Abortion:Supports woman's right to choose and equality in abortion coverage under Medicaid.[1]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports working with ICE on violent criminals but opposes profiling and favors a path to citizenship for hard-working immigrants.[1]
Crime & policing:Launched working group to identify gaps and improve response to domestic violence.[1]
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🗳️ IJR community pollinfluence-weighted · not a scientific poll
University of New HampshireJun 23Foulkes 38 – McKee 27
EV mandates:Supports adopting Advanced Clean Cars II and Advanced Clean Trucks standards requiring increasing shares of zero-emission vehicles.[1]
Education:Supports expanding year-round learning, career education, modern facilities, and investing in all students.[1]
Election integrity: mail ballots:Supports the Let RI Vote Act as tools to protect voting rights.[1]
Energy production:Opposes eliminating energy tax credits and supports developing offshore wind farms to expand energy supply.[1][2]
Federal spending & debt:Opposes federal budget changes that add trillions to national debt while shifting costs to states and cutting safety net programs.[1][2]
Fentanyl & drug enforcement:Expanded Overdose Task Force to address opioid crisis, fentanyl risks, and support prevention, harm reduction, and recovery.[1]
Free speech & tech censorship:Supports the Freedom to Read Act to prohibit censorship of library materials and protect free expression.[1]
Free trade:Opposes Trump's tariff policies for raising costs on groceries, household goods, and imported items.[1]
Gun policy:Supports preventing gun violence and enhancing firearm safety.[1]
Health care:Opposes federal actions that jeopardize health insurance coverage and Medicaid access for Rhode Islanders.[1][2]
Housing costs:Supports a $100 million housing production bond and additional bonds to increase inventory and homeownership opportunities.[1][2]
Infrastructure:Supports hundreds of millions in bond proposals for roads, bridges, housing, and cybersecurity infrastructure to create jobs.[1][2]
Israel:Has been a steadfast partner in strengthening Rhode Island-Israel relations.[1]
K-12 Education:Supports strengthening K-12 education through expanded learning opportunities and facility modernization.[1]
K-12 education:Supports strengthening K-12 education through facility modernization and career and technical education expansion.[1]
LGBT causes:Supports legal shielding for gender-affirming care providers and LGBTQ+ community protections.[1]
Marijuana legalization:Supports regulating a legal marijuana market with annual license limits.[1]
Medical gender transition for minors:Supports legal shield laws protecting providers of gender-affirming care from out-of-state actions.[1]
Parents' rights in education:Supports measures to resist censorship of educational materials.[1]
Regulation & permitting:Opposes new building energy use reporting requirements due to added administrative burdens and potential penalties.[1]
Sanctuary jurisdictions:Declines to respond to federal demands regarding sanctuary policies and stands against racial profiling in immigration enforcement.[1][2]
School choice:Supports a temporary moratorium on new charter schools to strengthen public schools.[1][2]
Small business:Supports reducing taxes and fees impacting small businesses and minority-owned businesses.[1]
Social Security & Medicare:Supports eliminating Rhode Island’s tax on social security benefits to provide relief to retirees.[1][2][3]
Student loan forgiveness:Supports student loan forgiveness for primary care physicians committing to practice in Rhode Island.[1]
Taxes:Supports phasing out the state tax on Social Security benefits over three years and creating a fully refundable Child Tax Credit.[1]
Constitutional convention:Supports a constitutional convention and using the governor's bully pulpit to advance it.[1]
Election integrity:Led successful effort to eliminate the master lever for straight-party voting to improve election accountability.[1][2]
Employment regulations:Opposes legislation that would require going to court to fire an employee, preserving at-will employment.[1]
Free speech & tech censorship:Supports protecting First Amendment free speech rights against attempts at repression.[1]
Government accountability:Supports making state government more accountable to taxpayers and reducing waste and dysfunction.[1][2][3]
Government efficiency:Supports fixing dysfunctional state government processes to reduce waste of taxpayer dollars and improve accountability.[1][2][3]
Government efficiency and accountability:Prioritizes fixing government dysfunction, waste, and inefficiency over engaging in divisive social issues.[1][2]
Infrastructure:Supports addressing repeated failures in state projects like bridges and payroll systems through improved government competence.[1][2]
Line-item veto:Supports implementing a line-item veto to increase budget transparency and legislative debate on spending items.[1]
Political reform:Advocated eliminating the master lever to increase election accountability and transparency.[1]
Prioritizing governance over social issues:Prioritizes fixing government dysfunction over engaging in divisive social and cultural disputes.[1]
Regulation & permitting:Supports line-item veto to increase budget transparency and accountability.[1]
School choice:Supports charter schools and opposes moratoriums driven by union pressure.[1]
Social issues:Prioritizes effective governance over engaging in divisive social and cultural debates such as abortion and firearms.[1]
Taxes:Supports cutting the corporate tax from 9 to 7 percent and other reforms to make taxes fair and competitive.[1]