Chrissy Houlahan

I believe in the Department of Defense and that diplomacy and our allies are integral to our national security.

I believe that healthcare is a right, a living wage is necessary, climate change is urgent, and quality education enables people to live better lives.

Progress has been made but there is still work to be done. Too many of us struggle to pay for basic needs, too many of us worry about public health and safety, and too many of us wonder if our next generation will be able to fulfill their own version of the American Dream. Please know that I hear you, I see you, and I won’t stop working for you.

Supports a broad affordability agenda that uses housing programs and tax credits, energy-assistance programs, clean-energy tax credits, and other federal policies to reduce household costs.

• Includes federal support for affordable housing and homeownership, expanded LIHEAP assistance, and policies aimed at lowering everyday family expenses.

Supports agricultural-immigration reform, nutrition assistance, universal school meals, right-to-repair protections for farmers, and restrictions on foreign or large-investor acquisition of family farms.

• Also supports restoring programs that purchase food from local farmers for food banks and reforming the H-2A agricultural visa program.

Supports universal pre-K, increased federal STEM and school mental-health support, teacher recruitment and pay initiatives, expanded Pell Grants and public-service loan forgiveness, and major expansion of apprenticeships and career training.

• Also supports stronger literacy, financial-literacy, and civics education.

Supports restoring clean-energy and household-efficiency tax credits, expanding energy-assistance programs, and speeding permitting for clean-energy and transmission projects.

• Frames energy policy around both lower consumer costs and environmental protection.

Supports tighter executive-branch ethics and accountability rules, congressional process reforms, nonpartisan redistricting and open primaries, permanent vote-by-mail access, and campaign-finance disclosure.

• Proposals include limits on presidential pardons, financial-disclosure and blind-trust requirements, congressional approval of executive orders, and election-administration funding.

Supports diplomacy and multilateral alliances, democracy and human-rights initiatives, strategic competition with China, continued support for Ukraine, a two-state Israeli-Palestinian outcome, and international public-health cooperation.

• Also supports NATO and other alliances, sanctions and diplomatic pressure on authoritarian actors, and humanitarian aid.

Supports universal background checks, restrictions on ghost guns, restoration of a federal assault-weapons ban, a federal firearm-purchase age of 21, and safe-storage requirements.

Supports strengthening the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid; creating a public insurance option; reducing prescription-drug costs; supporting hospitals and health centers; protecting reproductive healthcare; and expanding mental-health services.

• Also supports Medicare drug-price negotiation and additional medical training and residency capacity.

Supports federal affordable-housing and rental-assistance programs, first-time-homebuyer support, housing tax credits, home-repair assistance, zoning and permitting reforms tied to federal funding, conversion of commercial and federal buildings to housing, and homelessness programs.

Supports comprehensive immigration reform that combines border security with legal pathways for long-resident undocumented immigrants and Dreamers who meet specified requirements.

• Her current framework supports a conditional pathway to permanent residency for some long-term undocumented adults and a path to permanent residency and eventual citizenship for eligible Dreamers.

Supports higher service-member quality-of-life investment, modernization in cyber, AI, biotechnology, quantum and unmanned systems, stronger defense supply chains, intelligence innovation, and policies supporting women and military families.

• Also supports military housing, childcare, healthcare, readiness, and resilience of critical infrastructure.

Supports expanding SBA business-support programs, paid-leave options for small businesses, and childcare tax incentives and pooling arrangements for entrepreneurs and small employers.

Supports replacing broad tariffs with narrower targeted tariffs, restoring a stronger congressional role in tariff policy, enforcing trade rules against unfair foreign practices, labor and environmental standards in trade agreements, and tax rules discouraging offshoring.

Supports federal investment in public transit, passenger rail, roads, bridges, broadband, transportation-safety agencies, pipeline and rail safety, and workforce training tied to infrastructure jobs.

• Also supports housing near transit and expanded paid apprenticeships.

Supports expanded VA healthcare capacity, more VA staffing and mental-health services, stronger care for women veterans and military-sexual-trauma survivors, and greater safeguards for veterans' personal and medical data.

• Opposes outsourcing veteran care when direct VA investment can meet demand.