Labor & Employment
Supports a $25 federal minimum wage
“We need to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour, embracing ambitious goals to improve economic opportunity for the hardworking middle class that is the backbone of our country.”
Democratic
Illinois
Key dates
Full six-year term
Democratic
Illinois
Key dates
Full six-year term
Labor & Employment
“We need to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour, embracing ambitious goals to improve economic opportunity for the hardworking middle class that is the backbone of our country.”
Health Care
“But the system is fundamentally broken and we need real, long-term change, not just interim fixes. That’s why I will proudly fight for Medicare for All.”
Courts & Civil Justice
“I support reforming the Supreme Court, and would be open to a variety of options including term limits and deadlines to confirm new appointments or potential expansion.”
Elections & Campaigns
Passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act
Reproductive Health
Codify access to the full scope of reproductive health care into federal law, including abortion, IVF, contraception, and medication abortion.
Firearms
Passing Common Sense Gun Safety Laws
Immigration
ICE must be abolished and the occupation of American cities by ICE and CBP must end. Border security should take place at the border, not roam neighborhood streets terrorizing innocent civilians.
Taxes & Revenue
Passing a Tax Cut for the Middle Class, Paid for with a Tax Increase on those Making More than a Million Dollars a Year
Labor & Employment
“We need to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour, embracing ambitious goals to improve economic opportunity for the hardworking middle class that is the backbone of our country.”
Health Care
“But the system is fundamentally broken and we need real, long-term change, not just interim fixes. That’s why I will proudly fight for Medicare for All.”
Courts & Civil Justice
“I support reforming the Supreme Court, and would be open to a variety of options including term limits and deadlines to confirm new appointments or potential expansion.”
Elections & Campaigns
Passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act
Reproductive Health
Codify access to the full scope of reproductive health care into federal law, including abortion, IVF, contraception, and medication abortion.
Firearms
Passing Common Sense Gun Safety Laws
Immigration
ICE must be abolished and the occupation of American cities by ICE and CBP must end. Border security should take place at the border, not roam neighborhood streets terrorizing innocent civilians.
Taxes & Revenue
Passing a Tax Cut for the Middle Class, Paid for with a Tax Increase on those Making More than a Million Dollars a Year
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
The Postal Service is on track to run out of cash within a year, and the people now running it were installed by an administration that has been open about wanting to sell it off. This is not a company that failed in the market. It is a public service, written into the Constitution, that reaches every address in America whether or not that address is profitable: the rural route, the veteran's prescription, the small business shipping its first orders, the mail ballot. Carve out the profitable pieces for private carriers and what is left is everyone those carriers were never going to serve, at whatever price they decide to charge. A Postmaster General who came off FedEx's board is not the person who should be deciding which routes are worth keeping. Fund the Postal Service, block any sale or privatization of its routes and facilities, stop closures and service cuts in underserved communities, and reject any interference with voting by mail.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
The Postal Service is on track to run out of cash within a year, and the people now running it were installed by an administration that has been open about wanting to sell it off. This is not a company that failed in the market. It is a public service, written into the Constitution, that reaches every address in America whether or not that address is profitable: the rural route, the veteran's prescription, the small business shipping its first orders, the mail ballot. Carve out the profitable pieces for private carriers and what is left is everyone those carriers were never going to serve, at whatever price they decide to charge. A Postmaster General who came off FedEx's board is not the person who should be deciding which routes are worth keeping. Fund the Postal Service, block any sale or privatization of its routes and facilities, stop closures and service cuts in underserved communities, and reject any interference with voting by mail.