General Federal:

- Double funding for OSHA inspectors including additional training, pay increases, and acquirement of additional personal (Estimated to cost 20 billion over 10 years.)

- Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act

- Establish a national version of Tennessee Valley Authority

- Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act

- End Solitary Confinement in all federal prisons (with law going through congress to make it national)

- Make the NAIC Pet Insurance act federal law.

- Pass Guarantee of a Legitimate Deal Act

- Reinstate the repealed sections of the Glass-Seagal Act.

- Expand the Temporary Disability & Family Leave Insurance to include trans related surgeries.

- Designate LGBT+ seniors and ones living with HIV under the “category of greatest need” in regards to the "Older Americans Act of 1965"

- Mandate of cultural and anti-discrimination training in long-term facilities

- Include questions related to trans status, gender identity, and sexual orientation on surveys related to homelessness.

- Re-creation of the Works Progress Administration.

- Pass the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

- Establish Polyamory protections/rights akin to what was passed in Somerville, Mass

- Pass the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2023

- Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act (amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex)

- Pass the Investing in Rural Manufacturing Act (amend the Small Business Act to establish a rural manufacturing forgivable loan program)

- Pass the Strengthening Local Processing Act (support small and very small meat and poultry processing establishments)

- Pass the Equality Act

- Pass the VA Same-Day Scheduling Act (Have a scheduling for appointments when they call in originally)

- Pass the Agriculture Export Promotion Act

- Pass the Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act (prohibit foreign nationals from donating to ballot initiatives or referendums)

- Pass the Yes In My Backyard Act (create more barriers to using discriminatory land use for housing)

- Pass National Right to Repair legislation

- Keep free covid tests supplied

- Implement Singapore Leaf weight on new housing





Building our Future Act:

- Pass national child care program based off a modernization of the Lanham Act (Estimated to cost 300B over 10 years)

- Pass Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act (prevents employers from removing health coverage to a lawfully striking worker)

- Pass the READ Act Reauthorization Act.

- Pass the American Teacher Act (provide grants to State educational agencies to support State efforts to increase teacher salaries)

- Permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit akin to the American Rescue Plan (Estimated to cost 150B over 10 years)

- Establish a federal child care policy akin to the BBB plan (estimated to cost 500B over 10 years)

- Re-creation of the National Youth Administration, focus on local works. (costs undetermined)

- Establish National, Free, Permanent Pre-K for 3-4 year olds (Estimated to cost 350B over 10 years)

- Permanently expand the EITC akin to the '21 American Rescue Plan levels (Estimated to cost 130B over 10 years)

- Guaranteed Parental Leave (all genders)

- Minimum of 15 paid sick days per year.

- 10X direct federal funding to libraries nationally (Estimated to cost 8 billion over 10 years, 10 billion is via expansion of Library services and Technology Act expansion.)

- Create Federal agency to identify and create federal strategy to reduce diet related long-term health conditions, suggesting standards to all 200+ Federal agencies.





Social Service Reform Act:

- Make CHIP permanent (estimated to save 6B over 10 years)

- Expand CHIP income eligibility to 300% of Poverty in All States (Estimated to reduce the amount of uninsuranced children by 70%, estimated to cost 800M per year)

- Eliminate Waiting Periods for CHIP

- Allow Families to Buy Into Coverage through Medicaid, CHIP, or the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for Their Children if not directly eligible (estimated to generate 1B over 10 years)

- Permanent Free School Lunches in all Elementary, Middle and High Schools, eliminating the reduced tier. (Estimated to cost 140B over 10 years)

- Extend the Affordable Connectivity Program to include families up to 250% of the federal poverty line, with a 50% increase in reduction costs for tribal clients (Estimated to cost an additional 4 billion per year)

- Transition US territories from NAP to SNAP (estimated to reduce food insecurity by 40% in said territories).

- Work on streamlining SNAP enrollment,

- Pass the “Close the Meal Gap Act”

- Combine WIC into a wider SNAP program, granting larger SNAP benefits to WIC affiliated women (Or allocating WIC as merely an additional SNAP supplement to qualifying individuals).

