Lucian Wintrich
Ensuring Health Care for All
Lucian Wintrich supports forcing total price transparency, capping abusive drug pricing, and ending prior-authorization delays to reduce healthcare costs. He also opposes pharmacy benefit manager kickbacks and insurer denial of care.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Protecting Immigrants and Defending Civil Rights
Wintrich demands full federal reimbursement for New York City’s emergency spending on the migrant crisis and transparent federal accounting.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Improving Public Safety and Quality of Life
Wintrich supports a Judicial Transparency framework with public data and oversight to expose patterns of releasing violent offenders.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Tackling Affordability
Wintrich supports cutting federal tariffs and excise taxes on essential household goods and creating an annual rebate or deduction tied to essential purchases.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Holding Big Tech Corporations Accountable and Putting Safeguards on AI
Wintrich supports opt-in licensing, clear labeling, and audit trails for AI use of creative and professional work, with penalties for unauthorized data harvesting. He also backs worker retention incentives to discourage replacement layoffs.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Energy Production
Wintrich supports next-generation nuclear projects and fast-tracked federal approvals to provide affordable, constant electricity for New York City.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Stopping Corruption
Wintrich supports a full ban on stock trading for members of Congress, investigations into family insider trading, and a constitutional amendment for congressional term limits.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Housing Affordability
Wintrich proposes tying federal housing funds to cracking down on ghost buildings and vacant units, and creating a $25,000 refundable credit for first-time buyers of co-ops and condos.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Championing Reproductive Health and Freedom
Wintrich supports ironclad federal protections for IVF and fertility care, including medical privacy and coverage safeguards. He also supports streamlining adoptions for qualified families and strengthening oversight to prevent abuse in foster care.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Tax and Spending
Wintrich supports repealing the cap on the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction to end what he calls double taxation of New Yorkers.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗End Legal Loan-Sharking
Wintrich supports a federal APR cap, plain-English disclosures, and stronger enforcement against high-interest debt traps.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗University Accountability: Defund the Bloat
Wintrich supports conditioning federal loans on universities cutting administrative waste and tying loan/grant eligibility to transparent outcomes like graduation rates, job placement, and earnings.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Clean Streets Block Grants
Wintrich proposes federal block grants for sanitation, power-washing, graffiti removal, and rapid repair of city maintenance.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Crisis Beds and Smart Relocation
Wintrich supports more crisis stabilization beds, diversion programs, and Bloomberg-style relocation support for mentally ill individuals to end the shelter cycle.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗A Real War on Waste
Wintrich supports an independent board to publish real-time audits of federal spending, banning corrupt contractors for life, and requiring foreign assistance to be audited and results-based.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Zero Fees for Small Businesses
Wintrich supports eliminating or capping federal fees and penalties on small businesses, simplifying compliance, and tying grants to cities that cut local red tape.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗Make the MTA Work & Demand Accountability for Congestion Pricing
Wintrich supports tying federal MTA funding to on-time trains, transparent budgets, and real repairs. He opposes future federal waivers or expansions for congestion pricing until the MTA passes a full forensic audit.
Campaign Platform – 24 Points ↗No public position yet on Strengthening our Public Schools and Colleges, Restoring a Principled, Lawful, and Effective Foreign Policy, Strengthening Rights and Protections for the LGBTQ+ Community, Fighting Back Against Trumpism, Leading on Climate Change and Environmental Protection, Economic Growth and Opportunity, Economic Empowerment, Combating Hate Crimes and Antisemitism, Arms embargo on Israel
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