PRIORITIES
Veterans & Military Families
I have more than 20 years of national security experience, including twenty-one years in the Navy. This district is home to tens of thousands of veterans, active-duty servicemembers, and military families. The promise this country made to them is being broken in real time — the VA has lost more than 40,000 employees in a single year, the Chesapeake clinic still cannot fill its staff, and the Hampton VA has gone nearly two years without a permanent director. At the same moment, the administration is sending Americans into a war Congress never voted to authorize. That is not two stories. It is one.
I WILL:
- Defend VA care
- Demand congressional authorization before another war
- Codify reproductive care for servicemembers
- Treat the promise made to those who served as the debt it is
MORE PRIORITIES
Housing is foundational. When it fails, every other part of a family's economic life starts to fail with it.
Food security is national security. Family farms and working waterfronts are the backbone of every rural community.
Tribal sovereignty is not a gift the federal government grants. It is a fact.
It's your and your communities right to want or not want data centers, as long as its built with eyes open, paying their own way.
The people who make the decisions should have to live with the consequences.
Education is supposed to be the engine of American mobility. Right now the engine is being dismantled.
The deal in this country used to be simple: if the company did well, the people working there did well too.
Power should be reliable, it should be affordable, and the dollars we spend on it should build American jobs.
America spends more on healthcare than any country on earth and gets worse results — and the gap is not waste, it is profit.
Decisions about pregnancy belong to a woman and her doctor. Not a politician.