Valerie P. Foushee

Her campaign website says she is working in Congress to ban agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from wearing masks and to require them to wear body cameras.⁸

1. Let officers cover their faces and keep their names private
2. Require visible ID and body cameras, but allow face coverings
3. Require visible ID and body cameras, and ban most face coverings

Her campaign website says she is working in Congress to limit the authority of ICE and to hold agents accountable when they abuse their authority or violate people's rights, and that she voted against a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that included funding for ICE.⁸

Her campaign website says that, as a state senator, she voted to make sure local law enforcement agencies could decide for themselves whether to work with ICE.⁸

1. Require full cooperation, with penalties for places that limit it
2. Let each state, county or city decide
3. Cooperate only in cases involving people convicted of serious crimes
4. Bar police and jails from helping without a judge's warrant

Her campaign website says she considers health care a universal right and is an advocate for Medicare for All.⁸

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 supports extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies, and its tax section lists restoring them among the measures she is working on.⁸

Her campaign website says she expanded Medicaid in North Carolina while she was in the State Senate.⁸

Her campaign website says she is working in Congress to defend Medicaid from cuts.⁸

Her campaign website lists protecting reproductive rights as a priority, and says that as a state senator she was a sponsor of legislation aimed at removing obstacles to abortion access in North Carolina.⁸

Her campaign website says she is working in Congress to pass legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade, so that state legislatures could no longer pass restrictive abortion laws.⁸

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 working in Congress to pass legislation protecting access to contraceptives.⁸

Her campaign website says she is standing up to Donald Trump's tariffs in Congress as part of her work to lower everyday costs.⁸

Her campaign website says she is pushing for legislation to stop hedge funds from buying up housing in the area, which it says raises prices.⁸

Her campaign website says she supports raising the corporate tax rate.⁸

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 campaign website says she supports a progressive tax system that eases the burden on middle- and low-income families and raises taxes on large corporations and high earners.⁸

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 campaign website says she supports a 25 percent minimum tax rate on households with a net worth above $100 million.⁸

Her campaign website says she is working to make the Child Tax Credit larger and fully refundable for low-income households.⁸

1. Make it larger and give the full amount to families with little or no earnings
2. Make it larger, while still requiring parents to have earnings to get the full credit
3. Keep the credit as set in 2025

Her campaign website says she wants to create more tax credits related to affordable housing and child care.⁸

Her campaign website says she favors cancelling existing student loan debt.⁸

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 says she is working to pass legislation that would eliminate tuition costs at community colleges for all students and at four-year public schools for students from households earning under $125,000 a year.⁸

Her campaign website says she has advocated for more investment in passenger rail, and says she secured a $1 billion federal transportation grant in December 2023 for intercity passenger rail service between Raleigh and Richmond.⁸

1. Expand funding for passenger rail, including new high-speed lines
2. Fund repairs and current routes, without major new lines
3. Cut federal rail funding or move Amtrak toward private operation

Her campaign website says she has advocated for more investment in green transit, including electric vehicles, low- and no-emission buses, and passenger rail.⁸

Her campaign website says Social Security and Medicare are promises made to seniors, and that she will not let cuts to seniors' benefits happen.⁸

Her campaign website says she is advocating in Congress to end cash bail.⁸

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 says she is advocating in Congress to decriminalize marijuana.⁸