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Press Package
Everything you need to report on The American Deal and the National Sovereignty and Resilience Act (NSRA), with every headline figure traced to its source so you can verify, not take on faith.
Press kit version v2026.1 · last updated 2026-07-11 · figures internally modeled on published government baselines, official CBO/JCT scoring pending. Labels below mark fact, methodology, and campaign framing.
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Fact sheet
At a Glance
The American Deal is the public campaign for the National Sovereignty and Resilience Act (NSRA), a citizen-authored federal framework of 36 titles and 218 sections. It is designed to restore fiscal sovereignty and deliver material household benefits without adding to the deficit, funded by recapturing value that currently leaves the domestic economy rather than by new broad-based taxes. The agenda is finished, internally costed on published government baselines with official CBO/JCT scoring pending, and owned by no party, published in full and open to whoever runs on it first.
The formal legislative vehicle is the NSRA. “The American Deal” is the public movement and governing promise. The project is a program of TheAmericanDeal, Inc., a Wyoming 501(c)(4) civic-education and advocacy organization.
Fact sheet
| Claim | Figure | Basis |
|---|
| Year 1 annual revenue | $749B | NSRA model on CBO/JCT/OMB/Treasury baselines |
| Annual deficit reduction | $554B | NSRA model; internally sensitivity-tested |
| Balanced budget (central est.) | Year 4 | NSRA model; low/base/high scenarios |
| Americans in Year-1 relief | 79M+ | 28M uninsured · 42M SNAP · 9M veterans |
| Federal drug-pricing savings | ~$55B/yr | PNAS 2024 G7 price-differential analysis |
| Insulin price cap | $35/mo | Statutory text (pharmaceutical parity title) |
| Corporate single-family housing cap | 50 units/metro | Statutory text (Title XIV) |
| Small-business exemption | < $10M rev. | Statutory text (Covered Entity definition) |
Fiscal figures are NSRA model estimates on published government baselines, internally modeled and sensitivity-tested, not yet officially scored. Independent and congressional scoring are pending. The Figure-by-Figure Sourcing guide traces each figure line by line.
Founder Background
Santonio D. Sanders is the principal architect of the NSRA. His background is operational rather than political:
- Ten years in the U.S. Navy submarine service.
- Federal contracting in national-security and diplomatic environments, embedded across multiple agencies.
- Former VA ambulatory-care director, having led the veteran-care referral continuum at a major federal VA medical facility.
- Author of the NSRA, written outside the political and lobbying system.
Fact sheet
Boilerplate & Bios
Approved, ready-to-paste descriptions so outlets use consistent language. Please quote these as written.
One-sentence description
The American Deal is a citizen-authored, fully published federal policy framework, the National Sovereignty and Resilience Act, designed to deliver universal zero-premium healthcare, G7 drug pricing, student-debt and housing relief, and roughly $554B in annual deficit reduction without new broad-based taxes.
Organization boilerplate (75 words)
The American Deal is the public campaign for the National Sovereignty and Resilience Act (NSRA), a finished, citizen-authored federal framework of 36 titles published in full and open to whoever runs on it first. A program of TheAmericanDeal, Inc., a Wyoming 501(c)(4) civic-education and advocacy organization, it is owned by no party and funded by recapturing value that leaves the domestic economy rather than by new broad-based taxes. Fiscal figures are internally modeled on published government baselines; official scoring is pending.
Organization background (150 words)
The American Deal is the public campaign for the National Sovereignty and Resilience Act (NSRA), a comprehensive federal framework of 36 titles and 218 sections written outside the party and lobbying systems. Rather than a slogan, it is a complete, drafted statute published in full, with a figure-by-figure sourcing guide, an interactive fiscal model, and machine-readable datasets so anyone can verify the numbers. The agenda pairs material household benefits, universal zero-premium coverage, G7 drug pricing, a $35 insulin cap, student-debt relief, and a corporate single-family housing cap, with fiscal discipline: roughly $749B in Year-1 net revenue and about $554B in annual deficit reduction, on a modeled path to a balanced budget by Year 4. It is a program of TheAmericanDeal, Inc., a Wyoming 501(c)(4) civic-education and advocacy organization. It is owned by no party and open to any candidate who will run on it. Official CBO and JCT scoring are welcomed and pending.
