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Gillibrand is a co-sponsor of the Medicare-for-All legislation introduced to the Senate by Bernie Sanders, but her support for the concept pre-dates Sanders’ 2016 run, which helped spark a national debate on MFA. Back in 2006, when Gillibrand was running for Congress in a conservative upstate district, she wrote on her campaign website that she would work to offer “individuals, family or business the option to buy into Medicare at a rate they can afford.
. “Do two years of public service, you get four years free. That would create a pipeline of kids doing service for someone else.”“We need to secure our borders effectively, but also make loud and clear that racism and fear of our neighbor are not a national security strategy,” Gillibrand’s website reads. “Building a taxpayer funded wall, ripping families apart, banning Muslims and turning our backs on refugees and asylum seekers are cruel and ineffective policies.
at the federal level, expunging old records, reforming sentencing laws, changing federal rules for prisons, ending cash bail, and investing in communities disproportionately impacted by “the racist war on drugs.”Gillibrand has expressed a desire to restore the Voting Rights Act that was gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013, and has said the U.S.
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