The Platform
Project 2029
A transition plan for the next administration, organized to mirror the executive branch: by agency, then by policy. Each policy page includes the underlying research and the jurisdictions where similar measures are already in effect.
Section 01
Returning Government to the People
Reforms to the executive branch only hold when they survive the administration that enacted them.
The executive branch is the largest concentration of governing authority in the United States, and its operating norms determine how the law applies in practice. For most of the last forty years those norms have favored donors, lobbyists, and industry groups with early access to incoming administrations.
This section covers the structural reforms that change that pattern: default transparency for executive-branch meetings, statutory protection for career civil servants, ethics rules with attached enforcement, and chain-of-command directives oriented to the public the agencies serve.
A White House subject to default disclosure of meetings with outside parties, codified limits on lobbyist access, and a documented public-correspondence process with response-time standards.
The career civil service maintains continuity of administration across changes in elected leadership. This section covers statutory protection against political reprisal and restoration of the legislative-branch technical capacity needed to evaluate complex legislation.
- Permanently Ban Schedule F Statutory prohibition on reclassifying career federal workers as at-will political appointees.
- Submit Presidential Pardons to a Judicial Review Panel Constitutional amendment requiring approval of presidential pardons by a five-judge panel, with a companion statute reopening every pardon issued since January 20, 2001 for review under the new standard.
- Enshrine an Economic Bill of Rights Constitutional amendment recognizing rights to employment, fair wages, housing, healthcare, education, and social security, paired with implementing statutes that tie each right to an existing federal program at the time of ratification.
- Right to Own Your Own Data Constitutional amendment recognizing the right to control personal data, paired with an implementing statute that ends non-consensual collection, requires deletion on verified request, and conditions any commercial use on individual consent and compensation at rates set by federal rule.
Section 02
Peace and Diplomacy
National security is reorganized around statutory limits, accountable enforcement, and diplomacy as the default tool of foreign policy.
The departments and agencies in this section — Defense, Homeland Security, State, the intelligence community, public broadcasting, and the U.S. Agency for International Development — set the terms on which the United States projects power and admits people across its borders.
This section catalogs the statutes, executive orders, and appropriations that govern military spending, immigration enforcement, foreign aid, intelligence oversight, and public-interest media. The policies are concrete and enumerated. Each one names the vehicle that would enact it.
Administers civil immigration enforcement under codified detention standards, conducts criminal investigations into transnational crime through a separate component, and operates without contractual reliance on for-profit detention operators.
Section 03
Promoting the General Welfare
Healthcare, education, housing, and environmental protection are determined by federal statute, federal funding, and the regulatory infrastructure that implements both.
The Constitution names the general welfare as a purpose of the federal government. The cabinet departments under this section — Agriculture, Education, Energy, EPA, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs — are the operational layer of that purpose.
This section catalogs the statutes, appropriations, and regulations that determine whether residents can see a doctor, finish a degree, breathe clean air, and live in housing they can afford. The policies are concrete and enumerated. Each one names the vehicle that would enact it.
Provides a single national health insurance program covering all U.S. residents, administers public health surveillance and biomedical research, and regulates the safety of food, drugs, and medical devices.
- Single-Payer Healthcare (Medicare for All) A federal single-payer health insurance program covering every U.S. resident for medically necessary care, with no cost-sharing at the point of care, financed through progressive taxation.
- Nationalize Healthcare Delivery Statutory prohibition on investor-owned for-profit ownership of hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and physician practices, with federal financing and expansion of public and non-profit healthcare delivery.
Enforces wage, hour, and workplace safety law; administers the federal labor-standards regime; and shares jurisdiction with the National Labor Relations Board over the right of workers to organize, bargain collectively, and strike.
- Protect the Right to Organize Freely Statutory amendment of the National Labor Relations Act to add monetary penalties for retaliation, expand union recognition procedures, and remove state-level barriers to union security.
- Ban Non-Compete Agreements Federal statutory prohibition on non-compete agreements in employment contracts, with limited exceptions for sale-of-business transactions.
- Four-Day Work Week Federal statutory amendment of section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act reducing the standard workweek from forty hours to thirty-two hours over a three-year phase-in, adding a daily overtime threshold at eight hours, and prohibiting reductions in pay or benefits during the transition.
