Raja Krishnamoorthi
Liberal
Democrat
House Representative
Illinois - District 8
Current Position: US House Representative IL-8
Running For: Senator
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For repealing Trump's cuts to SNAP
- For expanding Child Tax Credit to maximum of $4,000 per child
- For refundable tax credit for qualified first-time homeowners for their first five years of ownership
- For encouraging HUD to design streamlined model building codes to lower home construction costs
- For removing barriers to vacant commercial space conversion to residential use
- For limiting private financial interests from buying up single-family residences
- For amending International Emergency Economic Powers Act to clarify trade deficits cannot constitute emergency threats justifying tariffs
- Against Trump's blanket tariffs
- For full implementation of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- For restoring cancelled federal funding including for Chicago CTA Red Line expansion
- For low-interest loans to help Illinois farmers overcome trade shocks from Trump tariff war
- For legislation eliminating federal taxes on Social Security benefits while raising payroll tax cap for ultra-wealthy
Business & Labor
- For e-cigarette industry regulation and against vaping companies' marketing to children
- For TikTok divestment requirements but against a total ban on the app
- For limiting AI chip exports to China and closing technology transfer loopholes to China
- For career and technical education reform and workforce development
- For offering low-interest federal loans through SBA to entrepreneurs who open affordable child care facilities
- For the PRO Act
- For codifying protections for organized labor and workers including Biden's executive order on minimum wage for federal contracts
- For restoring tax deduction for union dues and fees
- For making permanent federal labor regulation updates to prevent contractors from undercutting prevailing wage
- For targeted anti-trust regulations specifically for grocery and food supply corporations
- Against the Kroger-Albertsons merger
- For additional tax and regulatory relief for small businesses in underserved areas
- For making it easier for small family farms to access affordable crop insurance and guaranteed-issue liability insurance
Health Care
- For repealing over $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts
- For lifting cap on annual number of prescription drugs subject to Medicare negotiation
- For Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) reform to reduce prescription drug costs
Education
- For nationwide free lunch program so every child in America can access at least one free meal a day
- For doubling federal investments in career and technical education
- For increasing maximum Pell Grant awards and reversing Trump eligibility restrictions
- Against Trump's 'Large Lousy Law' which cut Pell Grants
- For the College Transparency Act requiring schools to provide accurate reporting on student outcomes
Environment
- For animal welfare measures and strengthening licensing enforcement for animal dealers
- For creating new incentives for homeowners to install solar panels
- For restoring funding to renewable energy projects cancelled by Trump
Civil Rights
- For updating the Privacy Act for the digital age with expanded protections for location data and limits on government data storage
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For investigating and overseeing the Trump administration's security clearance issues and misuse of CDC funds
- For legislation requiring a rebuttable presumption that executive orders targeting individuals or specific entities are invalid
- For legislation to restore nationwide injunctions and courts' ability to hold the Administration accountable
- For substantially increasing fines for government misuse of data
- For using 'blueslip' privilege to block Trump-nominated radical judges from sitting on federal bench in Illinois
- Against mid-decade redistricting; for banning mid-decade redistricting and empowering independent commissions
- For passing the Freedom to Vote Act
- For legislation to ban federal agents from arresting state legislators for not attending legislative sessions
- For denying federal election grants and funding to states that trigger cycles of mid-decade redistricting for partisan purposes
- For building on Electoral Count Act reforms to require presidential transition teams to cooperate and limit sitting President's ability to interfere
- For constitutional amendment establishing limits on pardon power: no self-pardons, no pardons for obstruction of justice, requirement for specificity
- For constitutional amendment prohibiting illegal third terms and 'Vice President loophole'
- For legislation requiring public disclosure when someone seeks a pardon from the President, modeled on Foreign Agents Registration Act
- For requiring President, Vice President, and cabinet-level nominees to publicly disclose certified federal income tax returns
- For guardrails preventing former Presidents and Vice Presidents from lobbying their former administration, representing foreign governments, or using classified information for private gain
- For banning presidential stock trading for President, family members, and senior members of administration
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- Against Trump's travel ban on Muslim-majority countries and immigration detention policies
- For condemning Azerbaijan's military operations against Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh
- For giving anyone targeted by denaturalization the right to a jury trial
- For legislation to restrict ICE agents from wearing masks or concealing their identities
- For maximum ICE oversight including a dedicated congressionally-housed Inspector General's Office
- Against arbitrary ICE raids targeting agricultural workforce
Public Safety
- For law enforcement funding and mobile response units for mental health and substance misuse
- For legislation blocking deployment of military against peaceful protestors