Delia Ramirez

Her campaign website says she supports Medicare for All and co-sponsored the Medicare for All Act, which would guarantee health care for everyone under a single-payer model.⁷

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 opposes efforts to create work requirements for Medicaid and other social programs.⁸

1. Require work or community activity for adults who are able to work
2. Keep the requirement but ease it, such as with wider exemptions or less frequent checks
3. No work requirement to keep coverage

Her campaign website says she co-sponsored the Equality Act to guarantee nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQI+ people in housing, employment, education and federally funded programs.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 she co-sponsored H.J.Res. 54, which would propose a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and that she supports banning dark money.¹⁰

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 says she co-sponsored the Freedom to Vote Act, which it says would end partisan gerrymandering.¹¹

Her campaign website says the Freedom to Vote Act she co-sponsored would expand voting rights through automatic voter registration and voting by mail.¹¹

Her campaign website says she advocates for Congress to reassert its constitutional right to declare war.¹²

1. Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
2. Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
3. Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack

Her campaign website says she co-sponsored the People Over Pentagon Act of 2023, which would reduce the Pentagon's budget by $100 billion to fund domestic social programs, and that she voted no on the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.¹²

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

Her campaign website says she advocates for trade deals that center equity for American workers and the global poor.¹²

Her campaign website says she co-sponsored the Raise the Wage Act to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour.¹³

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 she co-sponsored the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to create federal protections that allow workers to form new unions.¹³

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 lists among her Illinois House record co-sponsoring a resolution to enshrine the right to unionize in the Illinois constitution and prevent the spread of right-to-work laws.¹³

Her campaign website says she advocates fostering collaboration with other nations toward shared goals, such as developing a global plan on climate change.¹²

Her campaign website says she advocates for a pathway to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented people in the U.S. and co-leads the American Dream and Promise Act for DACA recipients.¹⁴

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 says she is fighting to end deportations to keep families together and to eliminate the case backlog in immigration court.¹⁴

Her campaign website says she co-sponsored the LIFT the BAR Act to remove barriers to programs including free school meals, Social Security and Medicaid for undocumented immigrants and permanent residents.¹⁴

1. Let some immigrants without legal status qualify too, such as children or longtime residents
2. Let refugees, people granted asylum and other lawfully present immigrants qualify along with citizens and green card holders
3. Keep the 2025 limits, under which mainly citizens and green card holders qualify
4. Limit benefits and services mainly to US citizens

Her campaign website lists among her Illinois House record co-sponsoring legislation to stop Illinois police from acting as a federal deportation force.¹⁴

Her campaign website says that after the Dobbs decision she has supported federal legislation to codify the right to choose into law.¹⁵

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

Her campaign website says she is an uncompromising supporter of reproductive rights and has consistently fought to protect the right to choose.¹⁵

Her campaign website says she co-sponsored the EACH Act to repeal the Hyde Amendment.¹⁵

1. Bar public funds for abortions and for groups that provide them, including for their other services
2. Bar public funds for most abortions, but let clinics that provide them be paid for other care
3. Let Medicaid and other public programs cover abortion (ending the Hyde Amendment)

Her campaign website says she supports free, publicly funded community colleges and public universities and co-sponsored the College for All Act of 2023.¹⁶

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

Her campaign website says she is a champion for canceling student loan debt.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 lists among her Illinois House record co-sponsoring the Inclusive Curriculum Act so that LGBTQ+ history is taught in Illinois public schools, and says that in Congress she co-sponsored the African American History Act and the Black History is American History Act.^9,16

1. State limits on these topics in some or all grades, with notice to parents
2. No state limits on topics, but require notice to parents and let them opt their children out
3. Leave decisions to local school boards
4. No state limits on teaching these topics
5. Require schools to include these topics, such as ethnic studies or LGBTQ history

Her campaign website says she opposes efforts to cut or create work requirements for SNAP, and co-sponsored the SUPPORT for SNAP Act to expand nutrition assistance for people experiencing homelessness.⁸

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 she champions universal child care and pre-K, and co-sponsored the Child Care for Every Community Act to guarantee universal child care and early learning programs for low-income families.⁸

1. Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
2. Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
3. Keep current child care funding and tax credits
4. Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending

Her campaign website says the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit must be protected and expanded.⁸

Her campaign website says programs including Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare must be protected and expanded.⁸

Her campaign website says she is a champion for stronger gun laws, including universal background checks.¹⁷

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 she supports banning assault-style weapons and lists co-sponsoring the Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 among her work in Congress.¹⁷

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 lists among her Illinois House record reforming the state's bond system so that judges make pretrial detention decisions based on public safety rather than jailing people for being poor.¹⁷

1. Require bail or jail before trial for more charges
2. Keep current bail rules
3. End or reduce cash bail, with judges deciding release based on risk

Her campaign website lists among her Illinois House record voting to legalize cannabis.¹⁷