“I know what it feels like to lose trust in a system that’s supposed to protect and empower us. It’s clear we need a course correction, and I’m ready to lead it. Together, we can manufacture the change we’re all craving and return power to the people, where it belongs.
I’m not here to talk about change.
I’m here to fight for it.”
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Expand Veterans Protections
Veterans in CT-2 have earned our support. Kyle will fight to make sure they can access care, navigate the VA, and get the help they need — no matter where they live or what they’ve been through.
Rural veterans in the Quiet Corner struggle to get to appointments. Survivors of military sexual trauma face a VA claims process that’s outdated and re-traumatizing. Joe Courtney hasn’t cosponsored the bills to fix either problem. Kyle will.
Kyle will cosponsor the Rural Veterans Transportation to Care Act and the Servicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support Act. Geography and bureaucracy shouldn’t stand between veterans and the care they’ve earned.Elected officials should be focused on serving their constituents, not their stock portfolios. Kyle supports banning members of Congress from trading private stocks while in office — profiting off insider information is a conflict of interest. Index fund investing remains permitted.
- Expand VA transportation grants to all rural areas in CT-2, raise the max award to $80,000, and make the program permanent
- Include Tribal Nations and veteran service organizations as eligible grant recipients
- Modernize the military sexual trauma claims process to accept evidence from mental health professionals, hospitals, rape crisis centers, and law enforcement
- Guarantee every claimant a VA point of contact and ensure no claim is denied before a survivor can present evidence
- Extend MST eligibility to all former servicemembers — active duty and reserve — and establish an annual review to keep standards current
Universal Healthcare
Every family — no matter their income or zip code — deserves access to quality, affordable healthcare.
Too many families in CT-2 are one medical bill away from financial hardship. Rural communities face shrinking access to hospitals and clinics, and prescription drug costs remain out of reach for too many working people.
As a husband and father, Kyle believes healthcare is a human right. He’ll fight to protect and expand Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA — including coverage for vision, dental, and hearing — and support smart, step-by-step reforms toward universal healthcare, including expanding middle-class subsidies, capping prescription drug prices, and investing in rural care across eastern Connecticut.
- Lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs for working- and middle-class families
- Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly
- Expand telehealth access and broadband in rural CT
- Provide federal grants to keep rural hospitals and clinics open
Melt I.C.E.
ICE as we know it today must be abolished. Kyle will fight to melt ICE and redirect its funding to actually serve our communities.
ICE has killed 32 people in its custody in 2025 alone, documented severe human rights violations in its facilities, and increased detention of people with no criminal record by 2,450% since Trump’s second inauguration. The Supreme Court has allowed ICE to use racial profiling, targeting people based on their skin color and language. Congress must act.
Kyle joined the Army to fight for America’s freedom. What ICE does every day — violating due process, tearing families apart, using children as bait, and killing Americans — flies in the face of that. He will cosponsor the Melt ICE Act and fight to defund and dismantle ICE, redirecting its funding to serve those it has harmed.
- Remove ICE’s legal authority to detain and deport noncitizens without a hearing before an immigration judge
- Terminate all existing ICE detention contracts with private and public entities, and ban DHS from entering new ones
- Require DHS to enact a plan to remove ankle monitors from noncitizens currently under surveillance
- Redirect ICE funding to HHS to establish a wraparound social services grant program for those harmed by ICE enforcement
Housing Protections
A roof isn’t always enough. Kyle wants to make sure new affordable housing in CT-2 comes with the support services people need to stay housed for good.
The wraparound model pairs affordable housing with on-site services — health care, mental health, employment support — to help people stay housed long-term. It works, and CT-2 deserves access to it.
Kyle introduced this bill to pilot the wraparound model in CT-2. If it works — and he believes it will — he’ll push to expand it nationwide and make it permanent.
