Population & birth control

Abortion
The party states that:
– recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, it believes that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration
– its silence about any particular government law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency, activity, or machination should not be construed to imply approval

The party has published no official statement of its positions on:
– euthanasia, assisted suicide, or alternatives for patients and families
– human engineering, including stem cell & embryo research; gender identity & election

Sanctity of Life 

Abortion & Alternatives for Mothers & Children
The party states that:
– it advocates protecting and defending a vote of the People, from within the States, on the Issue of life.
– it proudly stands for families and life
– it believes that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that no person can be denied life or liberty without due process, and that the States are therefore free to pass laws protecting those rights.  After 51 years, because its efforts, that power has been given to the States and to a vote of the People.
– it will oppose late term abortion, while supporting mothers and policies that advance Prenatal Care, access to birth control, and IVF (fertility treatments)

Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide
The party’s 2024 platform comprises no statement concerning its policies on euthanasia or assisted suicide.

Human Engineering

Stem cell & embryo research
The party’s 2024 platform comprises no statement concerning its policies on stem cell or embryo research

Gender Election & Identity
The party advocates ending gender insanity, including keep men out of women’s sports, banning taxpayer funding for sex change surgeries, and stopping taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition, reversing the current administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations, and restoring protections for women and girls.

Population & birth control
The party’s 2024 platform comprises no statement concerning its policies on population or birth control.

Human trafficking
The party states that:
– it will strengthen ICE, increase penalties for illegal entry and overstaying visas, and reinstate “Remain in Mexico” and other policies implemented during its prior term in office.
– it also advocates invoking the Alien Enemies Act to remove all known or suspected gang members, drug dealers, or cartel members from the United States, ending the scourge of Illegal Alien gang violence once and for al, and using Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries immediately.

Economy to Serve People

Cost of Living
The party states during its current term in office:
– the administration’s top economic priority is lowering costs for hardworking Americans, including reducing prescription drug costs, health insurance premiums, utility bills, and costs for everyday goods
– it also proposes to address junk fees that some airlines, banks, and other companies use to rip off consumers
– during its current term in office, the global pandemic and Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine have led to inflation all over the world
– significant progress has bee made in bringing down inflation. Over the last six months of 2023, core inflation was at the pre-COVID-19 pandemic benchmark of two percent—with average hourly earnings adjusted for inflation higher now than before the COVID-19 pandemic and rising faster than inflation over the last year
– it has released nearly 200 million barrels of gasoline from the national strategic reserve, and is lowering prices by 25 cents per gallon by making ethanol-blended gasoline available during the summer
– it is working to ensure that no American earning less than $400,000 a year will pay one single penny more in federal taxes.

The Dignity of Work
The Party’s Credo states that it believes it is the responsibility of government to achieve a society in which:
– all people can find jobs in a growing full-employment economy; and
– all workers are guaranteed without question the legal right to join unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively for decent wages and conditions of employment

Artificial Intelligence
The party states that:
– by executive order it has taken a lead in seizing the promise and managing the risks of AI, including by establishing new standards for AI safety and security, protecting Americans’ privacy, advancing equity and civil rights, standing up for consumers and workers, promoting innovation and competition, and advancing American leadership around the world
– it advocates funding to responsibly develop, test, procure, and integrate transformative AI applications across the Federal Government, including causing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish the U.S. AI Safety Institute to operationalize NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework by creating guidelines, tools, benchmarks, and best practices for evaluating and mitigating dangerous capabilities and conducting evaluations including red-teaming to identify and mitigate AI risk.

Poverty Reduction
The party states that:
– it remains committed to ending poverty and enabling all Americans to live up to their God-given potential.
– it knows that most folks fundamentally want the same things – not a hand out, but a fair shot.

The party advocates:
– 10-20-30 funding, to provide 10% of federal funding to communities in which at least 20% of population has lived beneath the poverty line for 30 years or more
– increasing funding for federal food assistance programs, to alleviate child hunger
– boosting funding for economic development in impoverished communities through grants, investment, and tax credits
– insuring access to low-cost, language accessible banking to low and middle income families programs, to alleviate child hunger
– improving economic mobility for people of color
– limiting gentrification of neighborhoods
– ending housing discrimination by equalizing access to credit and expanding first-time homebuyer’s support
– strengthening the Community Reinvestment Act to invest in low-income communities
– using federal procurement to incentivize private companies to recruit and advance people of color
– budgeting $4.1 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), to help families access home energy and weatherization assistance
– following expiration of the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program at the end of 2023, allowing States to use a portion of their LIHEAP funds to provide water bill assistance to low-income households

To benefit lower- and middle-income workers and families, the party’s 2025 budget advocates:
– restoring the full Child Tax Credit enacted in the American Rescue Plan, expanding the credit from $2,000 per child to $3,000 per child for children six years old and above, and to $3,600 per child for children under six, in addition to permanently reforming the credit to make it fully refundable, so that it no longer excludes
children in the lowest-income families from receiving the full credit, and allowing families to receive monthly advance payments
– making permanent the Earned Income Tax Credit expansion for workers not raising children in their homes, which would boost the income of 19 million very
low-paid workers.

Housing
The party states that:
– although housing remains a challenge for many families, homeownership is higher now than before the COVID-19 pandemic, including for African Americans and Hispanic Americans
– rental costs have moderated in 2023-2024; and a record number of apartments are under construction
– in 2023, the administration lowered Federal Housing Administration annual mortgage insurance premiums by about one third, saving more than 400,000 borrowers approximately $800 over the first year of the mortgage with continued savings in subsequent years
– the administration secured rental assistance for over 100,000 additional low-income households for the Housing Choice Voucher program, guaranteeing
rents at 30 percent of those families’ incomes

To reduce homelessness, the party advocates:
– allocation of $4.1 billion, an increase of $427 million over the 2023 level, for Homeless Assistance Grants to continue supporting approximately 1.2 million people experiencing homelessness each year and to expand assistance to approximately 25,000 additional households, specifically survivors of domestic violence and homeless youth
– in addition, allocating approximately $100 million in program recaptures to fund coordinated interventions to support nearly 11,000 additional homeless individuals and families, pursuant to the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
– allocating $505 million, or $6 million above the 2023 level, for Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, serving a population with a disproportionately high rate of homelessness and providing a critical link to services
– allocation of a further $8 billion for acquisition, construction, or operation of housing to expand options for people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness, as well as $3 billion to provide counseling and emergency rental assistance to older adult renters at-risk of homelessness

To make housing more affordable, the party advocates:
– investing $1.3 billion in the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) to construct and rehabilitate affordable rental housing and provide homeownership opportunities
– to further address the critical shortage of affordable housing in communities throughout the Nation, providing $20 billion in mandatory funding for a new Innovation Fund for Housing Expansion, which would be a competitive grant program for municipalities and other entities that develop concrete plans for expanding housing supply, with additional funding for housing affordability pilots
– providing $7.5 billion in mandatory funding for new Project-Based Rental Assistance contracts to incentivize the development of new climate-resilient affordable housing
– expanding the existing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and establishing a new Neighborhood Homes Tax Credit, to expand the supply of safe and affordable housing, bring new units to market, and help curb cost growth across the broader rental market

To assist first-time homebuyers, the party advocates:
– a new Mortgage Relief Credit for middle-class first-time homebuyers of up to $10,000 over two years
– to unlock starter home inventory for first-time homebuyers and help middle-class families who are “locked in” to their current homes due to rising mortgage rates a credit of up to $10,000 for one year to middle-class families who sell their starter home—a home at or below the area median home price—to another owner occupant
– $10 billion in mandatory funding for a new First-Generation Down Payment Assistance program to help address homeownership and wealth gaps
– up to $50 million for a HOME down payment assistance pilot program to reduce mortgage down payments for first-generation as well as low wealth first-time homebuyers

To assist renters, the party advocates:
– to increase the number of families that can be supported through the HCV program, which currently assists 2.3 million low-income families in obtaining housing in the private market, providing $32.8 billion in discretionary funding, an increase of $2.5 billion over the 2023 level, which assumes Public Housing Agencies will draw $963 million from HCV program reserves to maintain and protect critical services for all currently assisted families
– expanding assistance for those those who are experiencing homelessness or fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic violence or other forms of gender-based
Violence
– to assist youth aging out of foster care and extremely low-income (ELI) veterans, providing $9 billion to establish a housing voucher program for all 20,000 youth aging out of foster care annually, and $13 billion to incrementally expand rental assistance for 400,000 ELI veteran families

To protect families from health hazards imposed by lead water pipes and paint, the party’s 2025 budget proposal advocates:
– allocating a total of $101 million to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for remediating lead contamination in drinking water
– allocating an additional $2.4 billion for EPA’s State Revolving Funds for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, an increase of more than $1 billion over the 2023 enacted level for those programs
– allocating $350 million in HUD grants for States, local governments, and nonprofits to reduce lead-based paint and other health hazards, especially
in the homes of low-income families with young children, including $67 to prevent and mitigate lead-based paint and housing-related health hazards, such
as fire safety and mold, in public housing, an increase of $2 million above 2023 level

Living wage
The party advocates:
– raising wages for working people and improving job quality and security, including by raising the federal minimum wage so it reaches $15 an hour by 2026
– guaranteed equal pay for women
– reforming social security by increasing benefits for all, protecting surviving spouses
– rejecting efforts to privatize or weaken social security, including raising retirement age or cuts to cost-of-living increases
– addressing social security rights for unpaid caregivers

Jobs, Unions, Employment

The party states that:
– a four-year post-secondary degree is not and should not be the only route to a good job
– during the administration’s term in office the economy has added nearly 16 million jobs, including nearly 800,000 manufacturing jobs, not only recovering all the positions lost during COVID, but adding 6.3 million more than existed before.
– 30 states from Mississippi to Pennsylvania have seen record-low unemployment; and the run of low unemployment nationwide hasn’t been this long in over 50 years. Wages are up across the board, and rising fastest for lower-income workers, Black workers, Latinos, and women. Today’s recovery is the fairest on record
– in just four years, 40 percent of the wage inequality gap has been erased.
– a record 18 million small business applications have been filed

Job training
The party states that:
– it is committed to ensuring high labor standards, involving workers in decision-making, and enforcing rules against unfair labor practices, at home and abroad
– the current administration has has invested in pathways to jobs in growing sectors, supporting both critical workforce programs at community colleges and career pathways programs in the K-12 system through the first-ever Career-Connected High Schools grants

The party advocates:
– increased investment in adult literacy and other skills development programs
– investment in career and technical education, including apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeship programs
– increased support for Registered Apprenticeships, including investment of $335 million, a $50 million increase, with expanded programs in clean energy-related occupations and to increase participation by historically underrepresented groups, including people of color, women, and people with disabilities, who participate in Registered Apprenticeships

Unions & employment
The party advocates:
– investment in clean energy, clean transportation, energy efficiency, and advanced manufacturing
– repeal of right-to-work legislation, to strengthen unions
– eliminating systematic racism and discrimination in employment by strengthening and increasing funding for the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission
– putting American workers first in trade negotiations
– implementing paid sick days and comprehensive paid family and medical leave for all workers
– major investment in quality, affordable child care, increase Child & Dependent tax credit
– increased wages for caregivers in all settings

Workers’ rights
To empower and protect workers, the party advocates:
– repealing right-to-work legislation to strengthen unions
– strengthening whistleblower and anti-retaliation legislation to protect workers
– personal accountability for executives who interfere with worker organization
– increased staff and funding for the Labor Department to enforce labor laws
– passing the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act to provide better pay and benefits for public sector employees
– investing $2 billion in its 2025 budget, to ensure that workers are treated with dignity and respect in the workplace through DOL worker protection agencies, including protection of workers’ wages and benefits, ensuring that children are working only in conditions that are safe and legal, addressing misclassification of workers as independent contractors, and improving workplace health and safety
– supporting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the implementation and enforcement of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, and advancement of pay equity through the collection and analysis of employer pay data, and ensuring that use by employers of automated employment systems, including those that incorporate AI, does not result in discrimination against employees or job applicants

Child labor
The party states that:
– since 2019, DOL has seen an 88-percent increase in illegal child employment
– it is focused on preventing and addressing child labor exploitation, and has assessed more than $16 million in child labor penalties, including related to migrant children, who are particularly vulnerable

Family, medical, and sick leave
The Party states:
– that the vast majority of America’s workers do not have access to employer-provided paid family leave, including 73 percent of private sector workers, and that among the lowest-paid workers, who are disproportionately women and workers of color, 94 percent lack access to paid family leave through their employer
– in addition, as many as one in five retirees leave the workforce earlier than planned to care for an ill family member, which negatively impacts families, as well as the Nation’s labor supply and productivity

In its 2025 budget, the party proposes:
– establishment of a national, comprehensive paid family and medical leave program administered by SSA to ensure that all eligible workers can take up to 12 weeks to bond with a new child, care for a seriously ill loved one, heal from their own serious illness, address circumstances arising from a loved one’s military deployment, find safety from domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking—otherwise known as “safe leave”; or up to three days to grieve the death of a loved one. The program would provide workers with progressive, partial wage replacement to take time off for family and medical reasons; include robust administrative funding; and use an inclusive family definition.
– requiring require employers to provide seven job-protected paid sick days each year to all workers, and ensure that employers cannot penalize workers for taking time off to address their health needs, or the health needs of their families, or for safe leave.

Unfair wage practices
The party states that during its term in office, the current administration:
– has recovered more than $770 million for more than 485,000 workers by enforcing laws for the protection of workers from wage theft and exploitation, including when they were not paid minimum wages or overtime, were denied tips, or were misclassified as independent contractors
– has proposed a new rule to extend overtime pay for up to an additional 3.6 million workers by raising the income threshold, meaning workers like fast-food
managers or executive assistants could qualify
– announced the publication of a final rule that will raise wage standards of construction workers by updating prevailing wage regulations, affecting more than one million workers constructing $200 billion in federally funded or assisted projects.

Corporations, Consumers, & Competition
The party states that:
– tech platforms and companies help keep us connected, inspire ideas and innovation, and create a global marketplace. At the same time, they collect, share, and exploit data; risk our children’s mental health; and deepen extremism and polarization.|
– there is growing scientific evidence for what so many Americans already know: social media and other online platforms can affect our mental health and well-being – particularly for our kids.
– in addition, a handful of dominant tech platforms and companies increasingly control much of the market, allowing them to exercise enormous power over Americans’ daily lives – and, too often, use that power to exclude competitors and undermine consumers and innovation.

The party advocates:
– review of recent mergers and acquisitions, with priority for pharmaceutical, health care, telecom, tech, and agriculture industries, to ensure no improper concentration, price increases, worker harm, inequality, reduced competition or innovation, etc.
– rewriting legislation to restrict non-compete clauses and mandatory arbitration for employment law disputes
– strengthening the anti-trust act, including in the agriculture industry
– updating of Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights to include national standards of protection
– enhanced privacy protection for children and students

Research
To maintain world-leading research capabilities, the party’s 2025 budget advocates investing $20 billion across major research agencies, an increase of $1.2 billion above the 2023 level, including:
– at the National Science Foundation (NSF), support for regional innovation programs, investments in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information science, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce programs
– at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, supporting “Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence,” and funding construction and maintenance of research and development facilities
– in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, supporting AI, high performance computing to improve climate modeling, clean energy technologies including fusion, and meeting national demand for isotopes

To promote science and exploration, the party’s 2025 budget advocates:
– allocating $7.8 billion for the Artemis space program, which would bring astronauts— including the first women, first people of color, and first international astronauts—to the lunar surface as part of a long-term journey of science and exploration, including a small lunar rover and a large cargo lander for use in delivering larger rovers and habitats to the surface in the 2030s.

Supply chain restoration and resilience
The party states that:
– the administration made restoration of supply chain resilience a top priority on day one, collaborating with industry and labor to address acute shortages and bottlenecks and securing critical supply chain investments through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, and bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act. As a result, critical supply chains are significantly more fluid and resilient than they were at the start of the current term
– in addition, the administration has announced a new White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience to support enduring supply chain resilience

Small businesses
The party states that during the administration’s term in office:
– a record 18 million small business applications have been filed

The party advocates:
– providing technical and manufacturing expertise to small domestic manufacturers
– increased grants and loans to small businesses, including those owned by women and people of color, including increased lending levels across the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) business lending programs, including: the 7(a) business loan guarantee; capital for major fixed assets, known as a 504 loan guarantee; the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program; and Microloan programs

Agriculture
The party states that:
– farmers are the backbone of America. They feed America, and help feed the world. But rural America has been hard hit by trickle-down economics.
– as a result of corporate approaches to agriculture, the country has lost over 400,000 farms in the last 40 years.  Many young people have had to leave their hometowns to find good-paying work.  The administration believes that no one should have to leave the community where they grew up just to find opportunity.
– its Investing in America agenda is investing in all of America, including farms and rural areas. It’s creating new sources of income for farmers and increasing competition among suppliers, to both lower the cost of farm inputs and to get small and mid-size farmers a larger share of profits.
– its Inflation Reduction Act is helping farmers and ranchers adopt climate-smart practices, which make the land more resilient and increase profitability, while connecting them to new markets and premiums for sustainably produced commodities.
– it has supported independent meat and poultry processing, reducing producers’ reliance on big companies to buy their product; and it’s working to make livestock and poultry markets fairer and more transparent. Today, family farms have more income from more varied sources, so their children have more opportunity to stay family farmers.
– the administration is also helping family farmers service distressed loans in order to keep their lands and ultimately pass them down to their kids, and has worked with many farmers to boost the production of expensive fertilizer, increasing supply and easing costs.
– the U.S.D.A. also expanded farm insurance to allow for more double cropping, a practice that increases farm earnings, expands the food supply, and helps lower average food prices for American families.

The party advocates:
– getting farmers the right to repair their own equipment, without having to pay big equipment makers for diagnostic tools and repairs.
– further limiting foreign ownership of U.S. farmland, to protect the national food supply and national security.
– continued support for farm workers, including improving safety at meat processing facilities, continued enforcement and advancement of labor and environmental rules, for example promoting organizing rights and requiring overtime pay, and boosting protections against harmful pesticides and extreme heat.

Manufacturing, industries & agriculture
The Party states:
– as an article of its Credo, that at its heart lies a fundamental conviction that it is the responsibility of government to achieve a society where the livelihoods of our family farmers are as stable as the values they instill in the American character.
– during its term in office it has created nearly 800,000 manufacturing jobs

The party advocates:
– disincentivizing off-shore manufacturing, and acceleration of on-shoring of critical supply chains
– expansion of tax credits for domestic manufacturing
– investment in innovation hubs, provision of technical and expertise to small manufacturers
– robust Buy America and Buy Clean standards for federally-supported projects

Tech & Communications; Artificial Intelligence
The party states that:
– artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril. While AI is helping to cure diseases, predict the weather, and transform education, it’s also being used to clone voices, commit fraud, institutionalize bias, and undermine democracy.
– the nation needs to act now and act fast to realize the promise of AI and manage its risks to ensure that AI serves the public interest.
– it is finding solutions to make sure that as AI’s capabilities grow, the implications for Americans’ rights, safety and security can be managed.  For example, the administration issued an Executive Order directing federal agencies to establish new high standards for AI safety and security, protect Americans’ privacy, advance equity and civil rights, stand up for workers and consumers, promote competitive markets for AI development and use, and more.
– it is committed to ensuring that workers get a voice in how AI is used in the workplace, and that they share fairly in any economic gains AI produces.
– it being known that AI can deepen discrimination, bias, and other abuses in justice, health care, education, and housing, the administration has taken action by publishing a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and issuing new guidance from federal agencies on combating algorithmic discrimination across the economy.
– to ensure that the brightest minds are working to understand new technologies, the administration has launched an AI Talent Surge to accelerate hiring of AI professionals across the federal government, with a pilot program to enhance successful initiatives for training additional scientists in AI, and an AI Safety Institute at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to set rigorous standards for extensive testing of powerful AI models to ensure safety before public release.

The party advocates:
– continuing to advocate for the safe and secure development of AI, including investing in the AI Safety Institute to create guidelines, tools, benchmarks, and best practices for evaluating dangerous capabilities and mitigating AI risk and prioritizing funding for research to advances AI safety.
– banning voice impersonations, along with heightened protections in critical sectors such as health care, financial services, education, housing, and transportation.

Transportation & infrastructure
The party believes that transportation is a public good, and that transit jobs should be good jobs

The party states that during its term in office the current administration:
– signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the largest infrastructure bill since the Eisenhower Administration, and has announced $400 billion for 40,000 infrastructure projects across 4,500 communities throughout every State, including $250 billion to improve roads and bridges, airports, and more reliable public transit and rail service, as well as affordable, reliable high-speed rural internet, clean drinking water, and reliable electricity
– through the Inflation Reduction Act, has spurred over $600 billion in private sector investments, including more than $160 billion announced investments in battery and EV supply chains, and creating more than 210,000 new clean energy jobs across the Nation with a projected 1.5 million additional jobs over the next decade
– through implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act, announced 31 Tech Hubs to help communities across the Nation become centers of innovation critical to
American competitiveness
– in order to ensure that every American has access to affordable broadband internet while creating high-paying union jobs, has provided through the Affordable Connectivity Program high-speed Internet service to over 23 million eligible low income households at low or no cost; through the Department of Commerce has allocated nearly $42 billion in Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program funding to all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and five Territories to deploy reliable high-speed Internet service; and USDA has provided $2.3 billion to people living and working across 35 States and Territories expand broadband access to more than 137,000 households.

The party advocates:
– job creation through investment in repair, modernization and expansion of transportation infrastructure, including addition of 500,000 public electric-vehicle charging stations
– use of safe modern designs to allow cars, pedestrians, cyclists and others to share roads
– investment in high-speed rail and renovation of Amtrak, including $2.5 billion for grants to Amtrak, along with $250 million for the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements program, in addition to the $13.2 billion in rail funding directly provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and additional funding for funding for critical rail safety programs.
– requiring that US-made cargo be carried on US-flagged ships
– creation of a public infrastructure bank to leverage public and private resources for projects of national or regional significance
– union protections for federal infrastructure projects
– allocating, in its 2025 budget, a total of $78.4 billion for highway, highway safety, and transit formula programs, supporting the amounts authorized for year four of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This includes $62.1 billion for the Federal-aid Highways program, to support the continued repair and upgrading of
highways and bridges
– an additional $14.3 billion for Transit Formula Grants, a $645 million increase above the 2023 level, to support core capital and planning programs
for transit agencies across the Nation, as well as transit research, technical assistance, and data collection
– an additional $9.5 billion in advance appropriations provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for bridge replacement and rehabilitation, electric vehicle charging infrastructure
– allocating $17.5 billion in discretionary budget authority for FAA, an increase of $2.1 billion above the 2023 enacted level, to support robust hiring and training of air traffic controllers started in 2023, to rebuild the pipeline of new controllers needed to safely meet projected air traffic demands, and continuing to reform aircraft certification and safety oversight capabilities
– allocating $8 billion to significantly modernize FAA’s major facilities and radars
– increasing the fuel tax for high-end business jets, to better align the costs of the services provided to those users on the system.

