Ilhan Omar

Her campaign website's healthcare page says she backs Medicare for All, which it describes as a single-payer system guaranteeing care for every resident, with no out-of-pocket costs for patients.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

The same page lists dental and vision care among the benefits of the expanded Medicare program it describes.⁹

It says she wants to build on the Inflation Reduction Act by letting Medicare negotiate the price of every drug.⁹

1. Repeal or scale back negotiation
2. Keep the program as it is
3. Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance

Its disability page says she wants to strengthen and protect Social Security benefits.¹⁰

Her campaign website's reproductive freedom page says Congress should write the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law, and its healthcare page says the same.^9,11

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 Roe v. Wade should be written into federal law and that all women have a right to affordable reproductive healthcare, including pregnancy-related care, contraception and abortion services.^9,11

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

Her campaign website calls for repealing the Hyde Amendment, which it says limits abortion services for women covered by Medicaid and other federal programs.^9,11

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 wants to protect access to contraception and IVF, and its healthcare page also calls for contraception at no cost.^9,11

Her campaign website's equality page says she wants stronger national protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, citing the Equality Act, which it says she co-sponsored and the House passed.¹²

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

Its equality page says she will oppose efforts to roll back LGBTQIA+ rights on religious-liberty grounds.¹²

It also says the Voting Rights Act should be protected.¹³

It says the Supreme Court should be expanded.¹³

1. Add justices to the court
2. Keep nine justices under current law
3. Fix the number at nine in the Constitution

It also calls for term limits for justices.¹³

1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
2. Keep lifetime appointments

It calls for a binding ethics code for justices and an inspector general to hold them accountable.¹³

1. Pass a law setting a binding ethics code, with outside review of complaints and recusal decisions
2. Keep ethics rules in the court's hands, but have it add its own way to enforce them
3. Keep the court's current code

Her campaign website's economy page says she wants a national minimum wage of $17 an hour, and notes she co-sponsored the Raise the Wage Act, which passed the House.¹⁴

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

It says she wants the PRO Act passed to let all workers bargain collectively, and wants the right to strike strengthened.¹⁴

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

It calls for banning right-to-work legislation, which it says undermines unions' ability to speak for their members.¹⁴

1. Pass a national right-to-work law
2. Leave it to each state
3. Allow union contracts that require fees in every state, overriding state right-to-work laws

It says the legal definition of an employee should be widened so that workers are not wrongly classified as independent contractors.¹⁴

1. Keep them as independent contractors
2. Keep them as contractors, with portable benefits they carry between apps
3. Classify more of them as employees

It calls for reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, the law that kept commercial and investment banking apart, and for breaking up banks it describes as too big to fail.¹⁴

1. Strengthen rules and consumer protections, such as limits on overdraft fees and tougher oversight of large banks
2. Keep current rules
3. Ease rules on how companies raise money from investors, and let more people invest in private companies
4. Ease rules further, including closing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

It says she wants to renegotiate free trade agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA, and to withhold support for new or updated agreements unless they protect American jobs, uphold workers' rights abroad and help lower prescription drug prices.¹⁵

1. Sign new deals that lower trade barriers
2. Keep existing deals, such as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, largely as they are
3. Renegotiate existing deals, for example to require that more of each product be made in the US
4. Leave existing deals and set terms country by country, including tariffs

It also calls for a national paid family leave program and paid sick days for every worker.¹⁴

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

It says she wants affordable child care guaranteed to working parents of young children, along with universal pre-kindergarten and full-day, full-year Head Start.¹⁶

It says she wants a more progressive tax system that raises income taxes on the wealthiest Americans, and that the 2017 federal tax law, which it says lowered taxes for the highest earners, should be repealed.¹⁴

1. Replace the current income tax with a single flat rate or a national sales tax
2. Cut rates further, including the top rate
3. Keep current rates
4. Raise rates on high incomes only (for example, above $400,000)

Its economy page calls for repealing the tax breaks it says fossil fuel companies receive, and its environment page calls for ending those subsidies.^14,17

The economy page also calls for strengthening the estate tax to limit how much wealth the richest families can build up across generations.¹⁴

Her campaign website's housing page says she wants the mortgage interest deduction replaced with a flat 15 percent tax credit, which it says would extend a tax cut to 15 million more working and middle-class homeowners.¹⁸

Her campaign website's education page says she wants public colleges and universities, both two-year and four-year, to charge no tuition and leave students without debt, and wants Pell Grants expanded to cover all college expenses.¹⁶

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

It also calls for canceling all existing student debt, through her Student Debt Cancellation Act.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

Its equality page lists ensuring affordable housing and ending youth homelessness among her priorities for LGBTQIA+ young people.¹²

Her campaign website's infrastructure page says she wants reliable high-speed internet available nationwide, including fully funding the Affordable Connectivity Program, which it says once subsidized internet service for low-income households, and investing in rural broadband.¹⁹