- Provide $35,000 in down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers to make homeownership accessible to working families in CT-2
- Five $1M competitive grants for new housing developments in CT-2 that reserve 50% of units for low-income and homeless residents at stabilized rents
- On-site wraparound services: community health nursing, behavioral health, employment support, family services, legal clinics, medical clinics, and more
- Open to towns, nonprofits, housing agencies, private developers, and Tribal Nations building or managing housing in CT-2
- A five-year demonstration project — with Kyle’s commitment to expand it nationally and make it permanent if successful
Tax Reform
Restore Tax Deductions for Working Americans
The 2017 Trump tax law took away workers’ ability to deduct union dues and job expenses. Kyle will fight to restore it.
Before 2017, workers could deduct union dues and unreimbursed work expenses like travel, uniforms, and supplies. The Trump tax law stripped that away. Joe Courtney hasn’t cosponsored the bill to bring it back. Kyle will.
American workers should be able to deduct union dues and unreimbursed workplace expenses. Kyle will cosponsor the Tax Fairness for Workers Act to put that deduction back in place and rebalance the tax code toward working people.Kyle will cosponsor the Rural Veterans Transportation to Care Act and the Servicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support Act. Geography and bureaucracy shouldn’t stand between veterans and the care they’ve earned.Elected officials should be focused on serving their constituents, not their stock portfolios. Kyle supports banning members of Congress from trading private stocks while in office — profiting off insider information is a conflict of interest. Index fund investing remains permitted.
- Establish an above-the-line deduction for union dues — available to all workers, even those who don’t itemize their federal taxes
- Restore the miscellaneous itemized deduction for unreimbursed work expenses like travel, uniforms, and supplies
- Rebalance the tax code away from big business and back toward the American worker
Make the Ultra-Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share
The wealthiest 0.05% of Americans have rigged the economy in their favor for decades. A modest wealth tax on the ultra-rich would generate trillions to reinvest in working and middle class Americans.
In the 1970s, the richest 0.1% held 7% of all American wealth. Today they hold 20%. Meanwhile, 1 in 4 Americans live paycheck to paycheck and 60% can’t cover a $1,000 emergency. We’re living in a new Gilded Age — and Joe Courtney hasn’t cosponsored the bill to address it.
Kyle will cosponsor the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act. A small annual tax on fortunes above $50M would generate at least $3 trillion over 10 years — money that should be working for everyday Americans, not sitting in billionaire trusts.
- 2% annual tax on net worth between $50M and $1B — affecting only the wealthiest 0.05% of Americans
- 3% annual tax on net worth above $1B, with strong anti-evasion measures on wealth held in trusts
- Generate at least $3 trillion over 10 years to reinvest in working and middle class Americans
Political Reform
Get Corporate Money Out of Politics
Corporations have too much influence over our elections. Kyle supports a range of reforms to limit corporate political spending and give everyday voters more power.
Since Citizens United, corporate money has flooded our elections. There is no single fix — but there are several tools Congress can use right now. Joe Courtney hasn’t cosponsored the constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. Kyle will.
Kyle supports a multi-pronged approach: stronger disclosure, public financing of elections, tighter lobbying rules, and a constitutional amendment to put people back in charge of our democracy.
- Cosponsor H.J.Res.54 — a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, which Joe Courtney has refused to support
- Require corporations that make political donations to disclose the specific legislation they’re lobbying on, their position, and which legislators they’re targeting
- Establish a small-donor public match program — modeled on NYC’s eight-to-one match or Maine’s Clean Elections Law — to amplify everyday voters over big donors
- Bar lobbyists working for political donors from meeting with the politicians their employer has funded
- Amend the tax code to make clear that corporate political donations don’t “serve the public” and can be taxed at the federal level
- Use federal funding leverage — similar to the 21+ drinking age requirement — to encourage states to limit corporate political spending under their charter powers
Enact Congressional Term Limits
Career politicians lose touch. Kyle supports term limits to bring fresh perspectives and real accountability back to Washington.
Too many members of Congress have been in Washington so long they’ve lost sight of who they’re supposed to serve. The longer politicians stay, the more influence special interests gain over them.
Kyle supports limiting members of Congress to 12 years in each chamber — restoring responsiveness, reducing special interest influence, and making room for new voices.
- Limit members of Congress to 12 years of service in each chamber — six terms in the House, two terms in the Senate
- Bring fresh perspectives and reduce the entrenchment that lets special interests take hold
Ban Private Stock Trading
Members of Congress shouldn’t be profiting off insider information. Kyle will ban private stock trading by elected officials while they’re in office — index funds like the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 are fine.
Members of Congress have access to sensitive, non-public information through their work. When they trade individual stocks, they have every incentive to use that information for personal gain rather than the public good. It’s a conflict of interest that erodes public trust.
Elected officials should be focused on serving their constituents, not their stock portfolios. Kyle supports banning members of Congress from trading private stocks while in office — profiting off insider information is a conflict of interest. Index fund investing remains permitted.
- Ban members of Congress from buying or selling private individual stocks while serving in office — index funds like the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 remain permitted
- Close the loophole that allows elected officials to profit off non-public information they access through their work
- Require members to place holdings in blind trusts or divest individual stock positions upon taking office
Support Workers and the Local Economy
Protect Workers’ Right to Organize
Right-to-Work laws aren’t about protecting workers — they’re about making it harder for them to organize. Kyle will fight to repeal them.
It’s already illegal to force anyone to join a union under federal law. Right-to-Work laws exist to weaken collective bargaining. Where they’re in effect, average pay drops 3.1%, discrimination claims are 36% higher, and nearly a quarter of jobs are low-wage — compared to 14.5% in non-Right-to-Work states.
Kyle will cosponsor the Nationwide Right to Unionize Act to repeal state Right-to-Work laws and restore workers’ ability to organize for better wages, benefits, and conditions.Kyle supports limiting members of Congress to 12 years in each chamber — restoring responsiveness, reducing special interest influence, and making room for new voices.
- Repeal the provision of the National Labor Relations Act that allows states to ban union membership agreements as a condition of employment
- Restore workers’ power to collectively bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions
- Undo the damage Right-to-Work laws have done to working-class pay and job quality across the country
End Tax Breaks for Union Busting
American taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for corporate union-busting. Kyle will fight to end it.
Employers violate federal labor law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns and spend $400 million a year on consultants to discourage organizing — all of it tax-deductible, meaning everyday taxpayers are subsidizing it. Joe Courtney hasn’t cosponsored the bill to stop this. Kyle will.
Corporations shouldn’t get tax breaks for silencing workers. Kyle will cosponsor the NTBUB Act to end taxpayer subsidies for union-busting and create real disincentives for companies that interfere with workers’ right to organize.
- Classify corporate interference in union campaigns as political speech under the tax code, making it non-deductible
- Cover both legal union-busting tactics — like captive audience meetings and anti-union ads — and illegal ones like firings, threats, and coercion
- Require employers to report to the IRS when they intervene in protected labor organizing activities
Bring Money Back to CT-2
Defense contracts bring billions into CT-2 — but too much of that money stays at the top. Kyle will make sure it reaches the workers who actually do the job.
CT-2 is home to major defense contractors and the workers who power them. But federal defense dollars often pile up in executive compensation and shareholder returns rather than flowing down to the machinists, engineers, and support staff on the shop floor. That money should be working for our communities, not sitting in the C-suite.
Kyle will fight for legislation requiring defense contractors to pass a guaranteed percentage of federal contract funding down to lower-level employees. When taxpayer dollars fund a defense contract, those dollars should be invested in the workers who build, maintain, and deliver the work — and by extension, back into the district they live in.
- Require defense contractors receiving federal awards to pass a set percentage of contract funding directly to non-executive employees
- Ensure federal defense dollars reach workers at all levels — not just executives and shareholders
- Put money back into CT-2 communities by increasing take-home pay for the workers who live and spend here
- Tie federal contract eligibility to compliance, creating a real incentive for contractors to share the wealth