A LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR STRUCTURAL REFORM
FAM51: Actual Reform, Not Band-Aids.
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Our government has built a system that forces the population to choose between to predetermined options, then shown inexcusable cowardice by shuttering checks and balances, one of the greatest pillars of the institution of democracy.
The Free Americans Movement is an Inclusive, Progressive, Social Capitalist Movement built on three pillars that run through every act in this agenda:
Restoring genuine accountability across every branch of government.
Bringing companies into the process of regulating responsibly, with incentives that reward good‑faith participation.
Not citizens who are forced to bend to the system.
The goal of this agenda is a path to prosperity for every person, no matter their skills, interests, or social status. That commitment shapes how every board in this agenda is built and how every eligibility threshold is set.
A note on governing bodies throughout this agenda
Several acts establish a standing oversight body built on the same three‑constituency template: elected officials, scholars, and industry leaders. Each is a separate, standalone body with its own seats and appointment process; none is a subcommittee of another.
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Term limits on every seat. Industry and scholar seats rotate on fixed terms exactly as elected seats do.
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Referral, not fiat. These bodies recommend and refer; policy is codified only by public vote, and funding remains a separate Congressional budget action.
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Research-backed decision-making. Each board's office must invest in solid, ongoing research and work directly with niche subject-matter experts in its field, so the standards and approvals it sets are grounded in real evidence rather than a boilerplate requirement.
I Government Accountability & Oversight
Strengthen inter-branch oversight mechanisms across all federal functions.
Fund an independent analysis body to produce regular, public reports guiding structural reform priorities.
Cap terms (2–4 terms); establish a 4-year post-office consultative role.
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Funded from the successor's office budget, with mandated advisory meetings.
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Includes a formal channel for the outgoing member's dissent or warnings on current legislation.
Cap terms (2–4 terms); establish a 4-year post-office consultative role.
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Funded from the successor's office budget, with mandated advisory meetings.
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Includes a formal channel for the outgoing member's dissent or warnings on current case review.
Require public servants to divest private ownership stakes upon taking office, with holdings converted into government debt.
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Who it covers: any person who can systematically affect law or government budget — elected officials, appointees, agency heads, and judges.
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Default mechanism: private holdings convert into government debt upon taking office, redeemable at maturity like any government bond.
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Jurisdictional stake: at least 20% of converted holdings must be placed in debt tied to projects within the official's own jurisdiction; the remainder may go to government debt of their choosing.
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Purpose: public servants should hold a direct, literal stake in the outcomes they ask voters to invest in.
Codify that the United States has no official religion and that government shows no preference to any religion.
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No official religion: the United States establishes no formal or official religion.
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No government preference: no religion receives preferential treatment, funding, or endorsement from the federal government over any other.
II Tax Reform
Eliminate traditional “tax season” filing burdens.
End tax structures that let high-net-worth individuals pay lower effective rates than average earners.
Adopt European-style itemized receipts showing taxpayers where their money goes.
Tax total asset value above $1 billion, regardless of where that wealth is invested or held, redirecting concentrated extreme wealth toward systemic need.
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Scope: applies to any individual's total assets in excess of $1 billion, regardless of where those assets are invested, held, or domiciled.
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Forced liquidation accepted: requiring a sale of equity or other assets to satisfy the tax is an intended outcome, not a flaw — extreme excess for its own sake has no merit against systemic poverty and human need.
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International cooperation: enforcement is paired with cooperation with the international community to hold ultra-wealth accountable wherever it is held.
Legalize and federally regulate marijuana and THC products similarly to alcohol, with a federal excise tax and a separate pharmaceutical remedy pathway for medical cannabinoid products.
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Regulatory model: marijuana and THC products are regulated federally the same way as alcohol — age limits, licensing, and interstate commerce protections for state-legal markets.
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Pharmaceutical pathway: a separate remedy path remains open for cannabinoid-based pharmaceutical products, regulated to the same clinical standard as any other medicine, distinct from the general consumer market.