1. Pay to build networks where service is lacking, and help low-income households with monthly bills
2. Pay to build networks where service is lacking, but not to help with monthly bills
3. Cut government broadband spending and leave expansion mainly to private companies

Its infrastructure page says she wants to widen access to transit and walking options such as light rail, bus rapid transit and bike lanes, and notes that transit and pedestrian infrastructure gets only a small fraction of what vehicle infrastructure does.^17,19

The same page counts connecting communities by high-speed rail among the benefits it expects from modern infrastructure.¹⁹

Her campaign website's environment page calls for a ban on new fossil fuel extraction and on building new fossil fuel infrastructure.¹⁷

1. Stop or sharply limit new leases
2. Continue leasing, but keep some coastlines and wildlife areas off-limits
3. Lease more federal land and offshore areas for drilling

It says the United States should honor its commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement and lead the world's effort on climate change.¹⁷

1. Rejoin the Paris Agreement and the UN climate treaty, and set new emissions goals
2. Join only agreements that bind major emitters, such as China and India, to similar cuts
3. Stay out of international climate agreements

Her campaign website's immigration page says she wants to abolish ICE and end deportation and detention programs that it calls inhumane.²⁰

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

It also says she opposes further militarizing the border and any expansion of the border wall along the southern border.²⁰

1. Build walls or fencing along much more of the border
2. Add barriers only in selected places, relying mainly on technology and agents
3. Build no new barriers and spend the money on other border security

It says she wants to protect what it calls sanctuary cities and counties by preventing any president from withholding federal funding from them.²⁰

It calls for a route to legal status and citizenship that is open to Dreamers, people with Temporary Protected Status and all undocumented people living in the country.²⁰

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

It says the United States should admit more refugees and asylum-seekers.²⁰

1. Pause most refugee admissions
2. Keep a low ceiling, such as the 17,500 set for 2027
3. Return to higher ceilings, such as the 125,000 set for 2025

It says she wants faster processing times and an end to what it calls arbitrary caps on green cards for family members and workers.²⁰

1. Admit more immigrants, such as by adding work visas or clearing family backlogs
2. Keep green cards and work visas near recent levels
3. Admit fewer immigrants than in recent years
4. Pause most new legal immigration for a time

Her campaign website's gun violence page says she wants background checks for every firearm sale, including those at gun shows.²¹

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

It also calls for banning the sale of what it calls assault weapons.²¹

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

It says she wants to strengthen red flag laws so that people convicted of domestic abuse or animal abuse cannot get guns.²¹

Her campaign website's criminal justice page says she wants recreational cannabis legalized nationwide, with records expunged and amnesty for people jailed for cannabis offenses.²²

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

It also calls for ending mandatory minimum sentences for low-level offenses.²²

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's record page says she and House Democrats moved to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which it says would, among other changes, end qualified immunity for police.²³

1. End qualified immunity for police officers
2. Keep qualified immunity as courts apply it now
3. Write qualified immunity into federal law

The record page lists a bill she introduced to amend the Insurrection Act, which it says would curb the president's power to deploy the military inside the country without the consent of Congress.²³

Her campaign website's elections page says she wants to overturn Citizens United and eliminate Super PACs.¹³

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

Its elections page calls for more federal money for early in-person voting and for absentee voting.¹³

Her campaign website's foreign policy page says she wants to reduce total military spending and put that money into health care, education, housing, jobs, clean energy and infrastructure.¹⁵

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

It says she supports diplomatic solutions with Iran and backs the JCPOA, and that she wants a deal that does not place disproportionate economic sanctions on the Iranian people.¹⁵

Her campaign website's foreign policy page says she supports Ukraine in defending its homeland against Russian aggression. Her Get the Facts page says she has voted for most aid packages for Ukraine and that the United States has a moral obligation to back that defense. That page also says she does not plan to sign a discharge petition for a Senate-passed bill that combines Ukraine aid with unconditional military aid to Israel, and that she will keep pressing for defensive and humanitarian help for Ukraine that is kept separate from other offensive military aid she cannot support.^15,24

1. Send more US-funded weapons and money to Ukraine
2. Keep supplying weapons, with European allies paying for most of them
3. End US weapons and aid for Ukraine, including weapons paid for by allies

It says that for as long as the Israeli government keeps violating international law, she would hold back offensive weapons transfers and military aid to it.¹⁵

It also says she wants to advance humanitarian support for countries in civil wars, such as Sudan and Yemen.¹⁵

It says she opposes privatizing the Veterans Affairs health care system and wants more funding for veterans' physical and mental health care.¹⁵

1. Let veterans choose private doctors at the VA's expense whenever they prefer
2. Write wait-time and drive-time limits into law, so veterans can use private care when the VA can't meet them
3. Expand the VA's own hospitals and clinics, using private care mainly when the VA can't provide it