Adam Hamawy
Progressive
Democrat
N/A
New Jersey
Current Position: Surgeon
Running For: House Representative - District 12
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For canceling the $220 billion in medical debt held by American families
- For significantly cutting the Pentagon budget
- For the Homes Act and public-sector intervention to address the housing crisis
- For universal paid family and medical leave of at least twelve weeks
- For universal childcare with living wages for childcare workers
- For expanding and making permanent the Child Tax Credit to end childhood poverty
- For protecting and expanding Medicare and Social Security
- For reparations and other policies to close the racial wealth gap
- For taxing wealth, not just income, and raising the minimum wage to a living wage
- For canceling student debt
- For protecting and strengthening the VA against privatization or defunding
- For ending veteran homelessness through fully funded HUD-VASH vouchers and supportive housing
Business & Labor
- For antitrust enforcement against hospital consolidation
- For strong labor and environmental provisions in international trade agreements
- For the PRO Act to strengthen union organizing rights
- For strengthening antitrust enforcement and breaking up corporate monopolies
Health Care
- For Medicare for All — universal single-payer healthcare with no out-of-pocket costs, including hearing, dental, and vision coverage
- For empowering Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices
- For breaking up and regulating Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs)
- For dramatically expanding VA mental health services and suicide prevention programs
- For full funding and implementation of the PACT Act for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits
Education
- Against book bans in schools and libraries
- For rebuilding the Department of Education and increasing public school funding with an equity focus
- For increasing teacher pay at the federal level
- For universal free breakfast and lunch in schools
- For banning phones in schools at the federal level
- For universal preschool for three- and four-year-olds
- For tuition-free public colleges and universities
- For protecting academic freedom and research funding against political interference
- For expanding veteran education benefits and workforce training
Environment
- For a rapid transition to clean energy and decarbonizing the economy
- For a Green New Deal approach to climate policy, including a Civilian Climate Corps
- For environmental justice investment prioritizing working-class communities and communities of color
- For making polluters pay for climate damages, specifically the fossil fuel industry
Civil Rights
- For addressing the Black maternal mortality rate through targeted legislation
- For codifying abortion rights into federal law
- For aggressive enforcement of anti-discrimination laws in housing, lending, employment, and healthcare
- For protecting religious minorities against discrimination, including combating antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate
- For protecting LGBTQ+ rights; supports the No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act, the 988 LGBTQ+ Youth Access Act, the Transgender Bill of Rights, and the Transgender Health Care Access Act
- For protecting the right to peaceful protest and the right to boycott
- Against politically motivated attacks on journalists and media outlets
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act
- For Congress reclaiming war powers authority from the executive branch
- For establishing a cabinet-level Department of Peacebuilding
- For overturning Citizens United and establishing public financing of elections
- For banning stock trading by members of Congress, their spouses, and senior executive branch officials
- For Supreme Court ethics reform, term limits, and expanding the Court
- For automatic voter registration, expanded early voting and vote by mail, ending partisan gerrymandering, and making Election Day a federal holiday
- For abolishing the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For abolishing ICE and prosecuting ICE agents and leadership for abuses
- For dismantling the Department of Homeland Security
- For a pathway to citizenship for undocumented residents, including protecting DACA recipients and mixed-status families
- For ending U.S. involvement in wars; views the post-9/11 war on terror as a failure
- For rigorous enforcement of Leahy Laws and arms embargoes on countries committing human rights violations
- For cutting off military aid to Israel; describes the situation in Gaza as genocide and apartheid
- For Palestinian rights including the Right of Return under international law
- For re-engaging with international institutions and agreements dismantled under Trump, including restoring USAID and rejoining the Paris Agreement