Hakeem Jeffries

Liberal

Democrat

House Representative

New York - District 8

Current Position: US House Representative NY-8

Running For: House Representative - District 8

Policy Positions

For expanding the Child Tax Credit to provide relief to working families
Against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act; spoke in opposition for 8 hours and 44 minutes, calling it an 'all-out assault' on workers
Against congestion pricing in New York City; raised concerns that led New York Governor Kathy Hochul to indefinitely halt its implementation, and called the pause 'a reasonable thing to do'

Against price gouging by corporations; voted to crack down on price gouging by big oil, gas, and agriculture companies
For forcing TikTok to divest from its Chinese Communist Party-owned parent company ByteDance; supported the legislative package including this requirement

For reducing prescription drug costs; supported the Inflation Reduction Act allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and cap insulin costs at $35/month for Medicare recipients
For protecting and expanding the Affordable Care Act; filed a discharge petition to extend ACA premium tax credits, which passed the House in January 2026
Against Medicaid cuts; protested proposed Republican Medicaid cuts via a sit-in on the Capitol steps

For abortion rights; opposes nationwide abortion ban, supports enshrining Roe v. Wade protections in federal law via the Women's Health Protection Act, and criticized the 2022 Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade
For LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections; voted in favor of the Equality Act banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
For reauthorization of FISA Section 702 surveillance powers; voted for the modified surveillance bill in April 2024
Against the Confederate flag being sold or displayed on National Park Service land; led the effort to have it removed

For U.S. military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan; voted for the April 2024 foreign aid package and defended Biden administration's assistance to Ukraine
Against removing U.S. troops from Syria; voted against H.Con.Res. 21 directing President Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days
For Israel's right to exist and right to self-defense; strongly supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, opposed calls for a ceasefire in November 2023, and has received $1 million in AIPAC contributions
Against the 2026 Iran war; called it 'Donald Trump's reckless and costly war of choice' and opposes deployment of U.S. ground forces in the Middle East

For gun control; supports universal background checks for firearm purchases, a ban on assault weapons, and making gun trafficking a federal crime; helped pass the first major gun safety legislation in decades
For police reform; introduced the Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act (to make chokeholds illegal under federal law) and advanced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act; sponsored a Stop-and-Frisk database bill banning police from compiling names of those stopped but not arrested
For criminal justice reform; shepherded the First Step Act into law (reducing mandatory minimums, expanding early releases), and supports ending sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine via the EQUAL Act
For cannabis legalization; reintroduced the PREPARE Act to create federal regulatory framework for post-prohibition cannabis, and co-sponsored the MORE Act to end federal prohibition, remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, and expunge low-level cannabis convictions