Ban AI Data Centers

Data centers drive up electricity bills, destroy land that could be housing or farms, and burn massive amounts of water and energy to fuel an AI hype cycle that's making a handful of tech billionaires richer.

Maryland’s 6th district is now in the crosshairs.

I support a federal ban on new data center construction. Right now, residents are being asked to subsidize the infrastructure of multi-trillion-dollar tech companies while watching their bills go up and their land get carved up. When the AI bubble bursts (and the financial signs are already there), working people will be left holding the bag, as we always are. I've spent over a decade taking on Big Tech and the financial sector. I know exactly how this story ends if we don't act.

Transportation

Maryland's 6th district has already shown what's possible. Free bus service in Montgomery County has saved residents money during a crisis in the price of gas, boosted ridership and cut emissions. I'll push for federal funding to expand free and frequent public transit across the district, restore long-distance Amtrak service to western Maryland, and build out infrastructure for the people who can't or don't want to drive everywhere—including safe bike lanes, sidewalks, and accessible pedestrian routes.

Small Business and Family Farms

Small businesses are getting crushed by corporate consolidation, predatory lending, sky-high commercial rents, the cost of providing employee healthcare, and tariffs that hit them harder than the multinationals they compete with.

I'll fight for policies that will dismantle monopolies in agriculture, retail, tech, and finance. I'll work to make the SBA serve the small businesses it was meant to, not corporate landlords that game the system. 

MD-06 is home to some of the most productive farmland in the state—from Adamstown to Washington County's orchards to the family farms scattered across the Catoctin foothills. Corporate consolidation in agriculture has gutted family farms, driven down what farmers earn, and raised food prices. Tariffs and trade chaos have wiped out export markets. The Trump administration’s USDA cuts eliminated technical assistance, conservation programs, and research that farmers depend on. And data center developers and land speculators are buying up agricultural land at a pace that's pricing the next generation out of farming altogether.

I'll fight to restore and expand USDA funding, including the rural development grants this district relies on. I'll support right-to-repair laws so farmers actually own the equipment they buy. I'll push for antitrust enforcement against the meatpackers, seed companies, and grocery monopolies that squeeze farmers from both sides. I'll defend farmland from speculative buyers by supporting beginning farmer programs, land trusts, and a federal land-use policy that prioritizes food production.