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Expungement: past convictions for possession are expunged automatically; trafficking or distribution convictions are reviewed case-by-case, not automatically expunged.
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Federal excise tax: revenue is earmarked based on need, consistent with the Three-Tier Budget Act's (Title IV, Act 17) need-based funding priority.
III Markets & Government Enterprise
Establish government-run essential-goods enterprises, starting with fast food and food access, operated at corporate efficiency standards and independently audited.
Require government operations to be evaluated on return-on-investment, with statutory exceptions for programs with immeasurable human impact, such as safety-net programs.
Commission a review of market rules exploited for regulatory arbitrage; establish a scholarly board and independent oversight agency with binding approval authority.
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Tripartite Market Oversight Commission: constituted with industry, public (elected), and expert seats. This is the template body referenced throughout the agenda.
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Referred Regulation Ratification Process: the Commission refers regulation to a public vote; once passed it is codified into statute, not administrative rule, so a future administration cannot reverse it by executive action alone.
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Statute Review & Revision Cycle: every statute codified this way faces an automatic 10-year public review vote, or an earlier 5-year committee recommendation. A reopened statute has one year to pass a revised version by referendum, or it stays in force as originally written. A passed revision resets both clocks.
Build an industry-led, cohesive self-regulation framework for AI, avoiding blanket government restriction on development while ensuring accountability.
A standing framework of tax incentives for companies that contribute expertise or operational support to any government-run program.
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Scope: applies to any government-operated enterprise or service, not just supply chains.
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Mechanism: companies that share best practices or advisory expertise earn tax breaks calibrated to their contribution.
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Oversight retained: contributing companies still sit on the relevant program's oversight board to keep them accountable.
Ban wagering markets on wars, policy outcomes, and votes, and establish a general oversight standard to police other questionable prediction markets.
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Hardcoded bans: betting markets that resolve on wars, government policy outcomes, or votes/elections are banned outright, regardless of who is wagering.
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Forecasting is not the issue: this targets wagering and payout mechanisms specifically — public forecasting, polling, and analysis of these same outcomes is entirely unaffected.
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General detriment standard: beyond the hardcoded bans, oversight applies a general rule barring any market whose betting activity would create a detriment to the life or livelihood of a people — used to police other questionable markets as they emerge.
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Oversight body: enforced by the relevant Tripartite Market Oversight Commission (Title III, Act 13).
IV Budget Framework
Structure federal budgeting into three categories: Basics (funded to meet actual need), Security (funded to a defined threshold), and Development (funded by ROI).
V Education
Broaden curriculum tracks beyond the traditional academic path; mandate financial literacy and research-methods education.
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Curriculum Governance Board: a standing tripartite body on the 13a template, distinct from Title III's Commission, that designs and revises pathway coursework.
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Referral, not fiat: proposed standards go to a public vote before codification.
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Funding stays with Congress under the Three-Tier Budget Act.
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Purpose: widen viable pathways — technical, vocational, research, and academic — so no student's path is dictated by a single track.
Set a government-funded admissions quota under federal standards; allow free-market admissions above that threshold.
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Added compliance requirements apply once tuition exceeds defined multiples of the standard rate.
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Design principle: the quota keeps a funded path to a degree open across skills, interests, and social status, not rationed by ability to pay.
Expand federally funded research to close national research gaps, with enhanced funding for government-designated priority fields.
VI Housing
A long-term transitional housing program for qualifying individuals experiencing homelessness, with regular audits and a defined stay limit aimed at self-sufficiency.
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Design principle: eligibility and retention rules are calibrated toward self-sufficiency, not toward screening out any particular kind of person.
Limit concentrated corporate ownership of residential real estate, with a per-entity rental license cap by area and a required divestiture path for existing holdings above the threshold.
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Threshold: based on the value or earning potential of residential real estate invested, excluding a primary residence; exact thresholds are set by the relevant Tripartite Market Oversight Commission (Title III, Act 13a) with industry-expert input.
