Christina Bertrand Hines

Her health care topic page says she believes health care is a human right, wants to strengthen and expand the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid and build toward a system where everyone can afford care, and supports capping premiums and out-of-pocket costs for public and private insurance and early Medicare buy-in for Americans who have served the country, such as police officers.⁴

Her disability rights topic page says she supports protecting and expanding Medicaid, SSI and SSDI, and her health care topic page says Medicare and Medicaid should be strengthened and expanded.^4,5

1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding

Her health care topic page says she wants to negotiate prices for more prescriptions.⁴

Her Social Security topic page says she will reject changing the retirement age and that Social Security can be funded for decades without raising it.⁶

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

Her Social Security topic page says she supports eliminating the Social Security funding cap and closing corporate loopholes.⁶

1. Keep the current cap
2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
3. Apply the tax to all earnings

Her Social Security topic page says she will reject cuts to Social Security, disability or survivor benefits for working and middle-class Americans and supports capping cost-of-living increases for the top 25% of beneficiaries while keeping full inflation protection for the rest.⁶

1. Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
2. Keep the current benefit formula
3. Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees

Her health care topic page lists expanding paid family leave among her preventive care priorities.⁴

Her education topic page says she will fight for universal pre-K and press for child care subsidies so working parents can afford good-quality care.⁷

Her health care topic page says she wants to roll back the Trump administration's DOGE firings, which it says stop the FDA from safety-testing drugs and infant formula.⁴

Her money in politics topic page says she supports overturning Citizens United and backs a constitutional amendment, for example the For Our Freedom Amendment, that would permit reasonable caps on political spending.⁸

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 money in politics topic page says she supports a ban on trading individual stocks by members of Congress, their spouses and their dependent children.^2,8

1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports

Her prices topic page says she backs strategic use of tariffs to shield American workers and key industries but that retaliatory tariffs imposed without a strategy are hurting working families, and her housing topic page lists reducing tariffs that raise the cost of building materials.^9,10

1. Lower or remove most tariffs
2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
3. Broad tariffs on most imports

Her prices topic page says major economic decisions such as tariffs should not be made unilaterally but should go through debate and legislation in the democratic process, and that she will work to restore Congress's authority over trade and economic policy.⁹

1. Give the president broader power to impose tariffs without a vote of Congress, such as under emergency powers
2. Keep current law, which lets the president impose tariffs under specific trade laws but not the emergency-powers law
3. Let tariffs start, but end them unless Congress approves within a set time
4. Require Congress to approve new tariffs before they take effect

Her housing topic page says she would reward communities that increase housing supply, expand tax incentives for affordable housing, cut red tape and permitting delays and encourage redevelopment of vacant and underused properties into housing.¹⁰

1. Have states require cities to allow more types of housing, such as apartments near transit
2. Give extra state or federal money to communities that allow more homes
3. Leave zoning decisions to local governments

Her money in politics topic page says she will support passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act, and the Freedom to Vote Act.⁸

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 education topic page says she supports phone-free schools and that children are safer with simpler phones than smartphones before high school and with no social media before age 16.⁷

Her education topic page says she will fight to bring broadband access to every classroom.⁷

Her education topic page says she would expand loan forgiveness for educators in high-need areas.⁷

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 education topic page says she will oppose book bans that pull literature only because it makes readers think harder or tells the story of someone whose life differs from their own.⁷

Her education topic page says she will repel efforts to force religion into public schools because church and state must remain separate.⁷

1. Require religious displays such as the Ten Commandments
2. Let schools choose to post religious texts, lead prayer or hire chaplains
3. No school-sponsored prayer or religious displays, while students may pray or share their faith on their own

Her disability rights topic page says the effort to dismantle the Department of Education and shift oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services would harm more than 9 million students with disabilities, and her education topic page says she would ramp up the federal share of special education costs to the full 40%.^5,7

1. Close the department and move or end its programs
2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it

Her environment topic page says she will back legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act that, it says, helps return clean energy manufacturing to the United States.¹¹

Her environment topic page says she backs investment in electric vehicle production, along with clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to cut pollution and create well-paying jobs.¹¹

Her environment topic page says she will defend and strengthen protections for coastlines, rivers and wetlands.¹¹

Her environment topic page says she will back conservation work that protects wildlife habitat and natural landscapes and will keep championing the protection of public lands in Congress.¹¹

Her campaign website says that in Congress she will fight for safer communities and for giving law enforcement the resources to prevent violent crime and keep children and seniors safe online.²