“Our immigration system has been broken for decades, and everybody knows it. We need a common-sense system that is orderly, humane, and fair: secure borders, fair and timely asylum processing, legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration, and enforcement that respects the due process of law.”
“Go back on offense to push for the comprehensive immigration reform that Americans know we need: secure borders, fair and timely asylum processing, citizenship for DACA recipients, legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration, and enforcement that respects the due process of law and basic human dignity. Immigration is a source of strength, vitality, renewal, and growth, and Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say that.”
“We need to end the cruelty and lawlessness of the Trump administration immediately.
No more masked agents going door to door asking Americans for their papers, profiling people based on the color of their skin, and arresting and detaining hard-working people without warrants or cause.”
“I’ve outlined a plan to stop ICE’s lawlessness in the short term while working to abolish and replace or rebuild ICE from the ground up in the longer term.”
“Leverage the government funding process in the Senate to demand immediate reforms. Democrats must condition support for the Homeland Security Department budget on meaningful immigration reforms — including a ban on masks, warrant requirements for arrests, visible identification for officers, an end to racial profiling, reforms to ICE’s recruitment and training practices, and accountability for abuse and law-breaking.”
“Demand full, independent investigations into the murders of Renee Nicole Good, Alex Pretti, and other violent incidents, including ICE use-of-force policies and chain of command. Hold field hearings on ICE abuses nationwide, and document instances of abuse, violent conduct, and violation of constitutional rights.”
“Abolish ICE, which has only existed since 2003. Long-term reform should include a reversal of the post-9/11 establishment of ICE inside of the Department of Homeland Security. The 2003 shift split up the Immigration and Naturalization Service, establishing an enforcement agency divorced from the broader mission of implementing a comprehensive immigration policy consistent with American traditions. ICE has become a lawless, unaccountable, poorly-run agency. Immigration enforcement authority must once again sit within an agency dedicated to a broader mission.”
“Return immigration enforcement to a public-safety-centered model with appropriate limits on use of force and respect for the rule of law and constitutional rights. Immigration enforcement plays an important role in public safety, but it has to include due process and a focus on violent offenders. It must focus on making communities safer, not creating and promoting chaos.”
Focus immigration enforcement on violent criminals, not law-abiding immigrants
Guarantee due process before anyone is deported
“Return immigration enforcement to a public-safety-centered model with appropriate limits on use of force and respect for the rule of law and constitutional rights. Immigration enforcement plays an important role in public safety, but it has to include due process and a focus on violent offenders. It must focus on making communities safer, not creating and promoting chaos.”
“Go back on offense to push for the comprehensive immigration reform that Americans know we need: secure borders, fair and timely asylum processing, citizenship for DACA recipients, legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration, and enforcement that respects the due process of law and basic human dignity. Immigration is a source of strength, vitality, renewal, and growth, and Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say that.”
Fix the immigration system through comprehensive reform
Include border security and enforcement in immigration reform
Expand legal immigration and make it easier to come legally
Speed up immigration cases and clear the backlog
Hold immigration agents accountable to due process and oversight
Protect Dreamers with legal status or citizenship
“Our immigration system has been broken for decades, and everybody knows it. We need a common-sense system that is orderly, humane, and fair: secure borders, fair and timely asylum processing, legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration, and enforcement that respects the due process of law.”
“Go back on offense to push for the comprehensive immigration reform that Americans know we need: secure borders, fair and timely asylum processing, citizenship for DACA recipients, legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration, and enforcement that respects the due process of law and basic human dignity. Immigration is a source of strength, vitality, renewal, and growth, and Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say that.”
“Our immigration system has been broken for decades, and everybody knows it. We need a common-sense system that is orderly, humane, and fair: secure borders, fair and timely asylum processing, legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration, and enforcement that respects the due process of law.”
“Go back on offense to push for the comprehensive immigration reform that Americans know we need: secure borders, fair and timely asylum processing, citizenship for DACA recipients, legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration, and enforcement that respects the due process of law and basic human dignity. Immigration is a source of strength, vitality, renewal, and growth, and Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say that.”
