Connecticut — 1st District

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports universal coverage and dismantling healthcare monopolies

Bronin advocates for protecting Medicare and Medicaid while establishing a strong public option to achieve universal, affordable healthcare. He supports passing the bipartisan Break Up Big Medicine Act to dismantle consolidated monopolies across insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and healthcare providers. He also emphasizes allowing Medicare and Medicaid to negotiate all prescription drug prices and expanding primary and preventive care.

• Pass the Break Up Big Medicine Act to break up healthcare monopolies
• Establish a strong Medicare public option to ensure universal healthcare access
• Expand Medicare and Medicaid prescription drug price negotiations to all drugs
• Invest in medical research for early disease diagnosis and treatment

“In Congress, I’ll fight to break up healthcare monopolies to protect Americans from extracting profit at the expense of affordable, accessible healthcare.”

R Republican Amy Chai

Supports capping venture capital profits in healthcare

Chai argues that soaring healthcare costs are primarily driven by venture capital firms extracting trillions in profit from doctor ownership rather than health insurance companies. She proposes capping venture capital profits in healthcare conglomerates to return funds to patients and providers. She also advocates expanding addiction treatment to the Medicare population and prioritizing disease prevention.

• Place profit caps on venture capital firms owning healthcare conglomerates
• Expand addiction treatment access to Medicare-eligible individuals
• Invest in dual-diagnosis supportive communities and chronic disease prevention

“With caps on profits for VCs that own healthcare conglomerates, we can immediately put the next 2.6 trillion back in your pocket.”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports progressive tax increases on high earners

Bronin proposes making the tax system fair and progressive to combat high living costs and reduce long-term federal deficits. He advocates closing tax loopholes for hedge funds, restoring the corporate tax rate to 28%-35%, adding top income brackets for wealthy individuals, and boosting IRS enforcement against high earners.

• Close the carried interest loophole and curb dynastic wealth trusts
• Roll back Trump-era tax cuts by adding top income brackets and raising corporate tax rates to 28%-35%
• Increase IRS enforcement against wealthy tax avoiders and high-income earners

“We need a tax system that is progressive, fair, simple, and enforced.”

R Republican Amy Chai

Supports eliminating self-employment tax and taxing trades

Chai contends that the tax code unfairly penalizes earned income while benefiting the financial industry. She advocates for eliminating the self-employment tax on income up to $75,000, shifting taxation toward financial market transactions, and simplifying the tax code to protect the middle class.

• Eliminate the self-employment tax for earned income up to $75,000
• Implement a tax per trade on high-frequency financial market transactions
• Simplify the tax code for earned income and small business owners

“I would eliminate the self-employment tax. I would shift taxation towards the financial industry and away from earned income.”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports abolishing ICE and comprehensive immigration reform

Bronin advocates abolishing ICE and replacing it with a public-safety-centered enforcement model that upholds due process and constitutional rights. In the short term, he proposes leveraging federal funding deadlines to ban unmasked agents, demand search warrants, and impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, while supporting comprehensive reform with pathways to citizenship for DACA recipients.

• Abolish ICE and transfer enforcement authority to a public-safety-focused agency
• Condition DHS funding on bans on masked enforcement, warrant requirements, and visible officer IDs
• Support impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
• Enact comprehensive immigration reform with secure borders, fair asylum processing, and DACA citizenship

“I’ve outlined a plan to stop ICE’s lawlessness in the short term while working to abolish and replace or rebuild ICE from the ground up in the longer term.”

R Republican Amy Chai

Supports strict border enforcement and national sovereignty

Chai firmly supports enforcing border security and maintaining U.S. national sovereignty. She opposes proxy wars, foreign regime changes, and globalism, arguing that elected representatives must put America first and never impede border security enforcement.

• Maintain strict border security and uphold U.S. national sovereignty
• Oppose congressional actions or policy measures that impede border enforcement
• Reject globalism, proxy wars, and foreign regime change initiatives

“I do not believe that a US Representative should impede the enforcement of border security, ever.”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports overturning Citizens United and banning congressional stock trading

Bronin proposes cutting out political corruption by overturning Citizens United via a constitutional amendment to eliminate dark money. He supports banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks, tightening ethics rules, restricting presidential pardon powers, and rolling back presidential immunity.

• Pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and eliminate dark money
• Ban Congressional stock trading and enact strict ethics rules for public officials
• Restrict presidential pardon power and roll back broad presidential immunity

“That means overturning Citizens United to get dark money out of politics, restricting the President’s unlimited pardon power, and rolling back the sweeping immunity that the Supreme Court has given the President.”

R Republican Amy Chai

Supports congressional term limits and DOGE spending cuts

Chai is a strong proponent of term limits, pledging to serve no more than two terms in the House and to introduce term limit legislation. She supports DOGE spending reductions, zero-based annual budgeting, ranked choice voting, and creating a public online portal detailing every dollar of federal expenditure.

• Limit herself to two terms in the House and introduce federal term limit legislation
• Support DOGE initiatives and establish a 100% transparent spending portal
• Require zero-based budgeting starting annual agency funding at zero
• Enact ranked choice voting and campaign finance reform

“If elected, I will limit myself to two (2) terms. I will also introduce LEGISLATION for term limits.”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports expanding federal financing and transit-oriented housing

Bronin identifies housing scarcity as a major challenge in Connecticut and proposes expanding federal financing tools to build market-rate and affordable units. He supports transit-oriented development, modernizing building materials to lower construction costs, and holding slumlords accountable.