Competition
The party states that:
– capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism, it’s exploitation.
– during the current administration, it launched a Competition Council tasked with coordinating and advancing competition; and Agencies have taken dozens of actions to increase competition across markets and industries – from making hearing aids available over the counter, to reducing cargo and rail shipping costs for goods, to support efforts to allow farmers and other Americans to repair their own equipment.
– the Justice Department and the FTC have increased antitrust enforcement, releasing updated merger guidelines, and halting a slate of big mergers in the airline, food, and defense sectors that would have increased consumer prices.
– working to shore up a safe, secure banking system that protects consumer deposits and holds investors accountable. It has pushed for legislation to hold executives at all failed banks accountable, clawing back compensation and banning them from the industry.
– it is working to limit out-of-control Wall Street bonuses that encourage risky bank practices that jeopardize our whole economy, and will continue pushing to pass an updated Glass-Steagall Act, more clearly separating commercial and investment banking and expanding Volcker rule safeguards.

In its 2025 budget, the party advocates:
– allocating $288 million in the 2025 Budget for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), an increase of $63 million over the 2023 enacted level and $103 million over the 2021 enacted level, to strengthen antitrust enforcement efforts to promote vigorous marketplace competition and reduce costs and raise wages for the American people.

Consumer protection
The party states that:
– hidden, surprise fees on customer bills cost families tens of billions of dollars each year and stifle competition
– the current administration has used every available tool to address them, including cracking down on hidden fees in airline tickets, banking, investment
advice, health insurance, and apartment rentals, and by pushing banks to reduce overdraft and bounced check fees
– the Federal Trade Commission has proposed rules to ban companies from charging hidden and misleading fees and requiring them to show the full price up front, and to require sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up
– the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a rule that would lower credit card late fees from approximately $30 to $8
– to help stop price fixing or price gouging in grocery stores, and similar sharp practices, the Department of Agriculture has announced a new partnership with bipartisan State attorneys general
– the Department of Housing and Urban Development has called on industry, housing providers, and State and local governments to adopt policies that promote greater fairness and transparency of fees faced by renters
– it is cracking down to prevent collusion by oil companies that could raise prices
– the administration has met repeatedly with grocery CEOs and business leaders, who agreed this spring to lower prices, and is cracking down on price gouging and promoting competition in agriculture, making everything from fertilizer to poultry processing more affordable for farmers
– it has into law the bipartisan Ocean Shipping Reform Act, which lowers shipping prices and helps American farmers export their goods.

An Economy to Serve People
The party states, as part of its ten key values, that:
– all persons must have, as a matter of right, the opportunity to benefit equally from the resources afforded by society and the environment
– the accumulation of individual wealth in the U.S. has reached grossly unbalanced proportions. It is clear that we cannot rely on the rich to regulate their profit-making excesses for the good of society through “trickle-down economics.” We must take aggressive steps to restore a fair distribution of income
– it supports a major redesign of commerce, including endorsement of true-cost pricing and support production methods that eliminate waste
– it opposes capitalism and seeks to build an alternative economic system based on social ecology, decentralization of power, and freedom from state control, an eco-socialist economy based on large-scale green public works, municipalization, and workplace and community democracy. Worker and community empowerment will ensure that decisions that greatly affect our lives are made in the interests of our communities, not at the whim of capitalist CEOs and distant boards of directors. Democratically run enterprises embedded in and accountable to our communities will make more ecologically sound decisions and help end labor exploitation, environmental exploitation, and racial, gender, and wealth inequality and bring about economic and social justice
– it supports establishment of a form of basic economic security open to all
– it calls for moving beyond the narrow ‘job ethic’ to new definitions of ‘work,’ ‘jobs’ and ‘income’ in a cooperative and democratic economy
– it supports restructuring national patterns of income distribution to reflect the wealth created by those outside the formal monetary economy – those who take responsibility for parenting, housekeeping, home gardens, community volunteer work, and the like
– it supports restricting the size and concentrated power of corporations without discouraging superior efficiency or technological innovation
– all social actions and policies should be motivated by long-term goals, seeking to protect valuable natural resources and safely disposing of or ‘unmaking’ all waste we create, while developing a sustainable economics that does not depend on continual expansion for survival
– the economy must counterbalance the drive for short-term profits by assuring that economic development, new technologies, and fiscal policies are responsible to future generations who will inherit the results of our actions
– the quality of all lives, rather than open-ended economic growth, should be the focus of future thinking and policy

The party advocates an Economic Bill of Rights, as part of its Eco-socialist Green New Deal, including:
– Job Guarantee — A public living-wage job for those who cannot find work in the private sector
– Income Guarantee — A guaranteed minimum income above poverty built into the progressive income tax structure as monthly payments to bring people above the poverty line whose incomes are below it
– Housing Guarantee — An expansion of public housing until every person has an affordable housing option
– Universal Health Care — A single public payer covering all medically necessary services for all
– Lifelong Public Education — Tuition-free public education from child care and pre-K through post-secondary college and trade schools
– Secure Retirement — An increase in Social Security benefits so every recipient has an income above poverty

Measuring Economic Health
The party states that:
– economic growth remains a primary goal of U.S. policy, with corporations and others advocating a theory of unlimited economic growth through technological progress
– the physical and biological sciences, however, suggest that there is a limit to economic growth
– there is a fundamental conflict between economic growth and ecological health (for example, biodiversity conservation, clean air and water, atmospheric stability)
– we cannot rely on technological progress to solve ecological and long-term economic problems

The party advocates:
– promoting lifestyle choices that reinforce a general equilibrium of humans with nature, including conscious choices to foster environmentally sound technologies, whether new or old, and to discourage conspicuous consumption and waste
– pursuit of a steady-state economy, including a stable or mildly fluctuating product of population and per capita consumption and GDP
– an alternative way to measure the economy is to assess the value of non-monetary goods and services and measure the rate of infant mortality, life expectancy of people, educational opportunities offered by the state, family stability, environmental data, and health care for all people
– another measure includes quantifying human benefit (in terms of education, health care, elder care, etc.) provided by each unit of output. Measuring the gap between the most fortunate and the least fortunate in our society, for example, tells us how well or poorly we are doing in creating an economy that does not benefit some at the expense of others
– for nations with widespread poverty, increasing per capita consumption (through economic growth or through more equitable distributions of wealth)
– acknowledgment that ultimately the global ecosystem will not be able to support further economic growth
– an equitable distribution of wealth among nations, in order to maintain a global steady-state economy

Poverty Reduction
The party states that:
– it is time for a radical shift in our attitude toward support for families, children, the poor and the disabled
– such support must not be given grudgingly; it is the right of those presently in need and an investment in our future
– we should recognize that the work of their caregivers is of social and economic value, and reward it accordingly
– ensuring that children and their caregivers have access to an adequate, secure standard of living should form the cornerstone of our economic priorities. Only then can we hope to build our future on a foundation of healthy, educated children who are raised in an atmosphere of love and security
– all people have a right to food, housing, medical care, jobs that pay a living wage, education, and support in times of hardship
– work performed outside the monetary system has inherent social and economic value, and is essential to a healthy, sustainable economy and peaceful communities. Such work includes: child and elder care; homemaking; voluntary community service; continuing education; participating in government; and the arts
– we must take an uncompromising position that the care and nurture of children, elders and the disabled are essential to a healthy, peaceful, and sustainable society
– we have a special responsibility to the health and wellbeing of the young
– our community priorities must first protect the young and helpless
– local decision-making is important, but, as we learned during the civil rights era, strict federal standards must guide state actions in providing basic protections

The party advocates:
– as single mothers are the largest and most severely impoverished group in the United States, which explains why 22% of the children in our country live below the poverty line, and since welfare reform has forced mothers to abandon their children while they travel to work at minimum wage jobs, it advocates supports real reforms to end poverty and return dignity and opportunity to all mothers, including:
– innovative programs that work with the particular and special needs of motherhood, in addition to general programs such as a universal basic income
– restoration of a federally funded entitlement program to support children, families, the unemployed, elderly and disabled, with no time limit on benefits
– funding of such a program through the existing welfare budget, reductions in military spending and corporate subsidies, and a fair, progressive income tax
– a graduated supplemental income, or negative income tax, that would maintain all individual adult incomes above the poverty level, regardless of employment or marital status
– reinvestment of a significant portion of the military budget into family support, living-wage job development, and work training programs
– publicly funded work training and education programs which have a goal of increasing employment options at finding living-wage jobs
– public funding for the development of living-wage jobs in community and environmental service. For example, environmental clean-up, recycling, sustainable agriculture and food production, sustainable forest management, repair and maintenance of public facilities, neighborhood-based public safety, aides in schools, libraries and childcare centers, and construction and renovation of energy-efficient housing
– ending of enterprise zone giveaways, which benefit corporations more than inner-city communities
– tax incentives for businesses that apply fair employee wage distribution standards, and income tax policies that restrict the accumulation of excessive individual wealth
– requiring corporations receiving public subsidies must provide jobs that pay a living wage, observe basic workers’ rights, and agree to affirmative action policies

Livable Income
The party affirms the importance of access to a livable income, and advocates:
– a universal basic income (sometimes called a guaranteed income, negative income tax, citizen’s income, or citizen dividend), to go to every adult regardless of health, employment, or marital status, in order to minimize government bureaucracy and intrusiveness into people’s lives
– assuring such incomes in amounts sufficient so that anyone who is unemployed can afford basic food and shelter, with supplementation by state and local governments from local revenues where the cost of living is high
– prioritizing job banks and other innovative training and employment programs which bring together the private and public sector
– for people who are unable to find decent work in the private sector, options through publicly funded opportunities
– workforce development programs aimed at moving people out of poverty
– a clear living wage standard should serve as a foundation for trade between nations, and a “floor” of guaranteed wage protections and
workers’ rights should be negotiated in future trade agreements, with the United States taking the lead on this front
– ending destructive, predatory corporate practices under the guise of “free” international trade.

Housing
The party states that
– people have a right to a home and to be secure in their tenancy. However the supply of affordable housing is not meeting the need, while in an era of increasing deregulation, many tenants are losing important legal protections
– funding for affordable housing is decreasing, while rent control and tenant eviction protections do not exist in many jurisdictions
– housing discrimination also remains rampant against people of color, immigrants, disabled, single people, gays and lesbians, and families with children
– long-term stagnation of workers’ real wages further exacerbates the lack of housing availability and affordability
– moreover, although increased affordable housing can help alleviate the problem of homelessness, the homeless have additional needs that go far beyond housing

The party advocates:
– guaranteed rights for tenants, including: freedom from harassment and evictions without just cause; well-enforced habitability standards; strong anti-discrimination enforcement, including family protection laws and domestic partnerships; continuation of established services and amenities; the right to reasonable guest visitation; maintenance of roommate privileges; and the right to communicate with other tenants about conditions or circumstances in their buildings, with strong penalties for landlords who violate these rights
– funding of public and non-profit tenant-related counseling and legal assistance for renters
– defense and expansion of cities’ right to enact local rent control laws, including vacancy control/recontrol, that fit the needs of their communities
– publicly elected Rent Control/Stabilization Boards for communities with local rent control laws
– preservation and increase of affordable housing inclusionary ordinances that fit the needs of their communities, so that the private sector will contribute its share of affordable housing construction
– funding for publicly built affordable housing, including funding for non-profit corporations that build affordable housin
– zoning to promote mixed-use development along transit corridors to locate housing next to jobs and public transportation
– ensuring that fair housing principles are emphasized in programs addressing the mortgage and financial crisis
– prevention of homelessness before it occurs by addressing its structural causes, through raising the income floor under the working poor, creating living-wage jobs, providing job training and education that will enable low-wage workers to obtain living-wage jobs, preserving and expanding affordable housing, providing affordable health care, ensuring sufficient mental health care and substance abuse services, availability of healthy food and providing effective, holistic assistance that connects vulnerable individuals with sources of income and essential services
– recognition that there are multiple, related and individualized causes of homelessness, and develop solutions that address them
– to increase employment for homeless people, setting aside a share of public-sector jobs for homeless people who are able to work, and ensuring that public agencies devoted to job creation are active in providing job training and work opportunities for homeless residents, with support non-profit agencies engaged in such work
– involving homeless people in decision-making about short- and long-term solutions to homelessness
– educating homeless people about their right to vote, and encouraging voter registration and voter participation among homeless people

Jobs, Unions, & Employment
The party states that:
– it proposes a third alternative to a job or no job dichotomy: to provide everyone a sustainable livelihood. The need of our times is for security, not necessarily jobs. We need security in the knowledge that, while markets may fluctuate and jobs may come and go, we are still able to lead a life rooted in dignity and well-being
– the concept of a “job” is only a few hundred years old; and the artificial dichotomy between “employment” and “unemployment” has become a tool of
social leverage for corporate exploiters. This produces a dysfunctional society in various ways: (1) It is used to justify bringing harmful industries to rural
communities, such as extensive prison construction and clear cutting of pristine forests. (2) It has been used to pit workers (people needing jobs) against the
interests of their own communities. (3) It has created a self-esteem crisis in a large segment of the adult population who have been forced into doing work
that is irrelevant, socially harmful, or environmentally unsound.
– the right to organize unions, bargain freely and strike when necessary is being eroded by employers and their representatives in government
– nearly one out of ten workers involved in union organizing drives is illegally fired by employers who want to keep workers from exercising a genuinely free choice
– as union membership falls, so do the wages of all working people, union and non-union alike
– it supports the irreducible right of working people, without hindrance, to form unions and to bargain collectively with their employers, as guaranteed under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935
– it supports the right of workers, without penalty, to inform other workers on the premises of a union being formed, including the right to advertise and recruit
– a major consequence of enacting living wage laws that apply to all workers would be lessening of the ever-widening gap between CEOs’ income and workers’ pay. The growing gap between rich and poor is destructive of democracy and creates an uneven playing field for economic opportunity
– public welfare that depends on hand-outs from the corporate rich reduces democracy by that same amount
– every citizen is entitled to the leverage necessary to become a productive member of the economy and the society in which we live

The party advocates:
– creation of work that does not jeopardize our future or widen the gap between the richest and the poorest in our society, and that can enrich our communities
– creating alternative, low-consumption communities and living arrangements, including a reinvigorated sustainable homesteading movement in rural areas and voluntary shared housing in urban areas
– establishing local non-profit development corporations.
– providing people with information about alternatives to jobs
– adopting a reduced-hour (30-35 hours) work week as a standard. This could translate into as many as 26 million new jobs
-subsidizing renewable energy sources, which directly employ 2 to 5 times as many people for every unit of electricity generated as fossil or nuclear
sources yet are cost competitive
– supporting small business by reducing tax, fee and bureaucratic burdens
– opposing the trend toward “bundling” of contracts that minimizes opportunity for small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses
– reducing consumption to minimize outsourcing — the exportation of jobs to other countries—thus reducing the relative price of using U.S. workers.
– a complete overhaul of this country’s labor laws
– a right of employees to sit equally with management on company the Boards of Directors
– the right of members to fair and democratic elections of their own union officers
– prohibiting the permanent replacement of striking workers
– the prohibition of forced overtime
– flexible working schedules so employees can arrange their own time to deal with personal and family concerns
– the right of all workers, temporary or permanent, to a living wage
– a federal minimum wage for all workers of at least $15 per hour, indexed to inflation
– health care coverage for all workers, at least half paid by employer, until the passage of universal health care
– unemployment insurance, workers compensation, and access to a jobs search program for all unemployed workers, including farm workers as well
– fully vested and portable pension benefits, which do not reduce social security benefits, for all workers
– mediation as the first available solution to labor– management disputes, with an agreed-upon time limit
– labor’s first right to buy out a company that is for sale or is going bankrupt, or being outsourced to another state or another country
– requiring employers who purchase or merge with other companies to honor all existing collective bargaining agreements and contracts
– labor’s right to stock ownership and oversight of the investment of its own funds in the company where it works
– encouragement of cooperative ownership and management of enterprises
– restriction of management’s ability to close its workplace and move to a lower-pay locale, to protect the local workforce and their job security
– establishment of a reduced-hour work week and at least one month of vacation per year for all workers
– to ensure that all workers have safe and humane working environments, protection and enforcement of OSHA laws, adequate testing of equipment and funding of enforcement procedures, informing workers of workplace hazards

Pension Reform
The party advocates:
– to give workers options concerning investment of their pension funds, including those used used for corporate mergers, acquisitions and leveraged
buyouts, decisions that undercut workers rights, employment, and retirement while generously rewarding non-productive speculation, joint control of corporate-sponsored pension funds (the biggest category of funds) by management and workers, not exclusively management
– implementation of federal laws to enable pension funds to simply seek a reasonable rate of return, not the prevailing market rate which greatly restricts where investments can be made
– establishment of a secondary pension market by the government to insure pension investments made in socially beneficial programs must be considered as one method that could greatly expand the impact of this capital market

Small Businesses, Trades & Crafts
The party states that:
– small businesses are where the jobs are being created. Over the past decade and a half, all new net job growth has come from the small business sector
– conservation should be profitable, and employment should be creative, meaningful and fairly compensated
– access to capital is often an essential need in growing a business
– the present tax system acts to discourage small business as it encourages waste, discourages conservation, and rewards consumption.
– big business has used insider access to dominate the federal tax code. The tax system needs a major overhaul to favor the legitimate and critical needs of the small business community
– retention of capital through retained earnings, efficiencies, and savings is central to small business competitiveness. Current tax policies often act to unfairly penalize small business

The party advocates:
– going beyond the dedicated good work being done by many “socially responsible businesses” to present new ways of seeing how business can help create a sustainable world, while surviving in a competitive business climate
– reduction of unnecessary restrictions, fees, bureaucracy, including in particular use of the Paper Simplification Act should as a way to benefit small business
the self-employed
– full tax deductions for health insurance premiums paid by the self-employed
– examination of the use of pension funds (the result of workers’ investments) as additional sources of capital for small business
– reduction of insurance costs by means of active engagement with the insurance industry, and expansion of insurance pools
– one-stop government offices to assist individuals who want to change careers or go into business for the first time
– support for home offices

Corporations
The party states that:
– the legal imperative of profit above all else is damaging the nation and our planet in countless ways. We must change the legal design of corporations so that they generate profits, but not at the expense of the environment, human rights, public health, workers, or the communities in which the corporation operates

The party advocates:
– reducing the economic and political power of large corporations, ending corporate personhood, and re-designing corporations to serve our society, democracy and the environment
– strong and effectively enforced antitrust laws and regulation to counteract the concentration of economic and political power that imposes a severe toll on people, places and the planet. Greens believe the legal structure of the corporation is obsolete
– prevention and justice are at the heart of consumer protection
– millions of lives will be saved or lost depending on the strength of our consumer protection laws
– it aims to stop corporations and others from defrauding consumers or endangering them with defective products or negligence
– it stands with consumers who have been injured or defrauded by corporations and others, and with whistleblowers, who are often the public’s best protection against corporate crime, fraud and waste

Banks and Finance
The party states that:
– because finance, banking, and insurance institutions occupy a privileged position of power at the center of commerce, this special advantage brings with it
special social responsibilities
– the nation must ensure that institutions chartered for these roles take that responsibility seriously and serve the public interest
– it aims to reform the financial industry to eliminate usury (exorbitantly high interest rates on loans) and ensure that they meet their obligations to taxpayers and local communities

The party advocates:
– overhauling the financial industry to end its culture of impunity and to prevent it from committing fraud or malfeasance so severe as to drive our nation into a massive recession or depression
– breaking up the nation’s largest banks and financial institutions so that none is “too big to fail”
– ending taxpayer- funded bailouts for banks, insurers and other financial companies
– regulating all financial derivatives, banning predatory or gambling use of derivatives, and requiring full transparency for all derivative trades, to control risk of systemic financial collapse.
– requiring regulatory preapproval of exotic financial instruments
– reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited bank holding companies from owning other financial companies and engaging in risky economic transactions
– ending federal government guarantees for speculative investments
– ensuring that relief provided by the federal government during a financial crisis is provided in an equal manner and at the most local level possible, so that
benefits are equitably dispersed and burdens are equitably born
– ensuring that low- and middle-income people have access to banking services, affordable loans, and small-business supporting capital, especially through credit unions
– ending disinvestment practices in which lending and financial institutions move money deposited in local communities out of those same communities, damaging the best interests of their customers and community
– extension of the Community Reinvestment Act to provide public and timely information on the extent of housing loans, small business loans to minority-owned enterprises, investments in community development projects, and affordable housing
– strengthening of disclosure laws, anti-redlining laws, and openness on the part of lenders regarding what criteria they use in making lending decisions
– development of charter community development banks capitalized with public funds and working to meet the credit needs of local communities
– prosecution of criminal banking speculation
– a moratorium on foreclosures. An ongoing mortgage-related crime wave is occurring around fraudulent foreclosures, rushed through without proper legal clearances or documentation, often on properties which foreclosing entities cannot even prove they own
– restructuring of the monetary system, to prevent misdirection of resources to speculation, toxic loans, and phony financial instruments that create huge profits for the few but no real wealth or jobs
– to reverse the privatization of control over the money issuing process of our nation’s monetary system; reverse its resulting concentration of wealth and income; and to end the regular recurrence of severe and disruptive banking crises, nationalizing the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, reconstituting them and
the Federal Reserve Systems Washington Board of Governors under a new Monetary Authority Board within the U.S. Treasury
– insurance reform, including elimination of special-interest protections, collusion, over-pricing and industry-wide practices that injure the interests of the insured when they are most vulnerable

Anti-Trust Enforcement
The party states that:
– the anti-trust division of the Justice Department has had its scope and powers reduced
– growth in unregulated mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, and leveraged buy-outs has overwhelmed the federal government’s capacity to provide effective
Oversight
– financial and trading markets have become particularly vulnerable to insider trading. Securities and Exchange Commission regulation of these markets has seriously fallen short

The party advocates:
– strong and effective enforcement of anti-trust regulations to counteract the concentration of economic power
– redefinition of “relevant market share” in assessing mergers
– Congressional action to stop illegal monopolistic practices

Technology & Defense
The party states that:
– it supports defense technology transfer towards a peacetime technology-based economy, particularly new industrial applications and developments in the areas of advanced communications, alternative energy, non-toxic battery technology and waste management
– consolidation of the nuclear weapons complex should move toward alternative civilian technologies and non-proliferation work, not toward a new generation of nuclear weapon design and production

The party advocates:
– going forward with government and civilian space programs; research initiatives in sustainability science, environmental protection, ecological economics and transportation, appropriate technologies and technology transfer; environmental sampling and onitoring; systems testing; laser communications; and high speed
computers
– ending patenting or copyrighting life forms, algorithms, DNA, colors or commonly used words and phrases, and broad interpretation and ultimate expansion of the Fair Use of copyrighted works

Nanotechnology
The party states that like nuclear science and biotechnology, nanotechnology is being pursued largely outside of public debate, risking great harm and abuse in its use and application

The party advocates halting nanotechnology development until the following conditions are met:
– development of full and open public debate about the implications of nanotechnology and the fusion of nanotech with biological, materials and information sciences
– development of democratic public control mechanisms to regulate the direction of nanotechnology research and development
– expanded research into the environmental and health consequences of exposure to nano-scale materials
– development of technology and precautionary safety measures for containment and control over nano-scale materials and development

Consumers
The party advocates:
– strong consumer protections against fraud, dangerous products, usury, corporate greed and rip-offs, including strengthening of product safety standards and enforcement for a variety of products, including food, motor vehicles, pharmaceuticals and airplanes
– restoration of state health, safety, and consumer protection laws by striking federal pre-emptions that weaken state law
– preservation and expansion of product labeling requirements to ensure that consumers are informed about the origin, ingredients and ecological life cycle of all products, including animal testing and the product’s organic, recycled and genetically-engineered content, and inclusion of information about the nutritional value and the vegetarian or vegan status of food products
– prohibiting corporations from concealing information about public health, labor conditions or environmental safety via protective orders or confidential settlements
– expansion of class action rights against manufacturers of unsafe products and practices, and strengthen the civil justice system and supply the resources necessary to bring to justice to those corporations that injure innocent consumers
– protection for whistle blowers against demotion, job loss, and other forms of retaliation
– ending of “tort reform” that undermines consumers’ ability to seek redress, and “medical malpractice reform” that relieves negligent doctors of responsibility for injuring or killing their patients
– granting consumers the right to limit collection and secondary use of personal information by any commercial entity
– prohibiting loan and credit card interest rates higher 12% annually, indexed for inflation
– prohibiting the widespread practice of price gouging against women and the poor
– restoration of Chapter 7 bankruptcy as a viable final safety net for consumers caught by health crises, unaffordable mortgages, credit card debts and student loans
– banning the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, to protect consumers from anti-consumer and unfair dispute resolution processes
– establishment of new independent government consumer advocacy agencies to protect the interests of consumers and restoration of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs
– policies to encourage citizens, taxpayers, ratepayers and consumers to form Citizens Utility Boards to advocate for the public interest.

