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Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionIncreasing access to affordable childcare through federal subsidies and tax credits, and investing in universal pre-K. We need to treat early childcare as early education, not babysitting.
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Increasing access to affordable childcare through federal subsidies and tax credits, and investing in universal pre-K. We need to treat early childcare as early education, not babysitting.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionExpanding our BOCES, Career & Technical Education (CTE), and Community College programming, creating partnerships with unions and employers to increase the number of apprenticeship programs focused on the jobs of the future.
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Expanding our BOCES, Career & Technical Education (CTE), and Community College programming, creating partnerships with unions and employers to increase the number of apprenticeship programs focused on the jobs of the future.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionInvesting in our public schools by modernizing aging school infrastructure, opposing voucher programs that strip funding from our public education system, fully funding lunch programs for all students who qualify, and increasing funding for early childhood education programs like Head Start.
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Investing in our public schools by modernizing aging school infrastructure, opposing voucher programs that strip funding from our public education system, fully funding lunch programs for all students who qualify, and increasing funding for early childhood education programs like Head Start.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionThe Hudson Valley’s critical infrastructure is outdated, overstressed, and failing. A failure to invest in updating our infrastructure has left us with a broken system incapable of managing the increasingly destructive impacts of climate change. Hudson Valley families should not be paying for the failures in corporate and federal government leadership – they’ve had chances to fix this and haven’t gotten the job done. Now it’s time for change and accountability, not excuses.
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The Hudson Valley’s critical infrastructure is outdated, overstressed, and failing. A failure to invest in updating our infrastructure has left us with a broken system incapable of managing the increasingly destructive impacts of climate change. Hudson Valley families should not be paying for the failures in corporate and federal government leadership – they’ve had chances to fix this and haven’t gotten the job done. Now it’s time for change and accountability, not excuses.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionCait has worked directly with Congress on some of the most complicated national security threats facing our country, from protecting Americans against terrorist plots to strengthening the cyber and physical security of our nation’s critical infrastructure, including the water we drink, the energy that powers our homes, and the election systems that underpin our democracy.
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Cait has worked directly with Congress on some of the most complicated national security threats facing our country, from protecting Americans against terrorist plots to strengthening the cyber and physical security of our nation’s critical infrastructure, including the water we drink, the energy that powers our homes, and the election systems that underpin our democracy.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionDelivering investments to the Hudson Valley for critical energy, water, sewer, and transportation infrastructure through direct investments and expanding the federal BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) grant programs. These upgrades will also create good-paying job opportunities locally, ensuring that contracts go to local workers and labor unions.
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Delivering investments to the Hudson Valley for critical energy, water, sewer, and transportation infrastructure through direct investments and expanding the federal BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) grant programs. These upgrades will also create good-paying job opportunities locally, ensuring that contracts go to local workers and labor unions.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionIncreasing our energy supply, not by spending years trying to reopen the broken and decrepit Indian Point, but by investing in energy projects that utilize the Hudson Valley’s natural resources, like wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal energy, that can help lower energy bills today.
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Increasing our energy supply, not by spending years trying to reopen the broken and decrepit Indian Point, but by investing in energy projects that utilize the Hudson Valley’s natural resources, like wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal energy, that can help lower energy bills today.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionAddressing PFAS in our water by increasing testing, removal, and prevention efforts to ensure our communities have clean drinking water.
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Addressing PFAS in our water by increasing testing, removal, and prevention efforts to ensure our communities have clean drinking water.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionCreating a public service housing loan program for teachers, nurses, and first responders to expand access to affordable homeownership in the communities they serve. This would allow these community heroes to receive competitive mortgage interest rates with no down payment and no private mortgage insurance payments (PMI).
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Creating a public service housing loan program for teachers, nurses, and first responders to expand access to affordable homeownership in the communities they serve. This would allow these community heroes to receive competitive mortgage interest rates with no down payment and no private mortgage insurance payments (PMI).
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionIncreasing funding for affordable housing by expanding federal community block grants and improving tax credits for builders developing mixed-income housing projects.
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Increasing funding for affordable housing by expanding federal community block grants and improving tax credits for builders developing mixed-income housing projects.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionAllowing everyone to opt in to a public insurance option, regardless of age, expanding coverage, and driving down costs across the marketplace.
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Allowing everyone to opt in to a public insurance option, regardless of age, expanding coverage, and driving down costs across the marketplace.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionDefending the Affordable Care Act & Medicaid and expanding Medicare to include vision, dental, and hearing.
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Defending the Affordable Care Act & Medicaid and expanding Medicare to include vision, dental, and hearing.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionProtecting critical funding for our hospitals and local healthcare providers.
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Protecting critical funding for our hospitals and local healthcare providers.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionCracking down on Big Pharma price gouging, ending schemes like “pay for delay”, capping insulin prices at $35 for everyone, and allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices on more prescription drugs.
