Mike McGuire
Progressive
Democrat
N/A
California
Current Position: State Senator CA-2
Running For: House Representative - District 1
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For repealing Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy and making billionaires and large corporations pay higher taxes
- For investing tax revenue in healthcare, universal childcare, tuition-free community college, and housing
- For closing tax loopholes benefiting the wealthy
- For reversing FEMA cuts and improving disaster recovery
- For repealing Trump's tariffs
- For federal investment in affordable housing, first-time homebuyer support, and renter tax credits
- For universal childcare and elder care affordability
Business & Labor
- For raising the federal minimum wage
- For cracking down on corporate price gouging
- For good-paying union jobs and expanded broadband, infrastructure, and economic development in rural communities
Health Care
- For Medicare for All—universal single-payer healthcare guaranteeing coverage to every American
- For expanding rural healthcare infrastructure, birthing centers, and mental health and addiction treatment beds
- For developing rural healthcare workforces through nursing programs and community college healthcare academies
- For abortion rights, contraception, and IVF access; supports making reproductive freedom federal law
Environment
- For reversing Trump's cuts to the U.S. Forest Service and restoring funding to shuttered research centers
- For doubling the U.S. Forest Service budget for firefighting and forest management
- For increasing prescribed burns and Indigenous land stewardship practices for wildfire prevention
- For aggressive federal climate action including clean energy investment, forest health, and emissions reduction
- For protecting coastlines against offshore oil drilling
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For protecting voting rights
- For overturning Citizens United
- For Supreme Court term limits
- For Congress reasserting its constitutional war powers authority
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For holding ICE accountable for constitutional violations, including mandating body-worn cameras for federal agents
- For ICE agent civil liability in court for rights violations
- Against ICE operations in schools, churches, and hospitals
- Against the U.S. military strike on Iran; describes it as an illegal war of choice launched without congressional authorization
- For diplomacy and regional de-escalation in the Middle East as an alternative to military conflict
- For a strategy to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons without military escalation
Public Safety
- For use-of-force policy reform across federal law enforcement
- For requiring judicial warrants for searches and seizures of homes and businesses by federal agents
- For investing in local fire district equipment, staffing, and training