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New purchases: the cap applies immediately to new residential real estate purchases going forward.
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Existing holdings: owners already over the cap must file a 10-year divestiture plan to reach compliance, with binding 3-year and 5-year milestone commitments along the way.
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Rental license cap: within any given area, the license cap applies per single entity — a diverse set of smaller owners in a rental-heavy market (e.g., college towns) is preferred over concentration among a few large holders.
VII Health Care
Guiding Principle
The primary goal of a nation's health care system can only be bettering the health of its citizens. Without our government, and those who elect it, being invested in the country's health, it can never get better. When it comes to health, the goal needs to be lowering costs, not increasing profits.
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Industry progress turns into budget surplus: as industry partners deliver measurable progress on cost and outcomes — fewer preventable admissions, lower per-capita spending, better population health metrics — the resulting savings flow into budget surplus rather than being absorbed as higher margins, reinforcing the incentive structure in the Public-Private Development Incentive Act (Title III, Act 15).
Guarantee universal coverage for ambulance transport, critical care, and preventive care; private insurance retained for non-critical scheduling.
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Mandated coverage: ambulance transport, critical care (life- or limb-threatening conditions requiring immediate treatment), and preventive care are guaranteed to everyone regardless of insurance status.
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Insurance bucket: elective procedures and related risks stays with private insurance.
Treat nutrition, supplement, and beauty/cosmetic advice as health care, not a separate category — anyone who gives advice in these areas (or clinical medicine) without the relevant certification can be held liable when that advice causes adverse impact to the person who relied on it.
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Scope: covers any advice that can affect a person's health or underlying livelihood through its health impact, whether clinical, nutritional, supplement-related, or cosmetic — these are health care, not adjacent to it.
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Oversight by existing boards, not a new one: the certification standard for each affected market is set by that market's existing Tripartite Market Oversight Commission (Title III, Act 13a); no new board is created for this act.
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Liability trigger: liability attaches only when uncertified advice is given and the recipient suffers an adverse impact as a result.
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Not a ban on conversation: targets prescriptive advice-giving that leads to real harm, not casual, non-prescriptive discussion among non-professionals.
VIII Reproductive Policy
Regulate abortion access to ensure it is carried out safely rather than driven underground; mandate accelerated research and access to long-term male contraceptive options so reproductive responsibility isn't borne disproportionately by women.
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Women's contraceptive options — top priority: as reproductive options become less available and less safe for women in parts of the country, investing in better contraceptive options for women is equally a top priority, not a lower-tier concern next to the long-term male-contraceptive research above. Accelerated research funding under this act covers both.
Guarantee paid parental leave after childbirth or adoption for all employees.
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Duration: 8 weeks guaranteed, with a path to 12 weeks.
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Coverage: applies to all employers, regardless of size — no small-business exemption, but small-business subsidies.
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Equal treatment: leave is equal for birth parents, non-birth parents, and adoptive parents.
Establish government-run daycare centers and subsidize private childcare providers to make early childhood care affordable for every family.
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Coverage: infant through pre-K.
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Affordability: subsidized based on income, but a baseline level of coverage is guaranteed regardless of income.
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Delivery: government-run daycare centers, plus subsidies for private providers, so families aren't limited to one option.
IX Elections & Campaign Finance
Cap individual and group campaign donations at a defined dollar amount.
Prohibit PACs and committees from formal affiliation with any candidate.
Require all FCC-jurisdiction platforms to carry a balanced slate of political ads, with an equal-time requirement on paid advertising, while leaving balance of editorial content unregulated.
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Editorial balance not required, accuracy still accountable: editorial content does not need to be balanced, but a network can still be held liable for disseminating misinformation — particularly where it can be shown the network could reasonably have found and disseminated accurate information instead.
Adopt ranked-choice voting for federal elections, so candidates are ranked in order of preference and the last-place finisher is eliminated in rounds until one holds a majority.
