Linda Sánchez
Bio
- The Secretary of State's certified list prints her name as Linda Sánchez with party preference Democratic and ballot designation Congresswoman/Mom. The Orange County Registrar of Voters proof list prints LINDA SÁNCHEZ, Democratic, ballot designation Congresswoman/Mom, with a qualified date of August 7, 2026.S1S3
- The Federal Election Commission records her 2026 candidacy for California House District 41 as incumbent, and Ballotpedia's page for this election marks her as the incumbent. The Orange County proof list, which is the county's record for the redrawn district, records no incumbent for the 41st District.S25S12S3
- Her official House biography says she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, that she is the first Latina to serve on the House Committee on Ways and Means and on the House Judiciary Committee, that in 2024 she became the first Latina and woman of color to serve as a ranking member on a Ways and Means subcommittee and that she currently serves as the ranking member of the Trade Subcommittee. It says she was born in Orange, California, the sixth of seven children, to immigrant parents from Mexico, that her father Ignacio worked as an industrial machinist and mechanic at a plastics and rubber plant and her mother Maria was an elementary school teacher, and that she attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Spanish literature with an emphasis in bilingual education in 1991, and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned a law degree in 1995. On her career before Congress it says she worked as an attorney practicing appellate law, civil rights and employment law, that after the 1998 election she worked for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 441 and the National Electrical Contractors Association as a compliance officer on public works and prevailing wage issues, and that in 2000 she was elected executive director of the Orange County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. It adds that she was the first woman IBEW member elected to Congress and that she and her sister Loretta, who served in the House from 1997 to 2017, are the first women of any relation to serve together in Congress.S15
- On leadership, the same official biography says she co-founded the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus, that she was the Ranking Member of the House Ethics Committee from 2011 to 2017 in the 112th through 114th Congresses, that she served as Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the 114th Congress and as Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus in the 115th Congress, and that she is the first Latina elected to a leadership position in the U.S. Congress. Her office's committees page lists her caucus roles as former Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, co-founder of the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and Vice Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.S15S16
- A May 15, 2026 campaign press release describes her as the House Democratic Chief Deputy Whip and as the current chair of BOLD PAC, the campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The Orange County Register also reported in its June 2, 2026 election results article that she chairs BOLD PAC, the campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and that she is a longtime member of Congress first elected in 2003. Ballotpedia reports she was first elected in 2002 and that she most recently represented the old 38th District.S22S11S12
- In the October 2026 questionnaire she gave her age as 57, her current job title as Congresswoman, her party affiliation as Democratic, checked the incumbent question yes, answered not applicable for other political positions held, said she lives in Whittier, and gave voteforlinda.com as her campaign website. In the May 2026 primary questionnaire she gave the same age, city and website.S7S9
- Her campaign biography says she was born in Orange County to immigrant parents from Mexico, that her father worked as an industrial mechanic and her mother was an elementary school teacher, that she is the proud mom of Joaquín, born in 2009, and that she is only the eighth woman in history to give birth while serving in Congress. The party press release from her campaign says she is one of only 13 women in history to give birth while serving in Congress. Those are the campaign's own descriptions.S20S22
- The Office of the Clerk's member profile records her as representing California's 38th District, with hometown Whittier, and lists her committee assignment as the Committee on Ways and Means with the Health and Trade subcommittees in the 119th Congress, 2nd Session.S37
Record in office
- Committee work: her office says she serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means, which it describes as the chief tax-writing committee in Congress and as playing a critical role in federal legislation on trade, Social Security and Medicare, and that she serves on the Trade subcommittee as its ranking member and on the Health subcommittee. Her office says she is the first Latina and the first woman of color to lead her party on a Ways and Means subcommittee. Ballotpedia's committee assignment history for her lists Ways and Means from the 115th Congress through the current 119th Congress, with Health and Trade subcommittees in 2025-2026, and the Ethics Committee as Ranking Member in the 112th, 113th and 114th Congresses.S16S14
