Alma S. Adams

Her campaign website says she supports a woman's right to choose, along with the right to privacy, describes reproductive issues as health care matters for a woman and her doctor to handle privately, and says she will keep working to restore women's rights after the Supreme Court struck down Roe.^8,9

Her campaign website says she opposes all school voucher programs and will work to make sure public schools are adequately funded.⁹

1. Make them available to every family
2. Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
3. No public money for private school or homeschooling costs

Her campaign website says she will keep working to cancel student debt for borrowers, past and present, who have trouble repaying it, and lists a resolution she introduced with Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley that urges the president to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for each American.⁹

1. Narrow or end existing forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness
2. Keep current forgiveness programs, with no new cancellation
3. Add targeted relief, such as more forgiveness for public service workers or through income-based repayment
4. Broad cancellation of student debt

Her campaign website says she supports a single-payer health care system, describes health care as a basic human right, and supports prohibiting insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.^8,9

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

Her campaign website says she supports expanding tax credits that help people afford health insurance.⁸

Her campaign website says she fought for decades for North Carolina to expand Medicaid, which the state has since done, and that she pushed to close the Medicaid coverage gap.^8,9

Her campaign website lists, among her accomplishments, fighting cuts to Medicare and Medicaid in the legislation it calls the One Big Ugly Bill.⁹

Her campaign website says she will oppose efforts to privatize Social Security or cut off funding for Medicare, and that she will advocate for protecting and funding both programs.⁹

Her campaign website says she wants a higher minimum wage that rises automatically with inflation.^6,9

Her campaign website says small businesses need simpler ways to get capital in order to grow.⁹

Her campaign website says she supports legislation providing paid family and medical leave benefits and calls expanding and strengthening paid family leave laws the top priority on worker benefits.^8,9

1. Create a national paid leave program for all workers
2. Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
3. Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states

Her campaign website says she will work to expand access to affordable child care.⁹

Her campaign website lists, among her accomplishments, introducing bills to expand SNAP benefits (the Closing the Meal Gap Act and the Food Secure Strikers Act) and opposing $186 billion in SNAP cuts.^6,9

1. Undo the 2025 changes or expand benefits and eligibility
2. Keep the program as changed in 2025
3. Tighten eligibility and work rules further

Her campaign website says Congress should restore the Voting Rights Act, including by reworking Section 4 so that Section 5 can apply again, and says she supports passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.⁹

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

Her campaign website says more must be done on civil rights for minorities, women and the LGBT community, and lists that she co-sponsors the Equality Act.⁹

1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states

Her campaign website says Congress needs to require background checks for firearm purchases and close the gun show loophole.⁹

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

Her campaign website says Congress should ban some high-powered assault weapons.⁹

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

Her campaign website says she wants law enforcement and first responders to have adequate resources to protect residents.⁹

Her campaign website lists introducing the American Neighborhoods Protection Act, which it says addresses corporate ownership of single-family homes, among her housing work.^6,9

Her campaign website lists, under a Helping Charlotte heading, securing $3 billion to bring high-speed internet to over 300,000 homes and businesses.⁹

Her campaign website says small businesses should get tax cuts so they can create jobs.⁹