Carleigh Beriont
Running for: US House NH District 1
Beriont chairs the Hampton Select Board and teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School. A former union organizer and public school teacher, she is running on a platform that includes Medicare for All and fully funding public schools to deliver property-tax relief; raising the minimum wage; banning Congressional stock trading; and restoring Congressional war powers. "The real divide in this country is not between regular people," Beriont said. "It's between regular people and a system that doesn't serve us."
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Do you support abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and redistributing its duties?
Abolishing ICE doesnʼt mean abolishing immigration enforcement. Read my plan for a just, humane immigration system here: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/after-we-abolish-ice-a-roadmap-for-a-just-immigration-reform?rq=abolish
I support creating a new civil immigration agency housed outside of the DHS that is governed by due process and has mechanisms for meaningful accountability. Criminal immigration enforcement related to things like human trafficking, smuggling operations, and organized crime with a relationship to the border should be handled by existing organizations like the FBI and DEA.
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Do you support a constitutional amendment limiting terms for U.S. representatives and senators?
Career politicians of both parties have built a Washington that works for them and their donors, not for the rest of us. I support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and limit corporate and dark money contributions to campaigns. I have signed End Citizens United's Unrig Washington pledge, my campaign accepts no corporate PAC money, no AIPAC money, and no dark money, and I will fight to pass the Democracy for All Amendment. I do not support a balanced budget amendment, which would lock austerity into the Constitution and force devastating cuts to Medicare, Social Security, public education, and veterans' benefits in every economic downturn. The right way to address the deficit is to ensure corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share and to reign in our military spending. And I absolutely oppose any amendment ending birthright citizenship.
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Do you support a constitutional amendment ending automatic birthright citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil?
Career politicians of both parties have built a Washington that works for them and their donors, not for the rest of us. I support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and limit corporate and dark money contributions to campaigns. I have signed End Citizens United's Unrig Washington pledge, my campaign accepts no corporate PAC money, no AIPAC money, and no dark money, and I will fight to pass the Democracy for All Amendment. I do not support a balanced budget amendment, which would lock austerity into the Constitution and force devastating cuts to Medicare, Social Security, public education, and veterans' benefits in every economic downturn. The right way to address the deficit is to ensure corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share and to reign in our military spending. And I absolutely oppose any amendment ending birthright citizenship.
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Do you support a constitutional amendment limiting outside funding of campaigns through PACs?
Career politicians of both parties have built a Washington that works for them and their donors, not for the rest of us. I support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and limit corporate and dark money contributions to campaigns. I have signed End Citizens United's Unrig Washington pledge, my campaign accepts no corporate PAC money, no AIPAC money, and no dark money, and I will fight to pass the Democracy for All Amendment. I do not support a balanced budget amendment, which would lock austerity into the Constitution and force devastating cuts to Medicare, Social Security, public education, and veterans' benefits in every economic downturn. The right way to address the deficit is to ensure corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share and to reign in our military spending. And I absolutely oppose any amendment ending birthright citizenship.
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Should the federal government combat inflation by requiring budget cuts to match any new federal spending?
Recent inflation has been driven by corporate monopolies and a lack of consumer protections that allow corporations to hike prices at will, supply chain shocks, energy market manipulation, and the fallout from Trump's tariffs and war in Iran — not by working-class wage growth. We fix this by pursuing aggressive antitrust enforcement to break up the monopolies that function like tollbooths between businesses and customers; enacting a federal anti-price-gouging law and putting meaningful caps on price increases by the largest corporations in essential sectors like food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals; pursuing targeted, strategic trade policy in place of blanket tariffs that pass costs to consumers; and serious investment in housing, energy, and care. I oppose more Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, which punish working families with higher mortgage and credit costs while doing little to address the actual drivers of costs. We should cut wasteful spending where it does exist, including at the Pentagon: I support cutting at least $100 billion as called for in the People Over the Pentagon Act. And we should pay for the public investments that reduce costs by ensuring corporations and the people with more money than God pay their fair share, not by raising taxes on working people. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/video-political-corruption-is-driving-the-energy-crisis
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Should the federal government combat inflation by capping price increases by large businesses?
