Melat Kiros

Her campaign website says it is time to pass Medicare for All, and her platform also supports breaking up companies that combine insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and health care providers.^3,4

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 platform supports access to gender-affirming care for all ages, with medical decisions made by patients, families and doctors rather than politicians.⁴

1. Ban these treatments for minors
2. Allow some with limits, such as minimum ages, waiting periods or no surgery
3. No legal limits; leave decisions to patients, parents and doctors

Her platform calls for a Housing First strategy that treats homelessness as a public health issue rather than a criminal one, with services for mental illness and addiction and long-term housing.^3,4

1. Provide permanent housing first, without requiring treatment or sobriety beforehand
2. Provide housing that comes with requirements, such as treatment, sobriety or work
3. Enforce bans on public camping and move people into shelters or treatment, including court-ordered treatment for some

Her campaign website says ICE should be abolished and replaced with what it calls a humane, accountable immigration system focused on public safety.^3,4

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

Her platform calls for accessible pathways to citizenship and full protection for DACA recipients and people with Temporary Protected Status, along with an end to for-profit detention centers.⁴

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 platform supports an immediate and unconditional arms embargo on Israel and ending all U.S. funding for Israel's military.^3,4

1. Increase military aid to Israel
2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel

Her platform says Russia's invasion of Ukraine is an illegal war of aggression and supports Ukraine's sovereignty, but says durable peace will come through negotiation led by a multilateral diplomatic process rather than escalation.⁴

Her platform says competition with China need not become conflict, and supports continued diplomatic engagement, cooperation on climate and AI governance, and trade policy that protects American workers without a trade war.⁴

Her campaign website supports universal child care, which it describes as treating caregiving as essential infrastructure, along with federally supported elder care.^3,4

Her platform calls for guaranteeing paid family, medical and sick leave for every worker.⁴

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

Her platform calls for making public college and trade school tuition-free.⁴

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

Her platform supports major federal investment in public transit, including more light rail and bus rapid transit and affordable fares.⁴

1. Shift more money to public transit, walking and biking
2. Keep the current split between highways and transit
3. Spend federal money mainly on highways and roads, and leave transit to states and cities

Her platform supports an Ultra-Millionaire Tax on net worth above $50 million, which its glossary describes as a 2% yearly tax with an extra 1% above $1 billion.⁴

1. No tax on wealth or on gains from assets that haven't been sold
2. A minimum tax on the very wealthy that counts unsold gains as income
3. A yearly tax on net worth above a high threshold (such as $50 million)

Under the heading Tax the Rich, her platform calls for restoring the top income tax rate to an earlier level and closing the carried-interest loophole.⁴

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)

Her platform says the corporate tax rate should be raised back above 50%.⁴

1. Raise it, for example to 25% or 28%, or back to the 35% top rate in place before 2018
2. Keep it at 21%
3. Lower it below 21% (for example, 15% for companies that make products in the US)

Her platform supports building public broadband in underserved communities as part of expanding publicly owned utilities.⁴

Her platform calls for strong oversight to prevent AI-driven discrimination in housing, hiring, criminal justice and health care, a ban on government AI mass surveillance, and international agreements on shared AI safety standards.⁴

Her platform supports the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, along with automatic and same-day voter registration.⁴

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 platform supports a federal Trans Bill of Rights with explicit protection from discrimination and says the Equality Act must be passed.⁴

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 platform supports banning members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks while in office.⁴

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 platform supports term limits for Congress.⁴

Her platform supports overturning Citizens United through a constitutional amendment, banning super PACs, capping total campaign spending, and moving toward publicly financed elections.⁴

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 platform supports passing the PRO Act to make it easier for workers to organize, form unions and bargain collectively.⁴

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 platform calls for raising the federal minimum wage to a living wage.⁴

Her platform supports protecting the right to strike, including for federal employees, and legalizing strikes by public employees.⁴

Her platform supports a moratorium on new AI data centers until federal rules protect labor, the environment and privacy, and requiring new data centers to run entirely on clean energy and lower consumer electricity costs.⁴

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

Her platform says the right to abortion should be written into federal law and that reproductive freedom should be made a constitutional right.⁴

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 platform calls for repealing the Comstock Act provisions that it says opponents of abortion are trying to use to ban medication abortion nationwide.⁴

Her platform says access to the full range of reproductive care, including contraception and fertility treatment, must be protected and guaranteed.⁴

Her platform supports universal background checks for every gun sale and closing the loophole that lets a sale go ahead before a check is finished.⁴

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 platform supports red flag laws and says there should be one at the federal level.⁴

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

Her platform supports a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.⁴

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