Luke Bronin

Progressive

Democrat

N/A

Connecticut

Current Position: Former Mayor of Hartford

Running For: House Representative - District 1

Policy Positions

Against Trump's tariffs and trade wars; for reducing costs through market competition, drug price negotiation, and public investment in clean energy and infrastructure
For increased federal investment and incentives to build more housing, including affordable and market-rate housing near transit, and for holding slumlords and absentee landlords accountable
For a progressive tax overhaul; supports closing carried interest and other loopholes, increasing estate taxes and ending dynastic trusts, rolling back Trump-era tax cuts for high earners, adding new top income tax brackets, making capital gains taxes more progressive, restoring the corporate tax rate to 35% (or at minimum 28%), shutting down offshore tax avoidance, and strengthening IRS enforcement against wealthy tax dodgers
For expanding federal infrastructure investment; supports building more transit, modernizing permitting, cutting red tape, and expanding on the bipartisan infrastructure law passed by Democrats
For protecting and strengthening Social Security to ensure it remains solvent for current and future recipients

For expanding access to affordable childcare and eldercare and raising wages for caregivers
For federal AI regulation including: establishing a federal transparency and safety testing framework, increased investment in the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, strengthening export controls on advanced chips, requiring AI labs to meet government-grade security standards, supporting the GUARD Act to bar minors from AI chatbots and require disclosure that chatbots are not humans or licensed professionals, and protecting workers from AI-driven job displacement

For universal healthcare including a strong public option allowing any American to participate in Medicare; for protecting and expanding Medicare and Medicaid; for negotiating down prescription drug prices; for breaking up healthcare monopolies via the Break Up Big Medicine Act

For aggressive climate action; supports massive public investment in clean energy (solar, wind, hydro, fuel cells, nuclear, battery storage), streamlining permitting for clean energy construction, modernizing the energy grid, and community adaptation to extreme weather; opposes the Trump administration's expansion of fossil fuels

For abortion rights; supports federal legislation protecting abortion access nationwide and has opposed crisis pregnancy centers that mislead women seeking reproductive care
For LGBTQ+ rights; supports passing the Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans from federal discrimination, enshrining marriage equality protections, and supporting the Global Respect Act to protect LGBTQ+ people internationally
For reproductive freedom (pro-choice); listed 'Safeguarding Reproductive Freedom' as a key issue

For overturning Citizens United to remove dark money from politics; supports restricting presidential pardon power, rolling back Supreme Court-granted presidential immunity via Constitutional amendment, banning Congressional stock trading, and tightening ethics enforcement

For abolishing ICE and replacing it with a restructured immigration enforcement agency; for ending warrantless arrests, racial profiling, and masked agent operations; for comprehensive immigration reform including secure borders, fair asylum processing, citizenship for DACA recipients, and expanded legal immigration pathways

For gun control measures including universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red-flag laws, firearms education, accountability for repeat violent offenders, and consequences for gun dealers and manufacturers who break the law; supports strengthening ATF and community violence prevention programs