“Go back on offense to push for the comprehensive immigration reform that Americans know we need: secure borders, fair and timely asylum processing, citizenship for DACA recipients, legal pathways that encourage more legal immigration, and enforcement that respects the due process of law and basic human dignity. Immigration is a source of strength, vitality, renewal, and growth, and Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say that.”
Tie immigration enforcement funding to conduct rules and oversight
“Leverage the government funding process in the Senate to demand immediate reforms. Democrats must condition support for the Homeland Security Department budget on meaningful immigration reforms — including a ban on masks, warrant requirements for arrests, visible identification for officers, an end to racial profiling, reforms to ICE’s recruitment and training practices, and accountability for abuse and law-breaking.”
Set binding safety rules for the most powerful AI models
Give a federal agency the power and expertise to oversee AI safety
Protect children from AI harms
Protect AI whistleblowers
Control access to advanced AI chips
“We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without massive lay-offs, letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids to AI-created content that makes it hard to know truth from lies, or a data center buildout that drives up electricity costs for families. We need guardrails. And we need to protect workers.”
“Congress should act quickly to establish a federal framework for AI that includes clear standards for transparency and testing. That will require increased investment in the Center for AI Standards and Innovation to ensure that the federal government has the capacity to test & evaluate models for safety and alignment.”
“Congress should also take action to maintain our international lead in AI development, because winning the AI race doesn't mean running it without rules, it means being the country that writes them.”
“This is where we are with frontier AI right now, which is why we need to strengthen our export controls so advanced computer chips don’t fall into the wrong hands. And we need to treat the theft of frontier AI models like a national security threat by requiring labs to strengthen their security to government-grade standards.”
Keep the U.S. leading the world in AI and new technology
Keep advanced chips and American investment out of adversaries' hands
Protect American technology and inventions from theft
Set rules so AI is developed safely as the U.S. leads
“It’s important that the United States continue leading the world in AI development, but we need to make sure it’s developed safely and works for people, not just tech companies and billionaires.”
“Congress should also take action to maintain our international lead in AI development, because winning the AI race doesn't mean running it without rules, it means being the country that writes them.”
“This is where we are with frontier AI right now, which is why we need to strengthen our export controls so advanced computer chips don’t fall into the wrong hands. And we need to treat the theft of frontier AI models like a national security threat by requiring labs to strengthen their security to government-grade standards.”
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“No parent should have to be a software engineer to keep their child safe. We’ve watched as social media has harmed a generation of kids’ mental health, and we can’t let the same happen with AI chatbots. I’d be proud to join Sen. Blumenthal in pushing for the GUARD Act, which would bar minors from accessing chatbots and mandate disclosure that chatbots aren’t humans or licensed professionals. We cannot allow AI companies to put their bottom lines before kids’ wellbeing.”
Raise income tax rates on millionaires and top earners
Raise taxes on capital gains and investment income of the wealthy
End the carried interest tax break for fund managers
Close tax loopholes used by the wealthy
Raise taxes on large inheritances
Crack down on tax evasion by the wealthy
“We need a tax system that is progressive, fair, simple, and enforced. That means closing ridiculous loopholes, making it harder to shield huge fortunes from taxes for generation after generation, and ensuring the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations actually pay their fair share.”
“End multiple loopholes that benefit only the wealthiest Americans, from the carried interest loophole which lets hedge fund managers treat their fees as capital gains, to the loopholes that allow wealthy families to avoid tax liabilities by borrowing against their assets and passing investments onto their heirs without paying capital gains.”
“Curb permanent wealth concentration by increasing the estate tax and ending dynastic trusts, so the ultra-wealthy can’t shield assets that exist in perpetuity, indefinitely transferring wealth across generations while avoiding gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.”
“Make the richest Americans pay a fairer share by reversing decades of tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, rolling back Trump’s tax cut for high income earners, and adding two new top income tax brackets.”
“Actually enforce tax laws against the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations, which use armies of lawyers and accountants to dodge what they owe — and which the Trump administration has made easier by gutting the IRS.”
“The tax code is riddled with loopholes that reward wealth over work and allow those at the top to avoid paying what they owe. Meanwhile, working families and small businesses carry the burden, and we’re building up debt at a level that’s going to bankrupt our kids and grandkids.”
