Zach Wahls
Liberal
Democrat
N/A
Iowa
Current Position: State Senator IA-43
Running For: Senator
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For protecting and expanding Social Security by scrapping the cap on Social Security taxes for high earners
- Against benefit cuts and raising the retirement age for Social Security
Business & Labor
- For raising the federal minimum wage to at least $15 per hour and indexing it to inflation
- For the PRO Act to restore workers' right to organize and bargain collectively
- For guaranteed paid family and medical leave for every worker
- For breaking up monopolies in meatpacking, agriculture, healthcare, and housing
- For right to repair legislation allowing farmers and small business owners to fix their own equipment
Health Care
- For protecting access to contraception and IVF
- For creating a true public option allowing every American to buy into Medicare at any age
- For lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 55
- For expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing
- For capping insulin at $35 per month for everyone
Civil Rights
- For codifying reproductive rights and restoring abortion access
- For same-sex marriage; advocated for complete separation of marriage from civil unions in high school, with civil unions accessible to any two people including same-sex couples
- For defending the right to free speech and peaceful protest
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For 12-year term limits for Congress
- For banning politicians from trading individual stocks
- For campaign finance reform and overturning Citizens United
- For ensuring all Americans have access to vote and elections are secure
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For banning foreign governments and foreign-controlled corporations from purchasing American farmland
- For securing the border by hiring thousands more border patrol agents and immigration judges
- For creating earned legal status for people who've been contributing to communities, working, and haven't committed crimes
- For deporting noncitizens who have been convicted of violent crimes