Willie Preston

Progressive

Democrat

N/A

Illinois

Current Position: State Senator IL-16

Running For: House Representative - District 2

Policy Positions

For repealing Trump tax cuts for billionaires and tariffs
For breaking up BlackRock and regulating vulture capital firms manipulating the housing market
For forming a SNAP Defense Caucus to protect Americans against food insecurity
Against privatizing Social Security and raising the retirement age
For expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for seniors and Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services program
For modernizing Supplemental Social Security Income and eliminating marriage penalties that reduce benefits
Against Trump tariffs on agricultural products
For breaking up investment firms like BlackRock and agricultural monopolies that control farmland and farming supplies
For updating and enforcing the Packers & Stockyards Act to break up meatpacking monopolies
For requiring government institutions to purchase food from local farmers

For total defense of union rights including support for the PRO ACT
For raising the federal minimum wage to at least $20
For increased investment in Black and minority-owned businesses through direct contracting requirements and funding for Community Development Financial Institutions
Against subsidies for mega-agricultural corporations; for redirecting those funds to smaller family farms
Against China and Wall Street buying farmland
For investing in local food systems and restoring Regional Food Business Centers and local food purchasing programs

For infrastructure funding to build new maternal care and birthing centers
For movement toward universal healthcare, including Medicare for All or other steps to ensure affordable coverage
For restoration of funding for Medicaid, Medicare, Veterans Administration, and Affordable Care Act

For protection and restoration of the Department of Education against right-wing efforts to dismantle it
For returning federal funding for research to Illinois universities
For ensuring food security for every student and promoting healthy meals through local purchase agreements with family farms
For universal pre-K for every family that wants it
For repairing damage to Head Start programs

For diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in military and federal government
For denying federal contracts to institutions and police agencies that do not implement racial bias training and accountability measures

For restoration of Voting Rights Act protections and support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act