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Establish a single-payer Medicare for All system that replaces most private health insurance.
support: will sponsor Medicare for All on Day One
Official campaign positionIn Congress, Claire will sponsor Medicare for All on Day One and fight the insurance companies that profit from denying care and driving up costs.
Create a public health-insurance option that competes with private plans.
unclear: backs Medicare for All (single-payer); no public option (rule 5)
Official campaign positionIn Congress, Claire will fight to pass Medicare for All to ensure that all New Yorkers are able to receive high quality, free healthcare
Raise the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour.
Will cosponsor the Raise the Wage Act for a $17 federal minimum wage by 2030.
Official campaign positionClaire will cosponsor The Raise the Wage Act to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2030.
Expand the Child Tax Credit beyond current law, in amount or refundability.
Research found no documented position. This is not opposition.
Impose or expand rent regulation (rent caps, rent control or rent stabilization), at any level of government.
support: expand rent control to every tenant in the country / support: pass national rent control
Official campaign positionClaire will fight to: Pass national rent control.
Official campaign positionRent control must be expanded not just to every New York tenant but to every tenant in the country.
Use federal policy to loosen local zoning and land-use rules so more housing gets built.
support: condition federal housing dollars on eliminating exclusionary zoning
Official campaign positionClaire will fight to condition federal housing dollars on states and municipalities eliminating zoning rules that prevent multifamily housing, mixed-use development, and transit-oriented communities.
Enact legal protections for workers against replacement or displacement by AI, such as notice, bargaining rights or limits on replacement.
support: AI regulation so it does not lay off millions of workers / support: will cosponsor AI data center moratorium bill conditioned on worker protections against job displacement
Official campaign positionPush for tough AI regulation, so its rapid expansion doesn't increase energy bills, degrade the environment or lay off millions of workers
Official campaign positionClaire will cosponsor the proposed bill from Senator Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez that would place a moratorium on new data center development contingent on several safeguards being in place, including worker protections related to job displacement, effects on energy prices, and climate impacts.
US weapons to Israel: support or oppose
support: end all weapons sales and military aid to Israel / support: full suspension of military funding and arms transfers to Israel
Official campaign positionPush to end all weapons sales and military aid to Israel and fight for Palestinian freedom;
Official campaign positionClaire will push for a full suspension of U.S. military funding and arms transfers to Israel until it complies with international law and ends its campaign of violence against Palestinians.
Increase federal funding for border security and enforcement (CBP, barriers, technology, personnel).
unclear: demilitarize the border; no funding stance
Official campaign positionDemilitarize the border.
Limit new data-centre construction, including AI data centres, or make operators pay the full cost of the power, water and grid upgrades they use.
support: campaign site calls for limits on new data-centre construction, local power to reject projects, or operators paying their own power/water/grid costs
Official campaign positionAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act which places a responsible pause on new data center construction while establishing strict environmental protections, banning corporate subsidies, empowering local community oversight, and mandating strong union labor standards.
Member of: DSA
Democratic Socialists of America
Member · 2026-10-07
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Official campaign position
Push to end all weapons sales and military aid to Israel and fight for Palestinian freedom;
Condition or scope: block; all weapons sales and military aid to Israel
Issues | Claire Valdez for Congress · Undated · Evidence grade A
Official campaign position
Claire will push for a full suspension of U.S. military funding and arms transfers to Israel until it complies with international law and ends its campaign of violence against Palestinians.
Condition or scope: block (suspension until compliance with international law); all U.S. military funding and arms transfers to Israel
International Solidarity, Not War and Genocide | Claire Valdez for Congress · Undated · Evidence grade A
Five questions, each answered only from the candidate’s own words, their campaign’s published position, a joint statement they issued, or a recorded House vote. Any condition or limit they attached is shown with the quote. “No public position found” means a reviewed search of their campaign site and official statements found nothing; it is not a position. This section is not scored against any group and does not feed the DSA Scare-O-Meter.
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