I champion the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act (AHCIA), which would increase affordable housing production by strengthening the Housing Credit. Provisions from my bill were enacted in 2025 and expected to build more than 1.2 million affordable homes. In their Big Ugly Bill, Republicans’ cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid, including at least $3 billion from Apple Health, and $200 billion from SNAP to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, making health care and food unaffordable for millions. Republicans also let the ACA enhanced APTCs expire, causing premiums for Washingtonians enrolled in health plans through WA Healthplanfinder to increase by an average of 65 percent. We need to repeal Republicans’ cuts to Medicaid and SNAP and permanently restore the enhanced APTCs.

As American citizens, one of our most important freedoms is the right to vote. The integrity of our government and election systems is crucial to the functioning of our democracy. It is vital that we prioritize reforms that expand voting rights, increase election transparency, and enforce stricter ethical standards for government officials. For example, passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act will restore critical protections and safeguards for voters. Additionally, I consistently vote against bills that disenfranchise voters, including the SAVE Act and the SAVE America Act because they undermine eligible voters’ constitutional right to vote and infringe upon voters’ sensitive data. We must also protect mail-in voting because it is safe, secure, and legal.

Washington is a leader in the green economy. Our innovative industries and talented workforce lead the nation in developing the next generation of clean energy technologies. It’s urgent that we transform our economy into one based on renewable energy, and I will continue to fight back against any efforts by the Trump administration to undo our progress toward a cleaner, healthier future. Doubling down on clean energy investments is the key to growing our economy and protecting our environment. I lead many pieces of legislation to support investments in renewable energy and the transition to a green economy. I use my position on the Tax Subcommittee to push for reinstating federal support for clean technologies that will decarbonize our industries and provide jobs in our communities.

We must fix our immigration system, so it is humane, and works for families and our economy. We need to work together to pass common sense immigration reform to secure our borders, protect our workers, unite families, create a fair path to legal citizenship, and uphold peoples' Constitutional rights. I've voted against funding ICE without reforms because they've become a danger to our country and communities. We need legal guardrails to prevent ICE from committing violence and terrorizing our communities. I'm a cosponsor of the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, to codify protections for immigrants in sensitive locations, and the No Secret Police Act, to require officers and DHS agents to present identification and keep their faces visible when engaged in immigration enforcement.

Affordability - the cost of groceries, energy, health care, child care, housing, and other essentials have skyrocketed because of Trump’s economic policies, tariffs, and war in Iran. Democrats are focused on addressing these skyrocketing costs by making health care more affordable by restoring the ACA tax credits and repealing Republican’s Medicaid cuts. We also need to repeal the president’s chaotic tariffs and ensure that trade policy is targeted and strategic moving forward. We need to pass policies that help address the rising costs of raising a family like the expanded Child Tax Credit and the enhanced child and dependent care tax credit.

I would support policies that break up healthcare and insurance network monopolies which are buying up multiple healthcare markets and creating massive conflicts of interest. Our insurers should not be providing healthcare. Free up the markets and give patient's choice. I would be for transparency in pricing, helping make costs more affordable by expanding HSAs and deregulating telehealth. Skyrocketing cost of living is a result of the continued exponential concentration of wealth being transferred to Wall Street from Main Street; the result of quantitative easing and inflation, which is a hidden tax and should be considered theft. I would be for a thorough, transparent overhaul of the Federal Reserve and I would investigate offshoring tax burdens that weaken our strategic capacity.

Congress' duty to restore trust lies in defending the Constitution and addressing foreign influence in our elections. Public confidence is shaken because our country and way of life are being subverted both from enemies without and within. We are being bombarded by contrived crises thought up in think tanks, funded by global foundations, and herding Americans toward polarizing ends. A house divided cannot stand. We must mandate exposure of the dark money funding the think tanks designing these foreign malign influence operations and close FARA loopholes for domestic proxies taking foreign cash. Block PAC spending by US firms with significant foreign ownership. Tech platforms must be made to audit algorithms for polarizing bots. We must demand paper ballots counted at the precinct level.

It’s an illusion of central planning that a few bureaucrats in D.C. can balance an entire nation's ecosystem and economy. Economic growth and environmental stewardship are not mutually exclusive. Our priority should be to maximize American potential. When people are prosperous, they look for cleaner and more efficient ways to live. So, help them prosper, remove regulatory barriers, then free up the markets to innovate and solve these problems instead of shutting down industries. Effective environmentalism is grounded in property rights. Pollution is property damage. A system based on legal torts would be preferable to EPA mandates and regulations that cap liability. Give the people living in these communities the ability to be made whole for the damage caused by irresponsible polluters.

There are no ideal solutions, only trade-offs. Congress cannot "balance" these issues because the sole Constitutional duty of government is to its citizens. Protecting national sovereignty and upholding the rule of law should be the priorities for all government servants. Corporate labor demands are political code for cheap labor that depresses domestic wages and hurts American innovation. We must enforce the rule of law; an unsecure border undermines our entire system and places an involuntary burden on taxpayers. Immigrants are not abstract labor units. They bring distinct cultures with them. Without a strong emphasis on assimilation, we risk the balkanization of our society, which is why communitarians organize mass border crossings, as a strategy to weaken American sovereignty.

The lack of affordable housing and rising cost of living are the top issues affecting the First District, driven by a predatory financial system taxing our most basic needs with high interest rates and shady fractional reserve banking practices. The Federal government's role is to use its constitutional power to protect the national currency and reform monetary policy that is destructive to American working families, build and maintain vital infrastructure, and remove barriers to small and medium sized businesses.