Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Progressive

Democrat

House Representative

New York - District 14

Current Position: US House Representative NY-14

Running For: House Representative - District 14

Policy Positions

For affordable housing; supports building new affordable housing, repairing public housing with $70B+ in federal funding, capping rent increases, guaranteeing tenant legal counsel during evictions, and prohibiting landlords from rejecting federal assistance tenants
For expanding and protecting Social Security and Medicare; supports requiring wealthy individuals to pay the same percentage of income into Social Security as middle-class workers and expanding Medicaid to include home healthcare
For canceling Puerto Rico's debt, dissolving PROMESA's oversight board (La Junta), waiving the Jones Act, and providing a Marshall Plan-style recovery for Puerto Rico with renewable energy infrastructure
Against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (2021) when decoupled from the Build Back Better Act's social safety net provisions; voted against it
For postal banking pilot programs in rural and low-income urban areas lacking access to standard banking services
Against Trump's tariff policy; called it 'disastrous' and 'market manipulation'

For labor unions and worker protections; supports repealing the Taft-Hartley Act, mandating union protection for federal contractors, heavily fining union-busting corporations, and promoting general strikes
For a Federal Jobs Guarantee; supports a program providing living-wage, union jobs with full healthcare and paid leave to all willing and able workers
For decriminalizing sex work; opposes criminalization of sex workers and supports repealing SESTA/FOSTA

For Medicare for All; supports a universal single-payer healthcare system covering primary, mental, dental, vision, women's health, emergency, and prescription drug care, decoupled from employment
Against pharmaceutical price gouging; supports ending monopoly practices by drug companies and using national healthcare buying power to negotiate lower drug prices

For tuition-free public college and trade school and cancellation of federal and private student loan debt

For the Green New Deal; supports transitioning the U.S. to net-zero emissions by 2030 through large-scale government investment in renewable energy, energy-efficient infrastructure, high-speed rail, and a just transition with union jobs for fossil fuel workers

For abortion rights; supports open access to safe, legal, affordable abortion and reproductive healthcare regardless of income or location, opposes all federal, state, or local rollbacks or restrictions on abortion access, and supports ending the foreign aid prohibition on organizations that provide abortion services
For LGBTQIA+ rights; supports the Equality Act banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in jobs, housing, and public accommodations; supports restoring transgender military service; supports ending criminalization of LGBTQIA+ identities; supports LGBTQIA+-affirming housing programs

For banning members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks; co-sponsored the Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act and the Restore Trust in Congress Act
For imposing gift restrictions on Supreme Court justices; introduced the High Court Gift Ban Act and articles of impeachment against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito over undisclosed gifts and conflicts of interest

Against U.S. military interventionism; supports ending 'forever wars', bringing troops home, ending air strikes in the Middle East and North Africa, and reducing the Pentagon budget in favor of diplomacy
For abolishing ICE and providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants; supports making undocumented individuals full legal members of the country and extending social safety net eligibility to them
Against Trump's immigration crackdown; called it 'authoritarian' and criticized activist detentions
For strategic ambiguity on U.S. military support for Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion

Against mass incarceration; supports ending the death penalty, ending mandatory minimums, ending life sentences without parole, decriminalizing poverty-related activities (drug use, sex work), ending solitary confinement, ending cash bail, and paying incarcerated people at least federal minimum wage
For ending qualified immunity for police officers
Against militarization of police; supports ending the pipeline of military weapons and equipment to police departments, banning tear gas and rubber bullets, and ending broken-windows policing
For reducing police funding in favor of community investment; supports divesting from policing as a one-stop solution and reinvesting in healthcare, housing, education, and supportive services