- Rental Housing Investment Act, H.R. 8996: her office announced on May 21, 2026 that she introduced the bill with Representatives Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) and Darin LaHood (R-Ill.). Her office says the bill would allow builders to immediately deduct up to $150,000 per unit in construction costs instead of recovering them over 27.5 years, provide an enhanced deduction of up to $250,000 per unit for projects that include income-restricted units reserved for working families with a requirement to maintain attainability commitments for at least 15 years, and apply only to newly constructed multifamily rental housing. The govinfo BILLSTATUS record for H.R. 8996 shows the bill was introduced on May 21, 2026, sponsored by Representative Sánchez with Representative Tenney as an original cosponsor, and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.S17S32
- Child Care Supply Tax Credit Act, H.R. 8023: her office announced on March 19, 2026 that she and Representative Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) introduced the bill, which her office says would create a tax credit for eligible child care facilities to help offset the cost of employee wages, to encourage higher pay for workers who directly care for children and to keep the benefit from going to administrative overhead. The govinfo BILLSTATUS record shows H.R. 8023 was introduced on March 19, 2026 with Representative Sánchez as sponsor and Representative Miller as an original cosponsor, referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.S18S33
- Other bills she names in her questionnaire answers: on health insurance she says she introduced the Health Insurance Premium Fairness Act to close what she calls a loophole that raises premiums for married couples when one spouse ages into Medicare while the other remains on an Affordable Care Act plan, and the govinfo BILLSTATUS record shows H.R. 6455, the Health Insurance Premium Fairness Act of 2025, introduced December 4, 2025 by Representative Mike Levin with Sánchez as an original cosponsor. On data centers she says she cosponsored the Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act, and H.R. 6529 of that name was introduced December 9, 2025 by Representative Greg Landsman with Sánchez as a cosponsor and was ordered reported by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on a 44 to 0 vote on July 21, 2026. She also says she cosponsored the Energy Bills Relief Act, and H.R. 7977 of that name was introduced March 18, 2026 by Representative Sean Casten with Sánchez among its cosponsors.S7S34S35S36
- Immigration: she says in her May 2026 questionnaire answer that she is leading the U.S. Citizenship Act in Congress and describes it as creating an earned pathway to citizenship for law-abiding, hardworking individuals, legalizing Dreamers and farmworkers, clearing the family-based visa backlog, strengthening asylum and humanitarian protections, and addressing what she calls ICE abuses by requiring agents to show identification, banning masks and prohibiting enforcement actions in sensitive places such as schools, churches and hospitals. This file records that description as her statement. A search of govinfo bill records during this run did not identify a 119th Congress bill with that title sponsored by her, and she does not give a bill number for it in the questionnaire.S9S7
- Her campaign website lists results it credits to her. It says she passed legislation to ban hedge funds from buying up single-family homes and that she introduced legislation to make child care more affordable by helping centers hire and retain qualified workers without passing the costs on to parents, that she passed a law to ban insurance companies from charging women more than men for the same health coverage, and that she introduced bipartisan legislation to provide a tax credit for working families caring for a sick or elderly loved one at home. These are the campaign's own claims. On the hedge fund item, this run found a July 13, 2026 announcement that she joined Representatives Adam Smith, Ro Khanna and Nikema Williams in introducing the Protecting American Homes from Hedge Funds Act as an original cosponsor, and that release describes the bill as introduced and legislation to remove hedge funds and large institutional investors from the single-family rental market; no enactment of that bill was found during this run.S21S38
- Community project funding: her campaign says she has secured more than $58 million in direct funding for projects in the communities she represents, listing $322,000 to revitalize Constitution Park in Bellflower, $2.2 million for Lakewood including to modernize the Lakewood Sheriff's Station, $2 million to improve and preserve Neff Park in La Mirada, $1.7 million to modernize the Uptown Whittier Family YMCA Center, and land to build Lakewood's first dog park. Those are the campaign's own figures. In her May 2026 questionnaire answer on public safety she also says she secured millions of dollars for public safety programs in Whittier, Norwalk and La Mirada.S21S9
- She finished first in the June 2, 2026 primary with 61,651 votes, 37.5 percent, and advanced to the general election. In a statement carried by the Orange County Register she thanked voters and said she would keep fighting to bring down costs for working families, hold the Trump administration accountable and protect what she called our democracy.S2S11
Positions
Taxes
- She says tax policy should favor working families and that the tax law she calls Trump's tax cuts for billionaires made basic necessities less affordable, and she says she has led efforts to overturn what she calls the president's illegal tariffs because they raise grocery prices. In her campaign materials she lists tax credits she has introduced or supports: the Child Care Supply Tax Credit Act, a credit for families caring for a sick or elderly loved one at home, and the Health Insurance Premium Fairness Act, which would count Medicare premiums of household members in determining the health insurance premium tax credit. She says she is a cosponsor of the TRUST Act to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks and that she does not own individual stocks herself. She does not set out specific income tax rates in the materials reviewed.S7S9S20S21S18S34
