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Affordability & cost of living

'A New York We Can Afford' — says families are 'getting nickel-and-dimed at every turn.' Would reverse Trump tariffs with a direct federal refund, expand the Child Tax Credit and EITC, cap child care at 7% of income, guarantee six months of paid parental leave, and ban junk fees.

✓ Track record — what they've actually done

In Albany passed laws banning hidden 'junk' fees and 'zombie' subscriptions, capping utility-rate hikes, and securing universal school meals and free tax filing.

alexbores.nyc · A New York We Can Afford

Housing

'Housing is a human right.' A supply-heavy seven-point plan: declare a national housing emergency, repeal the Faircloth Amendment to unfreeze public-housing construction, modernize NEPA to fast-track affordable and transit-oriented projects, reform HUD's income formula to reflect real NYC wages, fund the NYCHA backlog, and tax speculatively held land.

alexbores.nyc · A Place New Yorkers Can Call Home

Health care

Backs a universal single-payer system via Medicare for All, expanded drug-price negotiation, drug importation, and capped insulin and out-of-pocket costs.

✓ Track record — what they've actually done

Co-sponsored the NY Health Act and banned hidden hospital facility fees.

alexbores.nyc · A Healthy New York

Immigration & ICE

Calls ICE 'a lawless, paramilitary force' and would abolish it, prosecute agents who violate civil liberties, ban masked federal agents, fully fund immigration courts with a right to counsel, and protect DREAMers.

✓ Track record — what they've actually done

His former employer Palantir supplied technology to ICE — the central line of attack against him; his account of resigning over moral objections is contested.

alexbores.nyc · Immigrants

Confronting Trump & defending democracy

'A democracy that works' — 18-year Supreme Court term limits with an enforceable ethics code, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Election Day as a federal holiday, restoring DOJ independence, and a constitutional amendment barring presidential self-pardons.

alexbores.nyc · A Democracy That Works

Israel & the Middle East

Backs a two-state solution as 'the only viable option,' says the current Israeli government has been an obstacle to peace, and would reform the Leahy Laws via the SAFEGUARD Act to bar weapons to human-rights abusers while massively increasing Gaza aid.

alexbores.nyc · A Path to Lasting Peace

Money in politics & corruption

Would ban members of Congress and their spouses from trading individual stocks and pass a constitutional amendment to outlaw super PACs and dark money; personally rejects corporate PAC money.

alexbores.nyc · A Democracy That Works

AI & technology

Wants to nationalize his RAISE Act with mandatory safety testing for frontier AI ('we shouldn't let tech billionaires deploy potentially dangerous AI without safety testing'), give people ownership of their data, and tax large AI labs to fund an 'AI Dividend' for workers it displaces.

✓ Track record — what they've actually done

Primary Assembly sponsor of New York's RAISE Act, which he calls 'the strongest AI safety law in the country.'

alexbores.nyc · AI Safeguards

Climate & environment

A federal climate Superfund on major emitters, eliminating fossil-fuel subsidies, Green New Deal-style union jobs, and reversing EPA/NOAA cuts; says leaders should 'reject corporate oil money.'

alexbores.nyc · A Planet New Yorkers Can Pass On

Public safety & guns

Treats gun violence as a public-health crisis: reinstate the federal assault-weapons ban, universal background checks, a national red-flag law, and CDC gun-violence research.

alexbores.nyc · Gun Violence

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