Rashida Tlaib

Progressive

Democrat

House Representative

Michigan - District 12

Current Position: US House Representative MI-12

Running For: House Representative - District 12

Policy Positions

For universal basic income; introduced the ABC Act to send $2,000 monthly payments to every person in the United States including undocumented immigrants, and the BOOST Act to provide refundable tax credits to lift people out of poverty
For public banking; introduced the Public Banking Act to expand access for people systematically excluded from private banks
Against annual increases to the military budget; consistently votes NO on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) due to bloated military spending

For taxing excessive CEO pay; introduced the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act to raise taxes on companies paying top executives 50+ times the median worker's pay
For workers' right to organize; secured amendment in the PRO Act to ensure timely notice for union elections

For cancellation of medical debt, utility debt, and student debt; passed bills to remove medically necessary debt from credit reports and reduce time negative credit stays on a credit report from 7 years to 4 years
For Medicare for All; co-sponsored the Medicare for All Act and co-led a rally to unveil the legislation

For treating water as a human right; introduced the Water is a Human Right Act to end water shutoffs and assist low-income families with water bills
Against fossil fuel financing; introduced the Fossil Free Finance Act to require the Federal Reserve to prohibit banks from financing new fossil fuel projects after 2022 and all fossil fuel projects after 2030
For a windfall profits tax on Big Oil corporations; co-sponsored multiple bills to tax Big Oil on excess profits and return money to the people
For declaring a climate emergency; co-sponsored a bill directing President Biden to declare a climate emergency

For abortion rights; voted to secure abortion rights, protect abortion providers, secure the right to travel across states for abortion care, opposes the Hyde Amendment which denies abortion coverage, and fundraised for abortion care funds
For gender-affirming healthcare for transgender and nonbinary people
For LGBTQ+ civil rights protections; original co-sponsor of the Equality Act extending civil rights protections to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and the Transgender Bill of Rights
For the Equal Rights Amendment

For expanding voting rights; secured amendments in the For the People Act to expand the right to vote

For abolishing and defunding ICE; advocates to abolish ICE and hold DHS accountable for mistreatment of migrants
Against immigrant detention expansion; introduced the Ban Warehouse Detention Act to end the Trump administration's expansion of immigrant detention
Against U.S. military aid to Israel; introduced Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block weapons sales to Israel and resolutions recognizing the Israeli government's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
For ending U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen
Against Trump's travel bans targeting Muslim-majority and Black and brown countries
For Temporary Protected Status for Syrian, Lebanese, Yemeni, and Haitian immigrants; introduced the Lebanon TPS Act of 2021
Against U.S. weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates; co-sponsored the Stand Up for Sudan Act to end such sales linked to genocide in Sudan

Against facial recognition surveillance technology; introduced a moratorium on federal funding for facial recognition technology and the No Biometric Barriers Act prohibiting its use in federally assisted housing
For ending mass incarceration; introduced the Dismantle Mass Incarceration for Public Health Act to require release of eligible incarcerated people during the pandemic