Matt Little

Progressive

Democrat

N/A

Minnesota

Current Position: State Senator MN-58

Running For: House Representative - District 2

Policy Positions

Against cuts to Veterans Affairs; supports restoring over 80,000 VA staff and funding cut by the current administration, and for maintaining reintegration services and veteran housing
For making Social Security tax-exempt for seniors and for expanding senior services and elder care reform
For cutting wasteful government spending while against reckless overnight cuts to life-saving programs; supports due process and rule of law, and opposes arresting people without due process or disregarding court orders
For permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit
Against current tariff policy, characterizing it as reckless and harmful to Minnesota farmers, construction workers, and tradespeople
For affordable childcare; supports expanding the Child Care Tax Credit, revising regulations on small-scale childcare providers, recognizing home-based providers, and providing public subsidies for working families
For protecting and expanding Social Security and Medicare; supports raising the cap on Social Security taxation to stabilize the trust fund, allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, and opposing cuts to Medicaid
For expanding rural broadband internet access and modern farming technology
For expanding connections between agricultural producers and government food assistance programs such as SNAP

For regulating AI and data centers; supports a national data center NDA ban, moratoriums on new data center construction pending environmental review, requiring data centers to be powered by clean energy, prohibiting taxpayer subsidies for data center corporations, banning secret NDA deals with local governments, requiring AI companies to build content guardrails, creating public-interest AI safety oversight agencies, establishing legal causes of action against AI corporations, and pursuing binding international AI safety agreements; against deepfakes and nonconsensual AI-generated content
For labor unions and collective bargaining as a means to raise wages and benefits for working people
For raising taxes on corporations and high earners; supports raising the corporate tax rate, increasing taxes on the highest earners, and eliminating loopholes like Carried Interest to fund tax cuts for working families

For Medicare for All; supports making Medicare available to all Americans and expanding Medicare and Medicaid's ability to negotiate lower prescription drug prices

For student loan reform; supports the Affordable Loans for Students Act to retroactively cap all student loans at 2% interest, loan forgiveness after 10 years for public service workers and 20 years for all borrowers, resetting loans to original principal amounts, and greater transparency and accountability for loan servicers; against privatization of student loans

For environmental protection and addressing climate change; supports clean air and water initiatives, opposes toxic dumping in rivers, and views environmental health as tied to economic success

For abortion rights; supports overturning Dobbs and restoring Roe v. Wade, and ensuring practical access to reproductive healthcare for all women including in underserved areas
For LGBTQIA2S+ rights; supports passing the Equality Act to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, protecting Obergefell v. Hodges (same-sex marriage), banning conversion therapy at the federal level, overturning the military transgender service ban, restoring LGBTQIA2S+ history to federal sites, protecting LGBTQIA2S+ parental rights and adoption access, issuing passports with preferred gender markers, reinstating funding for LGBTQIA2S+ social service programs, protecting LGBTQIA2S+ youth from school discrimination, and expanding nondiscriminatory medical care for HIV/AIDS patients
For same-sex marriage; supports protecting Obergefell v. Hodges to ensure everyone has the right to marry

For campaign finance reform and anti-corruption measures; supports overturning Citizens United and Buckley v. Valeo, banning stock trading by members of Congress and the Administration, banning Super PACs, requiring presidential divestment of business assets into a blind trust, amending the Constitution to ban preemptive pardons and bar presidential pardons to family and close advisors, barring lobbyist and corporate fundraising for federal candidates, closing the congressional revolving door, mandating campaign donation disclosure, creating a public financing system for political campaigns, and clarifying the Emoluments Clause to prevent presidential profit from foreign government dealings
For shifting tariff-setting authority from the White House to Congress

Against ICE as currently structured; supports cutting ICE funding to pre-Trump levels, replacing ICE with a new federal immigration agency, launching a Congressional investigation into ICE's actions, banning federal agents from wearing masks, requiring federal agents to identify themselves and their agency, banning detention without probable cause or judicial warrant, restricting qualified immunity for federal agents, requiring notification of detainees' families and attorneys, imposing automatic budget cuts for Homeland Security agencies that defy court orders, and revising the Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Acts to limit presidential use of military forces in states
Against continued U.S. military aid and weapons sales to Israel; supports requiring Israel to fulfill obligations under its peace agreement with Palestinians, allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, rebuild Gaza, retract illegal settlements in Palestinian territories, and negotiate a two-state solution

For restricting qualified immunity for federal agents by amending Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act to explicitly include federal agents and codifying the Supreme Court's Bivens standard
For maintaining and increasing law enforcement funding; supports equipping police with technology, equipment, and personnel, opposes cuts to police staff, and supports expanding pathways for diverse hiring into law enforcement
For police accountability; supports holding officers accountable when they use unnecessary force or violate due process