Currently holds the office of Illinois State Senate - District 16 until January 4, 2027.
Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Illinois 2nd Congressional District in 2026 Illinois Primary Election.
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Get StartedINVESTMENT in Black and minority-owned businesses via direct contracting requirements and enabled by increased funding for Minority-Serving Community Development Financial Institutions to enable more access to capital for these businesses.
BREAKING UP BLACKROCK and regulating other vulture capital firms
REPEAL of the Trump tax cuts for billionaires, Medicaid and ACA destruction
RESTORATION of funding and increased support for Medicaid, Medicare, the Veterans Administration, the Affordable Care Act and prescription drug supports – paid for by repealing the Big Ugly GOP spending bill’s tax breaks for ultra-wealthy millionaires and billionaires.
UNIVERSAL pre-K for every family that wants it.
RETURNING federal funding for research
ENSURING food security for every student in the United States and promoting healthy meals by local purchase agreements with family farms.
PROTECTION AND RESTORATION of the Department of Education
INVESTING in local food systems and restoring Regional Food Business Centers and the Funding for Local Food Purchasing and Local Food For Schools programs
STOPPING CHINA & WALL STREET from buying up farmland, endangering our national food security.
ENDING SUBSIDIES for mega-ag corporations and directing those funds instead to smaller family farms.
FORMATION of a SNAP Defense Caucus
INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING to build new maternal care and birthing centers throughout the South Side, Southland and Central Illinois.
MODERNIZING Supplemental Social Security Income, reforming outdated asset limits and eliminating marriage penalties that reduce benefits for couples.
EXPANSION of the Earned Income Tax Credit for seniors AND the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services program.
RESTORATION of tax fairness for the Middle Class and working families and a repeal of the massive breaks passed by Republicans under Trump
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