- Eliminate Work Requirements for TANF (estimated to reduce deep poverty by 15%)

- Work with farmers markets nationally to establish matching SNAP benefit vouchers.

- Allow WIC benefits to roll over month over month.

- Allow non mothers to apply for WIC benefits if they are raising family connected children (Expected to increase WIC coverage by 400,000. Estimated to cost an additional 500M per year)

- Make the remote application option for WIC permanent.

- Extend existing EBT fruit matching efforts to WIC

- Automatically enroll eligible individuals into SNAP that are in the CSF program, and visa-versa without a reduction of benefits.

- Eliminate the Special Milk Program on condition of expanding previous benefits (estimated to save around 15Mil per year)

- Combine FMNP and SFMNP into the wider SNAP program, automatically allocating additional benefits based on existing SNAP enrollment

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- Extend the time table to use HCV (House choice vouchers)

- Expand the use of HCV to non-lease related fees (such as deposits)

- Expand the Fair Housing Act to protect voucher recipients

- Consolidate house voucher programs in metro areas to prevent overlapping jurisdictions, and complex application process (expected to save 900M per year)

- Continue to use private data from Zillow and Apartment lists to accurately adjust voucher programs

- Enable cost-burdened households to qualify for voucher programs (based on location), not just those with low absolute incomes.

- Instruct HUD to invest in the repair of older buildings to make those areas comparable for existing living standards to incentive usage/adoption.

- Use homes acquired by the federal government via forfeit, forecloses, and bank failures as lower income housing units (and or construction of larger quantity housing) when no existing occupant is present on the property.

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Reduce the Deficit Act:

- Have federal agencies consolidate data centers to improve government efficiency. (Estimated to save 5.7B over 10 years)

- Instruct the DOD to improve administrative services akin to food program fragmentation, reducing improve defense travel payments etc. (Estimated to save 15M per year)

- Instruct the DOD to peruse less expensive disposal options of Nuclear and Hazardous waste without compromising safety (Estimated to save 100B over 10 years)

- Have BLM readjust their fee structure when leasing land for Oil and gas drilling (Estimated to raise 4 million per year)

- Increase IRS refund speed by hiring additional staff in an effort to reduce interest payments from delayed refunds (Estimated to save 20M per year)

- Allow the Secretary of Agriculture to set fee rates to recover the full costs of the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection program (Estimated to generate an additional 150M per year)

- Rescind the U.S. Enrichment Corporation (USEC) Fund and allow existing funds to be used for other purposes (600M)

- Establish fees for oil and gas leases on federal land that are not being utilized (estimated to generate 1.7B over 10 years)

- Eliminate the production of pennies by the US Mint (Estimated to save 86M per year)

- Push for a wider adoption of dollar coins instead of dollar bills (Estimated to save 500M per year if able to be done)

- Change the metals used by the Mint for the production of Nickles, Dimes, and Quarters (estimated to save 170M over 10 years)

- Adjust how Ginnie Mae applies it's fee structures and employs contractors (Estimated to save 23M per year)

- Adjust the tax allowances giving to IRA's as stated in the 2014 GAO report (Estimated to save 4.3B per year)

- Make owners of rental real estate subject to the same payment reporting requirements regardless of whether they engaged in a trade or business. (Estimated to generate 4.3B per year)

- Require S corporations to use information already available to them to calculate shareholders’ basis as completely as possible and report it to shareholders and the IRS (Estimated to generate an additional 610M per year)

- Prevent the use of tax exempt government bonds from being used to finance private facilities (estimated to generate an additional 207M per year)

- Terminate the USFHP and merge patients with existing TRICare. (Estimated to save 190M per year)

- Grant the RailRoad Retirement Board access to the DHHS quarterly earnings information from the National Directory of New Hires database. (Estimated to save 9M per year)

- Reduce the tax difference between small and large cigars, as well as impose standardized existing tobacco taxes to roll your own and pipe tobacco (Estimated to save 2.6B over 10 years)

- Limit the amount of premium subsidies that an individual farmer can get per year (estimated to save 1.1B per year)

- Establish cost saving metrics akin to the Air force for all federal agencies with contract suppliers (estimated to save 5.6B per year)

- Establish cost saving measures to F-35 maintenance and supply akin to GAO findings (estimated to save 6.1B per year)

- Require reporting via third parties for virtual currency assets/purchases to the IRS (estimated to generate 4B per year)

- Adjust the rates paid by large partnerships to have them pay audit levels (estimated to generate 8.6B per year)

- Transitioning antiquated, paper-based processes to digital records management for federal forms (estimated to save 50B over 10 years)

- Have OMB sell off or auction off already listed surplus and underutilized buildings across the country (estimated to save 150B over 10 years)

- Re-authorize BRAC to reduce excess Military facilities (estimated to save 7.1B per year)

- Reduce/Consolidate Federal Employee Shuttle Buses (estimated to save 400M per year)

- Reauthorize the First Responder Network Authority (estimated to save 800M per year)

- Authorize DSHS to share fall prevention information and data with other related agencies (estimated to save 12M per year)

- End the use of DST (estimated to save 1B every year)

- Allow digital transcripts for federal employees on public documents (estimated to save 100M per year)

- Eliminate the Even Start Program (Estimated to save around 5Mil per year)

- Cancel the Long-Range Standoff Weapon development (estimated to save 14B over 10 years)

- Retire the B-1B bomber and allocate personnel to other assignments (estimated to save 10B over 10 years)

- Increase Appropriations for the Internal Revenue Service’s Enforcement Initiatives (Estimated to generate an additional 40B over 10 years at base values)

- Fully repeal the Jones Act. Institute a separate foreign vessel restriction (Expected to save Hawaii, Alaska 1.2 billion per year, PR 2.1B per year. Save the US national economy 600B to 1.35T over 10 years)

- Remove tax credits/rebates to companies that have generated pretax revenues (estimated to save 40 billion over 10 years)

- Tax Carried Interest as Ordinary Income (Estimated to generate additional 12B over 10 years.)

- Require People Who Claim the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit to Have a Social Security Number That Is Valid for Employment (estimated to save 23B over 10 years)

- Repeal the “Last In, First Out” Approach to Inventory Identification and the “Lower of Cost or Market” and “Subnormal Goods” Methods of Inventory Valuation (Estimated to save 90B over 10 years)

- Require DHS to and its Joint Council to better coordinate the acquisition of major assets by finding common solutions that help avoid inefficient duplication and overlap (Saves 100M a year)

- Have Federal agencies compare their inventory of software licenses to remove duplication (Estimated to save 5 Mil per year)

- Have federal agencies address building utilization benchmarks to help them identify and reduce underutilized office space according to '24 GAO report (Would save 20Mil over 10 years)
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Final Estimated Savings: 1.698 Trillion over 10 years (169.8B per year)




Pay Their Fair Share Act:

- Revert Estate Tax exceptions to 2009 level indexed to inflation (Estimated to generate additional 1.7 Trillion over 10 years)

- Increase capitol gains tax rate to 45% (Estimated to generate additional 500B in revenue over 10 years)

- Increase Corporate Tax rate to 30% (Estimated to generate an additional 1.9T over 10 years)

- Establish a 15% minimum corporate tax for companies making over 1 billion a year (Estimated to generate 200B over 10 years)

- Raise the Tax Rates on Long-Term Capital Gains and Qualified Dividends by 2 Percentage Points (estimated to generate 75B over 10 years)

- Change the Tax Treatment of Capital Gains From Sales of Inherited Assets (estimated to generate 140B over 10 years)

- Require Half of Advertising Expenses to Be Amortized Over 10 Years (Estimated to generate 133B over 10 years)

- Close the Gingrich-Edwards Loophole (estimated to generate and additional 240B over 10 years)

- Repeal the use of FILO accounting method for IRS reporting by corporations (estimated to generate an additional 114B over 10 years)

- Close the GRAT's loophole with Estate taxes (estimated to generate 70B over 10 years)

- Establish a wealth tax on the top 0.1% of 1% annual (Estimated to generate 1.3T over 10 years)