Stop corporations from shifting profits offshore to avoid taxes
Crack down on corporate tax evasion and avoidance
“We need a tax system that is progressive, fair, simple, and enforced. That means closing ridiculous loopholes, making it harder to shield huge fortunes from taxes for generation after generation, and ensuring the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations actually pay their fair share.”
“Make big corporations pay what they owe by restoring the corporate tax rate back to the pre-Trump rate of 35% or at minimum to 28%, while shutting down offshore tax avoidance schemes that allow corporations to dodge taxes by offshoring profits.”
“Actually enforce tax laws against the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations, which use armies of lawyers and accountants to dodge what they owe — and which the Trump administration has made easier by gutting the IRS.”
“The tax code is riddled with loopholes that reward wealth over work and allow those at the top to avoid paying what they owe. Meanwhile, working families and small businesses carry the burden, and we’re building up debt at a level that’s going to bankrupt our kids and grandkids.”
“Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.
Every woman must have the right to decide what to do with her body, what is best for her health, and when, how, and whether she wants to start a family. Congress must pass federal protections for abortion access nationwide.”
“And as a member of Congress, I will fight to make sure that my two daughters have the same rights as their mother and grandmothers had, no matter where they live in this country.”
Cut administrative waste and middlemen in health care
“Every single American should have access to primary and preventive care. And we need to get rid of the ridiculous administrative costs and unnecessary middlemen that suck up so much money in the healthcare system.”
“We need to protect and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, negotiate down the price of prescription drugs, and push for universal, affordable healthcare. We need a strong public option so that any American who wants to participate in Medicare can do so.”
“We need to protect and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, negotiate down the price of prescription drugs, and push for universal, affordable healthcare. We need a strong public option so that any American who wants to participate in Medicare can do so.”
“We need to protect and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, negotiate down the price of prescription drugs, and push for universal, affordable healthcare. We need a strong public option so that any American who wants to participate in Medicare can do so.”
“We need to protect and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, negotiate down the price of prescription drugs, and push for universal, affordable healthcare. We need a strong public option so that any American who wants to participate in Medicare can do so.”
“That means expanding access to affordable childcare and eldercare, raising wages for caregivers, and helping families pay for care without going broke.”
“In the near term, we must pass the Break Up Big Medicine Act, a bipartisan bill put forward by an unlikely alliance: Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley.”
“Healthcare monopolies aren’t healthy for our country. In Congress, I’ll fight to break up healthcare monopolies to protect Americans from extracting profit at the expense of affordable, accessible healthcare.”
“We also have a chance to save lives and save money by investing in research and development to help diagnose disease early and develop new treatments and cures, for everything from chronic conditions to cancer.”
“As Mayor, I led the passage of one of the first ordinances in the country to protect against the abuses of crisis pregnancy centers, which often mislead women who are seeking reproductive care. That ordinance became a model for legislation in the state of Connecticut.”
“High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.”
“Making things more affordable means being serious about how markets actually work and recognizing when they don’t. It means fixing bottlenecks that artificially drive up prices, from permitting delays to outdated regulations. It means making smart public investments. And it means doing everything possible to create more good, well-paid jobs.”
“High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.”
“The tax code is riddled with loopholes that reward wealth over work and allow those at the top to avoid paying what they owe. Meanwhile, working families and small businesses carry the burden, and we’re building up debt at a level that’s going to bankrupt our kids and grandkids.”
“Why does this matter? Because right now, we’re racking up levels of deficits and debt that are going to crush our economy in the long-run. We’re literally borrowing from our kids to fund loopholes for the ultra-wealthy today.”
“I’ll fight for common-sense gun laws like universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red-flag laws, firearms education, accountability for repeat violent offenders, and serious consequences for gun dealers and gun manufacturers who break the law.”
Ban or restrict assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
Pass red flag laws
Promote safe storage and handling of guns
Hold gun makers and dealers legally accountable
Crack down on gun crime and gun trafficking
Fund gun violence prevention programs and research
Reduce gun violence
“Prior to his terms as Mayor, Luke served as General Counsel to former Governor Dannel Malloy, where he helped enact Connecticut’s common sense gun laws, supported green energy initiatives, and made ending chronic homelessness among veterans a priority.”