Housing
- She says housing prices are spiking because there are not enough homes to meet demand, and that Southern California lacks affordable rental housing, particularly multifamily apartment buildings. Her stated federal fix is the bipartisan Rental Housing Investment Act she introduced, which would let builders immediately deduct up to $150,000 per unit in construction costs instead of spreading deductions over 27.5 years, with an enhanced deduction of up to $250,000 per unit for projects with income-restricted units and a 15-year attainability commitment, limited to newly constructed multifamily rental housing. She says the measure of success for a housing policy is whether it produces more affordable housing for working families. Her campaign also says she passed legislation to ban hedge funds from buying up single-family homes; a bill she joined as an original cosponsor in July 2026 was introduced rather than enacted, as noted in her record above.S7S17S21S32S38
Cost of living
- She calls affordability the single most important issue the district faces. In the October 2026 questionnaire she says costs are rising because of policies she attributes to President Trump and the Republican majority, listing what she calls an unnecessary war in Iran that she says spiked gas and energy prices and tariffs she says drive up groceries and housing, and she says a Democratic majority would end that war and pass her legislation to repeal the tariffs. Her longer term proposal in that answer is the Child Care Supply Tax Credit Act, which would create a tax credit for child care providers that pay qualified teachers, and her office says California parents pay nearly $22,000 a year for infant care and $13,000 for a four-year-old. In her May 2026 answer she also lists introduced legislation on housing, health care and child care costs and having voted against the Iran war.S7S9S18
Public safety
- She calls public safety a top priority and says it cannot come at the expense of personal liberties. In the October 2026 questionnaire she says she has a real concern about Flock Safety license plate readers, which she says are now in more than 5,000 communities, that there are not enough safeguards to prevent abuse, and that she is alarmed by what she says is the Trump administration's use of Flock data for immigration enforcement, pointing to reports that some police departments share their camera access with federal immigration authorities. She says additional privacy safeguards are needed now. Her May 2026 answer says she secured millions of dollars for public safety programs in Whittier, Norwalk and La Mirada and that she has authored bipartisan bills to stop bullying in schools and to keep fentanyl and other drugs out of classrooms. Her campaign announced in May 2026 that the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, which the release says represents about 4,600 active and retired sworn officers, endorsed her, and her campaign lists $2.2 million including modernization of the Lakewood Sheriff's Station among funded projects.S7S9S22S21
Education
- She says she is a former ESL teacher and that she has fought to improve education from early childhood through college, to block cuts to public education and to secure money for schools in her district, in the press release announcing the California Federation of Teachers endorsement, which the release says represents 147 local unions of education workers. She says she has authored bipartisan bills to stop bullying in schools and to keep fentanyl and other dangerous drugs out of classrooms. On social media and young people she says California's protections, which she lists as rules against addictive algorithms that target children, notification bans during school hours and at night, and stronger parental controls and privacy settings, should be the model for the rest of the country. She does not set out a position on federal school funding formulas or on private school choice in the materials reviewed.S23S9S19
Health care
- She says Republicans made it harder for families to afford health care and that subsidies under the Affordable Care Act that she says kept premiums down for working families expired, with an estimated 15 million Americans losing coverage and Californians who signed up for ACA plans seeing premiums rise by nearly $100 a month; she says a Democratic majority would restore those subsidies immediately. She says she introduced the Health Insurance Premium Fairness Act to close what she calls a loophole that raises premiums for married couples when one spouse ages into Medicare while the other stays on an ACA plan, and that she has introduced bills expanding Medicare coverage for adult day care and reforming the hospice benefit to improve care and prevent fraud. Her campaign says she is fighting to restore Medicaid funding, protect ACA subsidies, lower prescription drug costs and ensure no one is denied coverage for a pre-existing condition. In her May 2026 answer she says she will not support more money for what she calls the president's war in Iran and that the money would be better spent on extending health care subsidies and other domestic needs.S7S9S21
Homelessness
- She treats homelessness mainly as a housing supply problem: she says there are not enough homes to meet demand and that her Rental Housing Investment Act would increase the supply of affordable rental housing, and her campaign lists the federal community project funding she says she secured in district cities. The materials reviewed for this file, including both of her questionnaires and her campaign pages, do not include a separate statement from her on federal funding for shelters, rental assistance or behavioral health programs for people who are already homeless.S7S21S17
