Rick Scott
Nationalist
Republican
Senator
Florida
Current Position: Senator from Florida
Running For: N/A
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- Against government assistance for able-bodied individuals who are not working or actively seeking work
- For balancing the federal budget and prohibiting debt ceiling increases except during a declaration of war
- For cutting IRS funding and workforce by 50% and simplifying the tax code
- For sunsetting all federal legislation every 5 years (with exceptions for Social Security, Medicare, national security, and veterans benefits)
- Against government employee salaries exceeding 5 times the national median individual income
- For making Trump tax cuts permanent, including permanently extending the SALT deduction cap, with savings used for middle-class tax cuts
Business & Labor
- For requiring Big Tech platforms to obtain express user consent before using, selling, or sharing personal data
- For work requirements for able-bodied Americans under 60 without young children or incapacitated dependents as a condition of receiving government benefits
Health Care
- For allowing veterans to choose between VA and private healthcare providers
Education
- Against federal Department of Education; supports closing it and returning education authority to states, with funding sent directly to schools and parents
- For school choice and equal opportunity in education so no child is assigned to a failing school based on zip code
- For parental rights in education, including the right to know what children are being taught and which organizations receive school contracts; opposes government intimidation of parents at school board meetings
- Against teacher tenure in public schools
- For allowing voluntary prayer in public schools; opposes schools discriminating against religious expression
- Against federal funding and tax-exempt status for colleges and universities that use race or ethnicity as a factor in admissions
- For school choice; parents, not government, should choose which schools their children attend
Environment
- For US energy independence
- Against climate change policies that harm the economy or jobs; acknowledges climate change but opposes aggressive economic restrictions in response
Civil Rights
- Against teaching critical race theory or politically ideological curricula in public schools; opposes teaching children they are inherently racist based on skin color
- Against race-based government policies, affirmative action in college admissions, and racial quotas in government hiring; supports banning race/ethnicity disclosure on government forms
- Against diversity training and critical race theory instruction in the military
- Against abortion rights; views abortion as taking a human life, supports government policies favoring adoption over abortion, and supports paying all costs for low-income women who choose to carry to term and place child for adoption instead of aborting
- For making adoption more accessible and affordable by reducing costs for prospective adoptive parents
- For faith-based adoption agencies; opposes government discrimination against them and supports empowering them over government agencies
- For enforcing existing federal obscenity laws and holding online platforms and broadband providers accountable for providing parental control tools against pornography and cyber predators
- Against recognizing more than two genders; opposes inclusion of 'gender identity' or 'sexual preference' questions on government forms
- Against irreversible gender-altering surgical procedures on minors
- Against biological males competing in women's sports
- Against cancel culture; supports treating social media platforms that censor speech as publishers subject to legal action
- Against taxpayer funding for diversity training or 'woke' indoctrination programs hostile to faith
- For allowing churches and faith-based groups to hire only employees who align with their religious convictions
Voting Rights & Democracy
- Against socialism; supports shrinking the federal government, reducing government workforce by 25% in 5 years, and privatizing functions the private sector can perform better
- For implementing a line-item veto
- For congressional and federal bureaucrat term limits of 12 years
- Against politicians becoming lobbyists after leaving office
- For mandatory Voter ID laws to validate voter identity at elections
- Against ballot harvesting; supports banning political operatives from collecting and submitting ballots on behalf of voters
- Against counting ballots received after Election Day
- Against allowing non-citizens to vote in American elections
- Against taxpayer-funded political campaigns
- Against same-day voter registration
- Against automatic voter registration without citizen consent
- Against unmonitored/unmanned ballot drop boxes
- For requiring a two-thirds supermajority of Congress to raise taxes or fees
- For requiring a two-thirds supermajority of Congress to raise the debt ceiling
- For a constitutional line-item veto and ban on congressional earmarks
- For eliminating omnibus spending bills and requiring Congress to consider each topic in its own single-subject bill
- For ending automatic congressional pay raises and congressional pension benefits
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For building a border wall and strict border security; supports finishing construction of the border wall and using military assets for border enforcement
- Against sanctuary cities; supports stripping federal funding from sanctuary cities and prosecuting officials who violate immigration laws
- Against immigrants receiving unemployment benefits or welfare for their first 7 years in the United States
- Against comprehensive immigration reform until the border is fully secured
- Against foreign aid to countries that habitually oppose the US at the United Nations
- Against paying dues to the United Nations or international organizations that undermine US national interests
- Against adversarial foreign governments or foreign-controlled corporations purchasing American land
- Against nation-building military missions; supports using military exclusively to protect the US by intimidating or defeating enemies
- For gradually ending all imports from Communist China until a new regime honors basic human rights and freedoms
Public Safety
- For maintaining and increasing law enforcement funding; opposes defunding or 'reimagining' police
- For strengthening qualified immunity and legal protections for law enforcement officers
- For mandatory strict minimum sentences for assaults causing serious injury to law enforcement officers and stiffer penalties for theft and violent crime
- Against no-knock warrants in non-violent crime cases
- For Second Amendment gun rights; opposes all measures restricting gun rights
- Against using the FBI to intimidate parents who speak at school board meetings