LILY’S AFFORDABILITY PLAN FOR GRANITE STATERS

  1. Energy Freedom to Bring Down Sky-High Electric Bills and Power Our Future

New Hampshire families face some of the highest electricity rates in the nation. We’re hit by volatile imported natural gas prices, regional grid bottlenecks, and policies that prioritize mandates over reliability. Families shouldn’t have to choose between heat and groceries.

I support Energy Freedom, an all-of-the-above strategy that unleashes every reliable American energy source without punishing reliability or jacking up prices.

  • Protect and expand proven assets like Seabrook Station while advancing next-generation Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). These factory-built reactors can be deployed faster and at lower upfront cost than traditional plants. They deliver clean, always-on baseload power with strong safety features and can be scaled to fit New Hampshire’s needs, from communities to industrial sites. SMRs will help stabilize and lower long-term electricity rates while creating high-paying jobs here at home.
  • Build on New Hampshire’s recent progress opening the door to SMR development and the regional commitment by New England governors to explore advanced nuclear for reliability and affordability. I’ll work to accelerate federal support so these state-led efforts succeed.
  • Immediately expand domestic natural gas production and pipeline capacity to bring relief to New Hampshire families right now while longer-term nuclear options come online.
  • Fight federal green energy mandates and subsidies that distort markets and raise costs for New England ratepayers. No more policies that make power more expensive.
  • Push for federal permitting reform to streamline reviews for energy projects, including SMRs, natural gas infrastructure, and transmission, so we can build faster and bring more reliable supply online without endless delays.
  • Support targeted R&D and public-private partnerships to bring American-designed SMRs and other advanced nuclear online sooner, strengthening energy independence and reducing reliance on imported fuels.

Result: Lower and more stable electric bills, reliable power year-round (especially during winter peaks), new jobs in advanced manufacturing and energy, and true energy security.

  1. Boost Housing Supply and Make Homeownership Possible Again

Housing costs are crushing the next generation. Limited supply plus high demand equals prices out of reach for many Granite Staters. Sudden population pressures and institutional buyers snapping up properties have made it worse.

  • Champion local zoning reform to cut red tape and let communities build more housing where it makes sense, while preserving local control. I trust Granite Staters to decide what’s best for their towns, not Washington bureaucrats.
  • Secure the border and enforce immigration law to ease artificial demand on our housing stock and community resources.
  • Investigate and address large-scale institutional and private equity buyers who treat homes as financial assets rather than places for families.
  • Support federal efforts to streamline permitting and remove unnecessary barriers that slow housing construction, while keeping decisions local.
  • By taming inflation and bringing down interest rates through responsible fiscal policy, make mortgages affordable again so more young families and first-time buyers can achieve the American Dream of homeownership.

  1. Tame Inflation by Cutting Wasteful Federal Spending

Inflation is the silent tax that has made everything more expensive. It’s driven by too much government spending, borrowing, and money printing, not corporate greed.

  • Implement Senator Paul’s “Six Penny Plan: Cut 6 cents off every dollar the federal government spends each year until the budget is balanced after 5 years. This simple, straightforward approach forces real spending discipline across the board without Washington picking winners and losers.
  • Start by eliminating duplicative programs and corporate welfare before moving to broader cuts.
  • Fight for a Balanced Budget Amendment so Washington finally lives within its means.
  • Cut wasteful spending, eliminate corporate welfare and pork-barrel projects, and stop the deficits that devalue our dollars.
  • Lower taxes on hardworking families and small businesses so you keep more of what you earn.

When the federal government stops flooding the economy with borrowed money, inflation drops, and so do mortgage rates, energy costs, and everyday prices.

  1. Cut Red Tape and Taxes That Raise Costs for Families and Small Businesses

Over-regulation and high taxes don’t just hurt big players. They crush small businesses, raise the price of building homes, and make it harder for employers to pay better wages.

  • Aggressively reduce burdensome federal regulations that drive up costs across the board.
  • Lower taxes on families and small businesses, the real engines of New Hampshire’s economy.
  • Level the playing field by removing subsidies and special favors so true competition and innovation can lower prices naturally.

  1. Empower Small Businesses, Create Jobs, and Protect the American Dream

Small businesses are the backbone of New Hampshire. When they thrive, they create better-paying jobs and stronger communities.

  • Get special interests and the federal government out of micromanaging the economy.
  • Remove barriers so entrepreneurs can start, grow, and hire, exactly what I’ve done running a small business with my husband.
  • Focus on policies that help real people build wealth and pass the American Dream to their children.

  1. Restore Accountability in Washington

    Out-of-control spending and special-interest deals are at the root of higher costs for families. I have released a detailed 10-point Good Government Plan to bring real reform to Congress. Key elements include:

    — Term limits for members of Congress
    — A ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks while in office
    — Requiring single-issue bills only
    — Ending continuing resolutions and earmarks
    — A lifetime ban on members becoming lobbyists after leaving office
    — Stronger disclosure rules for stock trades, lobbying contacts, and campaign contributions

    These reforms will reduce waste, end backroom deals, and make Washington more accountable to the people of New Hampshire.

Affordability / Lowering the Cost of Living

For Granite Staters across the 2nd District, affording basics needs like groceries and fuel are at the top-of-mind this year. Life is getting way too expensive, way too quickly. While inflation has subsided greatly from the sustained levels during the last presidential administration, there is more work to be done amid positive geopolitical pressures.

Let me be clear: my #1 priority when getting to Washington, DC to serve as your congresswoman is to work tirelessly every single day to drive down costs for ordinary New Hampshire folks.

To that end, I will put more pressure to get special interests, corporations, and the Federal government out of managing the economy. Instead of pushing for public-private partnerships and regulations that seem only to end up helping politically-connected big players, I will endeavor to remove subsidies and red tape for all businesses, large and small, unleashing true market competition. We must allow the free market to thrive. Only then, do costs come down and real job growth and real prosperity naturally follow.

Also, the cost of energy has a huge impact on the prices we pay for so many things. We must declare energy freedom and allow access, with appropriate mechanisms to control pollution, to all of our available resources: nuclear, oil, solar, coal, and wind. We should not be in an either/or political fight amongst ourselves on which energy sources to promote. Artificial energy restrictions not only do not make sense for national security (dependence on other countries), but it further divides and impoverishes the country.

Lastly, plain and simple, the government must reduce its spending; we must grow the economy and start paying down the national debt. Our children and grandchildren will thank us.