Recent inflation has been driven by corporate monopolies and a lack of consumer protections that allow corporations to hike prices at will, supply chain shocks, energy market manipulation, and the fallout from Trump's tariffs and war in Iran — not by working-class wage growth. We fix this by pursuing aggressive antitrust enforcement to break up the monopolies that function like tollbooths between businesses and customers; enacting a federal anti-price-gouging law and putting meaningful caps on price increases by the largest corporations in essential sectors like food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals; pursuing targeted, strategic trade policy in place of blanket tariffs that pass costs to consumers; and serious investment in housing, energy, and care. I oppose more Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, which punish working families with higher mortgage and credit costs while doing little to address the actual drivers of costs. We should cut wasteful spending where it does exist, including at the Pentagon: I support cutting at least $100 billion as called for in the People Over the Pentagon Act. And we should pay for the public investments that reduce costs by ensuring corporations and the people with more money than God pay their fair share, not by raising taxes on working people. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/video-political-corruption-is-driving-the-energy-crisis
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Do you support the recent U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro?
It does not make the United States safer and sets a dangerous precedent. To be clear: Maduro was a brutal autocrat who sacrificed his country's economy and democracy to his own thirst for power. None of that makes the U.S. invasion of Venezuela legal, wise, or just. The long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America from, Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954 to Allende in Chile in 1973 to Noriega, Aristide, and beyond, has never made the region safer, more prosperous, or more democratic. As Mark Twain wrote, "America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home." Trump launched this invasion without congressional authorization, in defiance of the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, and is now openly threatening similar operations elsewhere. I support a foreign policy grounded in diplomacy, dignity, and the rule of law — not nakedly imperial ambition premised on "might makes right." Read my op-ed on this in the NH Union Leader: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/op-ed-congress-must-intervene-to-stop-imperialist-trump?rq=venezuela
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Should the federal government combat inflation by decreasing tariffs on imports from foreign countries?
Recent inflation has been driven by corporate monopolies and a lack of consumer protections that allow corporations to hike prices at will, supply chain shocks, energy market manipulation, and the fallout from Trump's tariffs and war in Iran — not by working-class wage growth. We fix this by pursuing aggressive antitrust enforcement to break up the monopolies that function like tollbooths between businesses and customers; enacting a federal anti-price-gouging law and putting meaningful caps on price increases by the largest corporations in essential sectors like food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals; pursuing targeted, strategic trade policy in place of blanket tariffs that pass costs to consumers; and serious investment in housing, energy, and care. I oppose more Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, which punish working families with higher mortgage and credit costs while doing little to address the actual drivers of costs. We should cut wasteful spending where it does exist, including at the Pentagon: I support cutting at least $100 billion as called for in the People Over the Pentagon Act. And we should pay for the public investments that reduce costs by ensuring corporations and the people with more money than God pay their fair share, not by raising taxes on working people. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/video-political-corruption-is-driving-the-energy-crisis
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Do you support revising Title IX to limit participation in female sports based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth?
No. Title IX is one of the most important civil rights laws in American history, and I will not support gutting it to score political points at the expense of trans people. Decisions about athletic eligibility belong to athletic governing bodies, schools, coaches, parents, and the athletes themselves, not to politicians in Washington.
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Should the federal government ban some abortions?
Absolutely not. I will fight every effort to impose a federal abortion ban at any stage of pregnancy. Reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy are not negotiable. In NH, providers like the Lovering Health Center care for patients despite a hostile state government and a Supreme Court that has eviscerated federal protections for people seeking an abortion. I will fight to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land, abolish the Hyde Amendment, ensure abortion is covered as healthcare, and win federal grants for family planning services at Lovering and around the district.
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Should the U.S. Constitution have a Balanced Budget Amendment?
Career politicians of both parties have built a Washington that works for them and their donors, not for the rest of us. I support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and limit corporate and dark money contributions to campaigns. I have signed End Citizens United's Unrig Washington pledge, my campaign accepts no corporate PAC money, no AIPAC money, and no dark money, and I will fight to pass the Democracy for All Amendment. I do not support a balanced budget amendment, which would lock austerity into the Constitution and force devastating cuts to Medicare, Social Security, public education, and veterans' benefits in every economic downturn. The right way to address the deficit is to ensure corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share and to reign in our military spending. And I absolutely oppose any amendment ending birthright citizenship.
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Should the federal government pass a law guaranteeing the right to choose abortion before fetal viability (generally 24 weeks gestation)?
Roe is the floor. Congress should pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify the right to abortion in federal law and prevent states from imposing medically unjustified restrictions. Congress should abolish the discriminatory Hyde Amendment so that public insurance covers abortion as healthcare and provide funding for family planning services at the Lovering Health Center and around the district. Decisions about pregnancy belong to families and doctors, not politicians.
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Do you support increasing military aid to Taiwan?