Agriculture
The party states that:
– all people have a right to adequate, safe, nutritional and high quality food; and those who grow it have a right to a fair return for their labor
– the nation’s industrialized agriculture system is highly destructive of our environment, of our people’s health, and of our society’s future. Unless it changes radically, we face desertification, ecosystem collapse, mass extinctions, and starvation. Our civilization itself is threatened by the loss of the ecosystem services on which it depends for its existence
– agriculture is the high-order term in climate change, not only because of the amount of carbon it contributes to the atmosphere, but more importantly because of the vital role it could play in sequestering carbon and restoring a healthy carbon cycle
– among other things, the adoption of regenerative agriculture throughout the food system will put a stop to unethical confined animal operations, improve the diversity and nutritional content of our food, and rationalize the pricing and distribution of food

The party advocates:
– legislation that assists new and existing farmers and ranchers to convert their operations to regenerative agricultural methods that promote widespread ownership of small and medium-sized farms and ranches, and that revitalizes and repopulates rural communities and promotes sustainable development and stewardship
– legislation and regulations that promote foods produced using regenerative methods, including no-till/minimum till, natural soil building techniques, development of natural soil biomes, and set-asides for wildlife alongside cultivated areas
– a regionalized food system and decentralization of agriculture lands, production, and distribution
– promotion of producer and consumer cooperatives, community kitchens, Community Supported Agriculture, urban agriculture, and community farms and gardens
– creation of a Food Policy Council composed of farmers, including small farmers and consumers, to oversee the USDA and all food policies at the local, state, and national level, without powers to adjudicate conflicts of interest that arise when industries police themselves
– shifting price supports and government subsidies to organic, regeneratively produced food products so that they will be competitive with chemically produced food
– banning of sewage sludge or hazardous wastes as fertilizer, and of irradiation and the use of genetic engineering in all food production
– phasing out of man-made pesticides and artificial fertilizers in favor of Integrated Pest Management techniques
– food prices rhat reflect the true cost of food, including the health effects of eating processed foods, antibiotic resistance, pesticide effects on growers and consumers, soil erosion, water pollution, pesticide drift, and air pollution
– ethical and sustainable methods of animal husbandry, including a rapid phase out of confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and a complete transition to an integrated, regenerative agriculture approach to the cultivation, treatment, and use of livestock, not only for environmental reasons, but also for the sake of food safety (e.g. disease epidemics), public health, and animal protection
– application of the Precautionary Principle to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including a moratorium until safety can be demonstrated by independent (non-corporate funded), long-term tests for food safety, genetic drift, resistance, soil health, effects on non-target organisms, and cumulative interactions
– elimination of patent rights for genetic material, life forms, gene-splicing techniques, and bio-chemicals derived from them
– mandatory, full-disclosure food and fiber labeling, including contents, method of production, source of origin, presence of GMOs, use of irradiation, pesticide application (in production, transport, storage, and retail), compliance with organic standards
– coverage of agricultural and other excluded workers by federal labor laws, except where existing state laws offer more protection
– coverage of agricultural workers under the jurisdiction of OSHA
– ending industrialized agriculture methods, including monocropping, reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and the use of confined animal operations, all of which are high-order contributors to atmospheric greenhouse gases
– converting food producing systems to small-scale organic, regenerative agriculture (agroecology) systems to restore soil health, sequester carbon, foster biodiversity, discourage the currently unsustainable level of meat consumption, and secure robust ecosystem services for a sustainable future
– replacement of subsidized, industrially-produced agricultural products with support for small producers employing organic, regenerative agricultural methods
– localized food distribution systems to minimize waste, build rural communities, and eliminate reliance on fossil fuels
– relocalization and decarbonization of the food system

Infrastructure & Transportation
The party advocates:
– increased development of clean public transportation, including electric vehicles of all types
– decentralization of the electric power grid into a bioregional system for generation and distribution of electricity, with smart grid updates and net metering

Pedestrians & Cyclists
The party advocates:
– encouraging pedestrians and bicyclists, by making streets, neighborhoods and commercial districts more pedestrian friendly, increasing the greenery of streets, and utilizing traffic-calming methods, where the design of streets promotes safe speeds and safe interaction with pedestrians.
– creating auto-free zones by developing extensive networks of bikeways, bicycle lanes and paths and maintain free community bicycle fleets

Rail
The party advocates:
– expanding the national network of rail lines, including high-speed regional passenger service
– transferring ownership and operation of all intercity railroad trackage currently under control of freight railroads to responsible and adequately funded public agencies, as is done with highways, to provide for efficiency and safety of all rail traffic

Autos & Trucks
The party advocates:
– a moratorium on highway widening, appropriating funds instead for mass transit and facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists
– mandating HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes on freeways, and lower tolls for carpools
– discouraging unnecessary auto use by eliminating free parking in non-residential areas well served by mass transit, and preferential parking rates for HOV
– regular increases in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to levels which truly challenge automakers to improve the state of the art, using the fuel economy performance of vehicles worldwide for reference
– a Fee & Dividend system on the carbon content of gasoline, Diesel fuel and E85, and a fuel-economy-based Federal sales tax that creates a significant incentive for people to select more efficient vehicles, and for automakers to make them available
– electrification of truck stops, freight terminals and loading docks
– enactment and enforcement of anti-idling regulations
– encouraging carpooling programs, telecommuting, and other creative solutions to reduce commuter traffic congestion

Air Travel
The party advocates:
– making airports accessible by local transit systems
– further incremental reductions in airplane noise and air pollution

Innovation
The party advocates:
– creation of an inclusive program to train workers for the new, clean energy economy. Focusing on both the environment and social justice, prioritize the creation of green jobs in communities of color and low-income Ecological Sustainability communities
– transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 using wind, solar, ocean, small-scale hydro, and geothermal power
– end the use of nuclear power, which is massively polluting, dangerous, financially risky, expensive and slow to implement, and diverting funds to wind, solar, geothermal, conservation and small-scale hydroelectric

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An Economy for All
The Campaign states that:
– the guiding principles of its economic policies is that people who work hard should be able to afford a decent life
– once upon a time, a blue-collar worker with a high school education could support a family, take vacations, and even save for retirement
– technology has made our productivity many times higher, but life is life poorer than in the 1960s
– it is possible to restore the middle class by reversing missteps of the last 50 years: a massive military machine has nearly bankrupted the country; Washington has put corporations in charge, enriching the wealthiest as working people have dropped out of the middle class
– official unemployment is low, but most of the new jobs are in the low-pay service sector
– wealth inequality in the country is at a 100-year high. More than 60% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck, with no savings for an emergency. Take-home pay after inflation and taxes has fallen 9% under the current administration.
– under the current administration, the price of an average home has risen from $250,000 to around$400,000, and mortgage rates have more than doubled. Rents have followed the trend

The Campaign advocates:
– raising the minimum wage to $15, which is the equivalent to its 1967 level
– prosecuting union-busting corporations so that labor can organize and negotiate fair wages
– expanding free childcare to millions of families with programs like that pioneered by the state of New Mexico
– dropping housing costs by $1000 per family and make home ownership affordable by backing 3% home mortgages with tax-free bonds
– cutting energy prices by restricting natural gas exports
– supporting small businesses by redirecting regulatory scrutiny onto large corporations
– securing the border and bring illegal immigration to a halt, so that undocumented migrants won’t undercut wages
– negotiating trade deals that prevent low-wage countries from competing with American workers in a “race to the bottom.”
– reining in military spending and using the resources to fund infrastructure, health care, higher education, child care, and domestic prosperity
– reversing the chronic disease epidemic that is a $3.7 trillion drag on families and the American economy
– cleaning out corruption in Washington, D.C., which funnels so much of our nation’s wealth to giant corporations and billionaires
– establishing addiction healing centers on organic farms across the country
– making student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and cutting interest rates on student loans to zero
– cutting by half to bring them in line with other nations

To finance the above measures, the campaign advocates:
– ending military adventures and regime-change wars, like the one in Ukraine. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya $90,000 per family of four, enough to pay off all medical debt, all credit card debt, provide free childcare, feed every hungry child, repair our infrastructure, and make college tuition free — with money left over
– ending the corruption in Washington: the corporate giveaways, the boondoggles, the bailouts of the too-big-to-fail that leave the little guy at the mercy of the market. Corporations right now are sitting on $8 trillion in cash. Their contribution to tax revenues was 33% in the 1950s — it is 10% today

Poverty Reduction
The campaign states that:
– the nation faces a widening wealth gap (the most unequal since the 1920s), rampant debt, decaying infrastructure, and a hollowed-out industrial base
– every night, tens of millions of American children go to bed hungry. Millions of Americans must choose between food and medicine; millions more are living on the edge, just a single car repair away from disaster. And these problems are worse for Black, Native, and other minority populations
– government assistance to the nation’s most vulnerable is a high priority, but even more important is to reverse policies that have led to such poverty in the first place. It proposes to rebuild the industrial infrastructure, ruined by forty years of off-shoring and misguided “free trade” schemes
– it advocates policies that favor small and medium businesses, which are the nation’s real job creators and the dynamos of American enterprise
– it supports labor in reclaiming its fair share of American prosperity, breaking up “too-big-to-fail” banks and monopolies, instead bailing out homeowners, debtors, and small business owners in crises
– global developments, particularly the end of the US dollar’s status as the world’s unchallenged reserve currency, portend turbulent economic conditions ahead. Yet at the same time, we know that America is fundamentally a wealthy nation, blessed with vast lands, rich resources, and a creative population, and that is the tap the campaign intends to tap into to turn the national economy around
– healthcare is another key aspect of American revitalization, as it consumes nearly one-fifth of GDP. However, it’s not just a matter of shifting the burden of who pays: healthcare spending per capita has increased twelve-fold since 1960. Is America twelve times healthier? On the contrary, the nation faces a pandemic of chronic disease. Auto-immunity, allergies, diabetes, obesity, addiction, anxiety, and depression afflict two-thirds of the population, up from a few percent in our grandparents’ time. It advocates going beyond making existing modalities available to all, to include low-cost alternative and holistic therapies that have been marginalized in a pharma-dominated system, and moving a sick care system to a wellness society.

Housing
The Campaign states that:
– the dream of home ownership is slipping away for many Americans with high mortgage rates, rising prices, and stagnant income
– venture capital firms and hedge funds are buying up single-family homes by the millions
– as home ownership costs rise beyond reach, rents follow them

The campaign cites these statistics:
– American homeownership is declining at the highest rate since the great depression; the nation lost more than 1 million homeowners in 2021 —more than in the housing crash of 2008 —and then another million in 2022
– the median home price has risen from $250,000 in 2019 to $400,000 in 2023
– mortgage interest rates have more than doubled under the current administration
– the rise in interest rates, combined with rising housing prices, has pushed the average monthly payment for someone buying a home from $1,050 in 2019 to over $2,600 per month
– at the same time, take-home pay after inflation and taxes has fallen by 9%
– at the current pace, by 2030 60% of single-family homes will be owned by corporations
– home ownership is now out of reach for all but the top income bracket
– younger Americans in particular barely dream of ever owning a home. They face a future at the mercy of corporate landlords who will raise rent to the highest level the market will bear

The Campaign advocates:
– tax-free 3% government-backed mortgage bonds, to bring the mortgage interest rate back to 2019 levels and even lower. Because the financing will come from investors, the cost to taxpayers will be minimal while helping home buyers. This measure alone will reduce monthly costs for the average home purchase by $1,000
– bringing derelict land and buildings back online, by incentivizing local governments to buy back the thousands of vacant lots and buildings that have been seized in many cities for tax arrears or other reasons, and bring city-owned land and buildings back onto the market
– encouraging municipalities to change zoning laws to allow ancillary dwelling units (granny flats) on more properties, to make housing available, bring families together, and provide homeowners with rental income
– amendment of the tax code, including for example changing business depreciation rules and reforming the “enterprise zones” that have contributed so much to gentrification, in order to restore home ownership to tens of millions of Americans, and lower costs for tens of millions more and get large corporations out of the single-family home business

Unions & Employment
The campaign states that:
– Candidate Kennedy is a strong supporter of labor rights, going back to his youthful involvement with Cesar Chavez. He believes that capitalism can function only in the presence of a strong labor movement. If workers cannot bargain collectively, they will always be at a disadvantage negotiating with large corporations, who will relentlessly drive down wages and erode working conditions.
– it intends to make defense of the rights of workers a cardinal principle of governance.
– a Kennedy administration will defend worker’s rights: (i) to organize; (ii) to collective bargaining; (iii) to strike; (iv) to meaningful wages and benefits, including a significant increase to the minimum wage; (v) to a healthy and safe workplace with appropriate working conditions; (vi) to compensation if injured on the job; (vii) to a dignified and secure retirement

The campaign advocates:
– vigorous enforcement of laws against union-busting corporations so that workers at places like Starbucks and Amazon can organize
– a federal tax deduction for union dues, in recognition that strong unions are a boon to the nation
– raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, with automatic further increases to keep pace with inflation
– supporting legislation, such as the PRO Act, to boost worker protections and unionization
– amending bankruptcy laws so that collective bargaining agreements are preserved through bankruptcy and assumed by the new owner, so that corporations cannot use bankruptcy maneuvers to strip workers of their agreements, benefits, and pensions
– strengthening protections for workers in the gig economy, so that corporations can no longer use gig workers to undermine wages for regular employees
– protecting worker rights in trade agreements. Neoliberal free trade policies set American workers into competition with workers in low-wage countries that have few labor protections where, in some cases, unions are non-existent.
– promoting the on-shoring of industrial production, again so that American workers are not pitted in competition against workers from low-wage countries

Corporations, Consumers, & Competition
The campaign states that:
– it’s “We the People,” not “We the Corporations”
– one of its priorities is to dissolve the corrupt merger of state and corporate power, to free government agencies from the control of big corporations
– the nation’s food is unhealthy because Big Ag controls the Department of Agriculture. It has endless wars because military contractors control the Department of Defense, State Department, and intelligence agencies. The middle class is being decimated because Wall Street controls the Federal Reserve, Treasury, and SEC. The environment is a toxic mess because big polluters and extractive industries control the EPA. Healthcare costs and chronic disease run rampant because Big Pharma controls the CDC, FDA, and NIH.
– only an independent President beholden to neither major party can free our government from corporate capture. The previous administration promised to drain the swamp, but appointed corporate lobbyists and other “swamp creatures” to key posts; and the current administration has been wallowing in the corporate-controlled Washington swamp for 50 years
– candidate Kennedy has the experience to reclaim our government for the American people. For 40 years, he has sued countless government agencies. He knows all the tricks that corrupt officials use to advance the corporate agenda

The campaign advocates:
– installing honest, competent leadership throughout the federal bureaucracy, agency by agency
– rooting out corruption and replacing corporate-friendly agency leaders with reformers and whistle-blowers dedicated to the national interest
– shutting revolving door by executive order with a five year ban on administration officials lobbying their former government agency
– making government agencies transparent to public view, so that the American people can once again have faith that their government works for them — not big corporations.

An Economy for All
The party states that:
– it wants all members of society to have abundant opportunities to achieve economic success. A free and competitive market allocates resources in the most efficient manner
– each person has the right to offer goods and services to others on the free market. The only proper role of government in the economic realm is to protect property rights, adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework in which voluntary trade is protected
– all efforts by government to redistribute wealth, or to control or manage trade, are improper in a free society

Poverty Reduction
The party states that:
– the proper and most effective source of help for the poor is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals. It believes members of society will become even more charitable and civil society will be strengthened as government reduces its activity in this realm

Property and Contract
The party states that:
– the freedom to contract to obtain, retain, profit from, manage, or dispose of one’s property must be upheld. Libertarians would free property owners from government restrictions on their rights to control and enjoy their property, as long as their choices do not harm or infringe on the rights of others
– eminent domain, civil asset forfeiture, governmental limits on profits, governmental production mandates, and governmental controls on prices of goods and services (including wages, rents, and interest) are abridgements of such fundamental rights
– in voluntary dealings among private entities, parties should be free to choose with whom they trade and set whatever trade terms are mutually agreeable

Marketplace Freedom
The party states that:
– it supports free markets, and defends the right of individuals to form corporations, cooperatives and other types of entities based on voluntary association
– it opposes all forms of government subsidies and bailouts to business, labor, or any other special interest
– government should not compete with private enterprise

Labor & Employment
The party states that:
– employment and compensation agreements between private employers and employees are outside the scope of government, and these contracts should not be encumbered by government-mandated benefits or social engineering
– it supports the right of private employers and employees to choose whether or not to bargain with each other through a labor union. Bargaining should be free of government interference, such as compulsory arbitration or imposing an obligation to bargain

Licensing
The party states that:
– it supports the right of every person to earn an honest and peaceful living through the free and voluntary exchange of goods and services. Accordingly, it opposes occupational and other licensing laws that infringe on this right or treat it as a state-granted privilege
– it encourages certifications by voluntary associations of professionals

Sex Work
The party states that it supports the decriminalization of prostitution, and asserts the right of consenting adults to provide sexual services to clients for compensation, and the right of clients to purchase sexual services from consenting sex workers

Pensions; Retirement and Income Security
The party states that:
– retirement planning is the responsibility of the individual, not the government
– it would phase out the current government-sponsored Social Security system and transition to a private voluntary system
– the proper and most effective source of help for the poor is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals. It believes members of society will become even more charitable and civil society will be strengthened as government reduces its activity in this realm

Money and Financial Markets
The party states that:
– it advocates free-market banking, with unrestricted competition among banks and depository institutions of all types
– markets are not actually free unless fraud is vigorously combated
– those who enjoy the possibility of profits must not impose risks of losses upon others, such as through government guarantees or bailouts
– it supports ending federal student loan guarantees and special treatment of student loan debt in bankruptcy proceedings
– individuals engaged in voluntary exchange should be free to use as money any mutually agreeable commodity or item
– it supports a halt to inflationary monetary policies and unconstitutional legal tender laws

Economy for All

The party states that:
– the worst Inflation crisis in four decades has crushed the middle class, devastated family budgets, and pushed the dream of homeownership out of reach for millions
– history shows that Inflation will not magically disappear while policies remain the same
– to defeat inflation and bring down prices, it is committed to unleashing American Energy, reining in wasteful spending, cutting excessive regulations, securing national borders, and restoring peace through strength
– it dedication to the restoration of prosperity, ensuring economic security, and building a brighter future for American workers and their families will make America stronger, more resilient, and more prosperous than ever before.
– its America First economic agenda rests on five pillars: slashing regulations, cutting taxes, securing fair trade deals, ensuring reliable and abundant low-cost energy, and championing innovation.
– it commits to reducing housing, education, and healthcare costs, while lowering everyday expenses and increasing opportunities.

The party advocates:
– unleashing American energy, including making the U.S. the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world by lifting  restrictions on energy production and terminating the Socialist Green New Deal, and unleashing energy production from all sources, including nuclear, to immediately slash Inflation and power homes, cars, and factories with reliable, abundant, and affordable energy.
– stabilizing the economy by slashing wasteful government spending and promoting economic growth
– reinstating deregulation policies from its prior term in office, which saved Americans $11,000 per household and ending the current administration’s regulatory policies, which disproportionately harm low and middle-income households
– reversing the current administration’s border policies, which have driven up the cost of housing, education, and healthcare for American families
– ending the global chaos, which breeds inflation, by restoring peace through strength and thereby reducing geopolitical risk and lower commodity prices
– stopping outsourcing, and turning the United States into a manufacturing superpower
– large tax cuts for workers, and no taxes on tips, including reinstating provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that doubled the standard deduction, expanded the Child Tax Credit, and spurred economic growth for all Americans, and eliminate taxes on tips for millions of restaurant and hospitality workers, and pursuing additional Tax Cuts.
– reducing the regulatory burden, lowering energy costs, and promoting economic policies that drive down the cost of living and prices for everyday goods and services
 

Housing & Poverty Reduction
To help new home buyers, the party advocates:
– reducing mortgage rates by slashing Inflation, limited opening of federal lands to allow for new home construction, promoting homeownership through tax incentives, and support for first-time buyers, and cutting unnecessary regulations that raise housing costs.

Jobs, Unions, Employment, Industries & Corporations
The party states that:
– American workers are the most productive, talented, and innovative on Earth, yet the national trade deficit in goods has grown to over $1 Trillion Dollars a year.
– its America First economic agenda rests on five pillars: slashing regulations, cutting taxes, securing fair trade deals, ensuring reliable and abundant low-cost energy, and championing innovation.
– it advocates a robust plan to protect American workers, farmers, and industries from unfair Foreign Competition, including commitment to rebalanced trade, securing of strategic independence, and revitalization of manufacturing, including prioritization of domestic production and ensuring of national independence in essential goods and services.