Transportation
- Her May 2026 questionnaire answer on public safety says federal funding she secured strengthened public transportation infrastructure in the district to make it safer for residents and improved training for future law enforcement officers in de-escalation. The materials reviewed do not include positions from her on the federal gas tax, highway funding levels, high speed rail or transit agency policy.S9S21
Environment and energy
- She says she supported the Build Back Better Act and the Inflation Reduction Act because she says both made major investments in addressing the climate crisis and expanding clean energy and included support for workers and small businesses, and that investments in clean energy are creating jobs and driving economic growth. Asked whether she supports the Trump administration's push to expand offshore oil drilling in California she answered absolutely not, saying Californians do not want more drilling off the coast, that she will fight it, and citing the 2021 Orange County spill as evidence of the damage it can cause, and she says what is needed is investment in clean renewable energy. On energy costs and data centers she says she cosponsored the Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act, which she says pushes federal regulators to stop AI data center costs from landing on consumers' bills, and the Energy Bills Relief Act, which she says modernizes the grid and makes data centers and large energy users pay their fair share instead of passing rising costs onto families and small businesses. She does not set out positions on cap and trade, utility rate setting or water rates in the materials reviewed.S9S7S35S36
Immigration
- She says immigration policy should be humane and fair rather than what she calls weaponized against immigrant families, and she says she is leading the U.S. Citizenship Act, which she describes as securing the border from traffickers while putting family unity first, honoring obligations to asylum seekers, creating an earned path to citizenship, providing legal status for Dreamers and farmworkers, clearing the family-based visa backlog and strengthening protections for people fleeing violence and persecution. She says the bill also addresses what she calls ICE abuses by requiring agents to show identification, banning masks and prohibiting enforcement in sensitive places such as schools, churches and hospitals. She says she voted to block ICE funding and cosponsored articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, that she opposes ICE agents at polling places, and that she voted against the SAVE Act because she says requiring a passport or birth certificate would disenfranchise eligible voters and its restrictions on mail voting would make it harder for seniors, people with disabilities and working families to vote. Her campaign says she conducted oversight of the Adelanto detention facility and led efforts to secure an inspector general investigation after immigration officials attempted to enter a local high school.S7S9S20S21
Economy and jobs
- She says she wants to repeal what she calls the president's illegal tariffs, which she says raised costs for everyone and harmed domestic manufacturing, and that as the top Democrat on the Trade Subcommittee she is committed to levelling the playing field for American workers and bringing jobs back from overseas. She says she is committed to economic growth and job creation through innovation and manufacturing, that workers should have good wages, safe workplaces and the ability to retire with dignity, and that she is the first woman IBEW member elected to Congress. On data centers she says those projects can create jobs, particularly for union workers, but that job creation must be balanced against strain on the grid, fire risk, pollution and rising energy and water costs for families. She does not set out positions on the federal minimum wage or specific business tax rates in the materials reviewed.S7S9S20
Local services
- She says one of her most important roles as a member of Congress is putting federal dollars back into communities and cites the projects listed above in Bellflower, Lakewood, La Mirada and Whittier, and she says federal funding she secured improved public safety training and transportation infrastructure. On data centers she says the projects should go through a transparent and fair approval process with input from residents and neighbouring communities. These are her own descriptions of her work.S9S21S7
Water
- She sets out no water supply, water rate, groundwater or drought position in her October 2026 or May 2026 questionnaire answers, on her campaign website or in the news coverage reviewed for this file. The office matters to water indirectly because a Representative votes on federal water policy and on the federal budget that funds water programs, and she does discuss water costs that data centers can shift onto households, but no stated position on water supply or rates was found.S7S9S21
Other
- On artificial intelligence in political advertising she says there should be clear labelling whenever AI is used to create political content and an outright ban on deepfakes and other deceptive AI content in elections, and she says one of her primary opponents ran negative AI-generated ads against her. On foreign policy she draws a distinction between the war in Ukraine, which she says was an attack on Ukraine that the United States can support without putting service members in harm's way, and the war with Iran, which she says the president started without evidence Iran was close to building a nuclear weapon and which she says has cost billions of dollars, driven up gas and grocery prices and left 18 service members dead. In the May 2026 questionnaire she says the president must seek Congress' approval before putting service members in harm's way. On the use of AI in political content she also says current fraudulent content must be dealt with rather than only future technology. On term limits she says she is not persuaded they are the solution, that a member should be able to keep serving while they retain the trust of constituents and deliver results, and that primaries are the mechanism for that. Asked about a time she changed her mind, she says she traditionally opposed mid-decade redistricting and changed her position under President Trump, which is why she supported Proposition 50. Her hidden talent, she says, is stand-up comedy.S7S9
