Michael Blake
Classical Education
Blake supports expanding My Brother's Keeper and My Sister's Keeper programs, canceling federal student debt, protecting and strengthening the Department of Education, and expanding evidence-based programs in mentoring, literacy, debate, and career pathways.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Medicare for All
Blake supports Medicare for All to provide universal, comprehensive coverage with no premiums, no deductibles, and no surprise bills. He also advocates for safe staffing ratios, workplace violence protections, and fair contracts for nurses, and increased federal funding for Black and Latina maternal healthcare including access to doulas and midwives.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Immigration Reform
Blake proposes an Immigrant Bill of Rights that includes prosecuting ICE for crimes, repealing the Laken Riley Act, requiring real accountability in enforcement (enforcing anti-mask law against federal agents, requiring visible identification, establishing Safe Havens), guaranteeing due process and legal representation, protecting family unity, protecting workers with TPS, protecting privacy by banning local data sharing with ICE without a warrant, and guaranteeing access to safety and services regardless of immigration status.
Michael Blake for Congress - Repeal Laken Riley Act ↗Palestine and Middle East Peace
Blake states that the crimes Israel is committing in Gaza with U.S. tax dollars, weapons, and diplomatic cover are an affront to humanity. He calls for an immediate permanent ceasefire, a full international investigation into allegations of genocide and war crimes, rapid expansion of humanitarian aid, accountability for violations of international law, and strict adherence to the Arms Export Control Act and Leahy Law to stop military assistance to Israel.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Public Safety
Blake's public safety agenda includes prosecuting ICE for operating without accountability, repealing the Laken Riley Act, expanding mental-health services, scaling community violence intervention programs, addressing quality-of-life issues, and focusing on precision policing rather than over-policing. He emphasizes that safety means fewer guns, fewer overdoses, and more help before harm occurs.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Family Budget: Groceries, Child Care, Energy and Transit
Blake proposes lowering grocery bills through the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, lowering energy bills via efficiency upgrades and investigating Con Edison price-gouging, making child care free for low-income families and more affordable for the middle class, protecting food benefits with secure EBT cards, and expanding fare-free transit for low-income New Yorkers.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Climate Justice
Blake advocates for climate accountability by re-joining international agreements and holding polluters accountable, investing in green jobs through a Green Jobs Academy, prioritizing environmental justice for communities like the South Bronx, and climate-proofing public housing, hospitals, and schools.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Puerto Rico
Blake supports Puerto Rican self-determination, ending the PROMESA fiscal control board, fighting land grabs and opportunity zone abuse, canceling or restructuring Puerto Rico's debt, abolishing the Jones Act, restoring PREPA as a public utility, rebuilding public health and education, cleaning up military contamination, and ensuring full federal labor protections for Puerto Rican workers.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Protecting Jewish Communities and Combating Antisemitism
Blake rejects antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, anti-Asian hate, and gender- or sexual orientation-based discrimination. He supports federal funding for synagogue and Jewish community center security, strengthening hate crime enforcement, protecting access to kosher food programs and Jewish cultural institutions, and rejecting the weaponization of antisemitism to silence legitimate dissent.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Housing
Michael Blake's housing plan includes ending credit score requirements for affordable housing and first-time homeownership, raising income limits on applications, using local median income instead of area median income, implementing a rent freeze for rent-stabilized tenants, fixing the NYCHA repair backlog, and building more affordable homes including for seniors. He emphasizes housing stability and preventing displacement.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗Support Local Businesses and Create Jobs
Blake supports expanding low-interest lending through SBA and CDFIs, simplifying federal procurement, launching a Green Jobs Academy with CUNY and unions, turning summer jobs into year-round pathways, and enacting an MWBE Bill of Rights for minority and women-owned businesses.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗No More Endless Wars
Blake opposes endless wars and calls for an immediate end to the war with Iran, launching congressional investigations into military action against Iran conducted without credible intelligence or legal authority. He states that troops should never be sent into unnecessary conflicts.
Michael Blake for Congress Platform ↗No public position yet on Economic Policy, Peace Through Development, Space CCC and Infrastructure, Abolish NATO
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