My approach to U.S. policy toward Taiwan is grounded in support for our democratic allies and a commitment to deterring aggression through diplomacy first. I support continuing security assistance to Taiwan as part of our broader alliance commitments in the Indo-Pacific, but our policy must avoid the kind of escalation that would put millions of lives at risk. Pentagon spending overall is too high, and we need smart, strategic regional investments rather than blank checks. The most important thing the United States can do to keep Taiwan safe is to maintain strong alliances with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia while pursuing serious diplomacy with China on arms control, climate, and crisis communication.
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Do you support increasing oil and natural gas leases on publicly owned land and water?
No. Public lands and waters belong to all of us, and they should not be used to facilitate further fossil fuel dependence. The federal government should be putting its resources into developing renewable energy sources, modernizing the grid, and accelerating the build-out of wind, solar, and storage. The cheapest, most secure energy of the 21st century is clean energy, and that is where our public investments belong.
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Should the federal government reauthorize the Keystone XL pipeline?
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Should military aid to Israel include a requirement that Israel take certain actions to reduce civilian casualties?
Yes. U.S. military aid to any country must come with serious conditions, and that is especially true given the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. A genocide demands an urgent escalation in humanitarian relief. I support a robust, bilateral, and lasting ceasefire, conditioning military aid on full compliance with international humanitarian law, and cutting off the offensive weapons transfers that have been used to target civilians and block aid. My approach is guided by a commitment to preserve life and work toward a durable peace that recognizes the need for mutual security and self-determination, including a two-state solution. I am opposed to policies that create a permanent group of second-class citizens with a different set of legal, economic, and political rights, and I will look to organizations that have done peace-building work in the region for decades — Combatants for Peace, Parents Circle—Families Forum, and Breaking the Silence — for the moral compass that has been missing from U.S. policy.
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Should Congress pass legislation limiting the ability of large institutional investors to purchase multiple single-family homes for use as rental properties?
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Do you support the option of mail-in ballots for all voters, not just absentees?
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Should the government legalize marijuana at the federal level?
I support federal decriminalization of marijuana and expunging prior federal convictions for non-violent marijuana offenses as well as rescheduling marijuana so that medical research can proceed and legal businesses can access banking. Veterans canʼt access medicinal marajuana because of how itʼs currently scheduled, the VA and DOD canʼt proscribe, dispense, or cover its cost, and this needs to change.
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Should the federal government reform Social Security by requiring means testing?
Social Security is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history, and itʼs a promise to the American people. Right now, someone making $300,000 stops paying into Social Security partway through the year, while a teacher, a nurse, or a shipyard worker making under $186,000 a year pays Social Security tax on every single dollar they earn. Eliminating the cap on income subject to the Social Security tax is the most straightforward way to extend the program's solvency for generations. I oppose every form of "reform" that is really just a benefit cut in disguise. I will not support raising the retirement age; I will not support means testing, which turns Social Security from a universal earned benefit into a welfare program politicians can chip away at over time; and I will absolutely not support privatization, which would turn the retirement security of millions of Americans into a Wall Street gamble.
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Should the federal government amend the Affordable Care Act/"Obamacare" by automatically enrolling every citizen in Medicare, replacing most private insurance?
To ensure that we all have access and can afford to take care of ourselves and our families, I will push for a single-payer universal healthcare system that includes coverage for mental health, your eyes, and your teeth (which are not currently covered under Medicare). Automatic enrollment is essential because it dramatically increases the federal government’s bargaining power to negotiate lower prices on prescription drugs, medical devices, and hospital services — savings that get passed back to patients and taxpayers. A universal, automatic system also eliminates the gaps in coverage that occur when people lose a job, change employers, or age out of a parent’s plan.
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To ensure that we all have access and can afford to take care of ourselves and our families, I will push for a single-payer universal healthcare system that includes coverage for mental health, your eyes, and your teeth (which are not currently covered under Medicare). In the meantime, I will not oppose an opt-in public option, although studies show this kind of half-measure tends to attract sicker, more expensive patients while leaving healthier consumers in private plans, which drives costs up and undermines the viability of a healthcare system structured like this over time. Vermont’s experience with single-payer reform showed how partial approaches can collapse under their own administrative complexity. I believe automatic, universal enrollment is the cleaner, fairer, and more cost-effective path. Read more about Carleigh’s plans to improve our healthcare system: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/how-we-fix-prior-authorization?rq=medicare
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Should the U.S. government continue to provide military aid to Ukraine (without putting U.S. soldiers on the ground)?