Endorsements
- Her campaign's endorsements page lists, by its own categories: United States Congress, Senator Alex Padilla, Senator Adam Schiff, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar and Representatives Gil Cisneros, Robert Garcia, Jimmy Gomez, Ted Lieu, Luz Rivas and retired Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard; political organizations, the California Democratic Party, Avance Democratic Club, Latinas Lead California, Asian Democrats of Los Angeles County, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, UnidosUS Action Fund, Vote Mama and the National Women's Political Caucus; labor unions, the California Federation of Labor Unions, the Los Angeles and Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, the California Federation of Teachers, Carpenters Local Union 721, the International Association of Fire Fighters, International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals 13, 63 and 94, LiUNA Local 1309, the National Union of Healthcare Workers and the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs; state Senate, Senate President pro Tempore Monique Limón and Senator Bob Archuleta; state Assembly, Assemblymembers Lisa Calderon, Blanca Pacheco and Sharon Quirk-Silva; county, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn and Orange County Board of Supervisors Chair Doug Chaffee and Supervisor Katrina Foley; and city officials across Bellflower, Downey, Lakewood, La Habra, La Mirada, Long Beach, Norwalk, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs and Whittier, plus Fullerton Councilmember Dr. Shana Charles. These are the endorsements the campaign itself publishes.S19
- Two campaign press releases add endorsements with dates: the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, which the release says represents about 4,600 active and retired sworn peace officers from the Orange County sheriff's department, district attorney's office, probation department and OC Parks, announced May 15, 2026, and the California Federation of Teachers, which the release describes as 147 local unions of education workers from early childhood through university, announced April 29, 2026. Both releases are the campaign's own.S22S23
- Ballotpedia's endorsement table for the June 2, 2026 top-two primary attributes to her the Democratic Party of California, California Environmental Voters, the California Federation of Labor Unions AFL-CIO, the California Teachers Association, California Young Democrats, Equality California, the National Union of Healthcare Workers and the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter among organizations, and U.S. Representatives Pete Aguilar and Hakeem Jeffries and former U.S. Representatives Alan Lowenthal and Grace Napolitano among individuals. Ballotpedia also reports that she has not completed its 2026 Candidate Connection survey, and its general election noteworthy endorsements table listed no general election endorsements for either candidate as retrieved during this run.S12S14
Funding
Total raised: $1,885,203 S25S27S12
Cash on hand: $462,488
As of: September 30, 2026
Top funders
- ActBlue $21,000 Cycle total of six itemized contributions recorded on the committee as conduit contributions from individuals, listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts sorted by amount, dated June 23, 2025 and other dates in 2025
- Blue Wave California $16,527 Cycle total of two itemized contributions from a joint fundraising committee listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, dated September 29, 2025 and June 30, 2026, plus a separate unitemized entry of $5,356.77 recorded on June 30, 2026
- Federation of American Hospitals Political Action Committee $15,000 Cycle total of three itemized contributions listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, dated March 7, 2025, June 13, 2025 and March 16, 2026
- American Crystal Sugar Company Political Action Committee $10,000 Cycle total of two itemized contributions listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, both dated July 18, 2025
- International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Political Action League $10,000 Cycle total of two itemized contributions listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, dated September 17, 2025 and March 16, 2026
- KPMG Partners, Principals and Employees Political Action Committee $10,000 Cycle total of two itemized contributions listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, dated September 17, 2025 and March 31, 2026
- United Parcel Service Inc. Political Action Committee $10,000 Cycle total of two itemized contributions listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, dated August 20, 2025 and March 30, 2026
- Burns and McDonnell Inc. Political Action Committee $10,000 Cycle total of two itemized contributions listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, dated July 31, 2025 and May 4, 2026
- Select Medical Corporation Political Action Committee $10,000 Cycle total of two itemized contributions listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, both dated June 13, 2025
- Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America Inc. Political Action Committee $10,000 Cycle total of two itemized contributions listed on the Federal Election Commission itemized receipts, dated June 13, 2025 and March 30, 2026
The total raised and the cash on hand here are what the candidate's own committee, STAND WITH SANCHEZ (Federal Election Commission committee ID C00384057), reported for January 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026: $1,885,203.35 in total receipts, of which $1,865,416.46 was contributions, $1,419,176.38 came from other committees, $414,879.46 was itemized individual contributions and $31,327.94 was unitemized individual contributions, with $1,848,502.80 in total disbursements and $462,488.02 in ending cash. The donor entries above come from the same committee's itemized contributions received, sorted by amount with the largest first, and only the largest 100 of 1,316 itemized entries on file were retrieved during this run. Because contributions cluster at the legal maximum of $5,000 per election from a committee, many other political action committees on the list also gave the same $10,000 cycle amounts shown above and are not listed here, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants PAC, Humana Inc. PAC, the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries PAC, the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors PAC, Innovation for Good PAC, Victory in November Election PAC at $8,874.98, and, in the entries retrieved, the largest individual donor was Heather Podesta at $7,000. The amounts should be read as the largest disclosed contributions on file rather than as a complete picture of the committee's money. Spending by separate committees that support or oppose candidates is reported on a different schedule and is not included in the committee totals or the donor list above. Ballotpedia's compilation of that satellite spending for this race lists $351,488 in independent expenditure spending supporting Sánchez and none opposing either candidate, from BOLD AMERICA at $300,000, the National Association of Realtors Political Action Committee at $51,478, Sierra Club Independent Action at $10 and the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project Los Angeles County Action Fund at $0. A direct query of the Commission's independent expenditure data for her candidate ID during this run returned a larger total of $651,693.45 across 15 records for the 2026 cycle, all recorded as supporting her; the two figures come from different points in the reporting cycle and this file reports each with the source that published it.
What this could mean for your household
- Homeowners and renters: she says not enough homes are being built, that her Rental Housing Investment Act would let builders deduct up to $150,000 per unit in construction costs immediately rather than over 27.5 years and up to $250,000 per unit for projects with income-restricted units, and that the bill covers newly constructed multifamily rental housing. She also says she passed legislation to ban hedge funds from buying single-family homes; the bill she joined in July 2026 was introduced rather than enacted as recorded above.S7S17S21S38
- Households worried about prices for groceries, fuel and utilities: she says the war she attributes to the president spiked gas and energy prices and that the tariffs she wants repealed drive up groceries and housing, and that a Democratic majority would end the war and pass her tariff repeal. On electricity and water, she says she cosponsored the Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act, which she says pushes regulators to stop data center costs from landing on consumers' bills, and the Energy Bills Relief Act, which she says makes data centers and large energy users pay their fair share instead of passing rising costs onto families and small businesses.S7S35S36
- Working families with children, including child care costs: she says California parents pay nearly $22,000 a year for infant care and $13,000 for a four-year-old, and her Child Care Supply Tax Credit Act would give child care providers a credit tied to employee wages so providers can pay qualified staff without raising parents' prices. On schools she says she has fought to block cuts to public education, secured money for district schools and authored bipartisan bills on bullying prevention and on keeping fentanyl out of classrooms.S18S23S9
- Households with health coverage, including older adults: she says she would restore the Affordable Care Act subsidies she says expired, protect Medicaid funding, protect coverage for pre-existing conditions and lower prescription drug costs, and she says she introduced the Health Insurance Premium Fairness Act to stop premiums rising for married couples when one spouse moves to Medicare while the other stays on an ACA plan and bills expanding Medicare coverage for adult day care and reforming the hospice benefit.S7S21S34
- Households with federal tax obligations: she names tax credits for child care providers and for families caring for a sick or elderly relative, opposes what she calls tax cuts for billionaires, and says money should go to extending health care subsidies, infrastructure and schools rather than to more funding for the war in Iran. She does not state a position on individual income tax rates in the materials reviewed.S7S9S21
- Small business owners and their employees: she says the tariffs she wants to repeal harmed domestic manufacturing and raised costs, that she is committed to growth through innovation and manufacturing, and that as the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee she wants a level playing field for American workers and jobs brought back from overseas. She says data center projects can create union jobs while communities need protection from grid strain, fire risk, pollution and higher energy and water costs.S7S20