Issues

Caroline is advocating for Utah's families, freedom, and future.

Our Families

Housing

Housing costs in Utah are some of the highest in the nation, eating up more and more of peoples’ income and putting home ownership out of reach for many Utahns. Caroline supports federal efforts to bring down the price of housing, including providing incentives to support first-time home-buyers, so that every family has the opportunity to realize the American dream and has a safe, secure, and affordable place to live.

Caroline will support establishing a federal commission to study housing issues, including nationwide statistics on homelessness and housing affordability, creating federal tax incentives to support accessory dwelling units, creating federal tax credits to support first-time home buyers and incentivize construction of new affordable housing units, and more.

Affordability

The ongoing cost of living crisis is deeply impacting Utah families. Caroline believes that Utah’s economy should work for everyone, not just the wealthy and powerful. In the Senate, she would work to bring down prices for Utahns by supporting labor unions and efforts to unionize in advocating for better working conditions, fighting corporate greed by using anti trust regulation to break up monopolies, taxing corporations that have a CEO to average worker pay disparity of more than 50-1, curbing corporate price-gouging, strengthening supply chains, and investing in the middle class.

Economy & Jobs

Caroline believes that our economy thrives when we focus on supporting and strengthening middle class families. As Utah’s next senator, she would support leveling the playing field and making sure that giant corporations and the ultra-wealthy aren’t paying a lower tax rate than teachers, nurses, and firefighters. She would also vote to raise the federal minimum wage and champion efforts to create good-paying jobs for American workers and invest in the economy of the future.

Education

Utah is the youngest state in the nation, which means that education is especially important here. Caroline believes ensuring that every child gets a quality education, no matter their background, is one of the best investments we can make in the future of our state and our country. In the Senate, she will work to increase funding to every community’s public schools (including funding for mental health resources for students), pay our teachers what they deserve, and invest in the next generation of American leaders.

Additionally, teachers need to feel safe when they are teaching. We need common sense gun reform so they don’t have to worry about putting their life on the line at work, and we need to increase pay and benefits for teachers to retain talented teachers and ensure they stay in the profession.

Child Care

A lack of access to affordable, reliable child care is one of the biggest barriers facing families in Utah and across the nation. Right now, out-of-control child care costs are heavily burdening families and requiring up a disproportionate amount of their monthly income. Caroline strongly believes that we have an obligation to support working parents and families, and, as a senator, she will support action to expand child care subsidies for those who need them, incentivize the growth of affordable child care programs, and ensure that child care workers are paid a living wage.

Supporting Caregivers

Supporting families who are spending significant time caring for loved ones who are not able to be self-sufficient is a top priority for Caroline. She knows firsthand that caring for a loved one is difficult, under-appreciated, and, in almost all cases, unpaid work. That’s why, in the Senate, she will be a vocal advocate for implementing policy changes to ensure that caregivers are fully supported, such as gathering full and complete data on caregiving, creating tax credit programs to support caregivers, and expanding access to vital government services for caregivers and those receiving care.

Caroline supports expanding Medicare, Medicaid, and VA health insurance programs to cover community-based, long-term care options to allow for services like home modifications, home meal delivery, adult day services, and hiring of family caregivers, passing federal paid family leave, and more.

Healthcare and Mental Health

Right now, healthcare is simply unaffordable for too many Americans. Getting the care you need should not force you to go into debt or leave you with an impossible choice between going to the doctor and paying the rent or putting food on the table.

As someone who has personally struggled with mental health, Caroline deeply understands the need for all Americans, especially young people, to have better access to comprehensive mental health care while addressing the stigma that surrounds mental health.

In the Senate, Caroline will always support policies that will increase access to affordable healthcare, including proposals to cap prescription drug prices, protect and build upon the Affordable Care Act, and support Medicare and Medicaid.

Veterans

As the daughter of a Korean War veteran, Caroline acknowledges the sacrifice that veterans have made for our country and understands the unique challenges that they face everyday. We have a sacred obligation to support those who have put their lives on the line for our country, and, as Utah’s next Senator, Caroline will vote to support and honor veterans and their families by expanding access to healthcare and other vital services and ensuring that the VA is fully funded.

Our Freedom

Reproductive Freedom

Caroline strongly believes that decisions about if, when, and how to start a family should be left to women, their families, and their doctors, not politicians. The recent extremist attacks on reproductive freedom, contraception, and even IVF are sickening.

This is personal to her: a year and half ago, she decided to freeze her eggs and embryos for fertility preservation, using the same technology that thousands of women and couples use every year to help them reach their dream of having a family. The idea that extremist courts and politicians could get between patients and doctors to outlaw these procedures is outrageous. That’s why, as Utah’s next Senator, Caroline will fiercely defend Utahns’ reproductive freedom, including codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law and passing legislation to protect access to contraception.

Foreign Policy

America is a beacon of freedom and democracy to countries around the world, and we have a responsibility as a global leader to support those fighting for those same values overseas. Shaped by her own personal experiences, Caroline believes that our country is at its best when we stand strong in the face of authoritarianism and terrorism.

Throughout her career as a professional ski mountaineer, she has visited countries all across the world, so she has seen the impacts of different forms of government. She’s been to places where people aren’t allowed to criticize their government, where women don’t have basic freedoms, and where persecuted groups aren’t even able to get passports to leave the country.

In 2022, Caroline had the opportunity to visit a NATO-controlled US aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea. Seeing up close and personal the sacrifices being made every day by our brave men and women in uniform only reaffirmed her belief in the importance of supporting our allies and protecting democracy on a global scale.

In the Senate, she will work to maintain America’s leadership on the world stage and will vote in the best interests of our national security to protect our country from threats overseas.

Technology and Digital Privacy

As a small, independent business owner who makes her living through online content creation, Caroline personally understands the societal challenges of social media and technology. Now, more than ever, it’s crucial that we have younger leaders who have a broad understanding of technology and digital privacy, and who can use that knowledge to make the best policy possible for the American people.

Caroline is that leader: she will bring critical expertise to protect Americans’ digital privacy, regulate artificial intelligence, address online threats to our national security, and safeguard against the monopolization of big tech.

Protecting Democracy

As Ronald Reagan once said, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction, and right now, the future of our democracy is on the line. As extremists attack our free and fair elections, elected officials gerrymander voting maps to dilute Americans’ voices, and politicians make it harder for people to exercise their right to vote, it’s more important than ever to elect leaders who will stand strong for our democratic institutions.

In the Senate, Caroline will vote to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, implement congressional term limits, ban partisan gerrymandering nationwide, and keep the flame of American democracy alive for generations to come.

Our Future

Climate Crisis

As the impacts of the climate crisis continue to worsen, it’s more important than ever that our federal elected officials understand the urgent need for action, because we have a responsibility to future generations to protect the planet.

The last few years have seen significant steps forward: in 2022, Caroline used her platform as a professional athlete and advocate to help build support for the Inflation Reduction Act, which represents the largest investment in fighting climate change in history.

However, there is so much more to do. As Utah’s next Senator, Caroline will support policies to combat the climate crisis, accelerate the transition to a clean, renewable energy economy, and invest in the future of our country.

Great Salt Lake

The future of Utah’s environment and economy is reliant on the survival of the Great Salt Lake. Despite a few good winters, the lake is in serious danger of disappearing, leaving behind toxic dust that threatens the health of all Utahns. The drying of the Great Salt Lake is not only dangerous to Utah, it would affect the entire western United States. It is imperative that we come together to save the Great Salt Lake.

In the Senate, Caroline will bring stakeholders together on the local, state, and federal levels to create a coordinated action plan for getting water to the Lake.

Clean Energy

A key piece of the climate action that Caroline will advocate for in the Senate is investing in the transition to clean, renewable energy. Not only is it cheaper and more efficient than fossil fuels, but it will help us stop the worst impacts of the climate crisis, and it will supercharge our economy and create thousands of good-paying, union jobs.

Caroline will ensure that, in this transition, no community is left behind, and everyone can share in the economic benefits of a clean energy future. As Utah’s next Senator, she will advocate for 21st century grid integration technology to ensure the long-term stability of renewable energy sources, for ending fossil fuel subsidies to level the economic playing field, and for continued investment in American manufacturing and jobs.

Outdoor Access

When Caroline was a teenager, access to the outdoors literally saved her life, pulling her from mental health and addiction struggles and putting her on the path to pursuing her dreams of becoming a professional ski mountaineer. Studies have shown that spending time outdoors improves mental health, decreases anxiety and stress, and leads to better quality of life. That’s why, in the Senate, Caroline wants to protect outdoor access to ensure that every American has the same opportunities to take advantage of the vast, beautiful outdoor spaces our country has to offer.

She will support efforts to incentivize expansion of parks and other green spaces, improve public trails, and encourage responsible, sustainable outdoor recreation practices.

Public Lands

Utah’s public lands are one of our greatest assets, and we have a responsibility to protect and preserve them for our kids, grandkids, and generations to come. Caroline supports keeping public lands in public hands, not selling them off to the highest bidder.

As a community advocate, she helped raise over $100,000 to build a visitors center at Bears Ears and advance education and awareness about the importance of protecting public lands, and she testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the importance of integrating climate solutions with public lands.

In the Senate, she will work to balance public access and land preservation, to ensure that local governments have the resources they need to manage tourism and recreation, and to keep our precious public lands safe from harmful resource extraction, so that Utah’s outdoors continue to be the envy of the world.