The party advocates:
– to rebalance trade, supporting baseline tariffs on foreign-made goods, passing a Reciprocal Trade Act, and responding to unfair Trading practices.  As tariffs on Foreign Producers go up, taxes on American workers, families, and businesses can come down.
– securing strategic independence from China, by revoking China’s Most Favored Nation status, phasing out imports of essential goods, and stopping China from buying American Real Estate and Industries.
– reviving the U.S. Auto Industry by reversing harmful regulations, canceling the current administration’s Electric Vehicle and other Mandates, and preventing the importation of Chinese vehicles.
– bringing critical supply chains back to the U.S., and thereby ensuring national security and economic stability while also creating jobs and raising wages for American workers
– strengthening Buy American and Hire American policies, and banning companies that outsource jobs from doing business with the Federal Government.
– becoming the world’s manufacturing superpower, by protecting American Workers from unfair Foreign Competition and unleashing American energy, thereby creating jobs, wealth, and investment.

Industries, Corporations & Consumers
The party advocates:
– canceling the electric vehicle mandate
– cutting costly burdensome regulations that stifle jobs, freedom, innovation and make everything more expensive, and implementing transparency and common sense in rulemaking.

Technology & Innovation
The party advocates paving the way for future Economic Greatness by leading the world in emerging industries:
– with respect to crypto, the party advocates ending the unlawful and un-American Crypto crackdown, and opposition to the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency.  It undertakes to defend the right to mine Bitcoin, and ensure every American has the right to self-custody of their Digital Assets, and to transact free from Government Surveillance and Control.
– with respect to Artificial Intelligence (AI), the party advocates repealing the current administration’s Executive Order that hinders AI Innovation, and imposes radical leftwing ideas on the development of this technology. In its place, it advocates development of AI rooted in free speech and human flourishing.
– to expand freedom, prosperity, and safety in space, the party advocates creating a robust Manufacturing Industry in Near Earth Orbit, sending American Astronauts back to the Moon and onward to Mars, and enhancing partnerships with the rapidly expanding Commercial Space sector to revolutionize the ability to access, live in, and develop assets in Space.

The Marginalized & Vulnerable
The Party’s Credo affirms its belief that among the responsibilities of government is the duty to achieve a society in which the disabled can lead lives of dignity and where Social Security remains an unshakable commitment

With the disabled
The party states that:
– one in four American adults lives with a disability.
– people with disabilities have long strengthened the nation’s economy and expanded the nation’s possibilities.
– groundbreaking legislation like the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act have made significant strides toward equal opportunity for people with disabilities.
– yet people with disabilities are three times less likely to have a job, and when they do, they are often paid less money for doing the same work.
– the current administration signed an executive order establishing a government-wide commitment to advancing equality and equity in federal employment, including for people with disabilities, and ordered the Labor Department to protect workers with disabilities.
– the administration is helping state and local governments, businesses, and nonprofits access federal funds to hire more disabled Americans, and is appointing people with disabilities to positions across government.
– it is helping young people with disabilities transition from education to employment through the Disability Innovation Fund.
– it has barred health care providers from denying medical treatments related to organ donations or lifesaving care for disabled Americans based on their disability alone.
– the administration launched long COVID clinical trials and created the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice; and caused the National Institutes of Health to designate people with disabilities a “health disparity population,” unlocking new resources for research.

The party advocates:
– aggressive enforcement of federal mental health and substance abuse parity laws, to prevent unlawful discrimination by health insurers and care providers.
– hiring of more mental health and addictions professionals, especially in rural areas, and expanding access through Medicaid.
– expanded support for incarcerated persons suffering mental health or addiction issues.
– strict enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
– a holistic approach to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and increasing SSI benefits for millions of Americans, eliminating waiting periods for SSDI.
– increases federal funding to expand accessible transportation and accessible, integrated, and affordable housing.

Mental Health

The party states that during its current term in office the administration it:
– released a comprehensive national strategy to transform understanding and treatment of mental health, and has invested nearly $1 billion to support the 988
Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
– is investing in training of more mental health professionals and expansion of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics nationwide
– has taken action to improve and strengthen mental health parity requirements to ensure that more than 150 million Americans with private health insurance can better access mental health benefits under their insurance plan
– is investing to support student mental, including to help hire and train over 14,000 school-based mental health professionals across the Nation

Behavioral Healthcare

The party states that:
– in 2022, almost a quarter of adults suffered from mental illness, 13 percent of adolescents had serious thoughts of suicide, and overdose deaths continued near record highs
– as a core pillar of his Unity Agenda, the President released a national strategy to transform the way in which mental health is understood and addressed in America

In order to strengthen mental health parity protections, the party’s 2035 budget proposal advocates:
– requires all health plans to cover mental health and substance use disorder benefits, ensures that plans have an adequate network of behavioral health providers, and improves the Department of Labor’s (DOL) ability to enforce the law
– allocating $275 million over 10 years to increase the DOL’s capacity to ensure that large group market health plans and issuers comply with mental health and substance use disorder requirements, and to take action against plans and issuers that do not comply
– significant investments in expanding the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which is projected to respond to 7.5 million contacts in 2025, and in related CDC programs
– allocating $1 billion to advance Health IT adoption and engagement in interoperability

Addictions

The party states that during its current term in office the administration:
– has made the overdose epidemic a top priority, providing funding to States, localities, and Tribes for overdose prevention efforts like access to naloxone and
treatment for opioid-use disorder
– requested $1.6 billion in supplemental funding for 2024 in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand substance use prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery support services to address the overdose crisis

In its 2025 budget proposal, the party advocates:
– increased funding for the State Opioid Response grant program, which has provided treatment services to over 1.2 million people and enabled States to reverse more than 500,000 overdoses with over nine million purchased overdose reversal medication kits
– investment in a new technical assistance center to strengthen health providers’ understanding and treatment of women’s mental health and substance use

The party advocates:
– ending over-prescribing of pain medicines
– expanded mental health support for incarcerated persons
– eliminating incarceration for drug use alone and increasing harm reduction interventions and treatment diversion programs

Native American & Tribal Peoples

The party states that during its current term in office:
– it has helped champion a new and better chapter in the story of nation-to-nation relationships with Tribal Nations, including appointment of the first Native American Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, and more than 80 Native Americans to senior Administration roles.
– it relaunched Tribal Nations Summit and reestablished the White House Council on Native American Affairs. He is protecting sacred and Tribal lands, including by restoring protections for Berryessa Snow Mountain, Avi Kwa Ame, and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.
– to further tribal self-governance and self-determination, it signed a historic executive order to promote maximal autonomy in funding and other steps.
– it has taken action to address a decades-long epidemic of unresolved disappearances and killings Indigenous persons crisis.  For example, the Departments of Justice and the Interior are working together to accelerate investigations, and it has continued to implement the Not Invisible Act Commission recommendations to address violent crime and the high rates of people reported missing in Native communities and relaunched the North American Trilateral Working Group on Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls.
– it has issued final fee-to-trust land acquisitions rules and changes to Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act regulations.

The party advocates:
– adequate and stable funding for HIS, including advance appropriation to end historical underfunding
– allocating $8 billion in 2025, including increases for clinical services, preventative health, facilities construction, contract support costs, and tribal leases
– reauthorization and increased funding for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians
– in accordance with feedback from tribal consultations, the Budget continued support for indigenous communities in keeping with U.S. Federal trust responsibilities
while working to advance equity, including $4.6 billion for DOI’s tribal programs, an increase of more than $1 billion over the 2021 level, to support public safety and justice, human and social services, and education
– prioritizing restoration of healthy and abundant wild salmon, steelhead, and other native fish populations in the Columbia River Basin, and honoring United States’ obligations to tribal nations, including $145 million through the Corps of Engineers, $19 million through the Bureau of Reclamation, and $34 million through NOAA to enhance restoration efforts in the watershed
– to address reports that Native Americans are seven times more likely to live in overcrowded conditions and five times more likely to have inadequate plumbing, kitchen, or heating systems than other U.S. households, allocating $1.1 billion at HUD to support tribal efforts to expand affordable housing & improve housing conditions
– allocating $2.8 billion to the Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund, as well as $226 million in discretionary funding to meet existing settlement obligations
– honoring and strengthening US trust obligations to Tribal Nations consistent with US laws and treaties
– working with Tribal Nations on a nation-to-nation basis to empower Indigenous peoples, increase economic development in Tribal Nations, and protect Tribal lands and assets
– a surge in funding to the Indian Health Service to fight COVID, and to help economic recovery
– restorative justice to address boarding school trauma, and increased funding for the Bureau of Indian Education
– substantial funding increases to address Tribal housing needs
– promotion of Indigenous culture and languages
– pursuing environmental and climate justice, including for Indigenous peoples, and will invest in clean water and wastewater infrastructure
– investing in sustainable and regenerative agriculture
– mandatory full funding for the Indian Health Service
– increasing public investment in Tribal broadband infrastructure

Rural Communities

The party advocates:
– doubled investments in community and rural health centers, and expanded mobile health units
– expanding USDA ownership and loan programs, to encourage new and beginning farmers, ranchers, and foresters, including particularly farmers of color
– limiting foreign ownership of farms, to protect families and food security
– preventing states from blocking municipal or co-op, publicly-owned broadband internet; increased federal support for municipal broadband
– expansion of local and regional markets for family farmers and ranchers
– zero-emissions agriculture industry
– investment in sustainable, low-carbon and organic agriculture
– enforce labor and environmental protections for farm workers
– 10-20-30 funding, to provide 10% of federal funding to communities in which at least 20% of population has lived beneath the poverty line for 30 years or more

Refugees & Newcomers

The party states that:
– immigrants are essential to our society and our economy, that they enrich American culture, grow the nation’s food, care for our loved ones, serve in our armed forces, and provide critical health care services.
– the immigration framework was last updated in the 1990s, and does not reflect the needs of the 21^st century. Many immigrants are forced to wait years, and often decades, to immigrate lawfully to the United States.
– a robust immigration system with accessible lawful pathways and penalties for illegal immigration alleviates pressure at the border and upholds our values. The bipartisan U.S. Citizenship Act would permanently increase family-sponsored and employment-based immigration, and the number of immigrant visas that are available by 250,000 over 5 years.

The party advocates:
– rescinding the state of emergency declared at the US-Mexico border
– termination of discriminatory travel and immigration bans, and corresponding legislation
– expansion and streamlining of protections for Dreamers and parents of American citizen children
– permitting asylum for victims of gang and domestic violence, as well as LGBTQ+ people who are safe in their home countries
– providing roadmaps to citizenship for millions of undocumented workers, caregivers, students, and children
– expansion of annual visa caps for victims of human trafficking
– end workplace and community immigration raids

To accommodate refugees and care for unaccompanied children, the party’s 2025 budget advocates:
– allocation of $9.3 billion to help rebuild the Nation’s refugee resettlement infrastructure and support resettlement of up to 125,000 refugees in 2025 and to allow
ORR to continue the programmatic improvements in expanding access to counsel to help children navigate complex immigration court proceedings and enhancing case management and post-release services
– establishment of an emergency contingency fund that would provide additional resources when there are unanticipated increases in the number of unaccompanied
Children
– to improve immigration courts, allocation of $981 million, an increase of $121 million to help address the backlog of over 2.4 million currently pending cases, including support for 25 new immigration judge teams
– allocating $30 million for EOIR to partner to with the U.S. Digital Service to maximize each judge’s adjudicatory capacity and help reduce the case backlog

Supporting the Marginalized
The party states, among its ten key values, that:
– society must consciously confront in itself and in its organizations, any discrimination by race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, religion, or physical or mental ability that denies fair treatment and equal justice under the law

The Disabled

The party states that:
– the physically and mentally challenged are people who are differently abled from the majority, but who are nevertheless able to live independently
– the mentally ill are people with serious mental problems who often need social support networks
– physically and mentally challenged people have the right to live independently in their communities
– the mentally ill also have the right to live independently, circumscribed only by the limitations of their illness
– these people are their own best advocates in securing their rights and for living in the social and economic mainstream
– current Medicaid policy forces many challenged people to live in costly state-funded institutions, excluding and alienating them from society and the workforce, and denying them the chance to use their potentials
– as a result of diminishing funds for care for the growing number of the mentally ill often result in their homelessness, vagrancy and dependence on short-term crisis facilities, and increases the necessity of placing them in long-term, locked facilities

The party advocates:
– full enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act to enable all people with disabilities to achieve independence and function at the highest possible level
– Government assurance that children with disabilities are provided with the same educational opportunities as those without disabilities
– increased rehabilitation funding so that persons with disabilities can pursue education and training to reach their highest potential
– participation by the differently abled in allocation decisions of state rehabilitation department fund
– ratification of the United Nations Convention on Rights for Persons with Disabilities as well as the Optional Protocol
– funding for in-home support services to allow the differently abled to hire personal care attendants while remaining at home
– adequate funding to support community-based programs that provide out-patient medical services, case management services and counseling programs
– making it easier for the chronically mentally ill to apply for and receive Supplemental Security Income
– mainstreaming the differently abled
– increased teacher training in regard to the needs of differently abled students
– discouragement of stereotyping of the mentally and physically challenged by the entertainment industry and the media
– funding for programs to increase public sensitivity to the needs of the mentally ill and differently abled.

Indigenous Peoples
The party states that:
– it has great respect for Native American cultures, especially their deference for community and the Earth
– it recognizes both the sovereignty of Native American tribal governments and the Federal Government’s trust obligation to Native American people. Native American nations are just that — nations — and should be treated in like fashion, with the special circumstance that they are located within the United States
– the federal government is obligated to deal in good faith with Native Americans; honor its treaty obligations; adequately fund programs for the betterment of tribal governments and their people; affirm the religious rights of Native Americans in ceremonies (American Indian Religious Freedom Act); provide funds for innovative economic development initiatives, education and public health programs; and respect land, water and mineral rights within the borders of reservations and traditional lands

The party advocates:
– efforts to broadly reform the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make this vast agency more responsible and more responsive to tribal governments
– just settlement of the claims of the thousands of Native American uranium miners who have suffered and died from radiation exposure, and condemns the stance of secrecy taken by the Atomic Energy Commission during this era and its subsequent claim of government immunity, taken knowingly and immorally at the expense of Native people
– because Native American land and treaty rights often stand as the front line against government and multinational corporate attempts to plunder energy, mineral, timber, fish, and game resources; pollute water, air, and land in the service of the military; expand economically; and consume natural resources, the party advocates legal, political, and grassroots efforts by, and on behalf of, Native Americans to protect their traditions, rights, livelihoods, and sacred spaces
– support for the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands, their ways of life, and all other rights of free peoples
– adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the UN, actively supported by the federal government and by governments worldwide

Local & Rural Communities
The party states that:
– successful local communities nurture everyone of all ages, generate good jobs and housing, and provide public services; creating cities and towns that educate everyone, encourage recreation, and preserve natural and cultural resources; building local governments that protect people from environmental hazards and crime; and motivating citizens to participate in making decisions

The party advocates:
– reforms that give communities more control over their own local economies
– economic decentralization, including community-based economics whose aim is local prosperity and self-sufficiency
– protecting local businesses from the predatory pricing practices of chain and “big box” stores
– incentives for co-operative enterprises, such as consumer co-ops, workers’ co-operatives, credit unions and other institutions that help communities develop economic projects
– allowing municipalities to approve or disapprove large economic projects case-by-case based on environmental impacts, local ownership, community reinvestment, wage levels, and working conditions
– allowing communities to set environmental, consumer, human rights, labor, health and safety standards higher than federal or state minimums
– investment in the commons: rebuild infrastructure; improve mass transit
– support for local living wage laws
– establishing local currencies such as Time Dollars, Ithaca Hours and BerkShares, to strengthen local economies
– place of origin labeling.
– corporate “good character” laws, requiring corporations, when applying for a permit, to disclose all violations of law they have committed, and empowering officials to deny permits based on such information

Immigration & Newcomers
The party states that:
– the current controversial influx of immigrants in this country has been largely due to unfair US trade policies. If it were economically possible to provide for their families many would choose to remain in their native countries
– any immigration policy should be seen a way to address all people’s humanitarian needs as we undo the damage to local communities and chart a course toward sustainable local economies
– it stands firmly for social justice for all those living in this country regardless of their immigration status
– it accepts as a goal a world in which persons can freely choose to live in and work in any county he or she desires, while recognizing that this would be impractical without reciprocity between nations
– it acknowledges the rights of countries to know the identity of persons seeking to enter, and to limit who can come in to protect public safety
– the U.S. needs a complete overhaul of its immigration laws
– millions of people are living and working in the U.S. with no legal status, making them subject to extreme exploitation and abuse; and immigration raids are terrorizing the immigrant community and breaking up families
– immigration issues must be considered from an international standpoint, taking into account international labor and environmental standards, and human rights

The party advocates:
– recognition that there cannot be any true solutions to the conflicts created by immigration until we are able to organize globally to overcome the power of multinational corporations, which seek to drive down workers’ living standards everywhere. International cooperation and solidarity among labor organizations are essential to combat this trend.
– undocumented immigrants who are already residing and working in the United States, and their families, should be granted a legal status which includes the chance to become U.S. citizens. Persons should be excluded from this process only if they present a clear and present danger to other members of our society
– any such path to citizenship should include a recognition of past, uncredited payments into the Social Security System
– permanent border passes to all citizens of Mexico and United States whose identity can be traced and verified
– easily-attainable work permits for citizens of Mexico and United States
– all persons fleeing political, racial, religious, or other types of persecution must be welcomed and given permanent resident status, with particular attention being given to those minorities who are political exiles and refugees and those whose lives would be at risk if asylum is not granted
– family reunification must be a priority in accepting applications for permanent residency
– permanent residency should not be denied based on political views, racial or national origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, disability, or any other arbitrary basis

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Disabilities & Addictions
The campaign states that:
– healthcare is a key aspect of American revitalization, as it consumes nearly one-fifth of GDP. However, it’s not just a matter of shifting the burden of who pays: healthcare spending per capita has increased twelve-fold since 1960. Is America twelve times healthier? On the contrary, the nation faces a pandemic of chronic disease. Auto-immunity, allergies, diabetes, obesity, addiction, anxiety, and depression afflict two-thirds of the population, up from a few percent in our grandparents’ time.
– addiction afflicts all ethnic groups in America

The campaign advocates:
– going beyond making existing modalities available to all, to include low-cost alternative and holistic therapies that have been marginalized in a pharma-dominated system, and moving a sick care system to a wellness society
– a nationwide network of low-cost or free addiction healing centers on organic farms available to anyone who sincerely wants to heal

Indigenous Rights & Relations
The party states that:
– Candidate Kennedy inherited from his father a deep commitment to improving the lives of Native Americans, seeing the poverty and suffering in Indian Country as our country’s greatest shame. He views federal government’s unfair dealings and broken treaties with the tribal nations as our nation’s original sin.
– Candidate Kennedy was inspired by his father’s campaign visits to reservation to focus a significant amount of his own career on representing the interests of indigenous Americans in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. He has advocated for these first Americans in courtrooms and in treaty negotiations; he has fought for them against mining, timber, hydroelectric, and oil-industry forces endeavoring to steal their resources and destroy their lands and tribal culture
– Candidate Kennedy has been on the front lines of recent battles in Indian country, joining water protectors at Standing Rock, he and his son Conor were arrested protesting the Keystone XL pipeline.

The campaign advocates:
– addressing historical wrongs done to Native American communities, including honoring the spirit as well as the letter of treaties as the highest law of the land: documents made between sovereign nations
– supporting cultural renewal and defense of religious practices and sacred sites
– respecting tribal sovereignty and the right of self determination
– elevating the need for restoration of illegally taken lands and resources, compensation for broken treaties, protection and enhancement of natural resources in Indian Country to matters of national interest and examination
– working in partnership with Native American leaders to learn more and to find the solutions. It is the duty of the federal government to do all that it canto create a better life for all Americans—especially those who have been reprehensibly neglected
– seeking to restore trust between Native Americans and the federal government, working hard to deserve it. It is not enough to apologize for—or even attempt to rectify—past injustices; we need to prevent current and future injustices from occurring.

Immigration & Newcomers
The campaign states that:
– it sees the situation at the border primarily as a humanitarian crisis which has spread far beyond the border, as a flood of migrants has overwhelmed the resources of cities as faraway as New York. The suffering of the migrants at the hands of drug cartels, human traffickers, and exploitative employers is heartbreaking
– it seeks to end the humanitarian crisis, starting with its most immediate cause — an uncontrolled border. While sealing the border to illegal immigration, it proposes to enact deeper reforms to stem illegal migration in the long term, while expanding lawful, orderly immigration according to principles of justice and fairness
– Americans must recognize that the foremost victims of a porous, chaotic border are the immigrants themselves. Compassion and decency demand that we do not allow the current situation to continue
– ruthless criminal cartels have woven drugs, immigration, and human trafficking together into a multi-billion dollar business, and American policy has exacerbated the situation. Immigration is being administered by the cartels, not our government
– yet a controlled border is necessary

The campaign advocates:
– first, getting the border under control. There are two ways people enter this country illegally. One way is by sneaking in. The other is by simply walking across at an entry point, claiming asylum, and disappearing. Both must be addressed simultaneously
– second, working with other countries to stem the tide of migrants
– third, to fully fund and prioritize the administrative infrastructure for lawful, orderly immigration to this country

To regain control over the border, the campaign advocates:
– closing the border by returning to use of technology dismantled by the current administration, such as cameras, lights, and motion detectors, coupled with physical barriers in key areas. There is no need to build a wall across the entire 2,000-mile border. We have the technology to prevent people from getting through undetected.
– regaining control asylum of claims by fully funding courts, services, and border agencies to allow lawful immigration in accordance with U.S. law and deny non-compliant access, and appoint more judges to handle asylum cases. There are too few asylum judges to process even the legitimate claims of political refugees. If claimants of political asylum knew their case would be heard swiftly, and that specious claims would be met with swift deportation, the cartels’ business model would fail. Hundreds more judges need to be appointed to deal with the backlog of 1.6 million immigrants living in the US while they await their asylum hearing

In working with other countries to stem the tide of migrants, the campaign advocates a new kind of Good Neighbor Policy, to reestablish regional diplomatic, proper planning, and end economic exploitation, including:
– ending military adventurism that destabilizes other nations and generates millions of refugees, as in Syria and Iraq, which sent millions of migrants into Europe. The current flood of arms into Ukraine sends ripples of instability across the continent. Some of the weapons have already ended up in Africa and central Asia, two major sources of immigration.
– ending support for despotic governments, juntas, coups, death squads, and repressive regimes that persecute and impoverish their own people
– ending opposition to governments that seek land reform, labor reform, and social welfare for their people. These create a desperate and miserable population prone to flee their homeland for a better life
– cooperating with Mexico and Central American countries to improve economies and provide economic incentives to build jobs and develop much-needed infrastructure and a better standard of living, so people will be motivated to stay in their home country and enjoy their natural culture and heritage
– pursuing a different trade and economic policy, including ending decades of neoliberal austerity measures and US encouragement of financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank to demand that developing nations gut their social programs, privatize public assets, and strip away environmental and labor protections
– ending appeals to xenophobia and bigotry in calling for a tough border policy and turning toward compassion and humanitarian conscience

The party states that its core belief is “respect for the life, liberty and property rights of each individual. This means that no one may initiate force against another, as that violates those natural rights. While many claim adherence to this principle, only libertarians apply the non-aggression axiom to the state.”

