Universal Healthcare
Whether you are rich or poor, when you get sick, you should have the right to see the doctor. Healthcare is a human right, and no one should delay treatment, ration medication, or risk bankruptcy because they got sick. We must expand coverage, lower the cost of prescription drugs, invest in community health centers, and ensure that no matter if you live in the city or the country, you can always access fast, affordable, culturally competent treatment.
I support a universal healthcare system that guarantees coverage for everyone while allowing people to keep trusted providers. That means allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, capping lifesaving medications, and ending surprise billing once and for all. We need to invest in mental health services, maternal health, reproductive care, and addiction treatment.
We also need to strengthen our healthcare workforce by funding residency slots, supporting nurses and home health aides with fair wages, and expanding telehealth so working families, seniors, and rural residents can access care without long waits or long drives. Healthcare should be about patients, not profits.
Universal Childcare
When you and your partner decide to have a child, that decision should not be followed by a conversation about what town in South Jersey or Pennsylvania you will have to move to. Sending your child to pre-K should not cost more than sending that same child to Rutgers one day. We need universal childcare from birth to age 5 so families can stay in the communities they love and children can get the strongest possible start in life.
We also need flexible options for shift workers, weekend care for working families, and support for home-based providers who are often the backbone of immigrant and working-class communities. Childcare isn’t just a family issue, it’s an economic issue. When childcare is affordable, parents can work, small businesses can hire, and children arrive at kindergarten ready to thrive.
Abolish ICE
ICE is terrorizing our communities, separating families, and undermining trust in the very institutions meant to keep people safe. Any immigration system built on fear, raids, and detention is a system that is fundamentally broken. We must abolish this rogue, deadly agency before more families are torn apart and more innocent lives are lost.
Abolishing ICE does not mean abandoning immigration enforcement or border policy, it means replacing a punitive, broken, enforcement-first system with a humane, orderly immigration system rooted in due process and human rights.
We need clearer and more cost-efficient pathways to citizenship, strong labor protections so immigrant workers cannot be exploited, and we need to end for-profit detention centers. Immigration policy should reflect our values - fairness, dignity, and opportunity.
Paid Family Leave
Caring for our parents and children shouldn’t put us at risk of losing our livelihoods. No one should have to choose between a paycheck and being there for a newborn, a sick child, or an aging parent. We need a major expansion of the Family and Medical Leave Act so every working family has the stability and security they deserve.
I support a national paid family and medical leave program that guarantees workers paid time off for childbirth, adoption, illness, caregiving, and recovery, regardless of the size of their employer. Leave should be long enough to matter, paid enough to live on, and accessible to part-time workers, gig workers, and caregivers who are currently left out.
Paid leave improves maternal health outcomes, strengthens families, keeps workers connected to their jobs, and boosts economic productivity.
Affordable Housing
Housing is a human right. Too many young families are forced to move to South Jersey or Pennsylvania because they simply can’t afford to live in the neighborhoods where they grew up. Congress must make significant investments to build more housing, including low-income housing, and stop bad landlords from price gouging working families.
We need a large-scale federal investment in housing construction, including affordable rental units, public housing modernization, and incentives for local governments to allow more multi-family and transit-oriented development. We must strengthen tenant protections, expand rental assistance, and crack down on corporate landlords who drive up prices while neglecting maintenance.
I also support better first-time homebuyer assistance, down-payment support, and programs to help working families build generational wealth through homeownership. No one should be priced out of their own community, and no child should grow up without stable housing.
Money Out of Politics
Too many establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle would rather take money from Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and their oligarch friends than fight for working families. Whether the money comes in the form of corporate PAC donations to their campaigns or huge stock dividends in personal trading accounts, the impact on ordinary Americans is the same: a government that isn’t looking out for us.
I’m not taking a dime from corporations, their ultra-wealthy CEOs, or special interests. In Congress, I will push for a permanent ban on stock trading for elected officials so lawmakers can’t profit from inside information. I will also support public financing of elections, stronger disclosure laws to expose dark money, and tighter limits on corporate PAC donations so everyday people have a real voice in our democracy.