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Fund the reauthorized National Quantum Initiative at Congress's own proposed level, and extend post-quantum cryptography migration support beyond federal systems to critical infrastructure facing the "harvest now, decrypt later" threat.
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Jul 4, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
This is among the least partisan issues in the entire platform, and this issue says so directly rather than manufacture a fight that doesn't exist. The National Quantum Initiative reauthorization is led jointly, in both chambers, by members of both parties, cleared committee unanimously in both the House and Senate, and its lead House sponsors are the Science Committee's Republican chairman and Democratic ranking member working together. The export-control loophole bill passed the House 369-22, a margin reflecting near-total cross-party agreement, not a live partisan fight. The one friction point, appropriators proposing to cut the science-agency budgets the quantum program depends on, runs through the same governing coalition that authorized the program, not between the two parties. No distinct Libertarian, Green, or Forward Party platform position on quantum computing policy specifically was identified in this research; this appears to be a policy vacuum for minor parties rather than a position deliberately withheld, worth naming honestly rather than inventing a position to attribute to them.
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