Key Issues & Proposed Legislation
As a member of the United States Senate, Don Brown will advocate for the following legislation to protect North Carolinians and all Americans and will draft, sponsor, or support such legislation in Congress.
DEEP STATE REDUCTION ACT
Cut ⅔ nonmilitary personnel and apply savings to the national debt. Cut ⅔ of federal agencies, and by law, prohibit Congress from passing any budget or continuing resolution where spending exceeds revenues, Mandate that spending must be lower than revenues by 10% …Apply saved money to the national debt. Any member of Congress voting for a budget or CR where spending exceeds revenue would have pay suspended by operation of law until spending drops to 10% below revenue.
VAX AND MASK FREEDOM PROTECTION ACT
No American should have their freedoms impinged upon ever again by being coerced into taking experimental drugs or wearing worthless masks. The Vax and Mask Freedom Act would provide federal protection for all Americans against this.
DEPARTMENT OF “EDUCATION” ELIMINATION ACT
DOGE is a great start, but more must be done. The Department of “Education” was never about education but primarily about government control and top-down, politicized mandates in education curricula. Since its inception, American students’ test scores have dropped, and America lags further behind the Asian nations. This experiment has been a failure. In addition to the Trump Administration’s cuts, Congress must end this monster by legislative decree once and for all.
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE & FEDERAL INCOME TAX ELIMINATION ACT
The I.R.S. has become weaponized and has terrorized Christians and conservatives. See Lois Lerner. Enough is enough. Eliminate the IRS, eliminate the federal income tax, and go to a Fair Tax system, as advocated by Governor Huckabee, and supplement the rest of revenue with tariffs, as advocated by President Trump.
JUDICIAL SEPARATION OF POWERS ACT
In recent years, and especially since 2017, certain leftist federal judges have increasingly stepped out up their constitutional boundaries, especially in the areas of immigration and the U.S. military, where the Constitution gives all authority to the President and Congress, not to the courts. The Judicial Separation of Powers Act would clip the wings of these out-of-control judges, especially in the areas of immigration and the U.S. military, and make it clear that these “judges” have no authority or injunctive power in deciding matters in these areas.
SMALL BUSINESS “PANDEMIC” PROTECTION ACT
During the COVID era, governors across the nation, including the Governor of North Carolina, gave unconstitutional orders for businesses to close due to the “pandemic” and arrogantly declared that certain workers were “essential” and others “nonessential,” thousands of small business closed, permanently. ABC News reported that over 16,000 restaurants closed permanently within a few weeks of the shutdowns. On July 12, 2023, “The Hill’ reported that 60% of all restaurants closed permanently because of these unconstitutional mandates. The SMALL BUSINESS “PANDEMIC” PROTECTION ACT would declare that all workers are essential to their families, that there are no “nonessential” workers, and would give federal protection for any small businesses “ordered” to close by any governor, mayor, or other bureaucratic official or elected, and would provide business owners an absolute right to due process, in court, before being ordered to close under the auspices of a “pandemic.”
TERM LIMITS
After the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the United States ratified the 22nd Amendment to limit presidential terms to no more than two four-year terms. This was done out of the recognition that absolute power corrupts and power corrupts absolutely over time. Currently, no such term limits are imposed on members of Congress. While a few members of Congress may have served admirably for many years, unfortunately, this is the exception rather than the rule. For example, Biden was elected to the Senate in 1973 and never left Washington for over half a century. Nancy Pelosi went to Washington in 1987 and has been re-elected by San Francisco liberals 18 times. And Chuck Schumer has been in Washington for 45 years and counting. If Biden had been subjected to a two-term limit as a United States Senator, he would have left office in 1999 and most likely never been heard from again. Term limits must be implemented by amending the United States Constitution. However, under Article 5 of the Constitution, Congress has a role in initiating amendments. Don Brown would support legislation leading to a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits, limiting the terms for both Houses of Congress to a maximum of 12 years.
ADDITIONAL POLICY CONTENT: