James Talarico

Supports higher taxes on billionaires and corporations, expanded family tax credits, a $15 federal minimum wage, and lower housing, grocery, energy, health-care, and prescription costs through competition, assistance, and regulation; he also supports repealing tariffs.

Supports allowing every American to join Medicare, lowering prescription costs through negotiation and generic competition, protecting Affordable Care Act coverage, reforming prior authorization, supporting rural hospitals, and reducing medical debt.

Supports restoring reproductive health care in Texas by codifying Roe v. Wade and protecting access to contraception and IVF; the page does not specify a bill text or every possible exception.

Supports requiring AI data centers to cover needed energy-infrastructure updates, diversifying energy production, weatherizing the Texas grid, expanding renewable development, and strengthening air and water protections and disaster mitigation.

Supports cooperation with NATO, the European Union, and other allies, diplomacy and development, continued support for Ukraine, and aid and leverage for peace in Israel and Palestine; he also proposes preventing U.S. funds from harming civilians.

Supports banning super PACs and corporate PACs, independent redistricting commissions, easier voting access, a ban on congressional stock trading, term limits, annual town halls, and stronger ethics and Supreme Court oversight.

Supports stronger public schools through literacy and math grants, teacher recruitment and training, universal early childhood education, career and technical education, school meals, special-education oversight, and classroom AI guidelines; he opposes private-school vouchers.

Supports safeguards for children online, algorithm impact assessments, limits on targeted content to minors, worker protections and retraining around AI, human review of automated decisions, chip-export controls, digital literacy, and consumer-protection rules for cryptocurrency.