 The party has published no official statement concerning its positions regarding:
– Supporting the marginalized or vulnerable
– Relations with Indigenous Americans
– Rural communities
– Immigration and newcomers

The Marginalized & Vulnerable
The party’s 2024 platform comprises no statement concerning its policies on support for the marginalized or vulnerable.

Indigenous Rights & Relations
The party’s 2024 platform comprises no statement concerning its policies on Indigenous rights or relations.

Rural Communities
The party’s 2024 platform comprises no statement concerning its policies on support for or development of rural communities.

Refugees & Newcomers
The party advocates:
– sealing the border, and stopping the migrant invasion, by restoring all border policies of the previous Trump administration and halting all releases of Illegal Aliens into the interior. It advocates completing the Border Wall, shifting massive portions of Federal Law Enforcement to Immigration Enforcement, and use of advanced technology to monitor and secure the Border. We will use all resources needed to stop the Invasion—including moving thousands of troops currently stationed overseas to our own southern border and deploying the U.S. Navy to impose a full fentanyl blockade on the waters of our region—boarding and inspecting ships to look for fentanyl and fentanyl precursors. Before we defend the borders of foreign countries, we must first secure the border of our country.
– enforcing immigration law, including strengthening Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), increasing penalties for illegal entry and overstaying Visas, and reinstating “Remain in Mexico” and other Policies that helped reduce Illegal Immigration to historic lows in the prior Trump administration.  We will also invoke the Alien Enemies Act to remove all known or suspected gang members, drug dealers, or cartel members from the United States, ending the scourge of Illegal Alien gang violence once and for all.
– reinstating the Travel Ban, and using Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their Home Countries immediately.
– carrying out the largest deportation operation in American history, reversing the Open Borders policies that have allowed criminal gangs and Illegal Aliens from around the World to roam the United States without consequences, and sending illegal aliens back home and removing those who have violated American law.
– using existing federal law to keep foreign Christian-hating Communists, Marxists, and Socialists out of America. Those who join the country must love it. It advocates use of extreme vetting to ensure that jihadists and jihadist sympathizers are not admitted.
– to stop sanctuary cities, cutting federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions that release dangerous Illegal Alien criminals onto the streets, rather than handing them over to ICE, and requiring local cooperation with Federal Immigration Enforcement.
– to ensure that the immigration system puts American workers first, prioritizing merit-based immigration, ensuring those admitted to the country contribute positively to society and the economy, and never become a drain on Public Resources, including ending chain migration
– deporting pro-Hamas radicals and making college campuses safe and patriotic again

Role & Purpose of Government
The Party’s charter states that, under God:
– it seeks for the nation and hopes for all people individual freedom in the framework of a just society, political freedom in the framework of meaningful participation by all citizens
– bound by the United States Constitution, and aware that a party must be responsive to be worthy of responsibility, its members pledge themselves to open, honest endeavor and to the conduct of public affairs in a manner worthy of a society of free people

The Party’s Credo states that:
– it recognizes that the capacity of government is limited, but that it regards democratic government as force for good and a source of hope
– it is the responsibility of government to achieve a society in which:
* taxes are clearly based on ability to pay
* a strong national defense is a common effort, where promoting human rights is a basic value of our foreign policy, and where we ensure that future by ending the nuclear arms race

The Party’s 2024 platform states that:
– history has shown that nothing about democracy is guaranteed. Every generation has to protect it, preserve it, choose it. Americans must stand together to choose what they want America to be.
– acknowledging that most Americans agree on more than they disagree on, it is committed to a unity agenda to advance solutions to big challenges that Americans have in common: beating the opioid epidemic, tackling the mental health crisis, holding Big Tech accountable, ending cancer as we know it, and meeting the nation’s sacred obligation to veterans.

Stewardship of Office

Taxes& Financial Responsibility

The party advocates:
– reinstating higher tax brackets for wealthy Americans
– closing tax loopholes and cracking down on overseas tax havens
– requiring investors to pay the same tax rates as workers

The party states that during its term in office the current administration, it:
– has reduced the federal deficit by more than $1 trillion, partly through the strong economic recovery following the pandemic and the vaccination program that allowed early responsible reopening of businesses
– has enacted another roughly $1 trillion in savings over the next decade through the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, and provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that empower Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices; and by imposing a 15-percent minimum tax on corporations with profits of more than $1 billion in profit, to address the unfairness of 55 of the most profitable corporations paying $0 in Federal income taxes; and by investment in rebuilding and modernizing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to recover taxes from wealthy earners
– is proposing to increase the corporate minimum tax rate to 21 percent, quadrupling the surcharge on stock buybacks, extending the IRS investment, and other reforms, resulting in about $3 trillion of deficit reduction

In order to further reduce the deficit, the party advocates:
– noting the tax code currently offers special treatment for the types of income that wealthy people enjoy, and that while the wages and salaries that everyday workers earn are taxed as ordinary income, billionaires make their money in ways that are taxed at lower rates, and sometimes not taxed at all, and that such special treatment, combined with sophisticated tax planning and tax loopholes, allows many of the wealthiest Americans to pay lower rates on their full income than many middle-class households pay
– in its 2025 budget, imposing a 25 percent minimum tax on the wealthiest 0.01 percent, those with wealth of more than $100 million
– repeal of 2017 tax cuts in favor of the top one percent of earners, restoring the 39.6 percent for single filers making more than $400,000 a year and married couples making more than $450,000 per year
– taxing capital gains at the same rate as wage income for those with more than $1 million in income and finally closes the carried interest loophole that allows some wealthy investment fund managers to pay tax at lower rates than their secretaries

Corporate Taxation
To ensure that corporations pay a fair share of taxes, the party advocates increasing corporate tax rates. The party states that:
– Corporations received a tax break in 2017, cutting effective U.S. tax rates for U.S. corporations to a low of less than 10 percent. While profits rose, however, their investment in their workers and the economy did not. Shareholders and top executives reaped the benefits, without the promised trickle down to workers, consumers, or communities
– therefore the party’s 2025 budget proposes setting the corporate tax rate at 28 percent, still below the 35 percent rate that prevailed prior to the 2017 tax law
– in addition, the budget proposes raising the Inflation Reduction Act’s corporate minimum tax rate on billion-dollar corporations from 15 percent to 21 percent
– in view of significant rises in executive compensation during recent decades, with Chief Executive Officer pay averaging more than 300 times that of a typical worker in 2022, the party’s 2025 budget proposes to deny deductions for all compensation over $1 million paid to any employee of a C corporation
– to comply with an agreement on a global tax framework and end international competition for corporations, the party advocates reducing tax incentives to book profits in low-tax jurisdictions, stopping corporate inversions to tax havens, and raising the tax rate on U.S. multinationals’ foreign earnings from 10.5 percent to 21 percent

Accountability in Office & Campaign Reform
The party advocates:
– a federal ethics commission to aggressively enforce and strengthen federal ethics laws
– requiring all candidates for federal office to publicly disclose at least 10 years of tax returns
– reinstating merit-based federal contracting processes
– restoration of independent inspectors general
– banning of lobbying by foreign governments
– requiring that advocacy groups that run ads to influence elections disclose donors who contribute more than $10,000, and ban foreign entities from contributing to them.
– expanding political advertising disclaimer requirements for online public communications.
– strengthening of public financing with small-dollar matching for all federal candidates and cracking down on foreign nationals who try to influence elections, including keeping super PACs wholly independent of campaigns and parties and passing a constitutional amendment that will ban all private financing from federal elections.
– ending “dark money” by requiring full disclosure of contributors and banning 501(c)(4) organizations from spending on elections. And, to curb the influence of special interests in our elections, prohibiting corporate PACs and lobbyists from donating to anyone they lobby.

Democratic Reform
The party states that:
– democracy has always been America’s sacred cause, and whether that is still true is the most urgent question of our time, and is what the 2024 election is all about.
– it is concerned about attacks by the previous administration on core tenets of American democracy: the Constitution, truth, the rule of law, its system of checks and balances, and even warnings of a “bloodbath” if it is not re-elected.
– it undertakes to defend freedoms, restore essential trust in the nation’s institutions, and preserve America’s vital role as a beacon of democracy across the world

To ensure that voting rights are available to all, the party advocates:
– full restoration of the Voting Rights Act
– full implementation of the Help America Vote Act, and accessible polling places
– mandatory, statistically meaningful post-election audits
– professional, well-trained election officials
– measures to ensure the integrity of the 2020 Census, in order to prevent gerrymandering of congressional districts
– increased investment in election technology, including cybersecurity
– a Constitutional amendment to eliminate all private financing of federal elections
– strengthening the public funding system, cracking down on foreign nationals who try to influence elections
– eliminating ‘dark money’ by requiring disclosure of contributors who contribute for or against candidates or parties
– requiring all candidates for federal office to publicly disclose at least 10 years of tax returns

Peace & International Relations

States, Territories, Municipalities
The party states that:
– the current administration has made historic investments in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa – delivering billions for infrastructure, semiconductor, clean energy, and transportation projects, and creating thousands of good jobs.
– it rejects the unequal treatment of residents of D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories, and unequivocally supports statehood for D.C., which its residents overwhelmingly support
– the people of Puerto Rico have earned and deserve to resolve the political status questions. To that end it supports enactment of the Puerto Rico Status Act/H.R. 2757, and promotes full civic and political representation for Puerto Ricans.
– it will work to end the unequal treatment of Puerto Rico by the federal government, and fight to provide equal access to federal programs like Medicaid, SNAP, and the CTC.
– it advocates speedy access to recovery funds to help Puerto Rico and other territories rebuild.
– it will continue the administration’s investments to invest further in energy, infrastructure, economic development, education, health care, housing, energy, and climate resilience in the territories, and help restructure Puerto Rico’s debt to relieve its debt burden, and we will work to dissolve the Financial Oversight and Management Board.
– it also supports self-determination for the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, and undertakes to create a Congressional task force to study equal voting rights and House representation; and to work to ensure equal access to federal programs like veterans’ benefits, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and SNAP food assistance for all those eligible.
– it advocates investment in agriculture, economic development, education, employment, energy, health care, housing, and infrastructure, and helping U.S. territories diversify their economies.

Peace & International Relations

The party states that:
– the world is in a period of significant global change, in an inflection point between those who argue that autocracy (rule by dictators or single leaders) is the answer to facing today’s challenges and those who understand that democracy (rule by the people) is essential to moving our world forward and uplifting people everywhere. America must demonstrate that democracy can still deliver for the nation’s people. It must rally the world to address the challenges that impact all of us, from climate change and global health to human rights, technology, food security, and inclusive economic growth.
– the nation must revisit old assumptions and invest in new sources of its power. It has seen aggression from authoritarian powers, the destabilizing impact of a global pandemic, the growing existential danger of the climate crisis, the awesome power of emerging technologies, and the shared vulnerabilities that underlie the 21st century global economy. Most importantly, these challenges underscore how lives and livelihoods across the world are increasingly interdependent.
– for too long, American foreign policy was conducted as if its domestic challenges were disconnected from global ones. The party understands that the two go hand-in-hand, and that leading abroad means being strong and resilient at home.
– it believes that that the United States is strongest when its partners are strong.  To that end, the current administration has met the of its first term, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the existential threat of climate change, and intense strategic competition with China, by leading coalitions of nations who share our values to stand together.
– it will lead with diplomacy as its tool of first resort, and mobilize the nation’s allies and partners to meet the tests America cannot meet on its own.
– it will stand up to the forces of authoritarianism.
– it will speak and act with clarity and purpose on behalf of human rights wherever they are under threat.

The Global Environment
The party advocates:
– reaffirming US commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
– rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, committing the US to capping global warming at 1.5 degrees C.
– reviving and expanding climate related foreign assistance, including aid to the Green Climate Fund

Ukraine
The party states that the administration:
– has rallied the world to support Ukraine’s defense and stand up against dictatorship
– has  pursued three core objectives: to help Ukraine defend its sovereignty, maintain unity in our transatlantic alliances, and prevent direct conflict with Russia
– continues to secure critical support for Ukraine while enhancing the collective security capabilities and readiness of the US, its allies and partners, including congressional support to add Finland and Sweden to NATO

Middle East
The party states that the administration is working to build a durable peace in the Middle East bolstered by regional integration, a strong coalition to counter and deter Iran and prevent it and its terrorist proxies from threatening the security of the region, and a negotiated two-state solution that ensures Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state with recognized borders and upholds the right of Palestinians to live in freedom and security in a viable state of their own.

Israel
The party states that:
– the terrorist group Hamas will not succeed in destroying the administration’s attempt to build a durable peace in the middle East. The United States strongly supports Israel in the fight against Hamas. And the hard work of diplomacy under the President’s leadership has made real progress on a way forward that will free the hostages, establish a durable ceasefire, ease humanitarian suffering in Gaza, and make possible normalization between Israel and key Arab states, together with meaningful progress and a political horizon for the Palestinian people.
– it has led the United States to support Israel’s right to itself against the terrorist attacks of Hamas in a way that upholds international humanitarian law, while ensuring the Palestinian people have access to vital humanitarian aid and lifesaving assistance.
– it continues to press for congressional support to provide the necessary security assistance to Israel and to extend humanitarian assistance to civilians impacted by conflict in the region, while working toward a future where Palestinians have a state of their own and Israel’s security is assured.

In response to the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the party states that the administration:
– believes that a strong, secure, and democratic Israel is vital to the interests of the United States. Their commitment to Israel’s security, its qualitative military edge, its right to defend itself, and the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding is ironclad.
– also recognizes the worth of every innocent life, whether Israeli or Palestinian.
– has unequivocally denounced Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7, condemned the gruesome violence – including conflict-related sexual violence – demonstrated by Hamas and made clear that the United States wants to see Hamas defeated.
– worked with Congressional leaders to pass an aid package worth $14 billion to help Israel defend itself and to provide more than $1 billion for additional humanitarian aid to Gaza.
– has been determined to broker an immediate and lasting ceasefire deal that secures the return of all hostages, including Americans held in Gaza; addresses the immense civilian pain and extreme suffering being caused by the conflict, including the displacement and death of so many innocent people in Gaza; results in a durable end to the war in Gaza; and sets the stage for a lasting regional peace.
– has worked tirelessly – including through the appointment of a senior civilian coordinator for humanitarian relief – to surge and ensure the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people.
– seeks a ceasefire deal that will lead to a more secure Israel and unlock the possibility of greater regional integration and normalization with its Arab neighbors, and create the conditions for a better future for the Palestinian people, one of self-determination, dignity, security, and freedom, and ultimately a state of their own
– opposes settlement expansion, including speaking out against extremist settler violence and issuing an executive order establishing U.S. authority to impose financial sanctions against foreign persons engaged in actions that threaten the peace, security, or stability of the West Bank.
– believes that while Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations, it should remain the capital of Israel, an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.

Lebanon
The party states that that the Lebanese people deserve to live in an independent and sovereign Lebanon that is free from the grip of Iran-backed Hezbollah, and a corruption-free, competent, reform-minded government focused on addressing the needs of its people.  The administration is committed to facilitating a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing hostilities along the Israel-Lebanon border that would ensure the return of both Israeli and Lebanese families to their homes.

Iran
The party states that:
– through aggressive diplomacy backed by U.S. military power, the administration has worked alongside allies and partners to deter and defend against Iran and its terrorist surrogates. It has postured U.S. military forces in the region and authorized precision airstrikes on key Iranian-linked targets tied to attacks against U.S. troops to deter further aggression by Iran.
– the administration has also continued to protect the American people from terrorism, authorizing military strikes that took out ISIS emirs and the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
– in response to brazen attacks by Iranian-linked Houthi forces against international commercial shipping, U.S. naval vessels in the Red Sea, and Israel, President Biden ordered military strikes, alongside key allies, against Houthi targets and organized Operation Prosperity Guardian, a coalition of more than 20 nations committed to defending international shipping and deterring Houthi attacks.
– in response to launching by Iran of more than 300 missiles and drones against Israel in April 2024, President Biden led an unprecedented defensive coalition – together with partners from Europe and across the Middle East – to defeat the attack, protect Israel, and stop the spread of a wider war. Through direct defensive action by the U.S. military and its partners, Iranian munitions did not cause significant damage, demonstrating both America’s ironclad commitment to the security of Israel and our unrivaled ability to leverage growing regional integration among U.S. partners to counter Iranian aggression.
– it remains committed to a diplomatic solution with Iran to prevent the building of nuclear weapons, while remaining resolved that Iran will never be allowed to do so.

China
The party states that:
– it recognizes that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is America’s most consequential strategic competitor. The PRC is the only global actor that combines the intention to fundamentally reshape the U.S.-led international order with an increasing military, economic, diplomatic, and technological capacity to do so. President Biden understands the imperative of rising to this challenge while managing the competition between our countries responsibly.
– the administration continues to focus on the Nation’s strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China while promoting American competitiveness worldwide
– the administration has advocated for congressional support to invest in the American defense industrial base to ensure military readiness and strengthen integrated deterrence for the growing security requirements in the Indo-Pacific region
– the administration has increased U.S. foreign assistance in the Indo-Pacific region in support of a more free, open, secure, and connected Indo-Pacific, while also expanding America’s diplomatic presence

Indo-Pacific
The party states that:
– the United States is an Indo-Pacific power.  The Indo-Pacific region is home to more than half of the world’s people, nearly two-thirds of the world’s economy, and seven of the world’s largest militaries. In the years ahead, its influence will only grow, along with its importance to the United States.
– standing up for the rules of the road in the Indo-Pacific, and standing by America’s allies, makes the nation safer. To that end the current administration has maintained a commitment to freedom of navigation across the Indo-Pacific, standing with the Philippines and other allies and partners to push back against hostile actions and coercion by China. He also worked to expand US military presence in Japan and secure access to strategic sites in the Philippines through a new defense cooperation agreement.

The Party’s 2025 budget advocates allocation of:
– over $4 billion to realize a more free, open, secure, and connected Indo-Pacific that bolsters U.S. alliances and partnerships, including $2.1 billion in bilateral and regional foreign assistance, including $100 million for a standalone request for Taiwan military assistance, and $20 million for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
– over $62 million in support of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
– $2 billion to support diplomatic presence and programs in the region, including new and planned U.S. diplomatic posts in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
– $7.1 billion for renewal of the Compact of Free Association relationships with the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.

The Americas
The party states that:
– no region impacts the United States more directly than the Western Hemisphere, with $1.9 trillion in annual trade, shared values and democratic traditions, and family bonds.
– the administration is building coalitions across the region to make America safer and more prosperous. During its current term, the administration has strengthened ties with key allies, including Colombia as a major non-NATO ally, a recognition of the close and unique relationship between the countries that will strengthen our military and economic ties.
– understanding that irregular migration affects every country in the hemisphere, the administration has led development of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, which strengthens cooperation on migration among 22 countries and promotes responsibility-sharing and a more orderly and humane management of migration across the region, and has created over 250,000 new jobs in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala under the Administration’s ambitious Root Causes strategy.
– the administration has also hosted the inaugural Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity Leaders’ Summit to establish an enduring forum to mobilize economic investment for the region, while strengthening bonds with America’s closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico, on issues ranging from border security to trade.
– in order to counter corruption, authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, and violence, the administration has continued to seek progress on U.S.-Cuba relations in a manner that benefits Americans, resuming flights between the two nations, reuniting separated families, and restoring diplomatic engagement on discrete issues like migration; and has supported Haiti’s stabilization efforts, becoming the largest financial sponsor to the Kenyan Multinational Security Support mission that is countering gang violence in the country and providing humanitarian aid.
– the administration also reinstated sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector in response to President Nicolás Maduro failing to commit to free and fair elections, and cracked down on Nicaragua for repression of their population and abuse of migrants.

The party advocates:
– providing approximately $1 billion for Central American programming to meet the President’s commitment to invest $4 billion in Central America over four years to address the root causes of migration.
– support for Western Hemisphere programs to advance economic prosperity and regional security through key initiatives such as the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity, including $75 million for a capital increase to the Inter-American Investment Corporation—known as IDB Invest—to advance clean energy projects, modernize agriculture, strengthen transportation systems, and expand access to financing
– reserving $35 million in additional targeted funding for regional migration management, including $25 million for the IDB’s Migration Grant Facility to support integration efforts for migrants and host communities and address the root causes of irregular migration.

Africa
The party states that:
– by the end of the century, an estimated 40 percent of the world’s population will live in Africa.
– the current administration has strengthened partnerships in the region and recognizes African nations’ critical role in global stability and economic development.
– in a historic move, the administration successfully advocated for the African Union to become a permanent member of the G20, ensuring Africa’s voice in global economic discussions. It also hosted Kenyan President Ruto for a state visit, reflecting a broader strategy of strengthening bilateral ties across the continent grounded in mutual respect.
– the administration has focused on advancing democratic governance, fostering sustainable economic growth, improving health outcomes, and addressing the urgent challenges of climate change. The U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit in 2022 highlighted expansion of partnerships to meet shared challenges.
– the administration has pledged to invest $55 billion over three years across Africa through initiatives like the African Growth and Opportunity Act and Prosper Africa, the Administration; and has committed to provide nearly $20 billion in health programs.
– strengthening the capacity of African nations to address security threats, including terrorism and violent extremism, remains a priority, including support for African-led peacekeeping operations and conflict resolution initiatives, ensuring that interventions align with the aspirations of local communities.
– the administration has emphasized human rights and the rule of law, leveraging diplomatic channels and development assistance to promote these values. It will continue to push for a return to democracy in cooperation with the African Union in areas experiencing violence and instability, including Sudan, where he named a Special Envoy to work towards ending the conflict.