Founder bio (50 words)
Santonio D. Sanders is the principal architect of the National Sovereignty and Resilience Act and founder of The American Deal. A ten-year Navy submarine-service veteran and former VA ambulatory-care director, he later worked in federal national-security contracting. He wrote the NSRA outside the political and lobbying systems.
Founder bio (150 words)
Santonio D. Sanders is the principal architect of the National Sovereignty and Resilience Act (NSRA) and the founder of The American Deal. His background is operational rather than political. He served ten years in the United States Navy submarine service, then worked in federal contracting across national-security and diplomatic environments, embedded with multiple agencies. He later served as a VA ambulatory-care director, leading the veteran-care referral continuum at a major federal VA medical facility. Drawing on that firsthand experience of how federal systems succeed and fail, he wrote the NSRA, a finished, 36-title federal framework, outside the party and lobbying systems, and published it in full for any candidate to adopt. He built the accompanying transparency tools, the figure-by-figure sourcing, the interactive fiscal model, and the preliminary scoring tool, so the framework could be verified and scored rather than taken on faith.
Pronunciation
Santonio D. Sanders: san-TOH-nee-oh SAN-ders. NSRA: spell it out, “N-S-R-A.”
Approved titles for attribution
Preferred: Santonio D. Sanders, principal architect of the National Sovereignty and Resilience Act and founder of The American Deal.
Also acceptable: “founder of The American Deal” or “principal architect of the NSRA.”
Please avoid improvised titles such as “campaign founder,” “bill author,” “policy activist,” or “organization president.” Always include the middle initial D.
Fact sheet
Quote Bank
Short, on-record quotations cleared for direct use. Attribution: Santonio D. Sanders, principal architect of the NSRA. Approved 2026-07-11 (v2026.1). For a custom or exclusive quote, use the interview request below.
Why it was written
“I wrote this because the country keeps being told it has to choose between helping people and being responsible with money. That is a false choice, and the math proves it.”
Why five bills
“It is one integrated Act, but it is deliberately not all-or-nothing. We packaged it as five coordinated bills so that if some pass and others stall, Americans still get major wins.”
Fiscal discipline
“This is a fiscally conservative document by result. It reduces the deficit by a modeled $554 billion a year and targets a balanced budget in a single presidential term.”
Healthcare
“Nobody should lose a house because they got sick. The Basic Minimum Plan runs through competing private carriers, not a government takeover, and it covers the people the current system leaves out.”
Housing
“When Wall Street buys up starter homes by the thousand, first-time buyers lose. Capping corporate single-family ownership at fifty homes per metro puts those houses back within reach of families.”
Student debt
“We are not cancelling the principal. We are ending the interest that turns a fair debt into a lifelong one.”
Private equity
“Private equity has no business owning your hospital, your ambulance, or your 911 call. The NSRA draws that line in statute.”
Citizen authorship
“This was written outside the lobbying system, by someone who has actually run federal programs. It answers to the public, not to a donor class.”
The 2028 strategy
“I do not need the credit. The bill is finished and published in full. Whoever runs on it first can have it.”
External review
“We label what has been reviewed internally and what still needs independent and official scoring. We are inviting CBO and JCT to score it, not claiming they already have.”
The Nine Promises
The NSRA's 36 titles are organized around nine promises, and every title lives under one: Anti-Extraction (anti-monopoly, PE limits, capital-flight lock, sovereign wealth fund; Titles II, XX, XXII); Anti-Corruption (congressional stock ban, emoluments, foreign-influence transparency, press freedom, due process; Titles I, XVIII, XXVII, XXIX, XXXV, XXXVI); Pro-Worker & Pro-Farmer (organizing rights, pension protection, wage floors, food sovereignty; Titles IV, VI, VII, XXVIII); Affordable Health & Medicine ($0-premium coverage, G7 drug pricing, $35 insulin, veterans’ health; Titles XIII, XXI, XXV, XXXI); Housing & Shelter (corporate single-family cap of 50 per metro, Shelter Sovereignty Fund, buyer support; Title XIV); Clean Water & Clean Energy (lead-pipe & PFAS cleanup, water security, grid modernization, advanced fission; Titles IX, X, XI); Future-Building (Child Prosperity Trust, student-debt relief, AI & compute, semiconductors, knowledge access; Titles III, V, XII, XV, XXXIII); American Sovereignty (dollar defense, adversary-capital screen, reshoring, Social Security, trade; Titles VIII, XVI, XXIII, XXVI, XXX, XXXII); and Fiscal Integrity & Self-Funding (self-executing revenue engine, deficit-neutrality certification, household-benefit accounting, SIRF; Titles 0, XIX, XXIV, XXXIV).
