WASHINGTON FIRST AGENDA

Clear Priorities. Plain Language. Measurable Results.

This agenda is designed for a two-year term: focused, aggressive, and achievable. Look — the problems crushing working families in Eastern Washington aren't left-wing or right-wing. They're structural.

  • Our donor-state status isn't because one party 'hates' rural America — it's a broken federal funding formula that sends our tax dollars away year after year.

  • Sky-high healthcare costs aren't from 'socialism' or 'greed' alone — it's a system riddled with middlemen, opaque pricing, and misaligned incentives.

  • Everyday costs: Debt purge for high-interest student/medical/credit card debt at 0% — real relief without taxpayer bailouts.

  • Housing: First-time homebuyer tax credit + down payment forgiveness — stop families from being priced out forever.

  • Affordability isn’t a slogan — it’s structural fixes that put money back in working families’ pockets.

  • Infrastructure crumbling (C-grade roads, aging grid, lagging broadband) isn't because we 'don't care' — it's because we stopped investing at scale while competitors poured money into modern systems.

  • Misinformation and media consolidation aren't just 'fake news' or 'corporate evil' — they're structural outcomes of algorithm incentives, ownership concentration, and the collapse of local journalism.

1. END WASHINGTON’S DONOR-STATE STATUS

Fair Tax Treatment for Workers and Small Businesses

Washington consistently sends more to the federal government than it gets back. That extraction starves our communities of investment.

This hurts small businesses — which employ nearly half of Washington’s workforce — through:

  • Liquidity crunch: Less cash circulating in the economy overall Small businesses struggle more because they have thinner cash buffers and depend on quick access to funds to stay competitive against larger players with deeper pockets.

  • Higher local tax burden

  • Weaker infrastructure and utilities

Washington First Solutions:

  • Public accounting of federal contributions vs. returns. End massive disruptive imbalance.

  • Tie federal budget to fair contribution

  • Reinvest locally in water, energy, transportation, agriculture, workforce training, and rural healthcare

Impact: Stronger small businesses, better infrastructure, and local economies that benefit what they contribute.

2. END CORRUPTION & MONOPOLY POWER

Restore Competition. Restore Trust. Restore Quality.

Monopolies dominate healthcare, tech, agriculture, energy, finance, and media — driving up costs, crushing competition, and watering down quality in products, services, and care.

Washington First Reforms:

  • Aggressive antitrust enforcement

  • Break up firms that control pricing or access

  • Ban corporate PACs and dark money

  • Ban stock trading by elected officials; require blind trusts

  • Term limits and lifetime lobbying bans

  • Hard boundaries on self-dealing

  • Single-issue legislation only — no omnibus bills

Impact: Competitive markets, higher quality goods and services, clean governance, and policy that serves the public.

3. FIX HEALTHCARE — COMPLETELY

Mental, Addiction, Dental & Vision Included

In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, the minimum acceptable standard for citizens is comprehensive healthcare.

Today, healthcare is tied to employment, dominated by monopolies, and designed around crisis instead of prevention. Mental health is treated as optional. Addiction treatment is underfunded. Dental and vision are treated as luxuries.

Washington First Healthcare Floor:

  • Universal healthcare as a guaranteed base layer

  • Mental health fully integrated — therapy, psychiatry, crisis care

  • Addiction treatment fully covered — treatment, recovery, prevention

  • Dental and vision included — preventive and medically necessary care

  • Healthcare decoupled from employment

  • Government negotiation of drug prices

  • Hospital and insurance monopoly reform

  • Permanent elimination of medical debt

Impact: Lower costs, healthier families, stronger workforce, and real security for small businesses and workers alike.

4. MAKE LIFE AFFORDABLE FOR WORKING FAMILIES

Childcare, Housing, Education & Cost of Living

Even if you’re not a parent yourself, high childcare and living costs affect workforce productivity, small business stability, and the health of entire communities.

Washington First Solutions:

  • Expand affordable childcare programs and subsidies

  • Housing affordability initiatives and first-time homebuyer assistance

  • Reduce higher education costs and expand student debt relief

  • Improve cost-of-living support, including energy security and utility assistance

Impact: Families can plan their lives, workers can afford to stay in their communities, small businesses retain talent, and economic growth becomes sustainable.

5. MEDIA, MISINFORMATION & INFORMATION INTEGRITY

Protect Democracy and Local Voices

An informed population is essential for a healthy democracy and strong communities. Too often, Americans face rampant misinformation, propaganda, and media consolidation that reduces diversity of voices, weakens local journalism, and leaves rural areas underserved.