Peacekeeping & Embargoes
The party advocates:
– developing shared responses to non-military threats like disinformation, corruption, and economic coercion
– improving interoperability with allies, and encouraging allies to build up their defense capabilities and take responsibility for regional conflicts
– enhanced cooperation in fisheries management

Refugees & Humanitarian Aid
The party advocates:
– addressing the root causes of forced migration, including violence, poverty, corruption, lack of opportunity, and climate change
– working with Central American and Caribbean governments to strengthen security and prosperity
– mobilizing allies, partners, and international institutions to develop a more robust and effective global public health system
– providing more and better disaster relief
– $10.3 billion in lifesaving humanitarian and refugee assistance to support more than 330 million people in need in more than 70 countries, and to support the President’s commitment to resettle up to 125,000 refugees in the United States
– allocating $1 billion to alleviate global food insecurity, including $100 million for the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, as part of the overall U.S. Government’s food security initiative Feed the Future

International Development
The party advocates:
– $3 billion for bolstering global democracy, including $345 million for the President’s Initiative for Democratic Renewal to foster transparent and accountable governance
– more than $3 billion to advance gender equity and equality worldwide, including $200 million for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund
– $110 million in support of internet freedom, including $50 million for the U.S. Agency for Global Media Open Technology Fund
– $594 million (an increase of $37 million above the 2023 level) for USAID directed high-impact and lifesaving voluntary family planning and reproductive health programs and America’s voluntary contribution to the United Nations Population Fund. The Budget continues America’s commitment to contributions for the United Nations.

International Finance
The party advocates:
– ensuring the US International Development Finance Corporation is successfully integrated into broader international and private-sector development efforts
– making anti-corruption efforts a foreign policy priority
– allocating $231 million to the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence to expand Treasury’s capacity to provide financial intelligence and conduct sanctions-
related economic analysis while continuing to modernize the sanctions process, expanding expand Treasury’s ability to craft, implement, and enforce sanctions, including sanctions program targeting the war in Ukraine, and sanctions on key Hamas terrorist group members and financial facilitators in Gaza

Trade
The party states that:
– more products in homes, stores, workplaces, and communities should be stamped “Made in America”
– it will expand support for American manufacturing

The party advocates:
– working with allies to shape global trade, so that China is not able to manipulate or distort world markets
– ensuring USMCA creates prosperity for American workers, and strictly enforce compliance with labor and environmental provisions
– enhanced Buy-America requirements in federal, state, and local procurement
– requiring US-made cargo to be carried on US-flagged ships
– disincentivizing off-shore manufacturing, and accelerate on-shoring of critical supply chains
– expansion of tax credits for domestic manufacturing
– putting American workers and unions first in trade agreements
– aggressive action against dumping and currency manipulations by China and others
– protection against theft of US intellectual property rights, and cyberespionage against American companies
– elimination of tax advantages for those who ship jobs overseas

Economic Aid
The party states that:
– its 2025 budget advances the President’s goal of mobilizing $200 billion for infrastructure investment in low- and middle-income countries by 2027. The Partnership for Global Infrastructure & Investment (PGI) aims to promote infrastructure development along critical economic corridors to drive inclusive and sustainable economic growth, secure energy supply chains, fortify trusted digital connectivity, and build more resilient food and health systems, as well as critical transport and logistics networks, while advancing gender equality and equity
– to that end the 2025 budget allocates $50 billion for PGI across all departments and agencies, inclusive of private sector, to support strategic, high-quality infrastructure to connect workers to good jobs, allow businesses to grow and thrive, and advance shared national security priorities
– in addition, the budget allocates $2 billion in mandatory funding over five years to establish the International Infrastructure Fund to combat People’s Republic of China coercive financing
– to promote global health, the budget allocates nearly $10 billion, to support programs including pandemic preparedness, the fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
– the budget further allocates $30 million in new resources for the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents, a contribution anticipated to leverage at least $210 million to strengthen health systems
– the budget further allocates $20 million to better train, equip, and protect the health workforce
– the budget further includes loan guarantees to the World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Disarmament & Arms Sales
The party advocates:
– maintaining a strong nuclear deterrent force while reducing over-reliance on nuclear weapons, and reducing new weapon expenditures
– strengthening the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
– maintaining a moratorium on explosive nuclear testing

National Defense & Security
The party states that:
– the United States has the finest fighting force in the history of the world. Maintaining the nation’s military advantages in the future means making strategic investments now.
– to that end, the administration has invested in cutting-edge capabilities across all services and maintained a commitment to modernize and recapitalize the nuclear triad as the bedrock of deterrence. It has also made historic investments in America’s military industrial base, putting billions of dollars to work in America to increase production capacity of critical munitions and other capabilities to support U.S. and allied forces in combat zones such as Ukraine.
– the administration has also maintained its ability to address terrorist threats, evidenced by successful strikes against leaders of al-Qa’ida and ISIS.
– properly investing in our military also means investing in those who are the bedrock of it: our service members. The administration has secured pay raises for military and has allocated over $10 billion to enhance health care services for veterans and active-duty personnel, including expanded mental health resources and programs to support those suffering from PTSD and other service-related conditions.
– being aware of exacerbated nuclear proliferation challenges that the world is facing as Russia, the PRC and North Korea expand and diversify their nuclear arsenals, and in the context of Iran continuing to enrich uranium at dangerous levels, the administration is showing what it means to act responsibly as a nuclear power. Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The United States is developing and fielding only what is required to deter while signaling openness to future arms control negotiations if competitors are interested. The administration has reaffirmed in U.S. doctrine that U.S. nuclear weapons are reserved for deterring strategic attack by those that threaten us and our allies and partners with nuclear weapons.

The party advocates:
– ensuring that the US military has no peer
– spending defense dollars wisely, focused on a force that can deter and win the conflicts of the 21st century
– reducing defense spending relative to diplomacy and foreign assistance
– reinstating national security policy processes that advance civilian control based on appropriate military advice
– using force as a last resort, with the informed consent of the people
– negotiating a durable and inclusive settlement in Afghanistan, ensuring that al-Qaeda is not allowed to reconstitute and ISIS is not allowed to grow
– ending support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and helping to end the war
– seeking application of diplomacy, intelligence, and law enforcement to resolve conflicts, rather than open-ended military conflicts

In its proposed 2025 budget, the party advocates:
– emergency supplemental allocations totaling $92 billion to for urgent national security needs through the end of 2024, comprising $58 billion was for DOD, $32 billion was for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and $2 billion for the Department of the Treasury, including:
– $61.4 billion to support Ukraine as it continues to defend itself against Russian aggression
– $14.3 billion to support Israel’s defense against terrorism
– $10 billion for lifesaving humanitarian assistance, including for the Palestinian people
– $3.4 billion for the Submarine Industrial Base (SIB), and $4 billion in other national security priorities
– funding to prioritize China as America’s pacing challenge in line with the 2022 National Defense Strategy. DOD’s 2025 Pacific Deterrence Initiative highlights some of the key investments the Federal Government is making, focuses on strengthening deterrence in the region, and demonstrates the Administration’s long-term commitment to the Indo-Pacific

Nuclear deterrence
The party states that:
– nuclear deterrence remains a top priority for the Nation and is foundational to integrated deterrence. A safe, secure, and effective nuclear force deters strategic attacks and assures allies and partners
– to ensure the United States’ nuclear deterrent remains responsive to all threats, DOD and DOE continue to modernize the nuclear Triad, nuclear command, control,
and communications, and nuclear weapons infrastructure, while strengthening extended deterrence commitments to America’s allies
– it’s proposed budget also seeks to reduce nuclear risks and strengthen the global non-proliferation regime by simultaneously pursuing realistic goals for mutual, verifiable arms control and efforts to protect against the existential threats posed by weapons of mass destruction terrorism.

Veterans and Personnel
The party states that:
– the nation has no more sacred obligation than providing for its military service members when they’re sent into harm’s way and caring for them and their families after they come home.
– during its term in office the administration, it has signed into law over 30 bipartisan bills that address some of the most important issues facing veterans today, including the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 to expand benefits and services for veterans exposed to toxic substances
– in order to end veterans’ homelessness, it has provided permanent housing for over 46,000 veterans
– it has worked with Congress to expand access to healthcare, improve access to child and long-term care, and support education and workforce opportunity for veterans and their families
– it has, through VA, delivered $163 billion in earned benefits to 6.3 million veterans and survivors
– through the First Lady, it has championed meaningful policy solutions to improve military spouse employment and entrepreneurship, military children’s education, and military family mental health and wellbeing
– it established Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts for service members; funded universal pre-school for military children living overseas; expanded child care options for military families; increased the amount of child care fee assistance available to offset costs; and reduced military child development center costs for lower income military families by 30 percent

The party advocates:
– rebuilding trust and accountability in the Veterans Administration
– allocating $135 million within VA research programs, together with $17.1 billion within the VA Medical Care program, to increase access to quality mental healthcare, to help veterans take charge of their treatment and live full, meaningful lives
– allocating a further $583 million to further advance veteran suicide prevention initiatives, including continued support of the Veterans Crisis Line’s 988, and implementing DOD recommendations from the Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee
– funding to support DOD’s efforts on Sexual Assault Prevention designed to increase awareness, provide support mechanisms to victims, and significantly reduce the environment for, tolerance of, and occurrence of sexual assault in the Joint Force
– allocating $13.7 billion for women veterans’ healthcare, including $1.1 billion toward women’s gender-specific care
– allocating $713 million toward opioid use disorder prevention and treatment programs for veterans, including use of predictive modeling techniques and distribution of naloxone to veterans
– ensuring military pay keeps pace with economy
– increased time between deployments

Criminal Justice & Public Safety
The party states that:
– the nation needs to overhaul the criminal justice system from top to bottom. Police brutality is a stain on the soul of our nation. It is unacceptable that more than 1,000 people, a quarter of them Black, have been killed by police every year since 2015
– it also recognizes that all too often, systematic cuts to public services have left police officers on the front lines of responding to social challenges for which they have not been trained, from homelessness to mental health crises to the opioid epidemic

The party advocates:
– significant increases in funding the Legal Services Corporation, for those in need of criminal defense.
– Strict national standards barring police use of chokeholds and permitting deadly force only when necessary as a last resort to prevent an imminent threat to life
– rooting out structural and systemic racism in our criminal justice system and our society, and reimagining public safety.
– ending the war on drugs, and focusing on prevention, decriminalization of marijuana
– reinvigorating community policing approaches
– expanding federal judiciary to keep up with population and crime
– ending use of private businesses to run detention facilities
– deepening commitment to redemption and rehabilitation
– fighting to repeal mandatory sentences
– strengthening police misconduct reviews by the Department of Justice
– re-issuing federal guidance from the Department of Education and the Department of Justice to prevent the disparate disciplinary treatment of children of color and children with disabilities

Gun Violence
The party states that during its term in office the administration has:
– signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law, the first significant gun violence legislation in nearly 30 years, which includes background checks for buyers under 21, expanded mental health programs, and support for implementation of red flag laws that keep guns away from dangerous people
– created the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, overseen by the Vice President, and has announced nearly 40 executive actions to keep guns out of dangerous hands

To address the nearly 40,000 deaths each year by firearm in the US, the party advocates:
– making mental health care more available and supporting suicide reduction initiatives
– funding interventions to reduce homicides and gun violence
– ensuring that the Center for Disease Control has sufficient funding to study gun violence as a public health issue
– universal background checks for gun purchases, and abolishment of online gun and ammunition sales
– closing loopholes that allow offenders to buy and posses firearms
– banning manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
– legislation requiring safe gun storage at home
– liability for firearm manufacturers and distributors

Law Enforcement
The party states that:
– the current administration recognizes the sacrifices police officers and their families make to keep communities safe. Every day, officers risk their lives for the safety of people they do not know.
– since Day One, the administration has been working to ensure police officers have the tools they need to protect their communities, including more police officers on the street.
– America needs to fund the police, not defund the police.
– it signed the American Rescue Plan, with the largest-ever federal investment in fighting and preventing crime, reducing violence, and investing in public safety.
– to restore public trust in the police, it signed a historic executive order on police reform alongside George Floyd’s family, and launched the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database with information on misconduct by federal law enforcement officers, and sharply restricted chokeholds and no-knock warrants for federal law enforcement.
– it is publishing data on the use of force and is also preventing certain militarized equipment from being sold or transferred to local police agencies.

The party’s 2025 budget advocates allocating $17.7 billion, an increase of $2.6 billion from 2021, for DOJ law enforcement, including:
– $2 billion for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to effectively investigate and prosecute gun crimes; expand multijurisdictional gun trafficking strike forces; increase regulation of the firearms industry; bolster crime-solving ballistics, gunshot residue, and other forensic technologies as well as analysts; and implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
– $1.9 billion for the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) for fugitive apprehension and enforcement operations
– $51 million to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to support the continued implementation of enhanced background checks
– $2.8 billion for the U.S. Attorneys, which includes funding for 50 new attorneys to prosecute violent crimes
– $15 million for the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act
– $3.3 billion to the DEA to combat drug trafficking, including $1.2 billion to combat opioid trafficking and $18 million in Domestic Counter-Fentanyl Threat Targeting Teams at the Drug Enforcement Administration for use against transnational criminal networks
– $494 million in grants supporting efforts to address substance use, including $190 million for the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program, $95 million to support Drug Courts, and $51 million for anti-drug task forces
– $169 million to counter fentanyl and other synthetic drug production and trafficking

Support for state, local, and tribal law enforcement
The party’s 2025 budget advocates allocating $34 billion to support State, local, and tribal efforts to protect U.S. communities and promote public safety, including:
– support to recruit, train, support, and hire 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing
– fund bonuses for retention of police officers; provide student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and higher education grant programs to incentivize service-minded candidates, including women and individuals from underrepresented communities to become officers
– explore more flexibility in scheduling and work arrangements; expand mental health and wellness care for police officers; and fund life-saving equipment
– support evidence-based training of law enforcement on topics including crime control and deterrence tactics, community engagement, use of force, interacting with people with disabilities, and responding to persons in mental health crisis and to domestic violence calls
– promote efforts to advance transparency, accountability, and safety to simultaneously strengthen public safety and public trust through funding to support the purchase and operation of body-worn cameras, modernize police academies and training

Courts & Victims
The party states that:
– one of a president’s most important duties is appointing judges, who shape the nation’s laws.
– judges should reflect the diverse population whose laws they shape.  During its current term in office, it has appointed more than 200 highly qualified federal judges, two thirds of whom are women, and nearly two-thirds of whom are people of color.
– it undertakes to continue selecting judges who will protect fundamental rights and who represent the diversity of the American experience.
– the administration is committed to rehabilitation and reentry for people returning to their communities after incarceration, and to building a criminal justice system that lives up to those ideals and ensures that everyone receives equal justice under law.
– no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Sending people to prison for possession has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit. Those criminal records impose needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities, disproportionately affecting Black and brown people. The administration took historic action to end this failed approach by pardoning people convicted federally for using or possessing marijuana, and has called on governors to use their pardon power to do the same for state-level offenses.
– in addition to pardoning simple possession and use of marijuana, it has pardoned or shortened the sentences of people convicted of other nonviolent drug offenses and pardoned approximately 2,000 gay, lesbian, and bisexual veterans who were convicted years ago just for being themselves.

The party advocates:
– funding for courts around the Nation to clear their backlogs and improve accountability and deterrence for people on pretrial supervision, and modernized technology and data systems
– support for pretrial and post-conviction supervision staffing and systems, ensuring that persons on release are appropriately monitored and given assistance with the employment, health, housing, and other supportive services that reduce the risk of recidivism

Domestic violence
The party states that:
– during its current term in office it increased funding under the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 to combat gender-based violence, and issued a U.S. National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.
– it advocates continued work to end sexual assault, domestic violence, online abuse, and all violence against women. It continues to strengthen VAWA; keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers; and expand housing and legal services for survivors.
– to keep students safe on campus, it will work with schools to implement and enforce Title IX and end sexual harassment and assault in our nation’s schools, and eliminate the rape kit backlog.
– it will strengthen legal protections for and support survivors of deepfake image-based sexual abuse building on the federal civil cause of action established under the president’s reauthorization of VAWA in 2022.

Border protection
The party states that during its term in office the administration:
– has taken action to process noncitizens to protect and secure national borders at record scale and efficiency.
– has maximized the use of expedited removal processes, placing more than 900 individuals into the process each day on average, and conducting more than 100,000 credible fear interviews, both of which are record highs, and that as a result, DHS has removed or returned more than 565,000 noncitizens who did not have a lawful basis to remain in the United States, the vast majority of whom crossed the Southwest land border, since May 12, 2023. The majority of all individuals encountered
at the Southwest land border over the past three years have been removed, returned, or expelled.

The party further states that:
– when the system is overwhelmed, the president should have emergency authority to expel migrants who are crossing unlawfully and stop processing asylum claims except for those using a safe and orderly process at Ports of Entry. The authority should be accompanied by humanitarian exceptions for vulnerable populations including unaccompanied children and victims of trafficking.
– Congress should also dedicate resources to detain and remove individuals quickly, and rapidly process those who cannot be detained in a non-custodial setting under government supervision. Those who pose a threat to public safety or national security must be identified and removed as quickly as possible.

The party’s 2025 budget advocates allocation of:
– $11.8 billion to secure the Southwest border, including building longer-term capacity in the areas of border security, immigration enforcement, and countering fentanyl, hiring 1,300 additional Border Patrol Agents
– $239 million to hire 1,000 additional U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers to stop fentanyl and other contraband from entering the United
States
– $755 million to hire an additional 1,600 Asylum Officers and support staff to facilitate timely immigration dispositions
– $100 million for Homeland Security investigations of transnational criminal organizations and drug traffickers
– $849 million for cutting-edge detection technology at ports of entry
– $1.3 billion to fund the hiring of 375 new immigration judge teams to help reduce the immigration case backlog
– $25.9 billion to hire an additional 350 Border Patrol Agents and 310 processing coordinators; improve border security technology between ports of entry; and bolster air and maritime operational support; support 34,000 ICE immigration detention beds; $225 million to address increased transportation and removal costs; and $34 million to combat child exploitation, forced labor, and human trafficking
– to address uncertainty surrounding border conditions in any given year, a $4.7 billion contingency fund to aid DHS and its components when responding to migration surges

Emergency Response
The party advocates:
– ensuring that FEMA has the experienced leadership, staff, and resources necessary to coordinate the federal response to climate change-influenced and other disasters, and is equipped to work in partnership with, and drive federal resources to, state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments
– to protect ccommunities and ecosystems from flooding, wildfires, extreme heat, and drought, allocating $23 billion in the Department of Commerce, DOI, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USDA, Army Corps of Engineers, EPA, and DOD, including resources for flood hazard mapping and investments to mitigate the impacts of extreme heat in low-income and disadvantaged communities, and to assist farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners with production goals in the face of climate change
– allocating $522 million above 2023 funding levels to address long-standing recruitment and retention challenges for the USDA wildland firefighting workforce

Terrorism
The party advocates:
– sustaining the effort to defeat ISIA, al-Qaeda, and their affiliates.
– addressing the conditions that allow violent extremism to flourish
– working with partners to prioritize diplomatic, low enforcement, and intelligence tools

Communications Security
The party advocates:
– mobilizing public and private actors to ensure that new communications products and discoveries are bound by law, ethics, and civil liberties
– recommiting to open internet, including net neutrality

The Role & Purpose of Government
The party states, among its ten key values, that:
– all human beings must be allowed a say in decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another
– it works to improve public participation in every aspect of government and seek to ensure that our public representatives are fully accountable to the people who elect them.
– it works to create new types of political organizations that expand the process of participatory democracy by directly including citizens in decision-making
– as a matter of right, all persons must have the opportunity to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment
– we must consciously confront in ourselves, our organizations, and society at large, any discrimination by race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, religion, or physical or mental ability that denies fair treatment and equal justice under the law

Democratic Reform
The party states that:
– It seeks to rescue that the nation’s proud democratic heritage from the erosion of citizen participation, and to refute ideologies holding that government is intrinsically undesirable and destructive of liberty, and that elected officials should slash spending on social programs in the name of freedom
– it challenges all Americans to think deeply about the meaning of government of the people, by the people, and for the people
– it seeks to repair U.S. electoral system, from how elections are financed, to conducting them in more fair and representative ways, to ensuring accountability and transparency on all levels of government
– We, the People, have a responsibility to participate in self-government through all the means that our Constitution provides

The party advocates:
– enactment of proportional representation voting systems for legislative seats on municipal, county, state and federal levels, so that people are represented in the proportion their views are held in society and are based on dividing seats proportionally within multi-seat districts, compared to the standard U.S. single-seat, winner-take-all districts
– enactment of instant run-off voting (IRV) for chief executive offices like mayor, governor and president and other single-seat elections, to enable voters to rank candidates in their order of preference (1,2,3, etc.)
– substantial expansion of the number of seats in the House, based on proportional election of multi-seat districts
– abolishing the US Senate, by constitutional amendment
– abolishing the Electoral College, and implementation of direct proportional voting
– creation of a publicly-funded People’s Commission on Presidential Debates, with debates being open to all candidates who appear on at least as many ballots as would represent a majority of the Electoral College and who raise enough funds to qualify for general election public financing
– full public financing of federal, state and local elections, including free and equal radio and television time on the public airwaves for all ballot-qualified candidates and parties
– prohibiting corporations from spending to influence elections, preferably by constitutional amendment abolishing granting corporations constitutional rights guaranteed to natural persons, or as a condition of receipt of a corporate charter by federal chartering of corporations
– elimination of all ballot access laws and rules that discriminate against smaller parties and independents, and otherwise place undue burden on the right of citizens to run for office
– abolishment of the Electoral College in favor of direct national election of the president by Instant Runoff Voting
– creation of a new publicly-funded People’s Commission on Presidential Debates, and open its presidential debates to all candidates who appear on at least as many ballots as would represent a majority of the Electoral College and who raise enough funds to otherwise qualify for general election public financing
– repealing the federal the non-profit tax exemption status that allows corporations to fund the existing Commission on Presidential Debates and other such exclusive privately controlled debate entities
– lowering the percentage of the presidential popular vote required for a new party’s candidate to receive first time General Election public funding from 5% in the previous general election to 1%
– inclusion of an option to vote for a binding None of the Above (NOTA) on all party primary and general election ballots
– the right to initiative, referendum and recall at all levels of government
– a national “right to vote” law to guarantee universal, automatic, permanent voter registration, along with fail-safe voting procedures, so that eligible voters whose names are not on the voter rolls can correct the rolls and vote on the same day
– statehood for the District of Columbia, and ensuring that residents of the District of Columbia have the same rights and representation as all other U.S. citizens
– restoration of full citizenship rights to felons upon completion of their sentence, including the right to vote and to run for elected office
– greater enfranchisement of overseas voters
– strong enforcement of the Federal Voting Rights Act and state voting rights acts
– making Election Day a national holiday and/or weekend elections
– amending the U.S. Constitution to require that all vacancies in the U.S. Senate be filled by election rather than appointment
– development of publicly-owned, open source voting equipment and deployment across the nation to ensure high national standards, performance, transparency and accountability
– the use of verifiable paper ballots
– institution of mandatory automatic random precinct recounts to ensure a high level of accuracy in election results
– establishment of a National Elections Commission with the mandate to establish minimum national election standards and uniformity, partner with state and local election officials to ensure pre-election and post-election accountability for their election plans, require nonpartisan election boards, and depoliticize and professionalize election administration across the United States
– establishment of independent and transparent non-partisan redistricting processes to stop partisan gerrymandering and protect minority rights and representation
– increasing the number of polling places, and increase the pay for poll workers
– Ensuring that all important federal, state and local government documents are on the Internet, especially texts of bills, searchable databases of voting records, draft committee and conference reports, and court decisions
– reinvigorating the independent investigative agencies, such as the General Accounting Office and the inspectors general
– enacting tough new federal anti-bribery and gratuity laws to stop corporations and the wealthy from purchasing government action, and vigorous enforcement of anti-corruption laws by the Justice Department
– prohibiting members of Congress, Governors, state legislators and their staffs from accepting for their own personal benefit any gifts of any amount from lobbyists or the general public
– requiring outside counsel to investigate ethics complaints against members of Congress, and toughening of punishments within the congressional ethics processes for corruption, abuse of power and other wrongdoing
– expansion of revolving-door lobbying “cooling off” periods for members of Congress and their top staff to at least two years
– allowing any member of Congress to require a floor vote on any congressional earmark, to stop wasteful spending

National Debt
The party states that:
– recent presidents have irresponsibly expanded our national debt by trillions of dollars to finance tax cuts for America’s wealthiest citizens, war, corporate welfare and bailouts of Wall Street and the automotive industry. This debt and the interest that must be paid on it is not sustainable
– working people and the small business community are bearing a disproportionate amount of the federal debt burden

The party advocates:
– reduce of the national debt by increasing taxes on large corporations, the super-rich and pollution; and decreasing expenditures in some areas, especially for war, armaments and corporate welfare
– opposing the privatization of Social Security
– increased funding for green jobs, Social Security, public housing, higher education, public transportation, environmental protection, renewable energy and energy conservation.