Campaign framing
Core Messages
- Deliverability, not ideology. A promise the country can actually keep, real benefits in Year 1, the dividend only when earned.
- Genuine revenue, not borrowing. The bill funds itself by recapturing value leaving the domestic economy, not by new broad-based taxes.
- Stronger together, built to pass, and survive, in pieces. As one Act the 36 titles reinforce each other. For passage, the agenda is organized into five coordinated bills, each able to advance and deliver on its own. For durability, a severability clause (§205) keeps the rest of the Act in force if a court strikes any single title. Individual titles carry explicit dependency labels, some stand alone, others must travel with their funding or enforcement.
- Visible evidence standard. Every major claim is classified by source and review status; official scoring is stated as pending rather than implied.
Methodology
How the Figures Are Justified
The headline revenue is not a new tax, it is the sum of 12 scored base revenue streams plus supplemental enforcement recapture, each built on a published government or peer-reviewed baseline. The largest come from restoring the corporate tax rate, collecting taxes already legally owed (IRS enforcement), a minimum tax on multinationals (OECD Pillar Two), closing the carried-interest and stepped-up-basis loopholes, G7 pharmaceutical price parity, federal mineral-royalty modernization, and fraud recovery. Gross stream revenue of roughly $785B is reduced by conservative realization assumptions and program-linked costs to the ~$749B central net figure, and to ~$554B in deficit reduction after about $204B in revenue-funded outlays.
Every stream is itemized in Schedule G with statutory authority, baseline source, and confidence level, and traced again in the Figure-by-Figure Sourcing. Reporters can run the assumptions themselves in the Fiscal Review Portal. Figures are model estimates; official CBO/JCT scoring is pending and welcomed.
Methodology
Machine-Readable Datasets
For data journalists and analysts who want to run the numbers independently. Every figure is a preliminary model estimate built on published CBO, JCT, IRS, Treasury, OECD, BEA, GAO, and peer agency baselines, not an official CBO or JCT score. Each file carries a methodology version and a last-updated date; column definitions are in the data dictionary.
Full workbook (XLSX)
All datasets in one file, with an overview and data dictionary, styled for review.
Revenue streams (CSV)
15 revenue + 2 cost streams, each with baseline source, base year, and confidence.
Fiscal projections (CSV)
10-year central scenario: net revenue, program outlays, annual deficit reduction.
State impact (CSV)
Per-state affected-population and market data across all 50 states.
Title-to-bill map (CSV)
Each of the 36 titles mapped to its coordinated bill (1 through 5).
Title-to-committee map (CSV)
Each title mapped to the primary committees of its bill.
Source register (CSV)
Headline and per-stream figures traced to source, year, and confidence.
Data dictionary (TXT)
Column definitions, methodology notes, and canonical taxonomy for every file.
Prefer the interactive views? The interactive fiscal model and the Preliminary Scoring Tool use this same data live.
Fact sheet
State Press Briefs
A publication-ready NSRA briefing for each state: affected population (uninsured, veterans, SNAP, student-loan borrowers), housing and hospital pressures, estimated impact, and the strongest applicable titles. Built for local newsrooms, print or save any state as a clean one-page PDF.