“As General Counsel to Connecticut’s Governor in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook, I helped to write the comprehensive set of common-sense gun laws that made Connecticut a model when it comes to gun safety.”
“I’ll fight for common-sense gun laws like universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red-flag laws, firearms education, accountability for repeat violent offenders, and serious consequences for gun dealers and gun manufacturers who break the law.”
“And I’ll work to reverse the Trump administration’s damaging cuts to ATF, which is a vital partner in helping to trace crime guns and identify the illegal gun dealers that flood our streets with guns. ATF needs to be strengthened, not cut.”
Make trade school and community college affordable and open to all
“As a Member of Congress, I’ll fight to expand support to quality classroom education across the country, from early childhood education all the way through to affordable pathways to college or skilled trades.”
“As a Member of Congress, I’ll fight to expand support to quality classroom education across the country, from early childhood education all the way through to affordable pathways to college or skilled trades.”
Make college and trade school affordable and available to all
“As a Member of Congress, I’ll fight to expand support to quality classroom education across the country, from early childhood education all the way through to affordable pathways to college or skilled trades.”
Focus schools on reading, writing, math, science and history
Teach more subjects such as STEM, arts, civics, health and personal finance
“As artificial intelligence comes at us fast, it’s more important than ever that every single child in America is prepared to be a strong critical thinker.
We need to double down on the fundamentals of reading, math, science, and history.”
“We need to make it faster and cheaper to build what we need. That means modernizing permitting, cutting unnecessary red tape, and investing at scale in modern infrastructure.”
“As a member of Congress, I’ll fight to expand on the infrastructure law that was passed by Democrats a few years ago – and also to make sure that we build faster and more efficiently, so that we get stuff done and treat taxpayer dollars like they matter.”
“And at a time when AI threatens to kill a lot of jobs in the short term, investing in infrastructure is a critically important way to put people to work on good-paying jobs that make a difference.”
“In some areas, we need to make investments that the private sector won’t make on its own. For example, expanding the supply of clean energy, building a modern electric grid, and building 21st century transit.”
“I’ll also fight to enshrine protections for marriage quality and I’ll support the Global Respect Act to help protect LGBTQ+ people around the world who face physical harm and persecution.”
“Just as we don’t build enough housing, we also don’t build enough transit, modern infrastructure, or produce enough energy. And the result is higher rents and home prices, higher electricity prices, trains that go slower than they did a century ago, and slower economic growth.”
“High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.”
“We need more flexible federal financing tools, to help communities build a mix of market rate and affordable housing in a way that’s healthy for neighborhoods.”
“High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.”
“Policy choices have directly driven up costs. The biggest example is Trump’s tariffs and unnecessary trade wars. But we’ve also made it way too hard and costly to build housing. We’ve prohibited Medicare and Medicaid from negotiating drug prices on all but a handful of drugs. And we’ve turned a blind eye when the consolidation of corporate power reduces competition and drives up costs.”
“Making things more affordable means being serious about how markets actually work and recognizing when they don’t. It means fixing bottlenecks that artificially drive up prices, from permitting delays to outdated regulations. It means making smart public investments. And it means doing everything possible to create more good, well-paid jobs.”
“We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without massive lay-offs, letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids to AI-created content that makes it hard to know truth from lies, or a data center buildout that drives up electricity costs for families. We need guardrails. And we need to protect workers.”
“We also need to make sure that we guard against the risks that AI will pose to our national security, and that our tax code is fair so that the AI boom doesn’t just supercharge wealth concentration at the top, but instead helps us make new investments in people, in jobs, in infrastructure, in education, and in communities.”
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“We also have got to make sure that we’re prepared for the way that AI will transform our economy. I ran a city that lived through what happens when the economy changes and nobody plans for it. Hartford did not get hollowed out overnight. It got hollowed out because the people making decisions decided the workers who got left behind were somebody else’s problem. I am not going to sit in Congress and watch that happen again on a national scale and call it innovation.”
“And we need to get to work immediately to tighten ethics rules, enforce the law without fear or favor, ban Congressional stock trading, and ensure that no one — not presidents, not billionaires, not public officials — is above the law.”