Taxes & Public Finance 
The party states that:
– our current tax system is outrageously unjust. It is riddled with loopholes, subsidies and dodges for corporations and the super-rich
– federal and state taxes must be strongly progressive
– most working people pay too much in taxes compared to corporations, multi-millionaires and billionaires. Many of our biggest and most profitable corporations pay little or no tax
– much investment income is taxed at less than the rate workers pay
– the nation can afford to cut taxes for most people if we make corporations and the super-rich pay their fair share. Then we can cut them even more when we halt
our nation’s wasteful spending on wars, weaponry and militarism
– its 2020 presidential campaign produced a Budget for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal that estimated sector by sector its cost of implementation over ten years, as well as the number of jobs it would create
– it estimates its Green Economy Reconstruction Program to reach 100% clean energy and zero emissions to be a 10-year, $27.5 trillion program. It would create 30,484,000 jobs, including 8,564,000 jobs in manufacturing.
– its Economic Bill of Rights is estimated to cost $1.42 trillion a year. It would create another 7,586,000 jobs, including 304,000 manufacturing jobs.
– the total for the Ecosocialist Green New Deal came to $42 trillion over ten years. Total jobs created is 38,070,000, including 8,868,000 manufacturing jobs.

To finance the Green New Deal, the party advocates:
– Progressive Tax Reform, including closing tax havens and implementing (more) progressive taxes on wealth, estates, personal income, corporate income, and financial transactions
– Ecological Taxes, the point of which is not to raise revenues but reduce pollution and resource destruction. If they are successful, they eliminate the source of their revenue. As such, they should not be considered long-term revenue sources but can be useful for shorter-term financing of environmental goals. Ecological taxes are scarcity rents on the use of natural resources, such as the atmosphere, land, fossil fuels, and mineral resources. While ecological taxes are not a substitute for social ownership and economic planning in a green energy transition, they can be part of economic planning to disincentivize fossil fuel use and natural resource extraction, dumping, and depletion. Three ecological taxes should be instituted to support the Ecosocialist Green New Deal:
1_ a carbon tax to disincentivize fossil fuel use and do so internationally because carbon taxes function as a tariff on high-carbon imports, encouraging firms and nations that want to export products to the US to lower their carbon content
2_ land value taxation enables the whole community to benefit from the land values of a limited resource instead of a landowning class. Its revenues could be dedicated to funding affordable homes, farms, and business locations
3_ federal severance taxes on non-renewable resources, including reform of the 1872 Mining Law that now enables corporations to purchase mineral rights on public lands for a mere $5 an acre and pay no severance tax for minerals taken

Additional means of financing the Green New Deal include:
– peace conversion — deep cuts in the US military budget on the order of 50% to 75% and reallocating the savings into the Ecosocialist Green New Deal
– public money – monetary reform based on the creation of debt-free public money by a Monetary Authority in the Treasury Department and spending that money into the economy through the federal budget, including the budget for the Ecosocialist Green New Deal
– borrowing — because taxes and reallocation of military spending may not generate enough revenue to make the massive investments immediately needed to rapidly transform the economy to clean energy, the federal government may have to borrow to make the needed investments. In such borrowing, the party favors a program of Green Quantitative Easing where the Federal Reserve creates the money to buy the Treasury securities issued to support the Green New Deal investments. This quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve would be used to bail out the planet and the people instead of the big banks as happened in the wake of the Great Recession. This would include creation of public banks at the local, state, and federal levels to help finance and target Green New Deal and other socially beneficial investments
– sales of public goods and services- the Ecosocialist Green New Deal will be producing and selling public goods and services through the public sector and receiving income for them, including power bill payments, transit fees, housing rents, and green machinery leases. Over time, these revenues should cover the costs of the initial borrowing like any successful business investment

The party advocates:
– progressive taxation
– shifting tax from individuals to corporations
– taxing “bads” not “goods”
– taxing unearned income at the same rate as earned income, taxing speculation on Wall Street, and cutting corporate tax giveaways
– comprehensive tax reform to simplify the tax system
– small business, in particular, should not be penalized by a tax system which benefits those who can “work” the legislative tax committees for breaks and
subsidies
– substantive and wide-ranging re- form of the tax system that helps create jobs, economic efficiencies and innovation within the small business community
– exempting people earning less than $25,000 per year and families earning less than $50,000 per year (adjusted for inflation) from the federal and
state income taxes
– exempt food, clothing, prescription medications, other necessities and second-hand goods from sales taxes
– ending corporate welfare, including bailouts for Wall Street, the big bank and the automobile industry; subsidies for agribusiness, Export-Import Bank loan guarantees; tax abatements for big box stores; the tax loophole for “carried interest” from private equity and hedge fund managers; tax deductibility for advertising and business entertainment; offshore tax avoidance schemes; giveaways for new sports stadiums and casinos
– a financial transaction tax on trades of stocks, bonds, currency derivatives, and other financial instruments
– blocking financial transactions with tax havens, to stop tax evasion
– decreasing the $1 million home value cap on the mortgage interest tax deduction for federal income taxes, to reduce the tax subsidy provided to
those living in the most expensive homes
– restoring the estate tax
– opposing the privatization of Social Security
– a wealth tax of 0.5% per year on an individual’s assets over $5 million
– establishment of a system of carbon taxes on all fossil fuels, to begin to reflect the real environmental cost of their extraction and use
– application of carbon taxes as far upstream as possible, preferably when possession of the carbon-bearing fuel passes from extraction (for ex- ample, coal mine; oil
wellhead or tanker; gas wellhead) to the next entity in the supply chain
– eliminating tax subsidies for the oil, gas, coal, nuclear and timber and mining industries
– enacting a system of Community Ground Rent/Land Value Taxation that distinguishes between the socially and privately created wealth of land, by increasing the taxes on the former to retain for society the value that it collectively creates and lowers them on the latter to reward individuals for their initiative and work
– to ensure that prices reflect their true environmental cost, enacting a system of True Cost Pricing (TCP) for goods and services, including immediate or prolonged damage (pollution of air and water) and diminishment of natural resources
– raising taxes on tobacco, alcohol, soda pop and other junk food.

International Relations
The party states, among its ten key values, that:
– it is essential that we develop effective alternatives to society’s current patterns of violence
– it will work to demilitarize and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, without being naive about the intentions of other governments
– it recognizes the need for self-defense and the defense of others who are in danger
– it promotes non-violent methods to oppose practices and policies with which we disagree, and will guide the country’s actions toward lasting personal, community and global peace
– public health agencies operating abroad should be allowed to offer family planning, contraception, and abortion in all countries that ask for those services. We oppose our government’s habit of cutting family planning funds when those funds go to agencies in foreign countries that give out contraceptive devices, offer advice on abortion, and perform abortions

The party further states that:
– the world and the nation stand poised between the geopolitical conflict of East versus West, marked by the aftermath of the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001; the dangers of global terrorism; the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the escalation of conflict in the Middle East; and continued research and development of nuclear weapons and the stockpiling of bio-chemical weapons
– third- and fourth-world economies and resources are being ravaged and the US’s economy
– global corporatization, concentrates greater power in the hands of fewer interests who are unaccountable to the vast majority of the world’s people threatens job security and other common goods

International Finance and Trade
The party advocates:
– re-formulation of all international trade relations and commerce as currently upheld by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) to protect the labor, human rights, economy, environment and domestic industry of partner and recipient nations so that the growth of local industry and agriculture has the advantage over foreign corporate domination
– re-structure the rules of performance of the IMF/WB to end the debts of recipient nations, prohibit the use of IMF/WB loans to impose structural adjustment programs that emphasize debt service and export-led development at the expense of social needs, and to install strict standards in the IMF/WB that control the use of grants or loans to prevent fraud, misuse, and subversion of funds by recipient governments
– re-writing the rules for investment of corporate capital in projects operated under the IMF/WB to guarantee the rights of the citizens of the nations receiving the investment and their right to public ownership and control of their own resources, including protections for labor’s right to organize, create unions and negotiate with management in all countries receiving U.S. investment, and require U.S. corporations that operate in other countries to adhere to the core labor standards established by the International Labor Organization (ILO) Declaration of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
– secure the rights of all US states to establish stricter standards for health, safety, and for the environment than those of our national government, and to protect themselves against substandard, imported goods
– prohibiting U.S. corporations from avoiding or evading payment of their taxes by banking abroad or locating their charters offshore
– to restrict the unfettered flow of capital and currency trade, levying the Tobin tax of .05% on cross border currency transactions
– supporting the funding and expansion of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in their missions to educate and train people of less developed nations in initiating local business and economic development, and in providing health care and family planning
– demand that the US government renew and initiate government funding and support for family planning, contraception, and abortion in all countries that request it
– ending the U.S. government’s economic blockade of Cuba, lifting the embargo, and restoring normal diplomatic relations and respect for national sovereignty, and ending U.S. government veto of U.N. resolutions pertaining to Cuba
– imposing a Carbon Fee on imported fossil fuel, in order to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and reduce the impact of fuel importation on American foreign policy and the American economy

Peace and Demilitarization
The party states that:
– under the U.S. Constitution, ratified treaties such as the United Nations Charter hold the authority of U.S. law. Thus the U.S. government is pledged to abide by its principles and guidelines in the conduct of foreign relations and affairs
– the US has an obligation to take disputes with other nations or foreign bodies to the U.N. Security Council and General Assembly forum for negotiation and resolution
– the U.N. and international laws, treaties and conventions that the U.S. has signed are the framework that controls U.S. military actions abroad
– the U.S. must recognize the sovereignty of nation-states and their right of self-determination
– it recognizes and supports the right of the U.N. to intervene in a nation-state engaged in genocidal acts or in its persistent violation and denial of the human rights of an ethnic or religious group within its boundaries, and the right to protect the victims of such acts
– the U.S. is obligated to render military assistance or service under U.N. command to enforce U.N. Security Council resolutions
– to act in a crisis situation, the US is obligated to obtain a UN resolution under the Uniting for Peace Procedure when the U.N. Security Council is stalemated by vetoes
– it seeks permanent repeal of the veto power enjoyed by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council
– it urges the US government to sign the International Criminal Court agreement and respect the authority of that institution
– the US has no moral or legal right, or any justification, to pre-emptively attack another nation. The only legitimate use of military force is to repel an actual attack on our nation
– it demands repeal – not amendment — of the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed by Congress in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and opposes any other measure purporting to ‘authorize’ pre-emptive or illegal military action. In passing the AUMF, Congress abdicated its exclusive authority under the Constitution to declare war
– the Congress further violated the Constitution and betrayed its responsibility to the American people by delegating to the president – one person – virtually dictatorial power to commit acts of war whenever he or she chooses
– it supports abolishment of nuclear weapons, and calls upon the government to:
* declare a no-first-strike policy
* declare a no-pre-emptive strike policy
* declare that the U.S. will never threaten or use a nuclear weapon, regardless of size, on a non-nuclear nation
* sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and honor conditions set in the Non-Proliferation Treaty for nuclear nations
* reverse our withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and honor its stipulations
* end the research, testing and stockpiling of all nuclear weapons of any size
* dismantle all nuclear warheads from their missiles
– it supports signature of the Toronto treaty banning the production, stockpiling, use and sale of land mines, and assisting other nations in unearthing and disabling land mines buried in their lands
– it urges an end of US stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons and all research, use, and sale of such weapons; and signing of the convention that will establish the decrease and inspection of all nations’ stockpiles of such weapons
– it supports allowing foreign teams to visit the U.S. for verification purposes at least annually
– reduction of the US defense budget to half of its current size
– it supports phasing out all US bases on foreign soil not specifically functioning under a U.N. resolution to keep peace
– it supports repatriation of all US troops stationed abroad, except for the military assigned to protect a U.S. embassy
– closing the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, in Ft. Benning
– prohibiting all US arms sales to foreign nations and likewise prohibiting grants to impoverished and undemocratic nations unless the money is targeted on domestic, non-military needs
– prohibiting all covert actions used to influence, destabilize or usurp the governments of other nations, or the assassination of, or assistance in any form for the assassination of, foreign government officials

Demilitarization and Exploration of Space
The party:
– recognizes a need for the inspiration and education that the peaceful exploration of Space provides; the need for space-based systems to monitor environmental conditions on Earth; the many advances in space technology that benefit all people on Earth; and the inspiration provided to children by Space exploration can prompt them to pursue math, science, and other important courses of study
– states that the last four U.S.—backed military conflicts have used space-based technology to disrupt the computer and communication systems of sovereign states
– funds required for continuing peaceful Space exploration have been used, instead, for the design, implementation and deployment of wasteful and dangerous space hardware, such as the Strategic Defense Initiative

The party advocates:
– ending of space militarization, and any form of space-based military aggression
– peaceful and sustainable exploration of Space, determined on a case-by-case, mission-specific basis, including the signing of the International Treaty for the Demilitarization of Space
– a reduction of human-staffed space flight due to the high cost and risk for human life and the availability of automated technology that can perform necessary functions in space-based research

Middle East
The party states that:
– its commitments to ecological wisdom, social justice, grass-roots democracy, and non-violence compel it to oppose U.S. government support for “friendly” regimes in the region when those regimes violate human rights, international law, and existing treaties
– it calls on congressional intelligence committees to conduct comprehensive public hearings on the development and deployment of weapons of mass destruction by all states in the Middle East region. U.S. policy should support the removal and/or destruction of all such weapons wherever they are found there.
– it supports the “joint comprehensive plan of action” signed in July, 2015 by Iran and the P5+1 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States plus Germany), and the European Union, which confirms Iran’s status as a zone free of nuclear weapons
– Iran, which has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has consistently called for a nuclear-free zone in the entire Middle East
– it supports swift elimination of economic sanctions on Iran and looks to the normalization of relations between Iran and the United States
– in keeping with UN resolutions call for a nuclear-free Middle East, it calls on Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East with at least 200 nuclear warheads, to dismantle its nuclear weapons program and sign on to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Palestine
The party states that:
– its values oblige it to support popular movements for peace and demilitarization in Israel-Palestine, especially those that reach across the lines of conflict to engage both Palestinians and Israelis of good will
– it affirms the right of self-determination for both Palestinians and Israelis, which precludes the self-determination of one at the expense of the other
– it recognizes the historical and contemporary cultural diversity of Israeli-Palestinian society, including the religious heritage of Jews, Christians, Muslims and others, which is a significant part of the rich cultural legacy of all these peoples and must be respected
– its supports equality before international law rather than appeals to religious faith as the fair basis on which claims to the land of Palestine-Israel are resolved
– Jewish insecurity and fear of non-Jews are understandable in light of Jewish history of horrific oppression in Europe. However, it opposes as both discriminatory and ultimately self-defeating the position that Jews would be fundamentally threatened by the implementation of full rights to Palestinian-Israelis and Palestinian refugees who wish to return to their homes
– without wishing to impose US views on the people of the region, it would turn the U.S. government towards a new policy, which itself recognizes the equality, humanity, and civil rights of Jews, Muslims, Christians, and all others who live in the region, and which seeks to build confidence in prospects for secular democracy. – it reaffirms the right and feasibility of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in Israel
– it rejects U.S. unbalanced financial and military support of Israel while Israel occupies Palestinian lands and maintains an apartheid-like system in both the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Israel toward its non-Jewish citizens. Therefore it calls on the U.S. President and Congress to suspend all military and foreign aid, including loans and grants, to Israel until Israel withdraws from the Occupied Territories, dismantles the separation wall in the Occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem, ends its siege of Gaza and its apartheid-like system both within the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Israel toward its non-Jewish citizens
– it also rejects U.S. political support for Israel and demands that the U.S. government end its veto of Security Council resolutions pertaining to Israel
– decades of continuous diplomatic attempts by the international community have failed to bring about Israel’s compliance with international law or respect for basic Palestinian human rights. Despite abundant condemnation of Israel’s policies by the UN, International Court of Justice, and all relevant international conventions, the international community of nations has failed to stop Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights in Israel and the OPT, while Israeli crimes continue with impunity
– ending institutionalized racism (apartheid) in South Africa demanded an unusual, cooperative action by the entire international community in the form of a boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against apartheid South Africa, and that can become the most effective nonviolent means for achieving justice and genuine peace between Palestinians and Israelis
– Palestinian resistance to ongoing dispossession has mainly been nonviolent, including its most basic form—remaining in their homes, on their land; and that while Palestinian armed resistance is legitimate under international law when directed at non-civilian targets
– it believes that only nonviolent resistance will maintain the humanity of Palestinian society, elicit the greatest solidarity from others, and maximize the chance for future reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians

The party advocates:
– joining with the U.N. to secure Israel’s complete withdrawal to the 1967 boundaries and its compliance with international law.
– a much stronger and supportive U.S. position with respect to all United Nations, European Union, and Arab League initiatives that seek a negotiated peace
– and immediate U.N.-sponsored, multinational peacekeeping and protection force in the Palestinian territories with the mandate to initiate a conflict-resolution commission
– investigations by the foreign and military affairs committees of the U.S. House and Senate to conduct full hearings on the status of human rights and war crimes in Palestine-Israel, especially violations committed during Israel’s 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza (“Operation Cast Lead”) as documented in the 2009 “UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict”(“The Goldstone Report”) authorized by the UN Commission on Human Rights
– it supports a boycott and divestment strategy (BDS) against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era, which includes pressuring our government to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel, until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law
– it views the proposed two-state solution as neither democratic nor viable in the face of international law, material conditions and “facts on the ground” that now exist in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Therefor it supports a U.S. foreign policy that promotes the creation of one secular, democratic state for Palestinians and Israelis on the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan as the national home of both peoples, with Jerusalem as its capital
– as an integral part of peace negotiations and the transition to a peaceful democracy, it calls for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose inaugurating action would be mutual acknowledgement by Israelis and Palestinians that they have the same basic rights, including the right to exist in the same, secure place

Military Service
The party advocates:
– requiring full written disclosure of what is expected of military recruits and what they can expect in return from the government
– recognizing the practice of deceiving prospective service recruits about the truth of their service contract as fraudulent, and sufficient grounds for revoking an enlistment contract
– applying all terms of military service contracts to the government as well as recruits

Veterans
The party states that:
– support for men and women in the armed forces must go far beyond the rhetoric used to discredit the peace movement in the U.S. today
– the dangerous burden of fighting the war in Iraq is disproportionately borne by families of lesser means
– its first priority in foreign policy considerations is to creating a future without war

The party advocates:
– increased pay levels, including monthly combat pay, imminent danger pay and family separation allowances for those risking their lives in combat zones
– better care for the wounded, sick and injured soldiers, and restoration of full funding for veterans’ health programs
– full diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental health conditions resulting from service in combat zones, including post-traumatic stress disorder, including increased funding for additional clinics to provide services which now are too often delayed or denied because of over crowding and budget constraints
– honoring all laws concerning time limits on deployments
– to ensure a smooth transition from active military service to civilian life, providing counseling, housing, emergency management, job protection and other support systems
– a comprehensive program to survey Vets and the impacts of Gulf War Syndrome on them and their families and to provide the best possible medical treatment available to minimize the suffering of these men and women and their families
– establishment of a panel of independent medical doctors to examine and oversee military policies regarding forced vaccinations and shots, especially with experimental drugs
– ending the practice of testing experimental medicines and inoculations on service members without their consent
– a new GI Bill, similar to the one that began after World War II and ended in 1981, to provide tuition grants for four years of college or other educational opportunities, low-interest loans for housing or business start-ups, and free medical care for military personnel and their families for ten years following separation from the armed forces
– a transparent and democratic conscientious objection process free of harassment, imprisonment, or deployment to war zones for conscientious objectors
– the right of individuals in the military service to modify or completely separate from military involvement because of conscientious objection

Police & Public Safety

Terrorism
The party states that:
– since the attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been an erosion of freedom in the United States, from many sources and taking many forms, including the war on drugs and widespread imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders; the increased use of personal identification, surveillance of employees at work, and the growing use of private security forces by corporations; restrictions on the speech of protesters and students; and random traffic stops of persons of color and the commonplace use of roadblocks

The party advocates:
– complete, thorough, impartial, and independent investigation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including the role of the administration of George W, Bush, various U.S. based corporations and interests, and other nations and third parties
– repeal of the USA PATRIOT Act, the provisions of which undermine and erode our Bill of Rights and contribute to the destruction of the democratic foundation of checks and balances between the branches of government
– strict enforcement of First Amendment rights of speech, assembly, association and petition, including the right to public, non-violent protest
– ending torture, such as in prisons like Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other U.S.-controlled facilities, and ensuring that those guilty of ordering or executing torture are held accountable for violations U.S. and international law
– restoration of the right of habeas corpus, a legal action to obtain relief from illegal detention, and ending indefinite detention without trial
– ending abuse of National Security Letters, which the FBI uses to force Internet service providers, libraries, banks, and credit reporting companies to reveal sensitive information about their patrons
– opposing the death penalty in the United States and worldwide
– strict application of Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure
– confirming that privacy protections of the 4th amendment extend to the Internet
– supporting the ability of cities to establish civilian police review boards to increase understanding between community members and police officers, provide a public forum to air concerns on policy matters and to ensure public oversight and accountability of their local police department
– stronger legislation, programs, and enforcement to address violence against women and all other forms of violence
– replacement of the term “domestic violence” with the term “violence,” because “domestic violence” is not perceived as real violence, which leads to it not being treated legally and practically for the violence that it is
– ending use of the term “sex work” in relation to prostitution. With the increasing conflation of trafficking (the violent and illegal trafficking in women and girls for forced sex) with prostitution, it is impossible to know which is which, and what violence the term “sex work” is masking. No source in existence knows which forms of prostitution comprise forced sex and which comprise free will or choice prostitution.

