Jordan Herrera

His campaign website says marriage equality is settled law and that he will defend the Respect for Marriage Act and federal protections that require all states to recognize lawful marriages.³

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 calls childcare essential infrastructure, says a national childcare workforce could be paid for with a fraction of federal spending, and lists affordable childcare tied to income among his plans.³

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

His campaign website lists universal paid family leave as a national standard, along with paid maternity and paternity leave.³

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

His campaign website says babies should have support through WIC, SNAP and fully funded school meals, lists protecting SNAP among his Farm Bill priorities, and says he won't back a Farm Bill that helps corporations while abandoning hungry families.³

His campaign website says he will fight to pass the Equality Act and for strong enforcement of Bostock v. Clayton County.³

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 he supports passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and strong federal protections against racial discrimination in voting.³

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 12-year terms for future federal judges and Supreme Court justices.³

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

His campaign website lists protecting access to gender-affirming care and opposing blanket bans that remove decision-making authority from families and doctors.³

His campaign website says his long-term goal is Medicare for All and that the path forward includes strengthening the Affordable Care Act and building a public option that anyone can buy into.³

His campaign website says he would protect and expand Medicaid and Medicare funding, noting that hospitals close when those programs are cut.³

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

His campaign website lists a national limit on yearly rent increases meant to stop sharp jumps from one year to the next while still permitting modest raises.³

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

His campaign website lists limiting how many single-family homes large investors can buy in bulk among his housing proposals.³

His campaign website says he supports restoring and strengthening financial regulations, including safeguards set after the 2008 financial crisis.³

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

His campaign website lists expanding Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing coverage.³

1. Keep current coverage, under which some private Medicare Advantage plans offer these benefits
2. Add some of these benefits, such as hearing aids, to traditional Medicare
3. Add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare

His campaign website says he would restore VA staffing and grow the VA workforce.³

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

His campaign website lists expanding VA health care access and strengthening community care networks for veterans.³

His campaign website says he will always defend a woman's right to decide on her own medical care, abortion included, and that the choice belongs to the individual rather than the government.³

His campaign website lists defending access to contraception.³

His campaign website lists expanding and fixing Public Service Loan Forgiveness and full forgiveness for borrowers who have paid in good faith for 20 or more years, along with capping interest rates and limiting income-based repayment to 10% of income.³

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 banning partisan gerrymandering, with independent redistricting and enforceable national rules for fair congressional maps.³

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

His campaign website says he would support ranked-choice voting systems.³

1. Use ranked-choice voting in more elections
2. Let each state or city decide
3. Ban ranked-choice voting

His campaign website says he supports reforms limiting corporate political spending, constitutional and statutory changes to make clear that political rights belong to people rather than corporations, and a voluntary public financing system for federal elections.³

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

His campaign website says he strongly opposes the SAVE Act, which it describes as requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote.³

His campaign website says he supports a 12-year limit for members of the House and Senate.³

1. Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
2. Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
3. No term limits

His campaign website lists conditioning U.S. aid to Israel on compliance with international law and human rights, defensive cooperation without sending munitions to Israel, and ending U.S. support for offensive military action in Gaza.³

His campaign website says that under the War Powers framework the president must tell Congress about military action within 48 hours and needs congressional approval for sustained conflict, and that he opposes military operations Congress has not authorized.³

His campaign website says he is strongly opposed to escalating conflict with Iran.³

His campaign website says the country does not need a bigger military but a smarter one, and lists eliminating wasteful defense spending and duplicative programs along with targeted modernization.³

His campaign website lists reducing wasteful federal spending, closing corporate tax loopholes and no longer funding wars without covering their cost as ways to address the national debt.³

His campaign website says the local farm economy should be rebuilt rather than only subsidizing the largest operations, and lists protecting small and mid-sized farms among his Farm Bill priorities.³

His campaign website lists restrictions on foreign and corporate speculation in farmland among its farmland protection proposals.³

His campaign website lists expansion and reform of H-2A agricultural visas.³

His campaign website lists worker notice before AI is used in the workplace, restrictions on AI surveillance and automated discipline, penalties for AI impersonation and deepfake abuse, and legislation in the spirit of the NO FAKES Act.³

1. Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
2. Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
3. Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI

His campaign website says expanding rural broadband is basic infrastructure and that public dollars should create affordable service.³

His campaign website lists a federal privacy law with real enforcement, limits on data brokers and a ban on selling sensitive personal data without permission.³

His campaign website says data centers should be regulated responsibly, lists a tax on large data centers tied to their energy and water use and keeping household ratepayers from subsidizing Big Tech infrastructure, and says companies creating extraordinary new demand should pay their fair share of the needed infrastructure.³

His campaign website lists investment in small modular reactors and next-generation nuclear research with strong safety standards, and says he particularly supports expanding advanced nuclear energy.³

His campaign website says repairing and modernizing roads, highways and bridges across the 4th District comes first.³

His campaign website says he would advocate hiring more immigration judges and lists modernizing case processing, citing more than 2.3 million pending asylum cases.³

His campaign website says he supports an earned pathway to citizenship for people who have lived in the United States for 10 or more years, pay taxes and have no serious criminal record, and permanent legal status and a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients.³

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

His campaign website says he does not support open borders or mass deportation without due process.³