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Breaking the two-party lock: removes the spoiler effect, letting voters rank a long-shot candidate first without working against their own interests.
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Majority mandate: winners secure a true majority of continuing votes, not just a plurality.
Grant Washington, D.C. statehood, with full representation and the same state protections against federal overreach as any other state.
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National Guard authority: D.C.'s National Guard answers to its own elected governor, not the President, the same as every other state's Guard.
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End congressional override: Congress's review period and ability to override D.C.'s locally passed laws and budget is ended — no other state's legislature is subject to that.
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Representation: D.C. receives full voting representation in both chambers of Congress.
Create an independent commission to draw legislative district lines using objective, systematic criteria, removing partisan control of redistricting.
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Composition: public seats, expert seats (nonpartisan demographers, statisticians, and geographers), and independent seats filled through the commission's own independent selection process — insulated from legislative or executive appointment.
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Objective standards: the specific criteria for an objectively drawn district (e.g., compactness, preservation of existing political boundaries, competitiveness) are defined and maintained by the commission itself, subject to systematic review.
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Separate from Election Administration: this commission is distinct from the Election Administration & Accessibility Act below — redistricting and day-to-day election administration remain separate independent bodies.
Establish an independent election administration and training agency responsible for accessibility standards, poll worker training, and protecting polling locations from interference or intimidation.
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Accessibility standards: the agency sets clear, enforceable voting-accessibility requirements for states based on population density, including a geographically close voting option, informed by its own ongoing data analysis rather than one fixed formula.
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Election Day as a federal holiday: Election Day is designated a federal holiday.
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Training and best practices: the agency trains election officials and poll workers to a consistent national standard.
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Protection from interference: polling locations are protected against interference or intimidation under the agency's oversight.
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Independent of redistricting: this agency operates separately from the Independent Redistricting Commission above — administration and district-line-drawing remain distinct functions.
X Environment
A standing incentive track for companies with a sound, verifiable plan to reach net carbon neutrality by 2035.
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Fixed deadline, company-set path: each company files its own plan with year-by-year milestones measured against itself.
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Independent Analyst Review Body reports to a tripartite board (the 13a template) that makes the final call on qualification and pace.
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Annual incentive: a significant tax or direct incentive is paid for every year a company stays on pace; falling behind suspends that year's incentive.
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Distinct from Act 15, which rewards helping build government programs rather than a company's own decarbonization.
Increase federal grants and awards for research aimed at reversing or mitigating climate change, following the same priority-field funding model as the Research Investment Act.
XI Defense & National Security
Refocus the military's core posture from offense toward defense, with heavy investment in cyber defense across physical and digital infrastructure.
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Cyber defense investment: covers the power grid, ports, and military installations alongside networks and government systems, leaving no region under-defended.
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Export the model: once domestic defense reaches that standard, the framework is shared with allies rather than kept proprietary.
Significantly cut munitions stockpiles and production, consolidating remaining offensive capability into efficient, higher-precision engagement.
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Budget priority rule: if combined defense and attack-capability requests exceed the military's total budget, defense funding is prioritized in full, and any shortfall is absorbed by the attack-capability budget.
XII Digital & Personal Rights
Establish a person's face, voice, and likeness as a protected right — consent is required before a likeness can be used or distributed as a depiction of that person, with liability for deepfakes and those who knowingly spread them.
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Consent by default: a person's likeness cannot be used or distributed as if it depicts them without their consent; licensing agreements are available as an opt-in exception, not an assumed default.
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Liability trigger: applies when content is presented as if the depicted person consented to its distribution as a genuine depiction of themselves — not to commentary, review, or discussion of legitimate content.
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Distributor liability: platforms and distributors are liable when they knew, or reasonably should have known, that a depiction was fabricated and falsely presented as consented-to.
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Not a restriction on speech: reviewing, critiquing, or discussing real, legitimately-sourced content about a person is not covered by this act in any way.