Sending weapons indefinitely is not a strategy. The longer this war drags on, the more Ukrainian and Russian families bury their children, and the greater the risk of catastrophic nuclear escalation becomes. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is wrong, and Ukrainians have every right to defend their sovereignty and their democracy — but the United States has too often treated military aid as a substitute for the harder work of diplomacy, and the human and financial costs of that habit fall on working families on both sides of the Atlantic. Continued defensive aid is justified only as part of a clear, credible push to end the war. U.S. ground troops should not be sent under any circumstances, and every dollar of aid must come with strong oversight and accountability. The deeper rebalance our foreign policy needs is the one this question makes plain: away from a bloated Pentagon and endless military escalation, and toward diplomacy, arms control, and the soft-power tools, including a restored USAID, that prevent and end wars rather than fuel them.
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Should the federal government privatize some or all of Social Security?
Social Security is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history, and itʼs a promise to the American people. Right now, someone making $300,000 stops paying into Social Security partway through the year, while a teacher, a nurse, or a shipyard worker making under $186,000 a year pays Social Security tax on every single dollar they earn. Eliminating the cap on income subject to the Social Security tax is the most straightforward way to extend the program's solvency for generations. I oppose every form of "reform" that is really just a benefit cut in disguise. I will not support raising the retirement age; I will not support means testing, which turns Social Security from a universal earned benefit into a welfare program politicians can chip away at over time; and I will absolutely not support privatization, which would turn the retirement security of millions of Americans into a Wall Street gamble.
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Should the federal government require voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship (such as passport or birth certificate) at the time of registration?
Millions of eligible U.S. citizens don't have ready access to a passport or birth certificate. Many UNH students, who just lost the right to use their student IDs to vote under Governor Ayotte's HB 323, and who already face New Hampshire's 2024 documentary-citizenship requirement, would be effectively shut out of voting where they live, study, and pay rent. I will fight to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, support automatic voter registration, and oppose every federal effort to dress up voter suppression as election integrity. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/one-person-one-vote
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Should the federal government reform social security by raising the cap on income subject to the Social Security tax?
Social Security is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history, and itʼs a promise to the American people. Right now, someone making $300,000 stops paying into Social Security partway through the year, while a teacher, a nurse, or a shipyard worker making under $186,000 a year pays Social Security tax on every single dollar they earn. Eliminating the cap on income subject to the Social Security tax is the most straightforward way to extend the program's solvency for generations. I oppose every form of "reform" that is really just a benefit cut in disguise. I will not support raising the retirement age; I will not support means testing, which turns Social Security from a universal earned benefit into a welfare program politicians can chip away at over time; and I will absolutely not support privatization, which would turn the retirement security of millions of Americans into a Wall Street gamble.
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Should the federal government reform Social Security by raising the retirement age from today's age of 67?
Social Security is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history, and itʼs a promise to the American people. Right now, someone making $300,000 stops paying into Social Security partway through the year, while a teacher, a nurse, or a shipyard worker making under $186,000 a year pays Social Security tax on every single dollar they earn. Eliminating the cap on income subject to the Social Security tax is the most straightforward way to extend the program's solvency for generations. I oppose every form of "reform" that is really just a benefit cut in disguise. I will not support raising the retirement age; I will not support means testing, which turns Social Security from a universal earned benefit into a welfare program politicians can chip away at over time; and I will absolutely not support privatization, which would turn the retirement security of millions of Americans into a Wall Street gamble.
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Should the federal government combat inflation by raising taxes to reduce the budget deficit?
Recent inflation has been driven by corporate monopolies and a lack of consumer protections that allow corporations to hike prices at will, supply chain shocks, energy market manipulation, and the fallout from Trump's tariffs and war in Iran — not by working-class wage growth. We fix this by pursuing aggressive antitrust enforcement to break up the monopolies that function like tollbooths between businesses and customers; enacting a federal anti-price-gouging law and putting meaningful caps on price increases by the largest corporations in essential sectors like food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals; pursuing targeted, strategic trade policy in place of blanket tariffs that pass costs to consumers; and serious investment in housing, energy, and care. I oppose more Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, which punish working families with higher mortgage and credit costs while doing little to address the actual drivers of costs. We should cut wasteful spending where it does exist, including at the Pentagon: I support cutting at least $100 billion as called for in the People Over the Pentagon Act. And we should pay for the public investments that reduce costs by ensuring corporations and the people with more money than God pay their fair share, not by raising taxes on working people. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/video-political-corruption-is-driving-the-energy-crisis
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Should the federal government withhold funds from cities that refuse to cooperate with ICE detainers?
