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Establish a single-payer Medicare for All system that replaces most private health insurance.
unclear: public option toward universal coverage = P01 unclear (pkg33 precedent)
Official campaign positionLet's give everybody in this country the option to buy into Medicare and let's actually extend and expand those subsidies into free health care for most Americans.
Create a public health-insurance option that competes with private plans.
support: Medicare buy-in open to everyone (Gillen reading, item 24; Montana Free Press guide)
We do that by giving everyone the choice to buy into Medicare and expanding ACA subsidies to make it free for working people.
Raise the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour.
support: $15+ federal minimum wage indexed to inflation
Raise the federal minimum wage to at least $15 per hour and fix it permanently by tying it to the rate of inflation.
Expand the Child Tax Credit beyond current law, in amount or refundability.
Research found no documented position. This is not opposition.
Impose or expand rent regulation (rent caps, rent control or rent stabilization), at any level of government.
support: rent restrictions on federally incentivized housing (P05 table: federal caps on certain properties)
I’ll push for incentives to build dense, infill housing with rent restrictions to ensure public investment results in housing Montanans can afford.
Use federal policy to loosen local zoning and land-use rules so more housing gets built.
support: federal incentives for zoning reform (P06 table)
Incentivize zoning and regulatory reform in places where outdated zoning laws prevent housing from being built where working people need it most.
Enact legal protections for workers against replacement or displacement by AI, such as notice, bargaining rights or limits on replacement.
unclear: general AI oversight; nothing on worker displacement (item 32)
Congress needs to act with urgency to pass commonsense oversight and regulation of AI companies to ensure our privacy, our children, and the future of our economy are protected
US weapons to Israel: support or oppose
unclear: humanitarian conditions on all aid including Israel; no restriction on offensive transfers (Koh precedent)
“We need to have strict enforced humanitarian requirements on any aid that we are providing countries overseas,” Forstag said. “That needs to apply to Israel
Increase federal funding for border security and enforcement (CBP, barriers, technology, personnel).
Research found no documented position. This is not opposition.
Limit new data-centre construction, including AI data centres, or make operators pay the full cost of the power, water and grid upgrades they use.
support: campaign site calls for limits on new data-centre construction, local power to reject projects, or operators paying their own power/water/grid costs
Official campaign positionData Centers: We need strict federal requirements on the construction of any new data centers ensuring that they can only be built if they meet 3 strict criteria: Providing their own power: Require any new data centers to construct enough new energy capacity to generate as much as power they’ll use so that all of us aren’t left paying even
Site data updated Oct 15, 2026, 5:23 p.m. UTC ·
None documented yet.
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Candidate statement
“We need to have strict enforced humanitarian requirements on any aid that we are providing countries overseas,” Forstag said. “That needs to apply to Israel
Original source · 2026-05-29 · Evidence grade A
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