- End Offshore Corporate Tax Avoidance (Estimated to generate an additional 4.1T over 10 years)

- Impose a carbon tax of 2% annually on businesses in the sector (with a $25 tax per metric ton) adjusted for inflation (Estimated to raise 2.2T over 10 years)

Final Estimated Generation: 10.689T over 10 years (1.06T per year)




Save Social Security Act:

- Expand Social Security Coverage to Include Newly Hired State and Local Government Employees (Estimated to generate 110B over 10 years)

- Give the IRS the authority to collect the information that the SSA needs on government pension income to administer the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision accurately and fairly. (estimated to save 3.5-10.2B over 10 years)

- Have the SSA offset Disability Insurance benefits for Unemployment Insurance received in the same time frame (Estimated to save 2.2B over 10 years)

- Removal of SSA cap (estimated to generate an additional 1.8 trillion over 10 years)

- Increase the payroll tax by 0.2% every year over a period of 10 years split between employeer and employee (Estimated to raise 2.8T over 10 years)

- Establish the SSA tax on unrealized gains of earners above 250K in investments (Estimated to generate 700B over 10 years)

(SSA shortfall as of '23, 89B) Final Estimated Generation: 5.47T over 10 years (547B per year)




Social Security Equality Act:

- Combine the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund into a single Social Security Trust Fund. (Estimated to save 29Mil per year)

- Pass the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act, making sure that it indexes to inflation (estimated to cost 8B over 10 years in direct benefits)
- Would see SSI participation increase by 3%, but, might save the program long-term as it would massively reduce oversight, errors, appeals etc. that are costly.

- Pass the Work Without Worry Act (removes the penalty for past work affecting DAC status)

- Pass the Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act (removing the restriction of DAC recipients from getting married to non-disabled individuals)

- Allow individuals that opted out of Social Security to opt back in (akin to the Clergy act of 2020)

- Alert SSI/SSDI recipients of their ability to open an ABLE retirement account

- Adjust the SSI income disregard to $150 on unearned, and $400 on earned income, indexed to inflation. (allocated via the SSI Restoration Act)

- Increase SSI monthly benefits to federal poverty line amount, indexed to inflation (expected to reduce poverty by 9%, and cost 10B per year)

- Expand SSDI work trail periods to SSI beneficiaries, including the 36 month Extended Period of Eligibility program without losing benefits.

- Reduce the 50% on dollar reduction for earned income over the disregard amount to 10%.

- Fully remove the ISM policy that restricts outside assistance that SSI recipients are able to obtain from family members.
- The above 3 are expected to save SSA 4B per year in admin costs, also heavily reducing overpayments to benefit holders, and reducing SSA staff headache.

- Expand SSI to lawful permanent immigrants that arrived after 1996 (estimated to increase participation by 15%, cost 80B over 10 years)

- Extend SSI to all U.S. Territories (estimated to increase participation by 4 Million, reducing poverty in these territories by 20% and to cost 23B over 10 years)

- Allow SSI applications to be submitted online.

- Develop new or alternative ways for the agency to verify important documents so that people are not required to mail in original documents they need, such as drivers’ licenses, or travel to field offices to provide them in person.

- Eliminate the five-month waiting period for SSDI benefits and the two-year waiting period for Medicare benefits through legislation




Save Medicare Act:

- Reduce Medicare Advantage payments by matching MA and FFS codes, reducing MA payments by 5.9% across the board. (expected to save 355B over 10 years).

- Consolidate and sharpen the focus of CMMI payment models (as well as make these changes mandatory) (estimated to save 20B over 10 years)

- Expand the existing competitive bidding process for medical equipment to include all DMEPOS products and lab tests. (estimated to save 3.5B over 10 years)

- Prevent Medicare Advantage plans from using Health Risk Assessments to calculate risk scores for patients (also have regular review of these reports.) (Estimated to save 47B over 10 years)

- Establish competitive bidding of Medicare Advantage plans instead of existing benchmark of CMS (with 5% above bid marker to protect rebates) (Estimated to save 77B over 10 years.)

