Policy Positions
Positions as of July 1, 2026, extracted from source websites.
Climate(2)
Supports investing in climate-resilient infrastructure to protect the region from future storms.
"She will get the relief funding we need to rebuild from Helene and invest in climate-resilient infrastructure to protect us from future storms."
Supports restoring full funding and staffing to pre-DOGE requirements for any department gutted by DOGE.
"Introduce Bill that restores full funding and staffing to pre-DOGE requirements for any department gutted by DOGE and the BBB."
Economy(10)
Supports raising the federal minimum wage to at least $20, arguing a full-time job should lift workers out of poverty.
"Reduce taxes for the working class and raise the federal minimum wage to at least $20. A full-time job should lift you out of poverty, full stop."
Supports providing tax incentives and grants for small businesses that hire locally and offer competitive wages.
"Provide tax incentives and grants for small businesses that hire locally and offer competitive wages."
Supports protecting the right to unionize and bringing more high-paying union jobs to the region, drawing on her personal experience successfully unionizing a workplace.
"With the knowledge gained from when she successfully unionized her previous workplace, she will fight for unions, protect the people's right to unionize, and bring more high-paying union jobs back to the Blue Ridge."
Supports cutting corporate tax breaks and redirecting funds to small businesses, and providing tax incentives and grants for small businesses that hire locally and offer competitive wages.
"Cut corporate tax breaks they don't need and instead pour that money into small businesses. Mom & Pop shops have always been vital community cornerstones and family supports."
Supports cutting corporate tax breaks to resuscitate the economy and fund other priorities.
"Resuscitate our economy by cutting company tax breaks."
Supports cutting corporate tax breaks that are deemed unnecessary, redirecting those funds toward small businesses and economic investment.
"Resuscitate our economy by cutting company tax breaks. Cut corporate tax breaks they don't need and instead pour that money into small businesses."
Supports cutting corporate tax breaks to reinvest in small businesses and providing tax incentives and grants for small businesses that hire locally and offer competitive wages.
"Cut corporate tax breaks they don't need and instead pour that money into small businesses. Mom & Pop shops have always been vital community cornerstones and family supports. Provide tax incentives and grants for small businesses that hire locally and offer competitive wages."
Supports reducing taxes for the working class and closing tax loopholes for the ultra-wealthy to strengthen Social Security.
"Reduce taxes for the working class and raise the federal minimum wage to at least $20. Strengthen Social Security by closing tax loopholes for the ultra wealthy, ensuring long-term program stability."
Supports reducing taxes for the working class.
"Reduce taxes for the working class and raise the federal minimum wage to at least $20."
Supports investing in research that creates new job opportunities.
"Invest in research that creates new job opportunities."
Education(7)
Supports disconnecting school funding from student test scores and basing it on student numbers with a set minimum.
"Disconnect school funding levels from student test scores, base on student numbers with a set minimum regardless of other factors."
Supports introducing legislation to provide free community college for all.
"Introduce legislation that provides for free Community College for all."
Supports raising teacher pay and increasing funding for continuing teacher development.
"Increase funding for continuing teacher development."
Supports increasing funding for schools, raising teacher pay, and providing free school meals to every student.
"Invest in education by raising teacher pay and providing free school meals to every single student."
Supports raising teacher pay and increasing funding for continuing teacher development.
"Invest in education by raising teacher pay and providing free school meals to every single student. Increase funding for continuing teacher development."
Supports raising teacher pay, providing free school meals, funding special education, and disconnecting school funding from test scores.
"Invest in education by raising teacher pay and providing free school meals to every single student. Disconnect school funding levels from student test scores, base on student numbers with a set minimum regardless of other factors."
Supports creating programs that connect high school students with the option of vocational training or traditional high school, with avenues to college or apprenticeships afterward.
"Work with the Department of Education to create programs that connect incoming high school students with the option of vocational training or traditional high school, then provide avenues of connecting graduates with college and/or apprenticeships after."
Healthcare(12)
Supports aggressive Medicare negotiation of prescription prices to lower costs for everyone.
"Allow Medicare to aggressively negotiate prescription prices to lower costs for everyone."
Supports rejecting privatization of Social Security and Medicare and restoring/expanding Medicare benefits.
"Reject every attempt to privatize the vital institutions of Social Security and Medicare."
Supports allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and capping out-of-pocket expenses for seniors and working families.
"Lower prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices while also fighting to cap out-of-pocket expenses for seniors and working families."
Supports allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and capping out-of-pocket expenses for seniors and working families.
"Lower prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices while also fighting to cap out-of-pocket expenses for seniors and working families. Allow Medicare to aggressively negotiate prescription prices to lower costs for everyone."
Supports expanding Medicaid to cover more people in need.
"Expand Medicaid to cover more of our neighbors in need."
Supports restoring funding and expanding Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing services.
"Restore funding and expand Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing."
Supports protecting Medicare and Social Security from cuts or privatization, and expanding Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing.
"Reject every attempt to privatize the vital institutions of Social Security and Medicare. Restore funding and expand Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing."
Supports protecting Medicare and Social Security from cuts or privatization, and expanding Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing.
"She will expand and protect essential federal services like Social Security and Medicare from cuts or privatization."
Supports expanding Medicaid to cover more people and reviewing/expanding covered disabilities and conditions.
"Expand Medicaid to cover more of our neighbors in need. Review and expand disabilities and conditions accepted to receive Medicare & Medicaid."
Supports reviewing and expanding the disabilities and conditions eligible to receive Medicare and Medicaid.
"Review and expand disabilities and conditions accepted to receive Medicare & Medicaid."
Supports fully funding mental health services so every child has access to the tools they need.
"Fully fund special education and mental health services so every child has access to every tool they need to succeed."
Supports reviewing universal healthcare systems internationally to find the best way to implement universal healthcare in the US.
"Review of and collaboration with other universal healthcare systems to find the best way to implement universal healthcare in the US."
Social Issues(1)
Supports introducing legislation that enshrines the right to privacy and bodily autonomy.
"Introduce legislation that enshrines the right to Privacy and Bodily Autonomy."