Our campaign is fighting for a powerful set of policies that will reshape our economy, minimize inequality and reverse the effects of climate change. Through a Green New Deal, we will eliminate our greenhouse gas emissions and guarantee a high-wage job to everyone who wants one. And we’re not stopping there—our platform calls for federal limits on rent increases, transformative criminal justice reform, Medicare for All and tuition-free public college.
The time for half measures is over. We need solutions that are big enough to match the crises we face.
In order for us to put everyday New Yorkers first, we have to take on the powerful, corrupting influence of corporate money in politics.
Alexandria's campaign is 100% people-powered.
This investment will create nearly 9 million new jobs in clean energy, reduce dangerous emissions by 40% by 2030, and lower annual energy bills by $1,000 per household. Working with other House Members, Alexandria also launched the first Green New Deal projects and secured 100 million dollars for more than sixty projects, stretching from Hawai’i to Vermont.
Alexandria expanded Green New Deal support in Congress with 17 new co-sponsors. She also developed a Green New Deal implementation guide to help local governments and nonprofits apply for federal grants that meet Green New Deal goals, and successfully pushed the White House to create the American Climate Corps—a pilot program providing thousands of new jobs to fight climate change.
We helped pass into law The Inflation Reduction Act - which will provide funding for the IRS to go after wealthy tax evaders, establish a 15% minimum tax rate on the wealthiest corporations, and set a 1% tax on stock buybacks used to benefit wealthy shareholders.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act expands background check requirements for the sale of firearms to individuals under 21 years of age, prohibits gun ownership to those convicted of abusing a dating partner (closing the ‘boyfriend loophole’), and increases funding for mental health programs and school security updates.
Medicare will soon have the ability to negotiate some drug prices for the first time. Alexandria also helped to cap insulin prices at $35 per month, and out-of-pocket costs at $2000 per year, for those covered by Medicare.
Including a new labor unit and delivery unit at Elmhurst Hospital to improve care for mothers and babies at our Queens public hospital, and a workforce training program for 300 students at SUNY Maritime to prepare for good, union jobs in green energy.
Homework Helpers, our volunteer tutoring program, established a chapter at the University at Buffalo, and provided over 4000 sessions of free homework help to students all throughout NY-14. Become a Homework Helpers Volunteer Tutor here, or sign up for free online homework help here!
In the House, alongside Rep. Velazquez and others, Alexandria helped lead negotiations and passage of the Puerto Rico Status Act, which acknowledges the U.S. as a colonizing force for the first time in history and outlines a process for Boricuas to determine their own future. Alexandria also successfully passed an amendment that required the U.S. military to provide an update on their efforts to clean up hazardous waste in Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Alexandria raised $100k for fellow progressive Members and candidates who are facing unprecedented efforts from AIPAC and special interest groups seeking to unseat pro-ceasefire Members of Congress.
Alexandria and her congressional team helped NY-14 residents get back over $1.9 million that they were owed from federal agencies. In total, they opened over 1,800 cases, responded to thousands of calls and met with over 800 walk-ins.
In a modern, moral society, no one should be too poor to get the care they need. With over 30 million unemployed, and in the face of a global pandemic, we must finally separate health insurance from unemployment and expand Medicare.
We must take action to provide stable, affordable housing to everyone, once and for all.
Instead of investing in mass incarceration, we need to invest in the most vulnerable members of our society.
Undocumented individuals fill so many of the essential jobs that kept this country running during COVID-19. It is past time to make them full members of the country they call their home and abolish ICE.
With our country facing the greatest levels of unemployment since the Great Depression, the plan to create millions of quality, high-wage jobs has never been more important. We must take action to stave off another global crisis and address unemployment, now.
Of course, [Republicans are] going to be calling hearings on horrible things, but our job is to protect the people and protect the vulnerable communities that they seek to attack. It gives us an opportunity and a platform to de-legitimize a lot of the disinformation that they’ve ...
This administration is making it effectively impossible to seek refuge at our border. President Biden should listen to the courts and human rights advocates and reverse course.
"One of the things we've been diving in right away is the really unique energy and electrical needs around here, but there's just a difference between doing something in person in community when we can have those one-on-one conversations, versus just seeing things through a scree...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Tuesday that she has secured $15 million in federal funds that will be going toward several Queens and Bronx community-based organizations.
In those weeks after Roe’s demise, Ocasio-Cortez was ubiquitous: at rallies and on television, demanding that her colleagues move with urgency to protect access to reproductive health services and calling on men in particular to share their stories of how they had benefited from ...
At the federal level, Ocasio-Cortez said that she helped secure funding for a jobs program, training over 300 State University of New York Maritime College students in skills necessary to build underwater pylons, which are crucial in developing wind turbines and making the switch...
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