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Keeping Our Promise to Alaska Veterans & Servicemembers

A U.S. Army veteran in his cap, in the crowd at a campaign event.
“As the mom of two Coasties, as an Alaskan, and as an American, I have deep gratitude for the sacrifices our men and women in uniform make every day. Unfortunately, too many servicemembers, veterans and their families are being stretched thin by DC price hikes, while politicians put special interests first. I’ll keep fighting to ensure Alaska veterans receive the healthcare, benefits, and pay they’ve earned, because Alaska veterans deserve a Senator who keeps their promises.”

Mary is a military mom who has always stood by Alaska servicemembers, military families, and veterans. While the rigged system in DC puts corporate special interests before Alaska veterans and military families — spiking costs and gutting critical services — Mary will stand up to anyone to ensure that Alaska veterans, servicemembers, and their families are receiving the healthcare, benefits, and pay they’ve earned.

Here’s how we’ll do it:

Strengthen and Expand VA Healthcare

  • There’s nothing more important than taking care of those who risked their lives in service to our country. Mary will restore the VA clinical workforce and ensure VA staff have the resources they need to deliver quality care to Alaska veterans who put their lives in harm’s way to serve.
  • The federal government makes a promise to our servicemembers that we will make them whole after their service. Mary will fight tooth and nail to keep that promise by investing in VA infrastructure modernization, including electronic healthcare records and 21st century facilities.
  • Our veterans deserve cutting-edge, top of the line care. Mary will advocate for robust federal investment in research, training, and innovation in the VA healthcare system, and will hold the VA accountable to provide timely and quality healthcare to Alaska veterans.
  • Alaska has one of the highest rates of veteran suicide in the entire country. As Alaska’s next U.S. Senator, Mary will fight to expand mental healthcare for veterans, help states identify veterans at risk and connect them to services, and target high-risk groups to reduce suicides.

Restore and Protect Veterans’ Benefits

  • No Alaska veteran should have to worry about affording a roof over their head or their next meal. Mary will fight to reverse harmful DC cuts to food assistance and housing programs that veterans count on so that every veteran receives the benefits they’ve earned.
  • Alaska veterans should never fall prey to for-profit bad actors. Mary will crack down on claim sharks who are scamming our veterans out of their hard-earned benefits. Modernize claims processes and ensure quality adjudication.
  • Mary won’t rest until every veteran has a stable, affordable, safe roof over their head. She’ll keep fighting to end veteran homelessness, and supports restoring the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, expanding permanent supportive housing units, safeguarding VA home loans, and increasing federal funding for veteran housing.

Support the Military to Civilian Transition

  • Supporting the transition of servicemembers to civilian life is foundational in supporting Alaska veterans. Mary will fight for a monthly transition stipend up to $2,000 for recently separated veterans for up to two years following their service to ensure that every Alaska veteran lands on their feet.
  • We have an obligation to support our servicemembers when they return home. In the Senate, Mary will work to expand apprenticeship opportunities for veterans and restore and protect Skill Bridge, a program that supports veterans as they transition into full-time employment.
  • Support for our veterans is useless if Alaskans don’t know these programs exist. Mary will hold the VA accountable to veterans by improving the department’s proactive communication and outreach to ensure Alaska veterans know which benefits are available to them.
  • Right now, wounded veterans’ benefits are docked – medically retired veterans with fewer than 20 years of service due to combat injuries have their military retirement pay reduced when they receive VA disability compensation. Mary previously cosponsored and will continue to support the Major Richard Star Act, to stop the “wounded veteran tax.”

Put Military Families First

  • As a military mom, Mary understands the sacrifice of military families. That’s why she’ll fight to protect and expand survivor and caregiver benefits, to ensure we’re taking care of those who take care of our veterans and servicemembers.
  • Military families shouldn’t be squeezed out of living in Alaska. Mary will fight to bring down the costs, increase servicemember pay and protect and expand the Overseas Cost of Living Allowance so servicemembers and their families can afford to live in the state they’re protecting.

More of Mary’s Plans

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Affordability

Affordability

As Lower 48 special interests keep getting richer and richer, life in Alaska keeps getting more expensive.

Fixing the Rigged System

Fixing the Rigged System

Mary knows that the only way to make DC work for Alaska is to get special interests out of our politics.

Fighting for Alaska Fisheries

Fighting for Alaska Fisheries

Mary has spent her life fighting for Alaska fishermen, fisheries, and the communities they sustain.

Anglers wade a fog-covered Alaska river at first light.

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