Open the state briefs →
Campaign framing
The Honest Bottom Line, Three Frameworks
Clinton started with a $290B deficit and closed it in six years, with the dot-com boom providing an estimated 25–35% of the improvement. The NSRA starts with a $1.9T deficit (6.5× Clinton's challenge) and no tech boom, yet models ~$554B/yr in deficit reduction, nearly 10× Clinton's ~$60B/yr, while also delivering coverage, drug relief, and a household dividend. Unlike the OBBBA, the alternative to the NSRA isn't “six years.” It's never.
| Metric | Clinton era | Trump OBBBA (2025) | NSRA 2028 |
|---|
| Deficit trajectory | $290B deficit → $69B surplus by 1998 | CBO: +$3.3–3.8T over 10 yrs | $554B/yr reduction; balanced Yr 4 |
| Balanced budget | Year 6 (dot-com tailwind) | Never | Year 4 (range 3–5) |
| Household floor | None | MAGA accounts; SNAP/Medicaid cuts offset | Child Prosperity Trust; $35 drug caps; 0% loan interest |
| Healthcare floor | None; 40M+ uninsured | ~10–15M lose Medicaid | $0-premium coverage for 28M uninsured |
| Drug pricing | No controls | IRA negotiation (10–20 drugs/yr) | G7 parity; compulsory licensing at royalty |
| PE / monopoly | Microsoft antitrust; no housing cap | No PE limits | PE barred from hospitals/EMS; 50-unit housing cap |
| IRS enforcement | Stable; ~$60B gap | $80B IRA funding clawed back | $15B/yr mandatory; supermajority-protected |
Sources: CBO Budget & Economic Outlook 2026–2036; CBO OBBBA score May 2025; OMB Historical Tables; CBO OBRA-1993 analysis; JCT TCJA scoring.
Campaign framing
Why This Isn’t Left or Right
The NSRA is owned by no party and was written outside the party system, to work, not to win a primary. Its planks draw support across the spectrum: banning congressional stock trading, matching G7 drug prices, anti-monopoly enforcement, reshoring and supply-chain sovereignty, veterans-first health care, protecting Social Security, and reducing the deficit. Conservatives see sovereignty, small-business protection, anti-corruption, and fiscal discipline; progressives see affordability, worker protections, and corporate accountability. The same finished bill answers to both.
Anticipated criticism and response
Answering the “Socialism” Charge
The most predictable attack is the “socialism” label. The text answers it directly:
- Market-based delivery, not a government takeover. Universal coverage runs through competing private carriers (the Basic Minimum Plan), with a required medical-loss ratio and multiple carriers per market, regulated competition, not nationalization.
- No nationalization of industry. The bill does not seize companies. It caps corporate concentration (e.g., 50 single-family homes per metro), enforces existing law, and closes loopholes.
- Property rights preserved. Divestitures are market-rate, arms-length, with an independent-appraisal right and Court of Federal Claims review. Pharmaceutical enforcement uses compulsory licensing with a royalty to the patent holder (patent retained), not expropriation.
- Pro-small-business. Businesses under $10M in revenue and landlords under ten units are expressly exempt. The obligations fall on the largest actors, not Main Street.
- Funded by recapture, not redistribution. Revenue comes from collecting taxes owed, closing loopholes, and recapturing value leaving the economy, not new broad-based taxes on working households.
- Fiscally conservative by result. It reduces the deficit by a modeled ~$554B/yr and targets a balanced budget by Year 4, the opposite of open-ended spending.
- Benefits are earned, not unlimited. The household dividend activates only as verified revenue arrives (a tranche-based escalation lock), not as an uncapped entitlement.
What’s In It for Every Household
The NSRA is written to land on kitchen tables regardless of politics: $35 insulin regardless of insurance, G7-matched drug prices, a cap on Wall Street buying up starter homes, coverage for the roughly 28M uninsured, student-loan relief, and lower borrowing costs as the deficit falls, all without new broad-based taxes.
Two tools reporters and readers can use directly:
- The Sovereign Return Engine™, the household calculator estimates what the bill returns to a specific family (“What America Owes You”).
- The 7-Subledger Math Engine™, the interactive fiscal model lets you toggle revenue streams and set your own realization rate to see how the $749B is built.
Fact sheet
The Review Record
Before publication, every provision was pressure-tested. The campaign documents (without exposing internal work product) that it completed a Constitutional Red-Team against current Supreme Court doctrine, a Congressional Viability Audit (procedural survivability and referral pathways), a Committee-Jurisdiction Analysis mapping all 36 titles, a Regulatory & Red-Tape Reduction Audit, a Fiscal Stress-Test (low/base/high scenarios), and an Implementation-Readiness Review. Internal review is complete and documented; independent constitutional review and official CBO/JCT scoring are welcomed and pending, the project states which is which rather than implying outside validation it does not yet have.
