Healthcare should work for people, not corporate profits. In Maine, too many families struggle to get care close to home, especially in rural communities where hospitals and clinics are under constant threat. I’ll fight to make sure every Mainer has access to quality, affordable care, no matter their ZIP code.

Here’s the start of my plan:

• Offer a real choice with Medicare for All Who Want It, creating a potential glide path towards single payer coverage while maintaining private insurance for those who want to keep it
• Keep premiums down and expand coverage with generous subsidies
• Defend the Affordable Care Act and block Medicaid cuts
• Force Big Pharma to negotiate all drug prices
• Cover maternal and family care

I understand these struggles firsthand. When I was born, my mom had to leave the workforce to provide childcare, but by the time my twin brother and I turned three, she had to go back to work just to secure health insurance for our family because the church my father served couldn’t afford it. That experience taught me whose side I need to be on. 

I hope you’ll read my entire plan to make affordable healthcare a reality for all Mainers by clicking below:

Housing in Maine is completely unaffordable for too many families. Corporate landlords and hedge funds are buying up homes and driving prices through the roof, while everyday Mainers are left behind. Housing should be for people, not profits.

My plan begins here:

• Stop hedge funds from buying up single-family homes
• Accelerate construction of new homes
• Allow first-time homebuyers to defer property taxes for up to five years
• Ban companies from using algorithms to fix rent prices
• Enact anti–rent gouging laws
• Invest in rural Maine by boosting USDA rural housing programs

Dive into my full roadmap to make housing affordable for Mainers:

Starting a family and having children should not be a luxury for the wealthiest Americans. It should be something all Americans have the opportunity to achieve, and to make that possible, we need to make childcare easy to find, affordable, and treated like the necessity it is. 

Here’s what I’m proposing: 

• A $10 a day cap, per child, on out-of-pocket childcare costs for families earning less than $250,000 per year
• Federal government grants to childcare providers to guarantee this new rate
• Stipends for alternative caregiving models, including stay-at-home parents, and compensation for relatives providing childcare.

Working Mainers shouldn’t be crushed by taxes while billionaires use loopholes to dodge taxes. I’ll push to lower the federal income tax rate for households making under $50,000 a year to just 1%, putting more money back in the pockets of the families who need it most.

Here’s how my plan works: 

• Lower taxes to 1% on first $50,000 earned
• Automatic and easy tax filing for households who make less than $50,000 a year.
• Paid for the right way, by enacting the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Plan, closing tax loopholes for billionaires, ending special tax breaks for corporations that send American jobs overseas, and catching wealthy tax cheats.
• Phased relief above $50,000 to avoid a benefit cliff

Together, we can put more money back in the hands of the working families who need it most.

Read more about how we can drastically cut taxes for working families in Maine. Read my plan here: