Maura Healey

Democratic Platform

Democrats support progressive taxation, with higher rates on top earners and corporations to fund public investment. The party favors raising the minimum wage, strengthening unions, and expanding worker protections. Democrats generally support government investment in infrastructure, education, and social programs as drivers of broad economic growth.

Maura Healey

Governor Healey has focused on housing affordability, workforce development, and clean energy investment as the pillars of Massachusetts's economic strategy. She has backed the CHIPS Act investments in Massachusetts's technology and biotech sectors and has pushed for a massive housing production plan to address the state's severe housing shortage and high cost of living.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans favor lower taxes across income levels, with particular emphasis on cutting corporate and capital gains taxes to stimulate investment and job creation. The party supports deregulation, reduced government spending, and free market solutions over federal programs as the primary engine of prosperity.

Democratic Platform

Democrats support expanding access to affordable healthcare, including protecting the Affordable Care Act and moving toward a public option or expanded Medicare coverage. The party broadly favors government negotiation of prescription drug prices and opposes removing protections for pre-existing conditions.

Maura Healey

Governor Healey supports the Massachusetts healthcare model, which served as a template for the Affordable Care Act, and has worked to expand access to mental health services, substance abuse treatment, and reproductive healthcare. She has defended abortion access in Massachusetts and has signed legislation expanding coverage and lowering costs.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans have generally sought to repeal or significantly reform the Affordable Care Act, favoring market-based solutions. The party supports expanding health savings accounts, increasing competition among insurers across state lines, and reducing federal mandates on coverage requirements.

Democratic Platform

Democrats generally support pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, including DACA recipients, and favor comprehensive immigration reform. The party supports increased resources for legal immigration processing and a humanitarian approach to asylum seekers at the border.

Maura Healey

Governor Healey has opposed federal immigration enforcement operations she views as harmful to Massachusetts immigrant communities and has taken steps to ensure state agencies do not conduct federal immigration enforcement. She has backed comprehensive federal immigration reform and highlighted the role of immigrants in Massachusetts's healthcare, technology, and service sectors.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans prioritize border security and strict enforcement of existing immigration law. The party broadly supports completing physical border barriers, ending policies they view as incentivizing illegal entry, and reforming legal immigration to favor applicants with marketable skills.

Democratic Platform

Democrats favor robust federal investment in public K-12 education and higher education, along with policies to reduce or eliminate student loan debt. The party generally opposes using public funds for private school vouchers and supports universal pre-K and affordable childcare.

Maura Healey

Governor Healey supports robust investment in Massachusetts's public schools and has backed the Student Opportunity Act implementation, which is directing new funding to the state's lowest-income districts. She supports universal pre-K and affordable childcare and has also focused on workforce training aligned with Massachusetts's technology and biotech economy.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans support school choice, including voucher programs for private and religious schools, and local control over curriculum decisions. The party generally opposes federal education mandates and broadly supports parental rights in schooling. Many Republicans oppose student loan forgiveness as unfair to borrowers who repaid their loans.

Democratic Platform

Democrats broadly support stricter gun safety measures, including universal background checks, red flag laws, and restrictions on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines. The party frames these regulations as consistent with the Second Amendment and necessary to reduce mass shootings.

Maura Healey

Governor Healey signed legislation modernizing and expanding Massachusetts's already strict gun laws, including updating regulations on assault-style weapons, ammunition feeding devices, and ghost guns. She views Massachusetts's approach as a model for other states and has backed continued legislative efforts to reduce gun violence.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans strongly defend Second Amendment rights and generally oppose new gun control legislation, arguing that existing laws should be enforced more effectively. The party emphasizes mental health intervention, the right to self-defense, and opposes what they view as infringement on law-abiding gun owners.

Democratic Platform

Democrats view climate change as an urgent crisis requiring immediate government action. The party supports transitioning to clean energy through federal investment and regulation, reducing carbon emissions across the economy, and meeting international climate commitments. Democrats generally oppose expanding fossil fuel development on public lands.

Maura Healey

Governor Healey has made clean energy and climate action a signature priority, building on Massachusetts's history as a national leader in clean energy policy. She signed an offshore wind procurement package, backed building electrification standards, and has worked to accelerate Massachusetts's transition to clean energy as both a climate and economic development strategy.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans emphasize American energy independence through domestic production of oil, gas, and coal alongside renewable development. Many in the party are skeptical of aggressive climate regulations they argue harm economic growth and jobs. Republicans generally prefer market-based energy solutions over government mandates and oppose restrictions that raise energy costs for families.

Democratic Platform

Democrats generally support a multilateral approach to foreign policy, emphasizing alliances, international institutions, and diplomacy as the first line of engagement. The party broadly supports maintaining NATO commitments, providing aid to democratic allies, and engaging international bodies to address shared challenges.

Maura Healey

As governor, Healey has engaged federal foreign policy debates through the lens of Massachusetts's world-class research universities, biotech industry, and international business community. As former Attorney General she led multistate challenges to federal policies she viewed as harmful, a model she has continued as governor on immigration and environmental enforcement.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans emphasize American sovereignty, a strong military as a deterrent, and bilateral relationships over multilateral institutions. The party broadly supports robust defense spending and is skeptical of international agreements they view as constraining American action or requiring open-ended foreign commitments.

Democratic Platform

Democrats oppose cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits and support expanding both programs. The party generally favors raising the Social Security payroll tax cap on high earners to ensure long-term solvency and opposes any form of privatization.

Maura Healey

Governor Healey opposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare and has backed federal legislation to protect both programs. She has focused at the state level on housing and cost-of-living relief for Massachusetts seniors on fixed incomes.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans support reforming Social Security and Medicare to ensure long-term fiscal solvency, which some in the party argue requires adjusting benefits or eligibility ages. The party opposes tax increases to fund the programs and some members have supported personal investment account options.

Democratic Platform

Democrats broadly support criminal justice reform, including reducing mandatory minimum sentences, addressing racial disparities in policing and incarceration, and investing in community-based alternatives. The party generally supports police accountability measures and evidence-based approaches to reducing recidivism.

Maura Healey

Governor Healey supports criminal justice reform including reducing barriers to reentry and addressing racial disparities in the system. As Attorney General she pursued consumer protection and corporate accountability cases and has backed investments in community-based violence prevention as a complement to law enforcement.Source →

Republican Platform

Republicans emphasize law and order, strong support for law enforcement, and tough penalties for crime. The party generally opposes reducing mandatory minimum sentences for violent offenses and supports prosecutors pursuing strong sentences. Republicans broadly oppose policies they view as undermining police authority or creating leniency for criminals.