Require disclosure of political donors and end dark money
“We need to cut that corruption out like a cancer.
That means overturning Citizens United to get dark money out of politics, restricting the President’s unlimited pardon power, and rolling back the sweeping immunity that the Supreme Court has given the President. Doing it right will take a Constitutional amendment, and we need to fight to do it right.”
“We need to cut that corruption out like a cancer.
That means overturning Citizens United to get dark money out of politics, restricting the President’s unlimited pardon power, and rolling back the sweeping immunity that the Supreme Court has given the President. Doing it right will take a Constitutional amendment, and we need to fight to do it right.”
“That means expanding access to affordable childcare and eldercare, raising wages for caregivers, and helping families pay for care without going broke.”
“As a member of Congress, I’ll work to ensure that Social Security is there for everyone who’s receiving it now, and for everyone who’s paying into it now and depending on it in the future.”
“Prior to his terms as Mayor, Luke served as General Counsel to former Governor Dannel Malloy, where he helped enact Connecticut’s common sense gun laws, supported green energy initiatives, and made ending chronic homelessness among veterans a priority.”
“We need to build quickly and at scale. That means streamlining red tape that makes it too hard and costly to build. It means using smart public investments to accelerate the transition. And it means modernizing our energy grid.”
“High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.”
“In some areas, we need to make investments that the private sector won’t make on its own. For example, expanding the supply of clean energy, building a modern electric grid, and building 21st century transit.”
Keep data centers from raising household utility bills
“We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without massive lay-offs, letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids to AI-created content that makes it hard to know truth from lies, or a data center buildout that drives up electricity costs for families. We need guardrails. And we need to protect workers.”
Keep data centers and other big power users from raising household bills
“We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without massive lay-offs, letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids to AI-created content that makes it hard to know truth from lies, or a data center buildout that drives up electricity costs for families. We need guardrails. And we need to protect workers.”
“High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.”
Invest in upgrading and modernizing the power grid
“We need to build quickly and at scale. That means streamlining red tape that makes it too hard and costly to build. It means using smart public investments to accelerate the transition. And it means modernizing our energy grid.”
“In some areas, we need to make investments that the private sector won’t make on its own. For example, expanding the supply of clean energy, building a modern electric grid, and building 21st century transit.”
“We also need to help communities adapt to extreme weather and support the research that can help us mitigate the worst effects of climate change, now and over the long term.”
Prepare communities and infrastructure for extreme weather
“We also need to help communities adapt to extreme weather and support the research that can help us mitigate the worst effects of climate change, now and over the long term.”
“Climate change isn’t some distant future threat. It’s now. And it’s going to get worse, quickly – with extreme weather including droughts, heat waves, floods, and hurricanes.”
“The Trump administration is doubling down on dirty and inefficient fossil fuels, data centers threaten to suck up more and more energy, and our planet is on track to hit dangerous tipping points.”
“I spent years in Obama’s Treasury Department building the Iran sanctions program and chasing terrorist financing, and I deployed to Afghanistan as a Navy intelligence officer.”
Make permits and licenses faster and cheaper to get
“Making things more affordable means being serious about how markets actually work and recognizing when they don’t. It means fixing bottlenecks that artificially drive up prices, from permitting delays to outdated regulations. It means making smart public investments. And it means doing everything possible to create more good, well-paid jobs.”
“High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.”
“Policy choices have directly driven up costs. The biggest example is Trump’s tariffs and unnecessary trade wars. But we’ve also made it way too hard and costly to build housing. We’ve prohibited Medicare and Medicaid from negotiating drug prices on all but a handful of drugs. And we’ve turned a blind eye when the consolidation of corporate power reduces competition and drives up costs.”
“Policy choices have directly driven up costs. The biggest example is Trump’s tariffs and unnecessary trade wars. But we’ve also made it way too hard and costly to build housing. We’ve prohibited Medicare and Medicaid from negotiating drug prices on all but a handful of drugs. And we’ve turned a blind eye when the consolidation of corporate power reduces competition and drives up costs.”
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“Luke served as a senior official in President Obama’s Treasury Department and was part of the team that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to protect Americans from predatory lending and financial abuse.”
