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Affordability & cost of living

Runs a named 'Tackling Affordability' plank — 'the affordability crisis is no hoax.' Would massively expand federal child-care investment, raise and inflation-index the minimum wage, repeal Trump tax breaks while restoring safety-net cuts, and pass the PRO Act.

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Housing

Folds housing into affordability: expand federal housing tax credits and increase funding and eligibility for rental assistance.

✓ Track record — what they've actually done

Helped enact New York's $4.5 billion affordable-housing capital program, which his campaign calls the most ambitious in state history.

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Health care

Supports 'Medicare for All or a similar universal plan,' stronger ACA subsidies, more community-based care, and action on prescription drug prices.

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Immigration & ICE

Pledges to 'fight to abolish ICE' and back due-process protections for detained immigrants.

✓ Track record — what they've actually done

Authored the Sensitive Location Protection Act barring warrantless ICE arrests at sensitive locations, enacted through the 2026 New York budget.

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Confronting Trump & defending democracy

'Fighting Back Against Trumpism' — use 'every procedural tool in our arsenal' to obstruct the GOP agenda and launch aggressive oversight once Democrats retake the House, plus the Protecting Our Democracy Act.

✓ Track record — what they've actually done

Led New York's mid-decade redistricting response to Texas; backed by a Bloomberg-funded super PAC.

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Israel & the Middle East

In coverage

Said he would have opposed Sen. Sanders's bill to withhold offensive weapons from Israel; his own platform addresses antisemitism domestically but not Israel directly.

Forward

Money in politics & corruption

Would ban congressional stock trading, codify the Constitution's Emoluments Clauses, and refuse corporate PAC contributions.

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AI & technology

Supports a national moratorium on new data centers pending environmental review, antitrust scrutiny of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, wage insurance for displaced tech workers, and deepfake protections.

✓ Track record — what they've actually done

Co-sponsored New York's data-center moratorium legislation.

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Climate & environment

Supports the clean-energy transition, holding polluters accountable, climate-resilient infrastructure, and rejoining the Paris Accord.

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Public safety & guns

Universal background checks, reinstating the assault-weapons ban, red-flag laws, mental-health investment, and opposing National Guard deployment to cities without consent.

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