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Establish a single-payer Medicare for All system that replaces most private health insurance.
Calls health care a basic human right and backs moving toward universal coverage, but his mechanism is a public option rather than single-payer / unclear: step-by-step path to universal coverage; no single-payer position / support: calls single-payer healthcare "my North Star" (Oversight joint hearing 2025-12-10); later than his undated campaign step-by-step page, so it wins under rule 3 (Peter ruling 2026-10-14)
And if healthcare becomes more affordable, if we had, let us say, my North Star, single payer healthcare, something like that, people that need to enter payment plans for healthcare, there probably
Official campaign positionBill believes this step-by-step approach is the most politically viable path towards universal health care.
Official campaign positionBill Foster believes that health care is a basic human right and that we should continue moving towards universal coverage.
Create a public health-insurance option that competes with private plans.
support: robust public option competing with for-profit plans; buy into a public option
Official campaign positionBill supports and has voted for a robust public option because he believes it is vital to provide people with a high-quality, low-cost coverage option that competes with for-profit insurance plans.
Raise the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour.
support: federal minimum wage reaching $17.00 an hour after five years (starts at $9.50)
Expand the Child Tax Credit beyond current law, in amount or refundability.
support: expanded Child Tax Credit
Impose or expand rent regulation (rent caps, rent control or rent stabilization), at any level of government.
Research found no documented position. This is not opposition.
Use federal policy to loosen local zoning and land-use rules so more housing gets built.
support: cosponsor of Yes In My Backyard Act (introduced text): CDBG grantees must submit plans on discriminatory land-use policies (zoning) (federal condition/incentive tied to zoning reform; bill text read per rule 13)
Enact legal protections for workers against replacement or displacement by AI, such as notice, bargaining rights or limits on replacement.
Says Congress must address automation and AI disruption, answered with worker support and training rather than protections against replacement
It’s also critical that Congress addresses the challenges and economic disruption from automation and artificial intelligence. We need to support workers and make sure they are trained for the jobs of this new economy.
US weapons to Israel: support or oppose
support: condition transfers of named offensive weapons to Israel
Increase federal funding for border security and enforcement (CBP, barriers, technology, personnel).
oppose: voted No on final passage of S. 2, the Secure America Act (roll call 214, 2026-06-09), which provides about $70 billion to CBP and ICE for border security and enforcement (conflict-rulings item 27: Nay = oppose)
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: cosponsor of H.R.10448 Reverse Big Ugly Tax Breaks for Data Centers Act (119th), whose text limits data-centre construction or makes operators bear power, water or grid costs
None documented yet.
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House vote · H.R.3565
the President may not sell, transfer, or authorize a license for the export of any defense article described in subsection (b) ... to the Government of Israel ... unless
H.R.3565 (119th) — To provide for a limitation on the transfer of defense articles and defense services to Israel. · 2026-07-14 · Evidence grade B
Five questions, each answered only from the candidate’s own words, their campaign’s published position, a joint statement they issued, or a recorded House vote. Any condition or limit they attached is shown with the quote. “No public position found” means a reviewed search of their campaign site and official statements found nothing; it is not a position. This section is not scored against any group and does not feed the DSA Scare-O-Meter.
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