The cost of living in Alaska is crushing too many families. Groceries, utility bills, housing, and transportation all cost more here, yet Washington keeps rewarding the wealthiest interests while working people fall further behind. I believe affordability is about fairness, responsibility, and dignity across every stage of life.

I support:

• Lowering taxes for working- and middle-class Alaskans while making billionaires and the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share

• Reforming the tax code to cut taxes for small business and make sure large corporations cannot dodge responsibility

• Stronger antitrust enforcement to rein in monopolies that drive up prices and limit competition

• Ending chaotic trade and tariff policies that raise prices for Alaska families and businesses

• Defending Medicare and Social Security from cuts and incentivize employer-sponsored pensions and retirement plans so workers can retire with dignity

• Protecting and expanding the Child Tax Credit to help families afford child care, food, and basic necessities

• Expanding affordable housing by supporting community-based solutions, investing in housing for low-income families, seniors, and people experiencing homelessness, and reducing barriers that drive up construction and rental costs without improving safety or quality

• Reversing cuts to SNAP that have gut food assistance for more than 40,000 Alaskan households and forced Alaskans to pay more for their groceries
  

Alaskans should be able to afford a stable life if they work hard, raise a family, and plan for the future. That is not too much to ask.