Scott is a national leader on accountability for ICE, Border Patrol, and other agencies violating the law and terrorizing communities. Scott authored and passed our nation’s first law banning ICE and other law enforcement from wearing Gestapo-like face masks they use to hide from accountability and create an atmosphere of impunity — the No Secret Police Act.
Now Scott is fighting to pass the No Kings Act, which makes it much easier to sue ICE and other federal agents for violating your rights. Under current law, it’s nearly impossible to sue a federal agent for excessive force, false arrest, etc. — leading to a sense of impunity and emboldened aggression by agents toward the public. Scott is working to put an end to that impunity.
Scott has long supported abolishing ICE, which is a broken agency. He first announced his support in 2018 and reiterated it in mid-2025. In Congress, he will take his state-level work national and will pursue federal reforms to:
Step 1: Unmask the agents and officials waging a terror campaign on our communities.
Step 2: Allow people to sue federal agents for violating their rights — in other words haul their a**es into court when they violate the law.
Step 3: Abolish ICE.
Step 4: Ban private prisons (which California, with Scott’s support, has already done), including the ICE private prison gulags.
Step 5: Make DACA recipients citizens and create a pathway to citizenship for our immigrant communities.
With armed secret police publicly executing people in the streets, we need leaders who stand up and deliver real results to protect communities from terror and violence and to fully embrace immigrant communities as key parts of American life. Chinga la migra.
Housing in America is broken. In San Francisco and across the country, families are paying more for housing while having less to invest in their future. Rising rents, overcrowding, homelessness, megacommutes — there’s no question that this isn’t sustainable.
Decades of underbuilding have left us with an extreme housing shortage, and the Great Recession kneecapped our ability to build our way out of it. Instead of taking responsibility, our federal government has offered us underfunded and fragmented programs that help around the edges but have failed to prevent the core problem from worsening.
There is no tackling America’s affordability crisis without addressing housing costs. Housing is the biggest monthly expense for most households, and ballooning costs make it increasingly impossible for them to get by. We need leaders in Congress who understand this is an emergency, and will fight like hell to fix it.
A National Leader on Housing Affordability
Scott began fighting for more housing on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, where in 2012 he became the first Supervisor in a generation to upzone his own district. He took that fight to the California Legislature, passing laws that completely overhauled California’s broken housing system, helping lower costs and build tens of thousands of affordable homes.That San Francisco work helped spark a national pro-housing movement to tackle our affordability crisis by building abundant, affordable homes for people at every income level. Now, he’s taking that fight to Congress.
A Plan To End The Housing Crisis
Scott’s plan will build 8 million homes over the next decade. His national regulatory strategy will cut the red tape and reform bureaucratic processes to make homes faster and cheaper to build. And his national investment strategy will make a generational investment in social housing and affordable housing, paid for by reversing big portions of the Bush and Trump mega tax cuts on corporations and the wealthy.
Scott’s priorities include:
With the LGBTQ community facing a vicious and brutal assault from the Trump Administration, we need a leader who will fight relentlessly for our community. Scott is that fighter, and he has fought so hard for LGBTQ people that he has put his own personal safety at risk, experiencing repeated personal attacks by Marjorie Taylor Green, Megyn Kelly, Ted Cruz, Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and others, in addition to a tidal wave of death threats and physical harassment by anti-LGBTQ bigots.In Congress, Scott will fight to stop Trump’s assault on healthcare for LGBTQ people and restore access, including to transgender young people. Scott will fight to pass the Equality Act, a national civil rights law to protect LGBTQ people in every community from targeting and discrimination. Scott will work to pass legislation overriding red state anti-LGBTQ hate laws.
As a gay man who came of age as a teenager during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in 1987, Scott knows our community has seen dark days before. The devastation of HIV/AIDS inspired Scott to volunteer for an HIV crisis hotline as a college student in North Carolina, and he advocated for transgender people as a student at Harvard Law School in the 1990s. When Scott moved to San Francisco, he was part of the core group of people who built San Francisco’s LGBT Community Center. When gay men were being raped on the streets of the Castro, Scott stepped up and helped create a community safety organization to keep people safe.
In the Senate, Scott has fought to erase discriminatory laws that harmed LGBTQ people, including LGBTQ youth, transgender women, and people living with HIV. He authored nation-leading laws to make PrEP available from a pharmacist without a physician prescription (similar to the birth control pill), establish the nation’s strongest legal protections for LGBTQ seniors in nursing homes and other long-term care, collect voluntary health data to fight health disparities in the LGBTQ community, repeal discriminatory felonies targeting people living with HIV, and end discrimination against LGBTQ people on California’s broken sex offender registry.
