Platform & Issues

Real problems. Real solutions. Not talking points—detailed plans on how to actually fix what's broken in America.

School Safety

The Problem

  • • School shootings continue happening with no end in sight
  • • School resource officers aren't enough to stop active shooters
  • • Average school shooting lasts 12 minutes; police response averages 18 minutes
  • • We have all this technology but aren't using it to protect our kids

My Solution: XWD

I'm building XWD (Xavier Weapon Detection)—an AI-powered camera system that:

  • • Detects brandished weapons in real-time
  • • Identifies abnormal behavior patterns
  • • Alerts school administration within seconds—not minutes
  • • Deploys to every school in America—at no cost to schools

Our kids deserve the same protection as airports. The technology exists—we just need leaders willing to deploy it. And a school district's budget shouldn't determine whether kids are safe.

"We can't prevent every threat, but we can respond in seconds instead of minutes. That's the difference technology makes."

Affordable Housing

The Problem

  • • Average home price ~$400,000 while median income is ~$75,000
  • • Rent in major cities is $1,500-$3,000/month for a one-bedroom
  • • People spending 40-50% of income on housing (should be under 30%)
  • • Permits take 2-5 years when they should take months
  • • Corporations buying up homes and driving up prices
  • • Local governments benefit from keeping housing scarce

My Solutions

Streamline Permits

30 days max, not 2-3 years. I'll build digital systems to modernize the process and hire enough workers to process them fast.

Federal Pressure on Local Governments

Tie federal housing funding to performance. You want federal dollars? Show me your permit times. Create public dashboards exposing which officials are blocking development.

Stop Corporate Housing Hoarding

Vacancy taxes on empty units. Excessive profit taxes on unjustified rent increases. Regular people shouldn't compete with billion-dollar firms for a starter home.

Build More Housing

More apartments and homes means landlords have to compete. When supply exceeds demand, prices drop.

"Housing should not eat your entire paycheck. Your property value doesn't matter more than families having a place to live."

Fix the Economy

The Problem

  • • Wages haven't kept pace with price increases
  • • People feel broke even when politicians say "economy is strong"
  • • Billionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries
  • • Union membership dropped from 35% to 10%—workers have no leverage
  • • Corporations offshore jobs while getting tax breaks
  • • The gains from productivity go to shareholders, not workers

My Solutions

Fair Wages

Raise minimum wage to $15-20 and index it to inflation. Make unionizing easier. Crack down on companies misclassifying employees as contractors.

Fair Taxes

Tax capital gains as regular income above $1 million. Minimum 25% tax on billionaires. Close the carried interest loophole. Corporate minimum tax with teeth—no offshore games.

Cut Waste, Not Services

Audit the Pentagon (they've never passed one). Negotiate drug prices. Cut contractor bloat. The government wastes billions while telling you there's no money for your community.

Penalize Offshoring

You want to sell here? Make it here—or pay a price. American workers shouldn't lose their jobs so corporations can save a few bucks overseas.

"The economy works great for people at the top. I'm going to redesign it to work for you."

Crime & Public Safety

The Problem

  • • Violent criminals get slaps on the wrist and are back on the street
  • • People carry illegal guns, get out in a week, then kill someone
  • • Repeat offenders cycle through the system
  • • Communities don't feel safe
  • • Victims' families don't get justice

My Position

Consequences need to be so severe that people genuinely think twice before committing violent crimes.

  • • Illegal gun possession: Automatic 10 years, no exceptions
  • • Use a gun in a crime: Severe mandatory sentence
  • • Take a life: Automatic life in prison, no parole
  • • Violent repeat offenders: Maximum penalties

If prisons fill up, we build more. The responsibility is on the person who chose to commit the crime, not on society to make room for them.

To be clear: This is about violent crime. Nonviolent offenses are different—we shouldn't be filling prisons with people who made dumb mistakes that didn't hurt anyone. But if you pick up a gun and take a life? That's a choice with permanent consequences.

"Don't want to go to jail? Don't commit the crime. Plain and simple."

Government Efficiency

The Problem

  • • Government systems are slow and outdated—IRS still runs on code from the 1960s
  • • Processes that should take days take years
  • • The DMV has 35 stations but only 4 are working
  • • We spend $70 billion a year on contractors who overcharge and underdeliver
  • • Healthcare.gov was budgeted at $93 million, cost over $2 billion
  • • The Pentagon has never passed an audit—they can't account for where billions go
  • • Contractors charge $500/hour, take 5 years to build websites, then charge more to fix them

My Solution: The Federal Digital Systems Administration (FDSA)

I'm creating a new federal technology agency with real developers, real authority, and real accountability.