XIII Immigration & Border Policy
Expand access to temporary, trackable cross-border labor commuting across all land borders, reducing the incentive to seek permanent unauthorized entry.
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Scope: applies broadly across all U.S. land borders, not one border specifically.
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Mechanism: a trackable work-permit/commuter-pass system for temporary labor, kept distinct from permanent immigration status.
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Purpose: legitimate, trackable temporary labor access reduces the incentive to pursue permanent unauthorized entry as the only path to work.
Maintain strict, consistent vetting and oversight of permanent immigration — an open system for temporary labor doesn't mean an unaccountable one for permanent status.
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Vetting standard: permanent immigration remains subject to thorough, consistent background and eligibility review before status is granted.
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Consistent enforcement: standards are applied uniformly, not selectively, so accountability doesn't depend on which administration is in office.
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Distinct from labor access: separate from the Open Labor Corridor Act above — easing temporary labor access does not loosen the standards or oversight that come with seeking permanent status.
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Paired with due process: accountability does not mean removing legal protections — enforcement operates within the due-process guarantees established below.
Guarantee due process for all individuals within the country regardless of immigration status, ending unlawful detention practices.
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Judicial hearing required: no removal without a judicial hearing.
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Right to counsel: individuals facing removal proceedings are guaranteed legal representation.
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Detention limits: indefinite and mandatory detention are ended; detention is time-limited and subject to judicial review.
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Applies broadly: these protections apply to everyone in the country, regardless of immigration status.
Abolish ICE and reassign its responsibilities to agencies not solely focused on immigration enforcement, removing the single-agency, enforcement-only mentality.
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Rationale: consolidating all immigration enforcement into one dedicated agency creates a one-solution mentality; distributing responsibilities across agencies with broader mandates changes that incentive structure.
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Criminal investigations: functions like trafficking and smuggling investigations are reassigned to agencies with broader criminal-investigation mandates, not an immigration-only agency.
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Civil enforcement and removals: interior civil enforcement functions are reassigned under the due-process protections established above, administered by agencies without an immigration-enforcement-only mandate.
XIV Labor Standards
Guarantee every laborer the full minimum wage as base compensation, with tips counted as additional income only.
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Tipped wage eliminated: the sub-minimum tipped wage / tip-credit system is ended — base pay must meet minimum wage before any tips.
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Tips are additional: tips are earned on top of guaranteed minimum wage, not counted toward meeting it.
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Applies broadly: covers all service-industry and tipped-wage laborers.
XV Foreign Policy & International Engagement
Guiding Principle
A goal of the international community should be the welfare of the international community. Extreme excess for the sake of excess has no merit set against systemic poverty and human need.
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Lead by example: FAM supports the United States leading international policy for the betterment of humanity — not merely participating in international institutions, but helping set the standard for them.
Commit the United States to joining and helping lead credible international bodies for justice, human rights, and global welfare, starting with the ICC and the Paris Agreement.
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Starting commitments: the U.S. ratifies the Rome Statute to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) and rejoins the Paris Agreement on climate commitments, as the first concrete steps under this act.
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General standing policy: beyond these starting commitments, the U.S. defaults toward joining and supporting credible international bodies focused on justice, human rights, or global welfare, rather than standing apart from them.
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ICC reservation: U.S. ratification includes a due-process reservation — U.S. constitutional due-process protections apply first for any U.S. national referred to the Court. Short of a full referral, an ICC case still triggers, at minimum, a U.S. domestic investigation into the underlying conduct.
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Lead by example: the U.S. holds itself to the same standards and oversight it asks of other nations, rather than exempting itself from accountability mechanisms it supports elsewhere.
Fund international development contributions toward more equitable societies, with mandatory financial transparency and a ban on military end-use.
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No blank checks: international aid is not disbursed as open-ended or unconditional transfers — every contribution requires a defined purpose and accounting plan before funds move.
