Scott Wiener
Progressive
Democrat
N/A
California
Current Position: State Senator CA-11
Running For: House Representative - District 11
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For building 8 million homes over the next decade to address housing affordability crisis
- For creating a Mixed-Income Social Housing Program to build 4 million homes
- For doubling production from federal affordable housing tax credit to produce 3 million affordable homes
- For streamlining housing approvals and cutting federal red tape
- For expanding housing vouchers and tenant protections
- For taxing companies that benefit from AI to ensure broad distribution of benefits
- For dramatically increasing federal investment in public transportation
- Against Trump's tariffs; for replacing them with trade agreements that include labor and environmental standards
Business & Labor
- For establishing federal AI safety and transparency requirements for major AI developers
- For creating a federal regulatory body to oversee AI safety and security
- For protecting AI whistleblowers with federal protections
Health Care
- For Medicare for All single-payer healthcare system
- For expanding Medicaid and protecting coverage for low-income Americans
- For capping insulin costs at $35 per month nationally
- For requiring insurance companies to cover mental health and addiction treatment equally with physical health conditions
- For cracking down on pharmacy benefit managers that increase drug prices
- For protecting and expanding vaccine access, research, and requirements
- For expanding federal funding for HIV prevention and LGBTQ-affirming healthcare
- For making PrEP available over the counter without prescription
- For restoring and expanding federal research funding for NIH, NSF, NOAA, CDC, and FDA
- For treating addiction as a health issue rather than criminalizing it, investing in recovery programs
Education
- For protecting university research and academic freedom from political interference
- For investing in the next generation of American scientists through expanded graduate fellowships
- For fully funding IDEA and increasing Title I funding for schools serving low-income students
- For raising teacher pay through the American Teacher Act and strengthening Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Environment
- For requiring large corporations to publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions
- Against new fossil fuel drilling and leasing on federal lands; for phasing out oil and gas subsidies
- For streamlining permitting for clean energy projects including solar, wind, and battery storage
Civil Rights
- For allowing people to sue federal agents for violating their constitutional rights
- For federal net neutrality law and preventing internet fast lanes for corporations
- For passage of the Equality Act providing federal civil rights protections for LGBTQ Americans
- For protecting transgender youth and their families from federal prosecution for seeking gender-affirming care
- For reversing Trump executive orders targeting transgender Americans in military, healthcare, and schools
- For conservatorship reform to help people in crisis get care
- For investing in reentry programs including housing, job training, and healthcare for people leaving prison
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act
- For eliminating the Senate filibuster
- For overturning Citizens United and getting dark money out of elections
- For expanding the Supreme Court
- For granting statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico
- For banning congressional stock trading
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For abolishing ICE
- For making DACA recipients citizens and creating pathway to citizenship for immigrants
- For a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine; against Israeli settlement expansion in West Bank
- Against accepting AIPAC funding and support
- Against U.S. funding for offensive arms sales to Israel; for continuing defensive systems funding
- For fully restoring U.S. military and economic aid to Ukraine
- For existing U.S. policy toward Taiwan; against any forceful attempt to change the status quo
- For pursuing diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program; against military strikes without Congressional authorization
- For fully restoring USAID and U.S. foreign assistance programs
Public Safety
- For banning private prisons including ICE detention facilities
- For prohibiting law enforcement from wearing face masks on duty
- For comprehensive federal consumer data privacy law
- For banning surveillance-based advertising targeting children
- For protecting kids from addictive social media platform design by banning infinite scroll and algorithmic notifications for minors
- For targeting drug cartels and Chinese chemical manufacturers in the fentanyl supply chain
- For expanding federal resources for fentanyl treatment and overdose prevention programs
- For criminal justice reform including ending mandatory minimum drug sentences for nonviolent crimes and eliminating sentence enhancements
- For strengthening eyewitness identification standards and making it easier for wrongfully convicted to prove innocence
- For reforms to reduce police use of lethal force
- For reforming federal sentencing guidelines including harsh mandatory minimums
- For increasing federal investment in violence interruption programs