No more billion-dollar contracts that fail. No more middlemen draining taxpayer money. We bring core federal systems in-house, like any competent organization would.

What FDSA Does

  • • Build and maintain core, mission-critical federal technology systems
  • • Modernize immigration case management to eliminate backlogs
  • • Build border security systems—AI surveillance, visa tracking, E-Verify
  • • Deploy school safety technology nationwide—because safety systems require real-time reliability, not vendor experiments
  • • Create healthcare enrollment systems that actually work
  • • Streamline permits, licenses, and applications across government

How It Works

  • • Full-time federal developers and managers—9-to-5 employees, not contractors
  • • FDSA Director appointed by President, confirmed by Senate
  • • Authority to mandate technical standards across all agencies
  • • Power to take over failing projects
  • • Built with zero-trust security, modern encryption, and continuous audits
  • • Public performance dashboards showing cost, speed, uptime, and failures

What Happens to Contractor Workers

I'm not putting people out of work. Qualified developers, engineers, and managers currently working for contractors will be offered federal jobs with FDSA—good salary, benefits, pension, job security. The talent stays. The corporate middlemen taking a cut? They're done.

The Savings: $35-40 Billion Per Year

We currently spend ~$70 billion a year on federal IT contractors. With in-house teams:

  • • Annual cost: ~$12-15 billion
  • • Annual savings: ~$35-40 billion
  • • 10-year savings: $350-400 billion

Independent audits and phased transitions will validate savings year by year.

That money goes back to Americans—to healthcare, to schools, to securing the border. Not to contractor CEO bonuses.

Why This Works

We've Done It Before

The government built the internet. GPS. The systems that put men on the moon. We CAN build great technology—we just stopped doing it and started writing checks to contractors instead.

I Can Actually Build It

I'm not a politician making promises I don't understand. I'm a software developer. I know what good systems look like, what they cost, and how long they take. I won't get scammed by contractors because I speak their language.

One Agency, Multiple Problems Solved

FDSA ties my whole platform together—school safety, border security, healthcare systems, immigration backlogs, government efficiency. One investment that fixes everything.

"Your tax dollars go to contractors who charge $500 an hour to build websites that crash. I'm ending that. We'll build it ourselves, save $35 billion a year, and actually deliver systems that work."

Immigration

The Problem

  • • Politicians promise walls and mass deportation—nothing changes
  • • Legal immigration takes 10-20 years because the system is broken
  • • Asylum system is overwhelmed—3-5 year backlogs, people gaming it
  • • Employers hire illegally with zero consequences because they fund campaigns
  • • 11+ million undocumented people already here—no realistic plan from either party
  • • Both parties benefit from the chaos, so nothing gets fixed

My Solutions

Secure the Border with Technology

AI-powered surveillance, drone monitoring, sensors—smart technology, not just walls. We spend billions on war tech but can't protect our own border. That changes.

Fix Legal Immigration

If legal immigration actually worked, fewer people would come illegally. Modernize the system—digital processing, more staff, applications handled in months not decades. Government technology from 2028, not 1985.

Fix the Asylum System

Hire more immigration judges. Clear the backlog. Decisions in weeks, not years. If denied, immediate deportation—not disappearing into the country for 5 years. Genuine refugees still protected; economic migrants processed quickly and returned.

Go After Employers

Mandatory E-Verify for all employers. Heavy fines and criminal charges for hiring illegally. If the jobs dry up, fewer people come. This is where politicians fail—they won't touch their donors. I will.

The 11 Million Already Here

Mass deportation isn't realistic—it would cost hundreds of billions and take decades. But amnesty rewards lawbreaking. My solution: for those here 10+ years with no criminal record who pay back taxes—legal work status, not citizenship. They can work legally, pay into the system, but go to the back of the line. No voting. Not amnesty—accountability. Violent criminals? Deported immediately.

The Technology Angle

The government spends $900 billion a year on defense. Drone operators in Nevada can hit a target 7,000 miles away in the Middle East. The border is a few hundred miles south of them. You're telling me we can't figure out how to secure it? We spend $13 billion on a single aircraft carrier, but can't build a system to verify if someone's allowed to work here? It's not that we don't have the technology—it's that fixing immigration isn't a priority.

