Christina Hines

Progressive

Democrat

N/A

Michigan

Current Position: Prosecutor

Running For: House Representative - District 10

Policy Positions

For protecting and expanding Social Security; opposes benefit cuts, retirement age increases, and privatization; supports eliminating the Social Security payroll tax funding cap, closing corporate loopholes, and capping COLAs for the top 25% of beneficiaries to extend solvency
Against unilateral executive tariff policy; supports reasserting congressional authority over trade and tariff decisions, while allowing strategic use of tariffs to protect American workers and industries
For investing in public transportation including high-speed rail
For expanding tax incentives for affordable housing construction, rewarding communities that increase housing supply, cutting permitting red tape, encouraging redevelopment of vacant properties, reducing tariffs on building materials, and supporting workforce development for skilled tradespeople to increase housing supply
Against cuts to Medicaid and home care funding; for protecting and expanding Medicaid, SSI, and SSDI

For increasing the federal minimum wage
For expanding paid family leave
For the PRO Act and strengthening the National Labor Relations Board to protect workers' right to organize and bargain collectively
Against corporate price gouging; supports legislation to prohibit excessive price increases on essential groceries, ban surveillance pricing based on personal data, limit dynamic pricing technology, and give federal regulators enforcement authority
Against offshoring manufacturing to countries with weaker environmental protections; for keeping manufacturing in the U.S. with strong environmental standards

For universal healthcare; believes healthcare is a human right, supports strengthening and expanding the ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid, capping premiums and out-of-pocket costs, negotiating prescription drug prices, banning surprise billing, supporting early Medicare buy-in for public servants, investing in rural care and preventative care, and rolling back Trump administration DOGE firings affecting FDA safety testing

For fully funding public education; opposes defunding public schools, cutting school lunches, special education, and Head Start; supports fully funding IDEA to the 40% federal share, universal pre-K, universal free school meals, increased Title I funding, phone-free schools, and opposing book bans
Against dismantling the Department of Education and shifting special education oversight to HHS; for fully funding public schools with inclusive services for disabled students and protecting IDEA funding

For protecting environmental regulations, specifically those safeguarding Lake St. Clair and the Great Lakes; opposes rollback of environmental protections
For federal funding for wastewater treatment, stormwater management, and combined sewer overflow separation; for a 10-year deadline to replace all lead pipes nationwide
For strengthening Great Lakes protections including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, science-based PFAS discharge standards, reduction of pesticides and harmful contaminants, and increased cleanup funding
For investments in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and electric vehicle production to reduce carbon emissions and create American jobs; supports the Inflation Reduction Act

For keeping religion out of public schools; opposes efforts to introduce religion into public school curriculum
Against Trump administration rollbacks of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); for enforcing the ADA with real accountability
Against Trump administration proposal to cut over 80,000 VA jobs and cancel contracts supporting cancer research, toxic exposure screening, disability exams, and suicide prevention for veterans

Against Citizens United; supports overturning Citizens United v. FEC via constitutional amendment (such as the For Our Freedom Amendment), supports the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, supports banning members of Congress and their spouses/dependents from trading individual stocks, supports a lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists, and refuses corporate PAC money
For guaranteed accessible voting, transportation, and housing for disabled Americans
Against the SAVE Act as a condition for signing the ROAD to Housing Act; characterizes it as an unrelated voting measure that would prevent millions of Americans from voting

For increased border security and stricter penalties for fentanyl sales, combined with expanded access to treatment and rehabilitation
Against DHS policies that destabilize immigrant families or target communities unfairly

For school safety legislation including door reinforcement funding (SAFER Schools Act and MSD Act); opposes gun violence in schools but frames solution around physical security infrastructure rather than gun restrictions