1) Cut Everyday Living Costs for Working Families

Policy: Reduce everyday household expenses on essentials like groceries, utilities, transportation, insurance, and basic services.
Solution: Enact targeted middle-class relief, strengthen market competition, crack down on hidden junk fees, and support federal actions that lower core living costs without expanding bureaucracy.

2) Make Housing Affordable Again

Policy: Increase housing affordability for renters, first-time buyers, and workforce families in high-cost regions like California.
Solution: Expand federal incentives for new housing supply, reward faster local permitting, support first-time homebuyer savings tools, and grow workforce housing near jobs and transit.

3) Lower the Cost of Education and Job Training

Policy: Make college and career pathways more affordable and aligned with real job outcomes.
Solution: Support tuition-pressure reforms, expand career and technical education, strengthen community-college transfer pipelines, and tie training programs to high-growth sectors.

4) Lower Healthcare and Prescription Drug Costs

Policy: Reduce the medical cost burden on families and seniors.
Solution: Lower out-of-pocket costs, increase healthcare price transparency, reduce prescription drug costs, and expand access to preventive and primary care.

5) Stop Tax-and-Fee Overload on Families and Innovators

Policy: Prevent excessive tax and fee burdens that weaken family budgets and discourage innovation.
Solution: Oppose layered tax increases and commuter-punishing fee schemes, simplify compliance, and promote tax fairness for workers, retirees, and small businesses.

6) Lower Energy, Utility, and Transportation Costs

Policy: Deliver reliable, affordable energy and transportation to reduce monthly household costs.
Solution: Advance an all-of-the-above energy strategy, modernize the grid, improve fuel and power reliability, and invest in transportation efficiency to lower commute expenses.

7) Make Childcare and Elder-Care More Affordable

Policy: Reduce care-related financial pressure on working families and caregivers.
Solution: Expand affordable childcare access, strengthen elder-care support systems, and provide flexible federal support that helps families stay in the workforce.

8) Protect Jobs, Raise Wages, and Back Small Business

Policy: Improve affordability through higher wages, stronger local employment, and small-business growth.
Solution: Cut unnecessary regulatory barriers, support domestic investment, expand pro-growth small-business policies, and encourage employee ownership models that build wealth.

9) Keep Silicon Valley Competitive in the Next Economy

Policy: Ensure U.S. leadership in AI, biotech, robotics, quantum, and advanced manufacturing.
Solution: Pass startup-friendly federal policy, strengthen IP protections, support R&D commercialization, and invest in innovation infrastructure that keeps talent and capital in America.

10) Restore Fiscal Discipline and Economic Stability

Policy: Promote long-term affordability through responsible federal budgeting and pro-growth economics.
Solution: Reduce wasteful spending, prioritize high-impact investments, support growth-oriented fiscal reforms, and implement accountability measures that lower inflationary pressure over time.

11) Oppose California Billionaire Wealth Tax

Policy: Oppose a California billionaire wealth tax that risks driving investment, founders, and job creators out of the state.
Solution: Focus on spending discipline instead of new wealth taxes—cut waste, streamline agencies, eliminate duplicative programs, and make state government lean and accountable. Promote growth policies that keep capital, innovation, and high-paying jobs in California.

12) Oppose California Car Mileage Tax

Policy: Oppose a statewide car mileage tax that would increase costs on commuters, working families, and small businesses.
Solution: Balance transportation funding by reducing government waste first, prioritizing road dollars for core infrastructure, and modernizing delivery. Support a lean budget approach with a long-term tax reform goal: lower state income taxes toward 5% and property taxes toward 0.25% through phased implementation tied to spending reductions and economic growth.