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Development classification: contributions are funded and tracked as Development-tier spending under the Three-Tier Budget Act, since outcomes are measurable and a track record builds as programs run.
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Mandatory receipts: every dollar sent abroad must be matched with a detailed, itemized accounting of how it was spent, made available for public/taxpayer review.
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No arms or warfare use: funds provided under this act may not be used, directly or indirectly, to procure arms or fund warfare of any kind.
Govern a separate, distinct category of aid intended for a recipient nation’s defense or security purposes.
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Separate ticket item: defense aid is budgeted, authorized, and tracked entirely separately from development aid — it is never bundled into or disbursed as part of a development package.
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Agreement required first: funds are released only after a formal agreement with the recipient government establishes oversight standards ensuring ethical use.
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Dependency off-ramp: every defense-aid agreement includes a defined pathway for the recipient to assume responsibility for covering its own defense needs, so the aid doesn’t become indefinite.
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Receipts still apply: the same itemized-accounting requirement from the Development Aid Act applies here — defense aid is not exempt from transparency.
XVI Transportation & Infrastructure
Establish a federally funded high-speed rail network connecting the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, prioritized to strengthen economic activity between them.
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Priority corridors: initial routes are selected based on connecting the largest metro areas first, prioritizing the economic lubrication of travel and commerce between major population and business centers.
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Routing: new construction prioritizes existing railway corridors and rights-of-way over new land acquisition, minimizing eminent domain use and environmental disruption.
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Funding tier: highest-priority initial routes are funded as a first-tier (Basics) need under the Three-Tier Budget Act, guaranteeing construction isn’t contingent on speculative return projections.
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Data-driven expansion: once initial routes are active, ridership and economic-impact data collected from them is used to build an accurate cost/return model, shifting further route expansion to ROI-based (Development-tier) funding under the Three-Tier Budget Act.
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Separate from local transit: this is a distinct network from local/metro public transportation systems below — a national trunk line, not a replacement for local transit.
Provide federal subsidies to states and municipalities for modern local public transportation networks, prioritizing affordability and reach.
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Purpose: subsidize state and local transit systems — light rail, bus rapid transit, subway, and similar — to serve the widest number of people as affordably and responsibly as possible.
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Independent of the national network: local systems are a parallel, separate program, not dependent on or subordinate to the National Bullet Train Network.
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Last-mile incentive: local systems that establish an effective last-mile connection to a national network station are encouraged to do so, with that integration considered favorably in subsidy allocation, but it is not a requirement for funding.
XVII Law Enforcement
Guiding Principle
The goal of law enforcement should always be the safety and protection of citizens. Police are not the problem — the system they are trained and operate within is. This title resets enforcement policy so that both those who serve and those who rely on enforcement can trust its execution and its accountability.
Revise national policy requirements for law enforcement, establish independent accountability mechanisms, and insulate oversight from political and institutional conflicts of interest.
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National policy baseline: establish a revised, standardized set of policy requirements all federally funded law enforcement agencies must adopt — covering use-of-force standards, de-escalation-first protocols, and training requirements — as a condition of federal funding eligibility.
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Independent investigation body: misconduct and use-of-force incidents are investigated by a body independent of the department involved, removing the conflict of interest in agencies investigating themselves.
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Independent prosecution: cases involving potential criminal conduct by law enforcement are referred to an independent prosecutor, separate from the local district attorney’s office that normally works with that department day-to-day.
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National misconduct registry: a public, nationwide decertification and disciplinary registry prevents an officer terminated for misconduct in one jurisdiction from being quietly rehired in another.
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Independence from other branches: the oversight and investigative bodies created under this act operate independently of executive political appointees and are not subject to override by union contract provisions that conflict with public accountability requirements.
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Trust in both directions: accountability measures are paired with support — standardized training funding, mental health resources for officers, and clear protection for officers who report misconduct — so reform strengthens trust from both the public and the officers themselves.