• Expand flexible federal financing tools to increase housing supply across income levels
• Incentivize transit-oriented housing developments
• Accelerate the adoption of new construction materials to lower building costs
• Increase federal oversight and accountability for absentee landlords and slumlords

“One of the biggest reasons is that we just don’t build enough housing, here or across the country.”

R Republican Amy Chai

Supports ending venture capital ownership of single-family homes

Chai attributes housing unaffordability to corporate and financial buyers, noting that nearly 30% of homes are not owned by families. She advocates banning venture capital and foreign corporate ownership of single-family homes to protect family homeownership.

• Ban venture capital and foreign corporate ownership of single-family homes
• Protect family homeownership against institutional real estate buyers

“I would end foreign and venture capital ownership of single-family homes. The housing market is artificially costly because 30% of homes aren’t owned by families.”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports rapid clean energy expansion and red-tape reduction

Bronin urges a major national investment in clean energy—including solar, wind, hydro, fuel cells, nuclear, and advanced batteries. He advocates streamlining permitting red tape to construct projects rapidly, modernizing the electric grid, and helping local communities adapt to extreme weather.

• Streamline permitting red tape to accelerate clean energy and grid construction
• Invest in solar, wind, hydro, fuel cells, nuclear, and battery technology
• Modernize the electric grid and assist local communities adapting to climate risks

“We need a massive commitment to more affordable, clean energy.”

R Republican Amy Chai

Supports local Green Future Initiative and Sustainability Zones

Chai rejects the Green New Deal as top-down spending, proposing instead a 'Green Future Initiative.' She advocates creating local 'Sustainability Zones' with independent supply networks for energy, food, and medicine, alongside tax breaks for citizen-led environmental solutions.

• Replace the Green New Deal with a decentralized 'Green Future Initiative'
• Establish regional 'Sustainability Zones' for localized food, energy, and medicine security
• Provide tax breaks for community-implemented environmental projects

“I would REPLACE the Green New Deal (top-down cronyspend) with a "Green Future Initiative," a comprehensive plan that trusts Americans to have fun and work together to build local sustainable solutions...”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports assault weapons ban and universal background checks

Bronin highlights his work drafting Connecticut's post-Sandy Hook gun safety laws and supporting community violence interrupters as mayor. In Congress, he supports federal gun control measures including an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, safe storage laws, and red-flag laws, alongside restoring ATF funding.

• Pass an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, and red-flag laws
• Require safe storage of firearms and enforce accountability for illegal gun dealers
• Reverse federal funding cuts to the ATF and support community violence interrupters

“I’ll fight for common-sense gun laws like universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red-flag laws, firearms education...”

R Republican Amy Chai

Focuses on mental health and addiction prevention to curb crime

Chai focuses her public safety policy on addressing the root causes of crime, specifically mental illness, trauma, and drug addiction. She argues that bad policy drives crime and social breakdown, favoring evidence-based mental health prevention over new firearm restrictions.

• Address crime by focusing on mental health prevention and addiction treatment
• Implement evidence-based policies to prevent generational trauma and youth crime

“The root causes of poverty are mental illness, generational trauma, and lack of opportunity. Crime, social ills, and national debt result from bad policy.”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports banning school cell phones and boosting teacher pay

Bronin advocates expanding federal funding for classroom education, early learning, and skilled trades. He explicitly supports banning cell phones in K-12 schools, smaller class sizes, higher teacher pay, and double down on fundamental instruction in reading, math, science, and history.

• Ban cell phones in K-12 schools to eliminate distractions
• Raise teacher salaries, decrease class sizes, and improve teacher recruitment
• Focus on core fundamentals in reading, math, science, and history

“In this age of addictive algorithms and short attention spans, we should ban phones in schools. Period.”

R Republican Amy Chai

Supports parental choice and standardized STEM literacy

Chai, a former home-educator and Presidential Teacher Award winner, strongly supports parental choice in education and curriculum transparency. She advocates for standardized practical science and technology literacy to close achievement gaps in underserved communities without political agendas.

• Support parental choice and transparency in K-12 education
• Develop curriculum standards for practical science and technology (STEM) literacy
• Utilize evidence-based education in underserved communities to end achievement gaps

“I fully support parental choice in education. I would also support curriculum development for a minimum standard of practical science and technology literacy.”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports AI guardrails and taxing corporate tech gains

Bronin supports maintaining American AI leadership while establishing guardrails against addictive algorithms and unmonitored machine actions. He advocates updating the tax code so the AI economic boom funds public investments in infrastructure, job retraining, and education.

• Establish regulatory guardrails against addictive algorithms and autonomous machine action
• Tax AI economic gains to fund job retraining, public education, and infrastructure
• Maintain American technological leadership in global AI development

“We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms...”

R Republican Amy Chai

Supports ethical regulatory framework for AI development

Chai emphasizes that the U.S. must remain the world leader in ethical AI innovation without falling behind global rivals. She advocates for a regulatory structure guided by human input that addresses the moral impacts of emerging technology.

• Ensure the United States remains the ethical and technical leader in AI
• Establish an AI regulatory framework responsive to human ethics

“The US Government should ensure that the US is the best, the first, and the most ethical nation on earth as we develop AI.”

D Democratic Luke Bronin

Supports codifying Roe v. Wade in federal law

Bronin considers reproductive freedom a fundamental human right and commits to voting to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law. As mayor, he passed a local ordinance regulating crisis pregnancy centers that served as a model for Connecticut state legislation.

• Codify Roe v. Wade into federal law to guarantee nationwide abortion access
• Protect women seeking care against misleading practices by crisis pregnancy centers

“Reproductive freedom is a basic human right. Every woman must have the right to decide what to do with her body, what is best for her health, and when, how, and whether she wants to start a family. Roe v Wade must be codified in federal law.”