Judy Chu
Progressive
Democrat
House Representative
California - District 28
Current Position: US House Representative CA-28
Running For: House Representative - District 28
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For $34 billion federal disaster relief package with no strings attached for wildfire victims
- For protecting and strengthening Social Security; supports the Social Security 2100 Act to increase benefits
- For the Social Security Fairness Act to restore full benefits for public servants affected by GPO and WEP
- For the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) providing $1.2 trillion investment in roads, bridges, public transit, and clean energy
- For the Inflation Reduction Act as the nation's largest investment in clean energy
- For ending veteran homelessness through HUD-VA Supportive Housing programs
- Against Trump administration cuts to the VA and terminations of Veterans in federal workforce
- Against Trump's tariffs on all countries as harmful tax increases on Americans
- Against House Republicans' appropriations bill as harmful cuts to essential programs
- For comprehensive childcare legislation limiting expenses to 7% of working families' income
- For increased funding for NASA's science and exploration programs
- For supporting NASA's Mars Sample Return mission and JPL operations
- For full funding and independence of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate
- Against proposed budget cuts to NASA Science Mission Directorate
Business & Labor
- For the CHIPS and Science Act expanding domestic semiconductor manufacturing and research funding
- For expanding Small Business Administration programs including the Community Advantage loan program for underserved businesses
- For equal pay legislation including the Paycheck Fairness Act
- For universal paid sick, family, and medical leave
- For raising the federal minimum wage above $7.25 per hour
- For the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to protect workers' rights to join unions and collectively bargain
- For the No Tax Breaks for Union Busting Act to end deductibility of corporations' anti-union expenses
- For the Healthy Families Act allowing workers to earn up to 7 paid sick days annually
Health Care
- For protecting and expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- For Medicare for All; founding member of the Medicare for All Caucus
- For allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; supports $2,000 annual cap on prescription drugs and $35 monthly insulin limit
- Against abortion bans; condemns Louisiana's attempt to criminalize abortion care and target California doctors
- Against privatizing Medicare through automatic Medicare Advantage enrollment
- For expanding Medicare benefits to include vision, hearing, and dental coverage
- For the PACT Act providing healthcare benefits to veterans exposed to toxic substances
- For federal heat stress standards for workers through the Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act
- For the Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act establishing universal paid family and medical leave
Education
- For fully funding education programs and universal pre-K for all children
- Against book bans in schools
- For student loan forgiveness and making higher education more affordable; supports doubling the Pell Grant
Environment
- For aggressive action to combat climate change and meet net-zero economy goals by midcentury; supports the Inflation Reduction Act and clean energy investments
- For expanding and strengthening federal protections for public lands, including the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
- For the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act protecting collective bargaining rights for state and local government employees
Civil Rights
- For the Equality Act prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- For the Respect for Marriage Act formally repealing the Defense of Marriage Act
- Against the Department of Justice's 'China Initiative' as discriminatory racial profiling of Chinese Americans
- Against Trump's English-only executive order eliminating multilingual federal services
- For strengthening copyright protections for artists and creators, including legislation to help creators defend against intellectual property fraud and hold online platforms responsible for removing pirated content
- For abortion rights; authored the Women's Health Protection Act to permanently enshrine abortion rights into federal law and prevent state restrictions
- For the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution
- For the Right to Contraception Act to enshrine contraception access into federal law
- Against the Hyde Amendment; supports the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act
- For repealing the Global Gag Rule and Helms Amendment affecting international reproductive health funding
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore federal oversight of state voting laws
- For the For the People Act (H.R. 1) requiring same-day voter registration and eliminating gerrymandering
- For impeaching former President Trump for inciting the January 6, 2021 insurrection
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For comprehensive immigration reform including pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients and family reunification
- Against Trump's travel bans and mass deportation agenda; supports the NO BAN Act to prohibit religious discrimination
- For protecting immigrant workers from employer exploitation and retaliation
- Against state 'Alien Land Laws' that prohibit foreign nationals from owning property
- Against the National Defense Authorization Act for including anti-diversity provisions
- For requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok to an American company or one headquartered in a non-adversarial nation
- For strong foreign aid commitment including billions for diplomacy, Peace Corps, humanitarian assistance, and global health programs
- For suspending aid to Azerbaijan due to aggression against Armenian people and supporting displaced people of Artsakh
- For acknowledging the Armenian Genocide
- For Israel's right to defend itself but calls for immediate negotiated ceasefire in Gaza to end fighting and secure hostage release
- For two-state solution with Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side in peace and security
- Against Israeli settlement expansion and destruction of Palestinian villages in the West Bank
- For supporting Ukraine with humanitarian and military assistance against Russian invasion
- For trade sanctions on Russian products in response to Ukraine invasion
- For preventing religious travel bans through the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act
- Against recreating Trump's China Initiative that targeted Chinese American researchers and scholars
- For the NO BAN Act to prevent religious-based travel bans
- For immediate release of Israeli hostages and negotiated ceasefire to end violence in Gaza and Israel
Public Safety
- For the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act to better track and prosecute hate crimes against Asian Americans
- For the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to increase police accountability and limit use of force
- For the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act expanding background checks and mental health services
- For the Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 prohibiting sale of semiautomatic weapons
- For giving the CDC authority to research gun violence and instituting universal background checks
- For zero-tolerance policy for hazing in the military; authored legislation requiring thorough reports on hazing policies and tracking procedures
- Against Trump Administration's rollback of military hazing protections that authorize drill instructors to 'instill healthy fear' and 'put their hands on recruits'
- For criminalizing military hazing in the Military Code of Justice through the Harry Lew and Danny Chen Military Justice Reform Act
- For reauthorizing and strengthening the Violence Against Women Act
- For funding expansion of Earthquake Early Warning System on the West Coast