Seth Moulton
Liberal
Democrat
House Representative
Massachusetts - District 6
Current Position: US House Representative MA-6
Running For: Senator
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For a national wealth tax on mega-millionaires and closing corporate/wealthy tax loopholes to fund housing, healthcare, and education programs
- For lowering housing costs by reducing barriers to infill housing, investing in high-speed/regional rail, building more ADUs, and increasing clean energy production including next-generation nuclear
- For increased federal funding for childcare, including higher pay for childcare workers, new childcare centers, and co-located childcare/senior care facilities
- For making permanent the expanded Child Tax Credit
- For policies to increase housing supply, including rewarding MBTA Communities Act compliance and building New England Crossrail-linked housing near transit
- For legalizing housing by right and incentivizing accessory dwelling units (ADUs)
- For expanding federal tax credits, low-interest loans, and density bonuses while eliminating parking requirements to incentivize affordable housing development
- For passing the Social Security 2100 Act and requiring wealthy Americans to pay their fair share into Social Security to ensure solvency
- For increasing funding for senior housing that integrates health and wellness services
- For building New England Crossrail to connect regional train lines through Boston
- For building high-speed West-East rail connecting Springfield and Boston at speeds up to 200 mph
- For a $205 billion investment to build a nationwide high-speed rail network connecting major cities, aimed at creating jobs, reducing regional inequality, and cutting carbon emissions
Business & Labor
- For banning private equity firms from purchasing homes, providing mortgage assistance, strengthening renters' ability to negotiate rents, and protecting food assistance programs
- For banning prediction markets related to war, terrorism, assassination, or death ('Death Markets')
- For investigating conflicts of interest between the Trump administration/family and prediction markets companies
- For taxing social media companies to fund a 'Social Resiliency Trust Fund' supporting public spaces and youth organizations
- For public-private job and manufacturing training partnerships to build pipelines for high-skill, high-wage jobs
- For expanding national service programs like AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps
- For restoring retirement benefits for public workers affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO)
- For reauthorizing and protecting the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to support small businesses and prevent it from being held up for large 'SBIR mills'
- For strengthening Massachusetts' biotech and life sciences leadership through increased funding, innovation, and affordability measures for medical breakthroughs
- For comprehensive federal AI regulation that protects consumer data privacy, requires consent for data use, compensates creators for AI training use, and establishes standards for algorithmic bias testing
- For modernizing unemployment insurance and job retraining programs to protect workers displaced by AI, including wage insurance and a national public option for healthcare
- For maintaining strong chip export controls to prevent adversaries like China from gaining AI advantages, and against selling advanced chips to geopolitical rivals
- For keeping AI data centers on American soil with stronger siting and regulations rather than offshoring
- For raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over five years
- For requiring TikTok divestiture under the TikTok divest-or-ban law and against granting further deadline extensions
Health Care
- For lowering prescription drug costs, expanding maternal care funding, extending enhanced ACA subsidies, creating a national public option for health insurance, and restricting Pharmacy Benefit Managers
- For expanding mental health care access including telehealth, long-term inpatient treatment, and addressing underfunding of homelessness-related mental health programs
- For mandatory mental health screenings in schools and establishing countywide crisis intervention centers
- For creating a national public health insurance option to compete with private insurers and lower premiums
- For banning private equity and hedge fund leveraged buyouts of hospitals and healthcare providers
- For establishing extended exit liability for private equity firms to claw back profits when they bankrupt or abandon healthcare facilities
- Against cuts to Medicaid and Medicare; for permanent telehealth access and allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices for more drugs
Education
- For universal pre-k, expanding free community college and vocational training, and ending predatory student lending practices
- For a nationwide ban on cell phones in schools during instructional time, conditioned on federal funding
- For expanding Head Start funding to support full-year, year-round early education programs
- For expanding vocational education, including covering GED and trade school fees, expanding apprenticeship programs, and increasing Pell Grant funding
- For retooling the education system to prepare workers for an AI-driven economy, including expanded vocational training and retraining for older workers
Environment
- For strengthening animal welfare laws, including cosponsoring the FIGHT Act against dogfighting/cockfighting, the No Flight No Fight Act, the Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act, the SAFE Act ending horse slaughter, the PAST Act against horse soring, the Puppy Protection Act, Goldie's Act, the Better CARE for Animals Act, and Violet's Law for research animal adoption
- For the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 to eliminate mandatory animal testing requirements for experimental drugs in favor of humane alternatives
- Against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's $1.35 billion plan to kill 450,000 North American barred owls
- For protecting the North Atlantic right whale from ship strikes and protecting wolves from being intentionally run down by motorized vehicles
Civil Rights
- For codifying Roe v. Wade protections into federal law (supports abortion rights)
- For passing the Equality Act to establish federal LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination protections
- For protecting access to gender-affirming care and opposing political restrictions on medically necessary transgender healthcare
- For the Transgender Bill of Rights and for allowing transgender troops to serve openly in the military
- For defending public education and free speech against political interference, including working with Republicans to protect schools
- For transgender rights and the Equality Act/Transgender Bill of Rights, but expressed opposition to transgender participation in girls' sports and criticized Democrats' messaging on transgender issues as 'out of touch'; later clarified he supports trans rights and opposed a national ban on trans athletes in women's sports as 'too extreme'
- Against the teaching of 'race-based theories' in Department of Defense schools; voted for a Republican-led amendment targeting Critical Race Theory in military schools
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For prohibiting federal agents and military presence at polling places
- Against using federal funds to nationalize or take over state-run elections
- For increased funding to recruit/train poll workers and election monitors, and for legal protections against intimidation and harassment of election officials and poll watchers
- For increasing funding to update election infrastructure and strengthen cybersecurity
- For requiring public commitments from officials to a peaceful transfer of power, and against federal compulsion of states to hand over private election data without congressional authorization
- For banning federal officials, political appointees, and congressional staff from trading on prediction markets tied to government actions when they possess material nonpublic information
- For strengthening CFTC authority to prosecute insider trading in prediction markets and cracking down on offshore prediction markets facilitating illegal betting on war
- For structural reforms to the Democratic Party, including age limits for Congress, term limits for committee chairs, creating a National Youth Council, and genuine campaign finance reform
- For a resolution denouncing socialism, voting with Republicans on a House resolution condemning 'the horrors of socialism' following Zohran Mamdani's election
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For educating immigrants on their legal rights when encountering ICE, including right to refuse warrantless searches, right to remain silent, and right to legal counsel
- For requiring ICE and other federal officers to stop wearing masks and to be identifiable while on duty
- Against illegal immigration while supporting legal immigration and immigration reform
- For U.S. strikes on Iran during the Twelve-Day War
Public Safety
- For amending the Insurrection Act to prohibit use of federal military forces in civilian areas/cities for political purposes
- For gun control measures including an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, prohibiting gun purchases by people on the terrorist no-fly list, and enforcing red flag laws
- For banning AI-generated nonconsensual sexual imagery with criminal penalties and banning the arming of AI with weapons without human oversight
- For cannabis legalization, arguing regulation would reduce its function as a 'gateway drug' and provide safety oversight