John Garamendi

His campaign website says the Affordable Care Act can be improved and that he supports a national public option to increase competition and expand insurance choices in every community.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

His campaign website says he opposes all efforts to privatize Social Security, dismantle Medicare or defund Medicaid and Medi-Cal.⁹

His campaign website says he supports letting Medicare negotiate drug prices directly and allowing imports of prescription drugs from Canada and other countries with strong safety standards.⁹

His campaign website says he is urging Congress to expand Medicare to cover dental and vision care.⁹

His campaign website says he supports a package of bills that would, among other things, raise the minimum wage.⁹

His campaign website says he supports a package of bills that would expand the child and earned income tax credits.⁹

His campaign website says he supports full equality for LGBT people, including marriage equality.⁹

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

His campaign website says he supports the Equality Act, which it says would bar discrimination against LGBT Americans in the workplace, housing and public accommodations.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

His campaign website says that after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, he called on Congress to restore it.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

His campaign website says he supports faster student loan forgiveness for primary care doctors who work in community clinics and underserved areas, and that his Student Loan Refinancing and Recalculating Act would lower student loan interest rates for all borrowers.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

His campaign website says he supports more federal investment in roads, bridges, ports, levees and public transit, and in bicycle lanes and walkways, and that he is working to get California a larger return on the gas tax it sends to Washington.⁹

His campaign website lists among his accomplishments passing a five-year extension of the wind and solar tax credits.⁹

His campaign website says diplomacy should come first in foreign relations, that U.S. aid can help regions suffering from hunger and disease, and that he supports expanding the Peace Corps.⁹

His official House biography says he introduced the state legislation that became California's assault weapons ban and that he remains an advocate for gun control.⁶