Lower the Cost of Living

Stop Making Life More Expensive

Idaho families are being squeezed from every direction. Groceries cost more. Housing costs more. Energy costs more. Healthcare costs more. What Washington calls policy, working families experience as a monthly bill.

The cost of living crisis did not happen by accident. It is the predictable result of reckless federal spending, inflationary monetary policy, bad energy policy, overregulation, and a government that keeps making it harder to build, produce, transport, hire, and own.

I am running to reverse that.

Lowering the cost of living does not start with another federal handout. It starts with ending the federal policies that made life unaffordable in the first place.

What Is Driving the Cost of Living?

Inflation from Federal Overspending

Washington does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending addiction. When the federal government runs massive deficits, monetizes debt, and treats inflation as somebody else’s problem, Idaho families pay the price at the store, at the gas pump, and in their mortgage payment.

Energy Policy That Raises the Price of Everything

Energy is upstream of the entire economy. When Washington attacks domestic production, blocks infrastructure, and chases ideological energy schemes instead of reliable power, it raises the cost of food, transportation, manufacturing, heating, irrigation, and housing.

Bureaucracy Layered Onto Daily Life

Permits, mandates, compliance burdens, reporting requirements, federal rules, and agency micromanagement all increase costs. Bureaucrats do not absorb those costs. Families, ranchers, truckers, contractors, and small business owners do.

Policy That Punishes Production

America should reward the people who build homes, grow food, move freight, generate power, and create useful things. Instead, Washington often rewards speculation, consolidation, and politically connected monopolies while making productive work more expensive.

Why It Matters to Idaho

Idaho is still a place where people want to work, raise a family, own property, and live without being managed by Washington. But that way of life becomes harder to sustain when inflation eats savings, federal regulations raise the cost of business, and energy and housing become less affordable every year.

A lower cost of living is not just an economic issue. It is a family issue, a freedom issue, and a survival issue for rural communities.

If working people cannot afford land, homes, fuel, food, and healthcare, then self-government becomes fragile. A people burdened by dependency and rising costs are easier to control.

My Approach

I believe the federal government should stop distorting the economy and stop punishing the productive base of the country.

Lowering the cost of living means restoring fiscal discipline, expanding reliable energy, reducing federal barriers to production and housing, and making it easier for Idaho families to keep more of what they earn.

Policy Priorities

Restore Fiscal Discipline

I will fight to cut wasteful spending, oppose omnibus budget games, and expose the hidden inflation tax created by federal debt and monetary irresponsibility.

Lower Energy Costs

I support reliable, affordable American energy: oil, gas, coal, hydro, and nuclear. Idaho families should not be forced to subsidize policies that make power less dependable and more expensive.

Reduce Federal Barriers to Housing and Construction

Washington cannot regulate its way to affordable living. I will support efforts to remove federal rules and distortions that increase the cost of building, financing, and owning a home.

Defend Small Business, Agriculture, and Productive Work

Idaho needs an economy that rewards work, production, and ownership instead of bureaucracy, speculation, and federal favoritism. I will fight for policies that allow farmers, ranchers, contractors, tradesmen, and small businesses to operate without being crushed by Washington.

Stop Cost-Shifting Through Bureaucracy

Too many federal policies push the cost of government onto states, counties, employers, and families through mandates, compliance burdens, and administrative overhead. I will oppose unfunded mandates and federal cost-shifting schemes.

Day One Priorities

In the Senate, I will support legislation and oversight to:

• Cut waste, fraud, and duplicative federal spending
• Oppose new unfunded mandates on states and local communities
• Expand reliable domestic energy production and infrastructure
• Roll back federal rules that drive up the cost of housing and construction
• Audit agencies whose regulations add cost without constitutional authority
• Defend the right of working families to keep more of what they earn

Bottom Line

Washington has made life more expensive by debasing money, restricting energy, expanding bureaucracy, and punishing production.

Idaho families do not need to be managed more efficiently. They need to be left freer, taxed less, regulated less, and burdened less.

That is how you lower the cost of living.