- Increase the medicare surtax rate of individuals making over 400K a year to 5%, as well as 5% for investment income (Estimated to generate an additional 250B over 10 years)

- Close the business loophole by insuring that all is either subject to the medicare payroll tax or the NIIT (Estimated to generate an additional 210B over 10 years)

- Pass the Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act (Eliminate wait period for SSDI and medicare for individuals with Metastatic Breast Cancer)

- Equalize rates between evaluation of office visits and other services. Returning the associated savings to Medicare (Estimated to save 2.1B per year)

- Have medicare/medicaid adjust the review process for demonstration waivers in regards to budget neutrality. (estimated to save 11B per year)

- Require states to submit verified audits in regards to state compliance with permissible methods for calculating non- Disproportionate Share Hospital supplemental payments. (Estimated to save 800-1.1B per year)

- Require Manufacturers to Pay a Minimum Rebate on Drugs Covered Under Part D of Medicare for Low-Income Beneficiaries (Estimated to generate 14.5B per year)

- Restructure how private insurance companies in Part C health screens apply medical care needs to patients in an effort to reduce abuse and fraud (estimated to save 250B over 10 years)

- Implement Site-Neutral Payments for Hospitals (Estimated to save 40B over 10 years)

- Reform the Quality Bonus Program and Risk-Coding Adjustments in Medicare Advantage for private insurances (estimated to save 100B over 10 years)

- Expand the ability for Medicare to negotiate drug prices beyond the IRA list. (Estimated to save 98B over 10 years)

- Increase HI tax by 1% for those above $200k (Estimated to generate an additional 550B over 10 years)

- Close gap between the NIIT and SECA tax bases above $200K (Estimated to generate an additional 498B over 10 years)

- Require all States to Enter Part A Buy-in Agreements

- Eliminate the Two-year Medicare Waiting Period for People that get SSDI (estimated to cost 110B over 10 years)

- Pass the BENES Act (act ensures that people approaching Medicare eligibility receive clear and timely information about Medicare Part B enrollment rules, simplify Part B enrollment periods, and improve transitions to Medicare by eliminating needless gaps in coverage.)

- Eliminate the Part B Lifetime Late Enrollment Penalty

- Prohibit Medicare Advantage Plans from Dropping Doctors Mid-year without Cause

- Implement site-neutral payments across care facilities (estimated to save 71B over 10 years, and consumers 14.1B over 10 years)

- Have Medicare purchase generics when available (estimated to save 20B over 10 years)


(Medicare Deficit as of '23, 247.6B) Final Estimated Generation: 2.890T over 10 years (289.8B per year)



Native American Health reform:

- Expand outreach to Native Americans for them to utilize IHS benefits

- Give local tribes greater autonomy when doing outreach, give funds needed to make viable (estimated to cost 100M over 10 years)

- Aim to match IHS spending per capita with the VHA to cover staffing and equipment shortages, as well as reduce the programs reliance on reimbursement requirements. (Estimated to cost 20B over 10 years)

- Establish the IHS as a non congressional appropriated program, instead directing funds raised from Medicare to cover the agencies cost. (estimated to cost Medicare 80B over 10 years). Or, advanced appropriating like the VHA (see later)

- Eliminate tribal proof requirements with the MRMIB unless put directly in question, has presumptive tribal eligibility. Have AINA organizations be encouraged to provide letters of tribal heritage.

- Have waiver eligible families that send in checks for premiums to MRMIB; have them returned and not cashed, explaining they are eligible for waived premiums.

- Extend the ability to enroll into IHS at tribal clinics.

- Add that copays are $0 to cards issued to AINA individuals eligible.

- Offer case management of clients and IHS applications.

- Encourage providers to offer office hours that match working families schedules

- Provide cultural competency training's to staff.

- Monitor and require cultural sensitivity of providers to localized tribes.

- Improve provider information regarding exceptions waivers.

- Implement the exception waiver to entire family regardless of race, to avoid mixed household

status, and reduce enrollment barriers for families of mixed tribal heritage

- Expand direct IHS funding by 10X per year via advanced appropriation (estimated to cost 280B over 10 years)

- Allow SNAP participants to also receive Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) benefits.