Valdez advocates for universal rent control, public investment in housing supply, the right to a safe home, and tenant power with landlord accountability. She notes 77% of NY-7 residents are tenants and she would be a tenant member of Congress.

Valdez calls for abolishing and dismantling ICE, ending for-profit detention, demilitarizing the border, and prosecuting ICE agents who break the law. She supports a path to lawful permanent residence, the DREAM Act, expanding immigration judges, and protecting immigrant workers' right to organize. She also addresses root causes of migration such as U.S. intervention, climate change, and trade policy.

Valdez supports tough AI regulation, including a moratorium on new data center construction (the AI Data Center Moratorium Act), opt-in consent for generative AI, a 32-hour work week with no pay reduction, and mass education programs on AI impacts. She also supports a moratorium on generative AI in early and developing education.

Valdez supports a Green New Deal that creates union jobs, freezes electricity rates, invests in resilient infrastructure, and updates labor standards with heat protections. She calls for global cooperation on climate, rejoining the Paris Agreement, de-escalating with China, and reducing U.S. military bases abroad.

Claire Valdez supports strengthening unions, passing the PRO Act, ending at-will employment, and guaranteeing a living wage, paid leave, and dignified retirement. She believes organized workers build power and expand democracy.

Valdez supports codifying the right to abortion nationwide, ensuring access to sexual and reproductive healthcare under Medicare for All, and defending telehealth and mail-order abortion care in states with bans or limited access.

Valdez champions a foreign policy centered on human rights, peace, and cooperation. She opposes the war on Iran, supports a War Powers Resolution to end hostilities, advocates for diplomacy through the United Nations, and calls for redirecting military spending to domestic needs like healthcare and climate. She also opposes U.S. imperialism in Latin America, including the embargo on Cuba and extrajudicial killings.

Valdez supports tuition-free higher education, dismantling the tuition-and-loan business model, redirecting federal grants to cover cost of attendance and living expenses without means-testing, and ensuring fair compensation and collective bargaining rights for adjunct and contingent faculty.

Valdez opposes U.S. military funding and arms sales to Israel, supports a comprehensive arms embargo, and cosponsors the Block the Bombs Act. She advocates for Palestinian self-determination and an end to U.S. complicity in human rights violations.

Valdez pledges to pass national protections for queer and trans people, codify the right to live with dignity, enforce civil rights, include full coverage for gender-affirming care, contraception, and PrEP under Medicare for All, and invest in safe, inclusive housing for LGBTQIA+ people.

Valdez supports Puerto Rican self-determination via the Puerto Rican Self Determination Act, canceling Puerto Rico's debt, abolishing La Junta, building a publicly accountable renewable energy system, investing in resilient infrastructure, lowering grocery costs by repealing the Jones Act, and cleaning up environmental contamination from military activity.

Valdez advocates for reallocating federal transportation dollars from highways to public transit, walking, and biking. She supports increasing federal transit spending, reversing highway proliferation like McGuinness Boulevard, and investing in new technology to reduce carbon emissions while supporting union jobs.