Angélica María Dueñas

Her campaign website says she supports Medicare for All, a single-payer system, and would cosponsor the Medicare for All Act.^5,8

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 ICE should be abolished and those responsible for abuses prosecuted, and calls for closing immigration detention centers.^5,9

1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records

Her campaign website calls for legal status for all immigrants and a path to citizenship, including a new DREAM Act that would give people brought to the U.S. before age 16 a faster path to citizenship.^5,9

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

Her campaign website calls for lowering the burden of proof for asylum seekers, especially children, and for staffing and funding immigration courts so that people have enough time to make their case.⁹

Her campaign website says undocumented immigrants should get health care through Medicare for All and, in the near term, supports expanding Medicaid to cover them.⁹

Her campaign website says she will never vote to send U.S. weapons or military aid to Israel.⁵

1. Increase military aid to Israel
2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel

Her campaign website calls for cutting the military budget by 50 percent and for audits of military spending.¹⁰

1. Increase military spending
2. Hold it near current levels, adjusted for inflation
3. Cut military spending

Her campaign website says she would renegotiate or withdraw from trade agreements such as NAFTA to remove rules that let investors sue to overturn health, safety and environmental protections.¹⁰

Her campaign website calls for raising the minimum wage to $15 nationally and to a living wage.^11,12

1. Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
2. Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
3. Raise to $15 or more

Her campaign website says workers should be free to organize without intimidation, retaliation or legal obstacles, and calls for protecting the right to unionize and to bargain collectively.^5,12

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

Her campaign website says she would negotiate a follow-up to the Paris climate accords.¹⁰

Her campaign website calls for renewable energy requirements for new data centers and for efficient cooling systems that use less water.¹³

Her campaign website says loans backed by stock should be taxed as income, while saying unrealized capital gains should not be taxed.^5,14

Her campaign website calls for universal rent control that would limit rent increases to 3 percent a year.¹¹

1. Freeze rents or keep yearly increases low, as in traditional rent control
2. Cap only large yearly increases, such as those above 10%
3. No caps on rent increases

Her campaign website says she would provide financial help to first-time homebuyers, including with loans and down payments.¹¹

Her campaign website says the president should use federal housing funds to push state and local governments to end zoning that effectively bans multi-family housing, and that developers should first get approval from neighborhood councils and the community before building projects that could lead to gentrification.¹¹

Her campaign website calls for more permanent supportive housing to end chronic homelessness and says drug abuse and mental health problems should be treated rather than handled as crimes.¹¹

Her campaign website opposes raising the Social Security retirement age.^5,15

1. Raise the full retirement age
2. Keep it at 67

Her campaign website supports lifting the cap on income subject to Social Security taxes so that high earners pay on more of their income.^5,15

Her campaign website opposes cuts to Social Security benefits.^5,15

Her campaign website says LGBTQ people should have equal protection under the law and freedom from discrimination in every part of life.⁵

Her campaign website says she would ensure access to abortion and reproductive health care without government interference.⁵

Her campaign website calls for tuition-free public colleges, universities and trade schools regardless of family income, paid for with a tax on financial trades.^5,16

1. No free tuition program
2. Free tuition at community colleges
3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities

Her campaign website calls for canceling student debt, with the Federal Reserve buying back outstanding student loans and writing them off.^5,16

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 opposes any voucher system, including one run through tax credits, that would send public education money to private schools.¹⁶

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 calls for universal high-quality pre-K for 4-year-olds regardless of family income and for protecting Head Start.^5,16

Her campaign website says marijuana should be removed from the federal list of outlawed drugs, legalized and taxed, and that federal records for nonviolent drug offenses should be expunged.¹⁷

1. Keep recreational use against the law
2. Reduce penalties for having small amounts, without legal sales
3. Let each state decide, with no federal penalties where a state allows it
4. Make it legal for adults to buy and use

Her campaign website calls for eliminating mandatory minimum sentences and three-strikes laws.^5,17

1. Reduce or end mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug crimes
2. Keep current mandatory minimums
3. Add or raise mandatory minimums, for example for selling fentanyl

Her campaign website calls for paper ballots and in-person voting at precincts as the standard, with mail voting remaining available for students, people with disabilities and Americans living or serving overseas.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she would work to get corporate money out of politics and end Citizens United.⁵

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

Her campaign website calls for more VA funding to hire more staff and doctors.¹⁹

1. Hire more VA staff, including to replace jobs lost in 2025
2. Keep staffing near current levels
3. Cut VA staff further, especially in administrative jobs

Her campaign website calls for building more VA hospitals and mental health clinics and for making sure veterans can be treated at hospitals or facilities outside the VA to avoid long waits.¹⁹