Border Security Legislation:Supported a bipartisan national security supplemental package while criticizing the exclusion of protections for Dreamers from border security provisions.[1]
Criminal Justice Reform:Co-authored the bipartisan First Step Act, reducing sentences for nonviolent drug crimes and investing in recidivism-prevention programs.[1]
Health Care:Supports defending and expanding the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, and allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.
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Immigration Reform:Supports comprehensive immigration reform, a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and protections for Dreamers, while opposing mass deportation policies.[1][2][3]
Immigration and the Economy:Advocates significantly increasing legal immigration levels to address labor shortages and ease inflationary pressures on the U.S. economy.[1]
National Security and Immigration Enforcement:Called for improved coordination between intelligence and immigration agencies, including better visa tracking, to strengthen national security.[1]
Government Accountability:Supports stronger government accountability including mandatory polygraph tests for top officials and Supreme Court ethics reforms.[1]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports securing borders, modernizing the visa system, E-Verify, and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants via a probationary period.[1][2]
Education:Supports restoring SALT and tuition deductions to address runaway college tuition costs and encourages businesses to offer student loan debt payment benefits.[1][2]
Health care:Supports lowering health care and prescription drug costs through tort reform, competition, and allowing insurance sales across state lines.[1][2][3]
Housing:Supports reining in property taxes that burden homeowners and businesses and opposes raising Illinois income taxes.[1]
Regulation & permitting:Supports scaling back overly burdensome regulations to promote small business growth.[1]
Taxes:Supports restoring the SALT deduction, tuition deductions, and other provisions to reduce tax burdens on families and businesses.[1][2]
Abortion:Supports preserving and protecting access to safe, legal abortion without restrictions, including opposing limitations on abortion services and funding.[1]
Budget & Economy:Supported COVID-19 relief packages including the $900 billion relief bill and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act.[1]
Energy and Environment:States that climate change poses a crisis affecting Illinois and supports action to address changing weather and natural disasters.[1]
Health Care:Supports establishing Medicare for All and strengthening Social Security.[1]
Immigration:Supports the American Dream and Promise Act and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, including DACA recipients, and opposes restrictive Trump administration immigration proposals.[1][2]
Immigration Enforcement/ICE:Criticizes ICE detentions and deportation quotas in Chicago as cruel and defends the right to peacefully protest against ICE actions.[1]
Minimum Wage/Labor:Supports raising the federal minimum wage to at least $17 per hour by 2030.[1]
Taxation:Supports imposing a minimum tax on individuals with net worth exceeding $100 million as part of a 'Tax the Billionaires' policy.[1]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports clear border enforcement focused on security threats combined with expanding lawful pathways to work and reducing backlogs.[1]
Congressional stock trading:Supports banning stock trading in Congress.[1]
Congressional term limits:Supports term limits of two terms in the Senate and seven terms in the House.[1]
Crime & policing:Supports strengthening federal programs to combat trafficking and funding local police for homicide investigation units.[1]
Education:Supports funding trade schools partnered with employers in advanced manufacturing and green tech.[1]
Election integrity: voter ID:Supports eliminating the filibuster so majorities can govern without minority obstruction.[1]
Health care:Supports lowering health care costs by expanding medical school and residency slots, enforcing hospital price transparency, and benchmarking drug prices to peer countries.[1][2][3]
Housing costs:Supports lowering housing costs by tying federal housing and infrastructure dollars to zoning and permitting reform and allowing more multifamily and modular housing.[1][2]
Regulation & permitting:Supports pre-permitting select DOE sites for nuclear and biotech facilities to shorten build times.[1]
Social Security & Medicare:Supports protecting Social Security and Medicare.[1]
Taxes:Supports raising the minimum wage and banning non-compete agreements.[1]