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Cracking down on Big Pharma price gouging, ending schemes like “pay for delay”, capping insulin prices at $35 for everyone, and allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices on more prescription drugs.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionPassing Roe v. Wade into law to restore a woman’s right to make personal healthcare decisions without interference from politicians — including access to abortion, contraception, and IVF.
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Passing Roe v. Wade into law to restore a woman’s right to make personal healthcare decisions without interference from politicians — including access to abortion, contraception, and IVF.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionInvesting in veterans’ care by strengthening the VA system so facilities like the Montrose VA Medical Center get the funding and support they need.
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Investing in veterans’ care by strengthening the VA system so facilities like the Montrose VA Medical Center get the funding and support they need.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionInvesting in clean energy, expanding federal investments in solar, wind, and geothermal projects.
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Investing in clean energy, expanding federal investments in solar, wind, and geothermal projects.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionRestoring CISA’s election security mission and rebuilding the federal resources that help state and local officials defend against cyberattacks and foreign interference.
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Restoring CISA’s election security mission and rebuilding the federal resources that help state and local officials defend against cyberattacks and foreign interference.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionPassing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to end right-wing attempts to take away voting rights.
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Passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to end right-wing attempts to take away voting rights.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionProtecting election officials from politically motivated retaliation, intimidation, and federal prosecution for doing their jobs.
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Protecting election officials from politically motivated retaliation, intimidation, and federal prosecution for doing their jobs.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionOur immigration system is broken. We need comprehensive reform that focuses on safety and security for all, not the terrorization of our immigrant communities. This administration’s weaponization of the executive branch, enabled by cowards like Mike Lawler, must be checked, agencies reined in, and abuses held accountable.
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Our immigration system is broken. We need comprehensive reform that focuses on safety and security for all, not the terrorization of our immigrant communities. This administration’s weaponization of the executive branch, enabled by cowards like Mike Lawler, must be checked, agencies reined in, and abuses held accountable.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionWe need to secure the border, fix our broken immigration system so it can function effectively and in an orderly manner, and ensure enforcement is focused on violent criminals.
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We need to secure the border, fix our broken immigration system so it can function effectively and in an orderly manner, and ensure enforcement is focused on violent criminals.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionRevoking 287g agreements so that local police can focus on protecting their own communities.
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Revoking 287g agreements so that local police can focus on protecting their own communities.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionModernizing our immigration system by investing in technology and staffing at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to cut backlogs, expedite asylum claims, and reunite families faster.
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Modernizing our immigration system by investing in technology and staffing at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to cut backlogs, expedite asylum claims, and reunite families faster.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionAmerica should be a leader on the world stage and be a global force for good. But right now, Mike Lawler and Donald Trump are causing chaos and devastation abroad and making Americans less safe – all while driving up costs and making life even more expensive for New Yorkers.
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America should be a leader on the world stage and be a global force for good. But right now, Mike Lawler and Donald Trump are causing chaos and devastation abroad and making Americans less safe – all while driving up costs and making life even more expensive for New Yorkers.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionCait fought overseas in the Middle East so that we would not have another generation of service members fighting there again.
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Cait fought overseas in the Middle East so that we would not have another generation of service members fighting there again.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionEnding military escalation with Iran and pursuing diplomacy to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
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Ending military escalation with Iran and pursuing diplomacy to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionSupporting a two-state solution as the only viable long-term path to ensure Israel remains a secure, democratic Jewish state while Palestinians achieve legitimate aspirations for self-determination.
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Supporting a two-state solution as the only viable long-term path to ensure Israel remains a secure, democratic Jewish state while Palestinians achieve legitimate aspirations for self-determination.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionRecommitting our support for Ukraine against Russia’s unlawful aggression.
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Recommitting our support for Ukraine against Russia’s unlawful aggression.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionAI is transforming our country at a rate our current representatives just can’t keep up with. We have seen this story play out with social media companies before. Left unregulated and unchecked, corporations will continue to exploit our weak regulations at the expense of safety, security, and American jobs. We need leaders in Congress willing to put guardrails on this technology. As a former senior executive at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Cait understands this technology and its greatest risks. She will be a leader in Congress in advancing safety standards and preparing the workforce for its disruption to our economy.
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AI is transforming our country at a rate our current representatives just can’t keep up with. We have seen this story play out with social media companies before. Left unregulated and unchecked, corporations will continue to exploit our weak regulations at the expense of safety, security, and American jobs. We need leaders in Congress willing to put guardrails on this technology. As a former senior executive at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Cait understands this technology and its greatest risks. She will be a leader in Congress in advancing safety standards and preparing the workforce for its disruption to our economy.
Growing Our Economy for the 21st Century
Candidate positionProtecting our kids with stricter age verification and parental consent standards for AI tools.
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Protecting our kids with stricter age verification and parental consent standards for AI tools.