Enforces federal criminal law, represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation, supervises the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorneys' Offices, and discharges the federal government's obligations to crime victims under 18 U.S.C. § 3771.
- Release the Epstein Files Enforcement of the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the 30-day statutory timeline, federal charging decisions on conduct identified in the released records, and a federal statute authorizing civil suits against perpetrators identified in the records — by victims under 18 U.S.C. § 1595 and by the United States as parens patriae — notwithstanding any pre-existing non-prosecution agreement, plea agreement, or immunity grant.
- Nationalize the Federal Prison System Statutory prohibition on private contracts for federal incarceration and federal civil detention.
Administers federal education funding under Title I, the Higher Education Act, and the IDEA; oversees the federal student loan portfolio; enforces civil rights statutes in educational institutions that receive federal funds.
- Forgive Federal Student Loans Cancellation of all federally held student loan debt by congressional statute, with conforming regulations issued by the Department of Education.
- Universal Pre-K Federally funded, voluntary, full-day public preschool for every three- and four-year-old, delivered through state and local providers.
Section 04
The People's Economy
Distribution of economic output is determined by tax law, antitrust enforcement, corporate governance rules, and labor standards. All four are policy choices.
Corporate governance rules, tax treatment of capital versus labor, antitrust enforcement, and the minimum-wage floor together determine how productive gains are distributed. Since the early 1980s those rules have favored shareholders and executives, producing the wealth concentration and median-wage stagnation documented in CBO and BLS data.
This section catalogs the statutory and regulatory provisions that govern those areas: tax treatment of executive compensation, ownership and control of productive capacity, worker representation inside firms, and public-return requirements on federal subsidies to corporations.
A tax code that applies parallel rates to labor and capital income and that addresses concentration of wealth and executive compensation. Treasury's statutory mandate covers revenue sufficiency, equal treatment of similar income, and deliberate calibration of incentive provisions.
- Cap CEO Pay at Ten Times the Lowest-Paid Worker Federal cap limiting total executive compensation at any company doing business in the United States to ten times the annual compensation of its lowest-paid worker, enforced through the Internal Revenue Code and federal contracting rules.
- Cap Individual Net Wealth at $999,999,999 Federal statutory cap on individual net wealth at $999,999,999, enforced through a 100 percent marginal tax on wealth above the cap with annual mark-to-market valuation, paired with a constitutional amendment authorizing taxation of net wealth without apportionment.
- Ban Stock Buybacks Statutory prohibition on open-market stock repurchases by publicly traded corporations. Repeals SEC Rule 10b-18 and the IRC § 4501 excise tax in favor of a categorical ban.
Enforces federal antitrust law under Sections 5 and 13(b) of the FTC Act and shares civil enforcement of the Sherman and Clayton Acts with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. The Commission's statutory mandate covers prevention of unfair methods of competition, premerger review under Section 7 of the Clayton Act and the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and protection against unfair or deceptive commercial practices.
Section 05
Accountability
Structural reforms to the institutions of government oversight, the federal judiciary, and the rules that bind public officials.
This section covers reforms to institutions whose function is to hold other parts of government accountable: the federal judiciary, inspectors general, ethics regimes, and statutory oversight bodies. The rules that bind judges, prosecutors, and elected officials determine whether the rest of the policy agenda can be enforced when the people who would block it are themselves in office.
The size, composition, and conduct rules of the Supreme Court are set by statute, not by the Constitution. This section covers the statutory framework governing the number of justices, the rules of judicial conduct, and the procedures for filling vacancies.
Sets the structural rules that govern how members of the legislative branch are elected, how long they serve, and how they conduct themselves in office. The size of the chambers, the apportionment of the House, and the qualifications and tenure of members are subjects of statute and constitutional amendment, not of internal congressional discretion alone.
- Set Consecutive-Term Limits for Congress Constitutional amendment limiting consecutive federal legislative service and requiring an interval of state or local government service before reelection to Congress.
- Overturn Citizens United Constitutional amendment authorizing Congress and the states to set limits on campaign contributions and expenditures, distinguish corporations from natural persons in election spending, and establish public campaign financing systems.