Key Acronyms & Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|
| NSRA | National Sovereignty and Resilience Act |
| SIRF | Sovereign Infrastructure Reinvestment Fund |
| FMIA | Federal Market Integrity Administration |
| FDVM | Federal Data Veracity Matrix |
| BMP | Basic Minimum Plan (universal coverage) |
| HSF | Health Sovereignty Fund |
| SPI | Sovereign Productivity Index |
| NIMA | National Infrastructure Maintenance Assessment |
| FTT | Financial Transaction Tax (0.1%) |
| FTA | Financial Transaction Assessment (0.02%, large institutional trades) |
| WEA | Wage Equalization Assessment |
| SDEC | Sovereign Defense Efficiency Commission |
| SCA | Sovereign Compute Authority |
| VSN | Veterans Sovereignty Node |
| CPT | Child Prosperity Trust |
| A.B.R.N. | Automated Environmental Remediation Network |
| V_abs | Volume Absorption Throttle (housing divestiture) |
| ALJ | Administrative Law Judge |
| MSA | Metropolitan Statistical Area |
| OASDI | Old-Age, Survivors & Disability Insurance |
| G7 | Group of Seven (drug-price benchmark) |
| CBO / JCT | Congressional Budget Office / Joint Committee on Taxation |
| Schedule F | Pharmaceutical compulsory-licensing royalty schedule |
Legal architecture
Constitutional grounding: authority and protections
The short version for reporters: it is built to be constitutional. It rests on the same enumerated powers Congress routinely uses, and it protects the businesses it affects through market-rate compensation and due process, not seizure.
The authority the Act rests on
Commerce Clause
Art. I, §8, cl. 3, regulation of interstate commerce and financial markets.
Spending Clause
Art. I, §8, cl. 1, conditions attached to federal funds (coverage, relief, grants).
Necessary & Proper
Art. I, §8, cl. 18, the mechanisms carrying the enumerated powers into effect.
General Welfare
The taxing-and-spending power behind the fiscal and benefit architecture.
The protections built in
Fifth Amendment takings
Market-rate, arms-length divestiture with an independent-appraisal right and Court of Federal Claims review; drafted to satisfy the Penn Central test.
Licensing, not expropriation
Pharmaceutical enforcement is a compulsory license, patent retained, 8%/12%/4% royalty, just-compensation arbitration, designed to preserve patent ownership and reduce constitutional takings risk. Final classification pending judicial review.
Procedural due process
45/60/180-day pre-deprivation notice (Title XVIII), engineered to Mathews v. Eldridge, plus an ALJ verification warrant before large asset actions.
Article III & jury right
Consistent with SEC v. Jarkesy, civil penalties go to an Article III court with the Seventh Amendment jury right; ALJs handle only temporary asset-preservation.
Nondelegation & major questions
Mandatory triggers are fixed by Congress in statute, supplying an intelligible principle responsive to Gundy and West Virginia v. EPA.
Severability
§205, striking one title leaves the rest of the Act in full force, with a fallback appropriation protecting first-tier benefits.
Full detail: Statement of Constitutional Authority and Title 0 (§002(4)). Campaign positions, pending specialist and legislative-counsel review.
Documents
High-Resolution Assets
Evidence standard, please note when citing. Fiscal and impact figures are NSRA model estimates built on published CBO, JCT, OMB, GAO, Treasury, OECD, and peer-reviewed baselines. They are internally modeled and sensitivity-tested, not official CBO or JCT scores, which are pending and welcomed. Statutory parameters (e.g., an insulin price cap) are the text of the bill, not projections. The Figure-by-Figure Sourcing guide states which is which for every figure.
Naming: “The American Deal” is the public campaign; the “National Sovereignty and Resilience Act (NSRA)” is the legislative vehicle. Trademarks: What America Owes You™, The Sovereign Return Engine™, The 7-Subledger Math Engine™. Brand palette: Sovereign Green (#22C55E) · Ledger Navy (#1F3864) · Vault Black (#0D0F14).