Corrections
The party states that:
– the United States has the highest incarceration and recidivism rates of industrialized countries, and its criminal justice system in general is too often inhumane, ineffective, and prohibitively expensive
– the current approach to law enforcement places too much emphasis on drug-related and petty, non-violent crimes, and not enough on prosecution of corporate, white collar, and environmental crime
– the poor, the under-educated and various racial and ethnic minorities are overrepresented in the prison population
– negative effects of imprisonment include isolation of prisoners from their communities, media, and education

The party advocates:
– reducing the prison population, investing in rehabilitation, and ending the war on drugs
– prioritizing efforts to prevent violent crime and address the legitimate needs of victims, while addressing the socio-economic root causes of crime and practicing policies that prevent recidivism
– ending the privatization of prison, as profits in such entitles are derived from understaffing, which severely reduces the quality of care for inmates
– an end to the “war on drugs”, legalization of drugs and treating drug abuse as a health issue
– as alternatives to encouraging and supporting positive approaches to punishment that build hope, responsibility and a sense of belonging, and use of prisons as a last resort, reserved for violent criminals
– handling non-violent offenses through alternative, community-based programs including halfway houses, work-furlough, community service, electronic monitoring, restitution, and rehabilitation programs
– releasing prisoners with diagnosed mental disorders to secure mental health treatment centers, and releasing prisoners who are too old and/or infirm to pose a threat to society to less expensive, community-based facilities
– treating parole as a time of reintegration into the community, not as a continuation of sentence
– providing counseling and other services to the members of a parolee’s family, to help them with the changes caused by the parolee’s return
-restoring the right to hold public office to felons who have completed their prison sentence
– repealing “three strikes” laws, and restoring judicial discretion in sentencing

Courts & Police
The party advocates:
– sharp restriction of police use of weapons and restraining techniques such as pepper spray, stun belts, tasers and choke holds
– prohibiting property forfeiture and denial of due process for unconvicted suspects
– establishing freedom on bail as a right of all defendants charged with non-violent crimes
– incorporating mental health and social services in bail agreements
– increased compensation for jurors and provision of childcare for those serving jury duty
– protection of victims’ rights, including the opportunity for victims to make victim-impact statements and consideration of restitution to victims
– gun control as is contained in the Brady Bill (1993)
– eliminating sale of weapons without background checks
– redirection of funds presently budgeted for the “war on drugs” toward expanded research, education, counseling and treatment
– amending the Controlled Substances Act to reflect that drug use in itself is not a crime
– legalizing the possession, sale, and cultivation of cannabis/marijuana, and striking from the record prior felony convictions for marijuana possession, sale, or cultivation, and amnesty for those who have been incarcerated for the use, sale, or cultivation of marijuana

(FOR REFERENCE ONLY.  THE CAMPAIGN HAS ANNOUNCED ITS SUSPENSION AND MOVED TO WITHDRAW FROM BALLOTS.  CHECK LOCAL CANDIDATE LISTING AND CONSIDER ALTERNATIVES BEFORE GOING TO THE POLL.)

Role & Purpose of Government; Democratic Reform
The campaign states that:
– a democratic government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people
– however, government institutions have betrayed the peoples’ trust. Intelligence agencies spy on our own people. Government and tech platforms conspire to surveil and censor the public. Regulatory agencies have been captured by those they are supposed to regulate: Wall Street controls the SEC. Polluters and extractive industries dominate the EPAand BLM. Pharma controls the CDC, NIH, and FDA. Big Ag controls the USDA. Big Tech has captured the FTC. No wonder trust in government is at all-time lows. It’s time to earn it back
– Candidate Kennedy understands from experience with systems of power that most people in corporations and government are perfectly decent human beings. They play the game, but a lot of them are fed up with its phoniness, and cynical about the paralysis of the system. They feel trapped in it. Clean government isn’t just about removing corrupt individuals, but about changing as system in which perfectly decent people become agents of corruption without even knowing it

The campaign advocates remaking public institutions to serve the public, including
– rolling back secrecy and making government transparent, protecting whistleblowers and prosecuting officials who abuse the public trust
– reining in lobbyists and closing the revolving door that shunts people from government agencies to lucrative positions in the companies they were supposed to regulate, and back agai
– getting money out of politics, and opening government institutions to real citizen involvement, to restore integrity to government

Respect in civic discourse
The campaign states that:
– America is more polarized and divided now than at any time in living memory
– both sides seem to agree that the basic problem is the horrible people on the other side
– both sides are wrong. The basic problem is the division itself. A divided public lacks the strength to resist exploitation or to overcome the inertia of the status quo
– the classic American can-do spirit exhausts itself in endless battles, while powerful undemocratic forces have a death grip on the nation
– there is only one way to break that grip and restore power to the people: a broad popular movement that unites left and right, Black and White, urban and rural, young and old, and working people of all ethnicities.
– but such a movement is not to be defined by its enemies. Candidate Kennedy recognizes that even the elites have become prisoners of the system they have created. Many of them no longer believe in it, despite the wealth and power it gives them. They too are welcome to defect to the movement of peoplepower
– the candidate has clear positions on most of today’s divisive trigger issues like abortion, guns, and immigration, but he knows that both sides have legitimate concerns and legitimate moral positions. No one is deplorable. Furthermore, most of the disagreements obscure deeper shared values.
– everyone wants their children to be safe. No one wants more abortions, nor do they want to force women to undergo unwanted pregnancies. Everyone wants safe streets, yet few wish for millions of people to languish in prison.

The campaign advocates:
– drawing on the broad moral agreements that exist beneath our divisions. Candidate Kennedy will model careful listening, and create conditions where each group can hear the stories of the other.
– promoting national reconciliation, respectful dialog, and willingness to change, to grow, and to forgive, starting during the campaign. In Kennedy’s own words, “Every nation, like every individual, has a darker side and a lighter side. The easiest thing for a politician to do is to appeal to our greed, to our anger, to our fear, to our xenophobia, our bigotry, all of the alchemies of tribalism. I will appeal instead to our generosity as a people, our goodness, our kindness, and our courage.”

Military & Foreign Relations
The campaign states that:
– in the long term, a nation’s strength does not come from its armies. America spends as much on weaponry as the next nine nations combined, yet the country has grown weaker, not stronger, over the last 30 years
– even as its military technology has reigned supreme, America has been hollowing out from the inside. We cannot be a strong or secure nation when our infrastructure, industry, society, and economy are infirm
– one of its high priorities is to make America strong again. When a body is sick, it withdraws its energy from the extremities in order to nourish the vital organs. It is time to end the imperial project and attend to all that has been neglected: the crumbling cities, the antiquated railways, the failing water systems, the decaying infrastructure, the ailing economy. Annual defense-related spending is close to one trillion dollars. We maintain 800 military bases around the world. The peace dividend that was supposed to come after the Berlin Wall fell was never redeemed
– the country is ailing, but underneath there is vitality still. The nation is rich in resources, creativity, and intelligence. We just need to get serious about healing our society, to become strong again from the inside

To start the process of unwinding empire, the campaign advocates:
– bringing the troops home, and ending the creation of unpayable debt to fight one war after another, returning the military will return to its proper role of defending the nation
– ending the proxy wars, bombing campaigns, covert operations, coups, paramilitaries, and everything else that has become so normal most people don’t know it’s happening
– as a priority in Ukraine, ending the suffering of the Ukrainian people, victims of a brutal Russian invasion, and also victims of American geopolitical machinations going back at least to 2014, including clarifying the mission: to help the brave Ukrainians defend their sovereignty, rather than using Ukraine as a pawn to weaken Russia, and seeking a diplomatic solution that brings peace to Ukraine and brings American resources home, including offering to withdraw American troops and nuclear-capable missiles from Russia’s borders, with Russia withdrawing its troops from Ukraine and guaranteeing its freedom and independence
– providing UN peacekeepers to guarantee peace to the Russian-speaking eastern regions
– turning away from a tendency to see the world in terms of enemies and adversaries, and returning to the sentiment expressed by John Quincy Adams, “Americans go not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
– ending the imperialistic policies of the past, reining in the CIA, and supporting freedom movements around the world
– to restore America’s moral leadership, promoting healing from inside. When a warlike imperial nation disarms of its own accord, it sets a template for peace everywhere. It is not too late for us to voluntarily let go of empire and serve peace instead, as a strong and healthy nation.

Border Security
The campaign states that:
– it sees the situation at the border primarily as a humanitarian crisis which has spread far beyond the border, as a flood of migrants has overwhelmed the resources of cities as faraway as New York. The suffering of the migrants at the hands of drug cartels, human traffickers, and exploitative employers is heartbreaking
– it seeks to end the humanitarian crisis, starting with its most immediate cause — an uncontrolled border. While sealing the border to illegal immigration, it proposes to enact deeper reforms to stem illegal migration in the long term, while expanding lawful, orderly immigration according to principles of justice and fairness
– Americans must recognize that the foremost victims of a porous, chaotic border are the immigrants themselves. Compassion and decency demand that we do not allow the current situation to continue
– ruthless criminal cartels have woven drugs, immigration, and human trafficking together into a multi-billion dollar business, and American policy has exacerbated the situation. Immigration is being administered by the cartels, not our government
– yet a controlled border is necessary

The campaign advocates:
– first, getting the border under control. There are two ways people enter this country illegally. One way is by sneaking in. The other is by simply walking across at an entry point, claiming asylum, and disappearing. Both must be addressed simultaneously
– second, working with other countries to stem the tide of migrants
– third, to fully fund and prioritize the administrative infrastructure for lawful, orderly immigration to this country

To regain control over the border, the campaign advocates:
– closing the border by returning to use of technology dismantled by the current administration, such as cameras, lights, and motion detectors, coupled with physical barriers in key areas. There is no need to build a wall across the entire 2,000-mile border. We have the technology to prevent people from getting through undetected.
– regaining control asylum of claims by fully funding courts, services, and border agencies to allow lawful immigration in accordance with U.S. law and deny non-compliant access, and appoint more judges to handle asylum cases. There are too few asylum judges to process even the legitimate claims of political refugees. If claimants of political asylum knew their case would be heard swiftly, and that specious claims would be met with swift deportation, the cartels’ business model would fail. Hundreds more judges need to be appointed to deal with the backlog of 1.6 million immigrants living in the US while they await their asylum hearing

In working with other countries to stem the tide of migrants, the campaign advocates a new kind of Good Neighbor Policy, to reestablish regional diplomatic, proper planning, and end economic exploitation, including:
– ending military adventurism that destabilizes other nations and generates millions of refugees, as in Syria and Iraq, which sent millions of migrants into Europe. The current flood of arms into Ukraine sends ripples of instability across the continent. Some of the weapons have already ended up in Africa and central Asia, two major sources of immigration.
– ending support for despotic governments, juntas, coups, death squads, and repressive regimes that persecute and impoverish their own people
– ending opposition to governments that seek land reform, labor reform, and social welfare for their people. These create a desperate and miserable population prone to flee their homeland for a better life
– cooperating with Mexico and Central American countries to improve economies and provide economic incentives to build jobs and develop much-needed infrastructure and a better standard of living, so people will be motivated to stay in their home country and enjoy their natural culture and heritage
– pursuing a different trade and economic policy, including ending decades of neoliberal austerity measures and US encouragement of financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank to demand that developing nations gut their social programs, privatize public assets, and strip away environmental and labor protections
– ending appeals to xenophobia and bigotry in calling for a tough border policy and turning toward compassion and humanitarian conscience

Veterans
The party states that:
– since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, American servicemen and women have been called upon to support a state of near-perpetual war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unlike any period of conflict in American history, these wars have been fought by an all-volunteer force, of which 77% deployed twice or more. Mr. Kennedy embraces this sacrifice made by veterans to the country, their sense of honor, and their desire to serve.
– it understands veterans’ acute awareness of the true nature, enormous cost and sacrifice, and folly of America’s engagement in these conflicts. Veterans deserve recognition for their remarkable service. More importantly, they deserve a special voice in the nation’s councils of war and peace and in re-uniting our country around shared purposes. The stark absence, except in rare circumstances, of input from veterans in the more extensive debate about the US role in the world is improper. Mr. Kennedy seeks to change this on day one.
– it understands that veterans are not victims. Instead, their steadfast dedication has been misused by politicians and the military-industrial complex, who have deliberately kept the true opinions of those who have served in these wars out of the conversation. For example, veterans have first-hand knowledge of the waste and fraud endemic to the government contracting system, and ideas of how to fix it.

The campaign advocates:
– making the security of America and her citizens the first priority of the military
– establishing a Veterans Council within the President’s Executive Office, with the purpose of respond quickly to veteran’s issues while by passing the bureaucracy of the VA and, in effect, bringing solutions to the VA for that department to execute, and giving the head of the PVC a seat at National Security Council meetings to bring veterans’ unique perspective on war and leverage their experience.
– protecting veterans’ benefits and optimizing the VA, including solicit veterans’ input on making benefits more impactful to enable veterans to reach the highest echelons of success and prosperity
– encouraging veterans to become community leaders and an economic power, to counterbalance the efforts of those seeking self-enrichment, which have cost this nation its role and reputation as a beacon of hope and a moral leader worldwide

Public Safety & Police
The campaign advocates:
– ending the failed War on Drugs and granting amnesty to nonviolent drug offenders
– closing the school-to-prison pipeline, and transitioning prisons away from a punishment paradigm to a rehabilitation paradigm. Prisons will be an intervention in a life gone wrong, and a way to prevent offenders from harming others again.
– instead of defunding the police, transforming the police, incentivizing them to prevent violence, not make unnecessary arrests, including training them in de-escalation and mediation skills and partnering them with neighborhood organizations. No longer will their relationship to the public be adversarial. They will focus their attention on serious crimes, not harassing ordinary people.

Role & Purpose of Government
The party states that:
– it seeks a world of liberty: a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and are not forced to sacrifice their values for the benefit of others
– it believes that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized
– consequently, it defends each person’s right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings
– it seeks to build a world in which individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power
– it holds that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose
– the only proper purpose of government is the protection of individual rights. Government is constitutionally limited so as to prevent the infringement of individual rights by the government itself
– governments throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle, that the State has the right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of their labor
– it denies the right of government to regulate the lives of individuals or seize the fruits of their labor without their consent
– where governments exist, they must not violate the rights of any individual: namely:
(1) the right to life, accordingly it supports prohibition of the initiation of physical force against others;
(2) the right to liberty of speech and action — accordingly it opposes all attempts by government to abridge the freedom of speech and press, as well as government censorship in any form; and
(3) the right to property — accordingly it opposes all government interference with private property, such as confiscation, nationalization, and eminent domain, and support the prohibition of robbery, trespass, fraud, and misrepresentation

Representative Government & Reform
The party states that:
– it supports election systems that are more representative of the electorate at the federal, state, and local levels
– as private voluntary groups, political parties should be free to establish their own rules for nomination procedures, primaries, and conventions
– it calls for an end to any tax-financed subsidies to candidates or parties and the repeal of all laws that restrict voluntary financing of election campaigns
– it opposes laws that effectively exclude alternative candidates and parties deny ballot access, gerrymander districts, or deny the voters their right to consider all legitimate alternatives
– it advocates initiative, referendum, recall, and repeal when used as popular checks on government
– whenever any form of government becomes destructive of individual liberty, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to agree to such new governance as to them shall seem most likely to protect their liberty

Government Finance and Spending
The party states that:
– all persons are entitled to keep the fruits of their labor. It calls for the repeal of the income tax, abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service, and all federal programs and services not required under the U.S. Constitution
– it opposes any legal requirements forcing employers to serve as tax collectors
– it supports any initiative to reduce or abolish any tax, and opposes any increase on any tax for any reason
– to the extent possible, it advocates that all public services be funded in a voluntary manner

Government Debt
The party states that:
– government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent
– it supports passage of a “Balanced Budget Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, and not by raising taxes

Government Employees
The party advocates:
– repeal of any requirement that one must join or pay dues to a union as a condition of government employment
– it advocates replacing defined-benefit pensions with defined contribution plans, as are commonly offered in the private sector, so as not to impose debt on future generations without their consent

Courts & Public Safety
The party states that:
– government force must be limited to the protection of the rights of individuals to life, liberty, and property, and governments must never be permitted to violate these rights
– laws should be limited in their application to violations of the rights of others through force or fraud, or to deliberate actions that place others involuntarily at significant risk of harm

The party advocates:
– repeal of all laws creating “crimes” without victims, such as gambling, the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes, and consensual transactions involving sexual services
– restitution to the victim to the fullest degree possible at the expense of the criminal or the negligent wrongdoer
– preservation of the constitutional rights of the criminally accused, including due process, a speedy trial, legal counsel, trial by jury, and the legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty
– the common-law right of juries to judge not only the facts but also the justice of the law
– ending the prosecutorial practice of “over-charging” in criminal prosecutions so as to avoid jury trials by intimidating defendants into accepting plea bargains

– ending administration of the death penalty by the state

Self-Defense
The party states that:
– the only legitimate use of force is in defense of individual rights — life, liberty, and justly acquired property — against aggression
– this right inheres in the individual, who may agree to be aided by any other individual or group
– it affirms the individual right recognized by the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms, and opposes the prosecution of individuals for exercising their rights of self-defense
– private property owners should be free to establish their own conditions regarding the presence of personal defense weapons on their own property
– it opposes all laws at any level of government restricting, registering, or monitoring the ownership, manufacture, or transfer of firearms or ammunition

International Relations & Defense
The party states that:
– the principle of non-initiation of force should guide the relationships between governments.

National Defense
The party advocates:
– maintenance of a sufficient military to defend the United States against aggression
– avoidance of entangling alliances and abandonment of national attempts to act as policeman for the world
– ending of all forms of compulsory national service.

Internal Security and Individual Rights
The party states that:
– national defense requires that the nation have adequate intelligence to detect and to counter threats to domestic security. This requirement must not take priority over maintaining the civil liberties of our citizens
– the Constitution and Bill of Rights should not be suspended even during time of war. Intelligence agencies that legitimately seek to preserve the security of the nation must be subject to oversight and transparency
– it opposes governmental use of secret classifications to keep from the public information that it should have, especially that which shows that the government has violated the law
– it opposes the use of torture and other cruel and unusual punishments, without exception

International Affairs
The party states that
– American foreign policy should seek an America at peace with the world. Our foreign policy should emphasize defense against attack from abroad and enhance the likelihood of peace by avoiding foreign entanglements
– it would end the current U.S. government policy of foreign intervention, including military and economic aid
– it recognizes the right of all people to resist tyranny and defend themselves and their rights.
– it condemns the use of force, and especially the use of terrorism, against the innocent, regardless of whether such acts are committed by governments or by political or revolutionary groups

Free Trade and Migration
The party states that:
– it supports removal of governmental impediments to free trade
– political freedom and escape from tyranny demand that individuals not be unreasonably constrained by government in the crossing of political boundaries
– economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national border

The Role of Government

The party advocates:
– ending the weaponization of government against the America people
– uniting the country by bringing it to new and record levels of success

Stewardship of Office

Taxes & Budget

The party advocates:
– large tax cuts for workers, and no taxes on tips

Democratic Reform

The party advocates:
– ensuring secure elections, including same-day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship

States, Territories, Municipalities

The party advocates:
– rebuilding cities, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again
– restoring law and order, by replenishing police departments, restoring common sense policing, and protecting officers from frivolous lawsuits. It undertakes to stand up to Marxist Prosecutors, vigorously defend the right of every American to live in peace, and to compassionately address homelessness to restore order to the nation’s streets.
– making Washington D.C. the safest and most beautiful capital city by reasserting greater federal control over the city, to restore law and order in our Capital City and ensure federal buildings and monuments are well-maintained.

Peace & International Relations

The party advocates:
– promoting a Foreign Policy centered on the most essential American Interests, starting with protecting the American homeland, the American people, national borders, the Great American Flag, and American rights under God.
– preventing World War 3, restoring peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and building a great iron dome missile defense shield over the entire country, all made in America
– keeping the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency
– strengthening alliances by ensuring that Allies meet their obligations to invest in common defense initiatives and by restoring peace to Europe, standing with Israel, and seeking peace in the Middle East
– rebuilding the nation’s Alliance Network in the region and championing strong, sovereign, and independent Nations in the Indo-Pacific, to build stability and peace, thriving in commerce with others.
– strengthen the nation’s economic, military, and diplomatic capabilities to protect the American way of life from the malign influences of Countries that stand against it around the World.

National Defense & Security

The party states that:
– it advocates strengthening and modernizing the military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
– keeping the American People safe requires a strong America.  Its plan is to return Peace through Strength, rebuilding our Military and Alliances, countering China, defeating terrorism, building an Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield, promoting American values, securing national borders, and reviving the defense industrial base
– it advocates building a military that is bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. Its full commitment is to protecting America and ensuring a safe and prosperous future for all.

The party advocates:
– modernizing the military, and ensuring that it is the most modern, lethal, and powerful force in the world, including investing in cutting-edge research and advanced technologies, including an Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield, supporting troops with higher pay, and getting its woke leftwing opponents fired as soon as possible.
– defending the nation’s borders, including rapid completion of the southern border wall begun during the party’s last term in office and mobilizing military personnel and assets as necessary to crack down hard on the cartels that traffic drugs and people into the country
– reviving the nation’s industrial base, which is critical to ensuring good jobs for our people but also the reliable production of vital Defense platforms and supplies, with priority on Defense-critical industries. Equipment and parts critical to American security must be made in the USA.
– using all tools of National Power to protect our Nation’s critical infrastructure and industrial base from malicious cyber actors, as a matter of national priority, both raising the Security Standards for our critical systems and networks and defending them against bad actors.

Veterans

The party advocates taking care of veterans, by ending luxury housing and taxpayer benefits for Illegal immigrants and using those savings to shelter and treat homeless veterans, and restoring the reforms of its prior term in office to to expand veterans’ healthcare choices, protect whistleblowers, and hold accountable poorly performing employees not giving our Veterans the care they deserve.

Criminal Justice & Public Safety

The party advocates:
– stopping the migrant crime epidemic
– demolishing the foreign drug cartels
– crushing gang violence
– locking up violent offenders