Washington First Solutions:

  • Encourage a modern, voluntary Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters using public airwaves, with incentives for diverse and balanced coverage

  • Enforce antitrust laws to prevent media monopolies and preserve local news outlets

  • Promote algorithm transparency and accountability for social media and digital platforms

  • Restore local journalism through grants, community support, and incentives

Impact: Citizens get reliable information, local voices thrive, and public discourse improves — without violating the First Amendment.

6. SCIENCE, INNOVATION & THE FUTURE OF WORK

Invest in Discovery, Technology, and American Leadership

The United States must lead in science, research, and innovation, not follow.

Washington First Solutions:

  • Expand federal funding for basic and applied research in universities, national labs, and public-private partnerships

  • Support clean energy innovation, advanced manufacturing, AI research, space exploration, and medical breakthroughs

  • Promote STEM education, apprenticeships, and workforce development to prepare for AI-driven economic change

  • Partner with rural and urban communities to bring technology infrastructure, broadband, and research opportunities locally

  • Incentivize startups and small innovators with fair access to capital, grants, and technical support — not favoritism for monopolies

  • Make WA-4 a national leader in agricultural innovation, from sustainable farming to precision agriculture, ag-tech startups, and modern irrigation practices

Impact: America leads globally in science and technology, rural and urban communities share in progress, agricultural leadership drives economic growth, and the workforce is future-ready.

7. FIX OUR AILING INFRASTRUCTURE

Pro‑Jobs. Pro‑Growth. Nation‑Building Work.

America is running a 21st‑century economy on 20th‑century infrastructure — and it’s failing. Roads crumble, bridges weaken, broadband stalls, and an overworked energy grid strains under demand. This neglect costs lives, jobs, and competitiveness.

Fixing infrastructure is one of the most powerful job engines available. These are good‑paying jobs that cannot be outsourced, rooted in local communities, supplying real skills, and rebuilding the backbone of the country.

Infrastructure isn’t a cost — it’s the foundation of every successful economy.

Washington First Solutions:

  • Rebuild roads, bridges, ports, and freight corridors critical to trade and agriculture

  • Modernize water systems, irrigation, and flood control before failures become disasters

  • Harden and expand the electric grid for reliability, storage, and future demand

  • Treat rural broadband as essential infrastructure, not a luxury

  • Build transportation and public works designed to last 50–100 years, not election cycles

A Smarter Way to Pay for It

We don’t fix long‑term assets with short‑term thinking.

  • Direct the U.S. Treasury to issue long‑duration infrastructure bonds (50–100 years)

  • Allow Social Security and Medicare trust funds to hold a portion of these bonds

  • Replace speculative churn with stable, productive returns

  • Tie retirement security to real assets that power the economy

This approach does two big things at once:

  • Break the cycle of crumbling infrastructure and budget chaos

  • Strengthen Social Security and Medicare by backing them with tangible, income‑producing investments

Impact: Millions of job‑years created, safer communities, faster growth, stronger trust funds — and an America that actually works again.

FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

Ending 50 years of Voodoo Economics

Fiscal responsibility means ending bailouts without accountability, sunsetting outdated tax breaks, cutting wasteful subsidies, and balancing budgets over the economic cycle — without harming working families.

Impact: National debt growth slows, taxpayers get value for their dollars, and future generations inherit a sustainable economy.

A DEBT RESET FOR A GENERATION

Younger Americans paid for crises they didn’t cause.

Washington First Plan:

  • Purge medical, federal student loan, and high-interest consumer debt

  • Federal Reserve services qualifying household debt at 0% interest

  • End predatory compounding interest

Impact: Economic mobility restored. Families can build futures.

PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE

  • No benefit cuts

  • Remove the payroll tax cap

  • Protect trust funds from unrelated spending

  • Reduce waste — not benefits

A TWO-YEAR MISSION

This is a 2-year term. My focus is on achievable, high-impact results. No grandstanding, no career politics — just action for WA-4 families.

A COMMITMENT — NOT A CAREER

I’m not running to stay in Congress.

This is a mission:

  • End donor-state extraction

  • Break monopolies

  • Restore accountability

  • Fix healthcare

  • Invest in the future

When the work is done, I intend to come home and fix Olympia next.

Leadership should be temporary. Accountability permanent.

GET INVOLVED

Washington First is a movement for people who want results — not slogans.

Paid for by Randy Aamot for Congress.