Policy: How we Repair the Government
My Plan to fix corruption and partisanship in the Federal Government
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Restore the Voice of the States
The House was designed to represent the people; the Senate was designed to represent the states. Repealing the 17th Amendment would restore that distinction and rebuild an important check within our federal system.
1. Give States Their Voice Back
State legislatures once selected U.S. senators, giving state governments direct representation in Washington. Restoring that system would make senators accountable to the states whose constitutional interests they were designed to represent.
2. Check Federal Power
Senators accountable to state legislatures would have a direct incentive to resist federal mandates and programs that diminish state authority, restoring an institutional defense against the continued centralization of power in Washington.
3. Strengthen Local Civic Engagement
Senate selection would make state legislative elections more consequential, giving citizens another reason to understand who represents them locally and encouraging greater participation in the governments closest to the people.
My Plan
I support repealing the 17th Amendment and restoring the selection of U.S. senators by state legislatures.
The people would elect their representatives in the House and their state legislators, while those legislators would select senators charged with defending their state's interests in the federal government.
The House should represent the people. The Senate should represent the states. Together, they should check centralized power.
Restore Constitutional Government
The Constitution divides power because concentrated power threatens liberty. Restoring constitutional government means returning Congress to its enumerated powers, rebuilding separation of powers, and making elected representatives accountable for the laws they create.
1. Return to Enumerated Powers
Before asking whether legislation is good policy, Congress must first ask whether the Constitution authorizes it. Good intentions cannot justify exercising powers the people never granted the federal government.
2. Reclaim Legislative Power
Congress must stop surrendering its lawmaking authority to presidents, agencies, and unelected bureaucrats. Representatives should write clear laws, cast public votes, and remain directly accountable to voters for the rules they create.
3. Restore Federalism
Not every problem requires a national solution. Powers never granted to Washington belong to the states or people, keeping government closer, more accountable, and responsive to the communities it serves.
My Plan
I will judge legislation by a fundamental question: Does the Constitution authorize Congress to do this?
I will work to restore the nondelegation doctrine, reclaim legislative authority from administrative agencies, return Congress to its enumerated powers, and restore the constitutional balance between the federal government, states, and people.
Congress should write the laws, the President should execute them, and elected representatives should answer to the people for the decisions they make.
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Increase the Size of the House of Representatives
The House was designed to be the part of our federal government closest to the people. As America has grown, representation has not. Growing the House would restore accountability, increase political competition, and disperse concentrated power.
1. Bring Representatives Closer
Smaller districts mean fewer constituents per representative, making representatives more accessible and accountable while giving individual voters a stronger voice and restoring government’s direct dependence upon the people.
2. Lower Costs & Increase Competition
Smaller districts require candidates to reach fewer voters, lowering campaign costs and allowing ordinary citizens to compete while reducing dependence on wealthy donors, political parties, and national organizations.
3. Dilute Lobbying & Corruption
More representatives distribute political power among more elected officials, making congressional influence harder to concentrate while strengthening Congress’s ability to oversee the executive branch and federal bureaucracy.
My Plan
I support expanding the House by 100–200 members and pursuing a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to reconsider representation after every census.
The People’s House should never again be permanently frozen while the population continues to grow.
As America grows, its representation should grow with it.
Americans should be able to work, save, and plan for tomorrow without government continually taking more of their earnings or diminishing the purchasing power of what remains. Restoring economic stability requires sound money, responsible spending, and limits on federal taxation.
1. End Inflationary Government
A dollar earned today should retain its value tomorrow. Congress must restrain spending, borrowing, and monetary expansion that diminish purchasing power and quietly erode the savings and wages of working Americans.
2. Restore Sound & Tangible Money
Money should be anchored to something government cannot create at will. I support moving toward a dollar backed by tangible monetary assets—including gold, silver, platinum, and copper to impose discipline and protect purchasing power.
3. Restore Limits on Taxation
I support repealing the 16th Amendment and ending the federal income tax. Americans should keep more of what they earn while Washington learns to operate within constitutional and sustainable financial limits.
My Plan
I will work to restore congressional responsibility over money, move toward a metal-backed dollar, restrain federal spending and borrowing, confront the national debt, and repeal the 16th Amendment.
Gold, silver, platinum, and copper cannot simply be created with a keystroke. Tying our currency to scarce, tangible assets would place a real constraint on monetary expansion and make the costs of government more transparent.
Our constitutional tradition recognized the importance of sound money: Article I prohibits states from making anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. I believe that principle of monetary discipline remains just as important today.
Sound money is ultimately about liberty. People should be able to save the fruits of their labor without fearing that years of work will be steadily diminished through currency devaluation.
Government should not take the value of your labor through taxation or take the value of your savings through inflation.
Restore the Value of Our Money
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Bring American Power Home
America should be strong enough to defend itself without attempting to police the world. Our foreign policy should protect American sovereignty, restore constitutional accountability, avoid permanent entanglements, and place diplomacy ahead of unnecessary military intervention.
1. Restore Congressional War Powers
The Constitution gives Congress the power to decide when America goes to war. Presidents should command our military, not independently decide when, where, and against whom the American people fight.
2. End World Policing
Our military exists to defend the United States, its people, and their liberties—not manage the affairs of other nations. American force should be reserved for genuine threats to our security.
3. Diplomacy Over Permanent Presence
America can engage the world without occupying it. I favor strong diplomacy, trade, and peaceful relations over permanent military commitments, unnecessary overseas bases, and entanglements that repeatedly draw America into foreign conflicts.
My Plan
I will work to restore Congress's constitutional authority over war, reduce unnecessary overseas military commitments, oppose regime-change wars, and demand clear congressional authorization before committing Americans to hostilities.
America should maintain the strength necessary to defend itself while pursuing peaceful relations with other nations. We should send ambassadors to build relationships abroad rather than treating permanent military presence as the foundation of American diplomacy.
Defend America. Trade with the world. Pursue peace. Bring American power home.
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Defend the Fourth Amendment
Americans should not have to surrender their privacy to obtain security. The Fourth Amendment protects the people against unreasonable searches and seizures, and those protections must follow Americans into the digital age.
1. Require Warrants & Probable Cause
Government should not search or monitor Americans simply because technology makes it possible. Searches should remain particularized, reasonable, and, where constitutionally required, supported by warrants based upon probable cause.
2. Protect Digital Privacy
Our papers and effects increasingly exist digitally. Emails, communications, location information, financial records, and personal data deserve meaningful Fourth Amendment protection rather than becoming an easy pathway for warrantless government surveillance.
3. End Mass Surveillance
National security cannot justify treating an entire population as potential suspects. I oppose indiscriminate surveillance and bulk collection of Americans' information and support repealing laws that enable unconstitutional searches or evade meaningful judicial oversight.
My Plan
I will work to repeal the remaining unconstitutional surveillance authorities associated with the Patriot Act, strengthen warrant requirements, protect Americans' digital information, and oppose government attempts to circumvent the Fourth Amendment through new technologies or third-party data.
The Constitution does not disappear when technology changes or when the country faces a crisis. Government may investigate crimes, pursue genuine threats, and protect the nation, but it must do so within constitutional limits.
The Fourth Amendment embodies a fundamental principle of a free society: government must have a legitimate reason to intrude upon the private lives of the people it serves.
Security and liberty should not be treated as mutually exclusive. Our government is obligated to defend both.
Your privacy is not a privilege granted by government. Government must justify its intrusion into it.
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