DEER, NATHAN

Running for US House

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Policy Positions

Positions as of June 6, 2026, extracted from source websites.

Climate(3)

Supports drastically accelerating adoption of clean energy technologies.

"We must rejoin the Paris Agreement, re-enact the Endangerment Finding, and drastically accelerate adoption of clean energy technologies, while simultaneously expanding mass transit."

Opposes allowing externalized costs of fossil fuel use to go untaxed; supports carbon and excise taxes on fossil fuels to account for health and environmental impacts.

"One of our greatest failures has been to allow the externalized costs of fossil fuel use to remain separate from the price. We need to levy excise and carbon taxes, to account for health impacts, clean-up and mitigation efforts, as well as economic adaptation to a changing climate."

Supports levying carbon taxes to reduce emissions and account for climate-related costs.

"We need to levy excise and carbon taxes, to account for health impacts, clean-up and mitigation efforts, as well as economic adaptation to a changing climate."

Economy(5)

Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $26 and indexing it to inflation and productivity, with no sub-minimum wages.

"Minimum wage should be reclassified as a living wage, with no sub-minimum wages. Federal minimum wage needs to be $26 now, and codified to always increase with inflation and productivity."

Supports stronger worker protections, arguing that employers who don't pay living wages externalize the true costs of labor onto workers and society.

"Nobody should have to work multiple jobs just to survive. Nobody should be forced into poverty to reward the shareholders of a corporation. The true costs of labor are externalized, when employers don't provide a living wage."

Supports taxing wealth when used as collateral and closing loopholes that benefit the ultra-wealthy, including taxing AI-generated wealth.

"Wealth should be taxed if it can be used as collateral. No more Buy, Borrow, Die. There is no reason billionaires should exist, and every cent of wealth that they hoard is value created by employees who were not rewarded for their labor."

Supports eliminating corporate subsidies and closing loopholes that allow the ultra-wealthy and corporations to avoid paying their fair share.

"Between lower rates, favorable tax code enabling abuse of loopholes, corporate subsidies, and an archaic SCOTUS precedent, the ultra-wealthy receive far more in benefits and protections from the US Government than they contribute to our collective sacrifice."

Supports additional taxation on AI-generated wealth to account for environmental harms and job losses from automation.

"As we move towards an AI driven future, wealth created through AI needs to be additionally taxed to encompass not only environment harms generated through extreme resource demands, but also to account for the job losses that follow with automation."

Education(2)

Supports restoring and enhancing funding for scientific education, opposing cuts to education and attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.

"Years of funding cuts to education, attempts to dismantle the Department of Education, and a promoted disdain for scientists and scientific education, leave this country vulnerable to falling behind the rest of the world. We need to restore and enhance scientific funding, and education."

Supports science-based curriculum including AI literacy, disease surveillance, and environmental science education.

"We need people who understand what AI is and what it isn't, how disease surveillance prevents or mitigates global pandemics, and how the human impact on our environment risks everyone."

Healthcare(3)

Strongly supports a single-payer Medicare for All system, arguing healthcare is a human right and the current private insurance model is broken.

"It's long past time that this nation moved to a single payer health model. Healthcare is a human right, and nobody should have to ration their care. Medicare for All (M4A) would reduce costs and expand access."

Supports expanding Medicare as the basis for a universal single-payer healthcare system.

"Medicare for All (M4A) would reduce costs and expand access. Both individuals and employers are already effectively paying for this in the form of premiums."

Does not explicitly address the ACA, but implies the current private insurance system should be replaced entirely with a single-payer model.

"Our private insurance system is broken, costly, and profit driven. It's long past time that this nation moved to a single payer health model."

Immigration(4)

Opposes deportation enforcement through ICE and calls for abolishing the agency.

"Nobody is illegal on stolen land. Abolish ICE."

Opposes restrictive border enforcement and calls for abolishing ICE, arguing the country should welcome more immigrants.

"Nobody is illegal on stolen land. Abolish ICE. We are a country of immigrants and built by immigrants. Immigrants are the backbone of our economy, and essential to our growth. We should be welcoming more immigrants into the country, not fighting to keep them out."

Supports increasing legal immigration levels, viewing immigrants as essential to the economy and national growth.

"We should be welcoming more immigrants into the country, not fighting to keep them out. We should yearn to be the country proud to display the Mother of Exiles at her shores."

Supports the right of immigrants to come to the country and improve their lives, implying support for pathways to legal status.

"People who uproot their lives, and separate themselves from their communities to come to this country, do so by and large to improve their families' lives and increase their sense of security. And they should have every right to do so."