No. Federal funds for local police, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure should never be held hostage to make municipalities do something that is the federal governmentʼs responsibility: immigration enforcement. The federal government needs to stop downshifting costs onto local municipalities. Federal courts have repeatedly ruled that local jurisdictions can be held liable for unconstitutional detentions when they honor them without due process, and mandating local police act as immigration agents makes communities less safe: when residents fear that calling 911 could lead to deportation, they stop reporting crimes, stop testifying as witnesses, and stop seeking emergency care. As Chair of the Hampton Select Board, I have opposed 287(g) agreements between our police and ICE, opposed the use of the Rockingham County jail for ICE detainees, and opposed deportation flights at Pease. New Hampshire towns should make their own decisions about how to keep their communities safe, free, and welcoming without federal funding being used as a stick. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/after-we-abolish-ice-a-roadmap-for-a-just-immigration-reform
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Should the federal government combat inflation by repealing or revising the Jones Act to allow more foreign involvement in shipping between U.S. ports?
Recent inflation has been driven by corporate monopolies and a lack of consumer protections that allow corporations to hike prices at will, supply chain shocks, energy market manipulation, and the fallout from Trump's tariffs and war in Iran — not by working-class wage growth. We fix this by pursuing aggressive antitrust enforcement to break up the monopolies that function like tollbooths between businesses and customers; enacting a federal anti-price-gouging law and putting meaningful caps on price increases by the largest corporations in essential sectors like food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals; pursuing targeted, strategic trade policy in place of blanket tariffs that pass costs to consumers; and serious investment in housing, energy, and care. I oppose more Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, which punish working families with higher mortgage and credit costs while doing little to address the actual drivers of costs. We should cut wasteful spending where it does exist, including at the Pentagon: I support cutting at least $100 billion as called for in the People Over the Pentagon Act. And we should pay for the public investments that reduce costs by ensuring corporations and the people with more money than God pay their fair share, not by raising taxes on working people. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/video-political-corruption-is-driving-the-energy-crisis
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Do you support reinstating federal consumer tax credits or subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles?
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Should the federal government combat inflation by supporting further Federal Reserve interest rate hikes?
Recent inflation has been driven by corporate monopolies and a lack of consumer protections that allow corporations to hike prices at will, supply chain shocks, energy market manipulation, and the fallout from Trump's tariffs and war in Iran — not by working-class wage growth. We fix this by pursuing aggressive antitrust enforcement to break up the monopolies that function like tollbooths between businesses and customers; enacting a federal anti-price-gouging law and putting meaningful caps on price increases by the largest corporations in essential sectors like food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals; pursuing targeted, strategic trade policy in place of blanket tariffs that pass costs to consumers; and serious investment in housing, energy, and care. I oppose more Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, which punish working families with higher mortgage and credit costs while doing little to address the actual drivers of costs. We should cut wasteful spending where it does exist, including at the Pentagon: I support cutting at least $100 billion as called for in the People Over the Pentagon Act. And we should pay for the public investments that reduce costs by ensuring corporations and the people with more money than God pay their fair share, not by raising taxes on working people. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/video-political-corruption-is-driving-the-energy-crisis
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Should the federal government tax carbon emissions?
Designed correctly, a carbon tax can be one of the most efficient tools we have to drive the transition to clean energy, but only if it is structured to put the burden on corporate polluters rather than working families. The tax should be levied on producers, escalate predictably over time to give markets a clear price signal, and use a significant share of the revenue to send dividends back to working- and middle-class households. The remainder should be invested in renewable energy, public transit, helping consumers weatherize our homes and conserve energy, and help transition workers in fossil fuel industries to new jobs.
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Do you support the United States’ involvement in the war in Iran?
No. War must be a last resort, and an offensive war launched by the United States — without congressional authorization, without a credible diplomatic alternative having been exhausted, and without a clear definition of victory — does not meet that bar morally, legally, or strategically. Trump started this war in defiance of the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, and American bombs are now killing civilians and putting our service members in harm's way. American military escalation is not a substitute for the diplomacy that actually worked: the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action verifiably constrained Iran's nuclear program until the United States walked away from it. I will oppose any further bombing, ground operations, or military provocation of Iran, fight to restore U.S. participation in good-faith nuclear nonproliferation and diplomacy, and support legislation stripping any president of sole authority to launch a nuclear strike. A $1.5 trillion Pentagon and a sprawling nuclear stockpile may make the United States strong, but they do not make us safe, and the path to lasting safety, here and abroad, runs through a commitment to peace. Read more: https://www.carleighberiont.com/blog/video-peace-makes-us-safe