  • • Border: AI cameras, drones, ground sensors
  • • Visas: Digital tracking that flags overstays instantly
  • • Employment: Real-time E-Verify for all hiring
  • • Courts: Digital case management to clear backlogs
  • • Applications: Online portal—track your status like a package
"Republicans promise mass deportation that'll never happen. Democrats pretend the border doesn't matter. Both are lying to you. I'm offering something real: a secure border, a system that actually works, and accountability—for immigrants and for the corporations exploiting them."

Abortion

My Honest Take

I'm not going to pretend this is simple. It's not. This is one of the hardest issues we face as a country, and I don't think anyone who claims to have easy answers is being honest with you. Here's where I stand:

My Position

Early Pregnancy: Personal Decision

In the first trimester, this is a personal decision—not the government's. I believe women should have the ability to make this choice early on, when it's between them, their family, their faith, and their doctor.

Later Pregnancy: Restrictions Make Sense

After the first trimester, we're talking about a developing life. At that point, restrictions make sense. Most Americans agree—and so do I.

Exceptions: Always

Rape, incest, and when the mother's life is at risk—these exceptions must always exist. No woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy from rape. No woman should die because a doctor was afraid of legal consequences. Period.

Leave It to States

I don't support a federal ban. This is a decision that should be made closer to the people—by states, not by Washington politicians on either side trying to score political points.

Where Most Americans Are

The loudest voices are on the extremes—total bans or no restrictions at all. But most Americans are somewhere in the middle:

  • • Early abortion should be legal
  • • Later restrictions make sense
  • • Exceptions for the hardest situations
  • • Nobody WANTS abortions—we want fewer of them

That's where I am. Not because it's politically convenient, but because it's what I actually believe.

"I'm not going to promise something extreme I don't believe in. Most Americans are in the middle on this— trying to be reasonable, trying to be compassionate, trying to respect life and respect women. That's where I am too."

Healthcare

The Problem

  • • Insurance companies make billions while denying your claims
  • • High deductibles mean you pay every month but still can't afford to use it
  • • One ER visit can destroy your credit and spiral your whole life
  • • Pre-existing conditions used to mean you couldn't get covered at all
  • • Lose your job? Lose your insurance. Get sick between jobs? Good luck.
  • • We spend more than any country on Earth and get worse outcomes
  • • The money goes to CEOs, middlemen, and administrative bloat—not your care

I've Lived This

I went to the ER. Got hit with a massive bill I couldn't pay. It went to collections, destroyed my credit, and caused problems in other areas of my life. One medical emergency shouldn't spiral your whole life. That's not how America should work.

My Solutions

Public Option

A government healthcare plan that competes with private insurance—like Medicare for anyone who wants it. Don't like it? Keep your private plan. But now insurance companies have to compete or lose customers. That's capitalism.

Protect Pre-Existing Conditions

Non-negotiable. No one should be denied coverage because they got sick. Period.

Price Transparency

Hospitals should post prices like a menu. Same procedure costs $500 at one hospital, $15,000 at another—and you don't find out until after. That ends.

Drug Price Negotiation

Medicare is currently banned from negotiating drug prices. Same insulin that costs $300 here costs $30 in Canada. Let the government negotiate like any business would.

Tax Healthcare Profiteers

I'm not coming after all rich people. I'm coming after the ones who got rich by letting you die and destroying your credit—insurance CEOs making $20 million while denying claims, pharma executives charging 1000x markup on life-saving drugs. They can help fix the system they broke.

Emergency Care Without Bankruptcy

No one should face financial ruin for going to the ER. Ambulance rides and emergency visits shouldn't destroy your credit and life. Basic care, checkups, extreme pain, life-threatening issues—people shouldn't be hit over the head for getting help.

Repurpose the Money

We spend $800 billion a year on defense. We send billions overseas. We bail out banks and corporations. But when an American has a medical emergency, we let them go bankrupt? We have the money. It's about priorities.

The "Socialism" Question

They'll call this socialism. Is the military socialism? Are firefighters socialism? Is the highway system socialism? We already have government-run things that work. I'm not eliminating private insurance—I'm adding competition. When insurance company CEOs make $20 million denying your claims, that's not capitalism—that's exploitation.

"No one should die because they're poor. That's it. That's the position. We're the richest country on Earth. We can figure this out."

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Detailed positions on education, foreign policy, energy, veterans, and more will be released as the campaign develops.

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