Issues Hakeem is raising that aren't a shared debate across the field.

• Family and Energy Costs

  Supports lowering family and energy costs through the American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act, including Medicare drug-price negotiation, a $35 Medicare insulin cap, home-efficiency investments, and an expanded Child Tax Credit; also supports federal action against oil and gas price gouging.

• Health Care and Prescription Costs

  Supports lowering health-care and prescription-drug costs through Medicare negotiation and a $35 monthly Medicare insulin cap; says the American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act reduced health-care premiums.

• Affordable Housing and Public Housing

  Supports building and protecting homes residents can afford, investing in public-housing infrastructure and repairs, and preparing homes for severe weather; he also backs new affordable units in neighborhoods with existing residents.

• Gun Safety and Community Safety

  Supports universal background checks and an assault-weapons ban, federal action to stop gun trafficking, and stronger police-community relationships while protecting civil rights.

• Federal Criminal Justice Reform

  Supports federal criminal-justice reforms that reduce incarceration and recidivism, including reentry programs and changes to crack-versus-powder cocaine sentencing disparities; he supported the First Step Act and says he advanced the EQUAL Act in the House.