Infrastructure
What is your approach to federal infrastructure investment, and how would you prioritize funding for energy, transportation, flood mitigation, and resilience needs in your district?
I approach infrastructure by ensuring corporations pay their fair share and expanding Buy America policies. In TX-CD 38, flood mitigation is personal to me; I will help pass a budget that fully funds FEMA and enforce the National Environmental Policy Act. To secure our energy grid, we must incorporate ERCOT into the national grid and maintain federal transparency, mandatory transmission planning, regional coordination, and transparent pricing. I support robust public transit, including moving my congressional offices to transit-accessible locations, and a regulated approach to autonomous vehicles with clear safety standards and human oversight. In order to do all of this, we must return the system of checks and balances in Congress.
Inflation
If elected to office, what will you do to address rising costs, especially with regard to groceries, childcare, and housing?
To tackle rising costs, I am committed to addressing the cost-of-living crisis through structural change. Since housing is a human right, I support bold federal investments in affordable workforce housing, strong tenant protections, and limiting corporate home ownership. To lower grocery bills, I will work to rein in corporate price-gouging and protect SNAP benefits. For childcare, I support a “Cost of Living” tax cut to eliminate federal taxes up to the cost of living for single adults, alongside legislation limiting childcare costs. By raising wages and making the wealthy pay their fair share, Our economy will work for those who create the value. In order to do this, let’s return the system of checks and balance to Congress. No wars.
Immigration
What is your position on federal immigration enforcement and detention policies? What specific changes, if any, would you support to how those policies are implemented?
I have deep concerns about immigration enforcement that obscures officer identities, which erodes public trust. To restore accountability, I support refocusing ICE strictly on its original mission of handling undocumented individuals who commit heinous crimes. I will work to limit ICE’s tenfold ballooning budget and reinstate strong checks and balances to prevent abuses of power. Furthermore, because borders are a federal responsibility, enforcement must be consistent across all states. I support establishing federally sponsored Welcome Centers to streamline legal paths for asylum seekers, expanding work visas, and ensuring seamless agency cooperation.
Voting
What changes, if any, to current laws related to voter registration, voter ID, and mail-in ballots would you support and why?
I support reforming our system to make voting fit real life. I will advocate for automatic and same-day voter registration, expanding early voting, and making vote-by-mail accessible to more citizens. Drawing on my hands-on experience in election administration, I support reforms allowing people to vote in any precinct, use drive-up handicap-accessible voting, and easily submit mail-in ballots. I also support co-sponsoring the For the People Act and oppose suppressive voter restrictions. Ultimately, if we can do banking on our devices, we should be allowed to vote from them too.