Scott has relentlessly defended LGBTQ people against the vicious attacks Trump and his MAGA cronies have unleashed. He authored the nation’s first law to make California a state of refuge for LGBTQ people — including trans youth and their families fleeing red states — and expanded privacy protections to prevent harassment and doxxing of transgender and nonbinary people. As Senate Budget Chair, Scott secured $15 million in state funds to cover gender affirming healthcare that Trump is attempting to cut from Medicaid. Scott has also obtained state budget funds to support creation of an LGBTQ history museum in the Castro, an LGBTQ music center in the Mission, a revamped Harvey Milk Plaza, and Eagle Plaza in SOMA.
Scott is a leader in expanding access to health care — including creation of a Medicare for All single payer system of universal coverage — and scientific research to improve health and solve other global problems.
Scott has played a key role in the fight against Trump’s effort to destroy health care access and defund science. As Senate Budget Chair, Scott helped shore up California’s health care system to protect against Trump’s health care cuts. In Congress, Scott will fight to protect and strengthen Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Scott will also bring his state-level work to force insurance companies to cover more health care more affordably, including mental health care, to the federal level. While Scott’s goal is a Medicare for All system, until we get there, we must fix and strengthen the system we have so that people can access affordable health care.
Scott quickly responded to Trump’s attempt to destroy scientific research: The regime’s destruction of federal science agencies and brutal cuts to university science research. Scott built a coalition of labor unions, universities, scientists, businesses, and students to advance a massive funding measure in California to create a new scientific research institute to ensure California remains the global leader on science. In Congress, Scott will prioritize funding and supporting scientific research and innovation. Science is a pillar of American prosperity, and we must embrace it and ensure the U.S. remains the world leader.
Scott is San Francisco's foremost champion for public transportation and a 28+ year daily rider of Muni and regular rider of BART. Like you, Scott has long experienced the good, bad, and ugly of San Francisco transit.
As a member of the Board of Supervisors, Scott authored a charter amendment, which the voters passed, to ensure Muni funding increases as San Francisco grows — a measure that provides about $60 millions in Muni funding annually. More recently, when these systems faced financial collapse, Scott knew he had to leave it all on the floor in the fight to save BART, Muni, and Caltrain. He stepped up to lead the fight in the Legislature for transit funding, securing billions in state funding to keep our trains and buses running on time, and authoring a law to trigger a regional ballot measure that will provide a sustainable, long-term source of funding for transit systems across the Bay Area.
In Congress, Scott will be a leading champion for public transit. He’ll fight to stabilize our transit systems, expand and improve them, and fix the broken bureaucratic processes that create the unacceptable delays and cost-overruns that have become all too common in recent years. His priorities include:
Scott believes Israel and Palestine must co-exist side by side in peace. There are over 7 million Jews and over 7 million Palestinians living in the region, and neither is going anywhere. Endless violence, destruction, and displacement are untenable and must end. Peace through a two-state solution is the only answer.
Within weeks of October 7, Scott opposed Israel’s destructive escalations in Gaza and supported a ceasefire. He is one of the very few Jewish elected leaders in the country to declare the Netanyahu government has committed genocide in Gaza.
Scott strongly supports Israel’s existence as Jewish homeland, and he strongly supports creation of a Palestinian state under a two-state solution. Scott opposes efforts to destroy Israel, such as Hamas’s October 7 terror attack and taking of hostages, as well as the global BDS movement.
WEST BANK/SETTLEMENT POLICY:
Scott has long opposed the Netanyahu government’s West Bank settlement policy, which is systematically dismembering the Palestinian community in the West Bank. Scott believes settlement expansions are illegal and designed to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. Settler land grabs and violence must not be tolerated.
AIPAC FUNDING:
Scott has taken the Reject AIPAC pledge and is neither seeking nor accepting support from AIPAC, due to significant policy differences.
U.S. MILITARY SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL:
Scott will not support U.S. funding for the destruction of Palestinian communities in Gaza or the West Bank and thus will not support offensive arms sales to an Israeli government not committed to peace. Scott also believes the U.S. should support Israel’s defense with defensive systems, for example, Iron Dome and David’s Sling, which protect millions of Jewish, Arab, and Palestinian civilians from near-constant attacks.
SCOTT’S HISTORY ON ISRAEL:
As a Jew whose family members fled anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe and Russia, Scott deeply believes in Israel’s critical importance to Jews globally, as Jewish homeland and home to half of all Jews on the planet. Scott also strongly believes Palestinians deserve a state in the West Bank and Gaza.
Scott believes both Israel and Palestine must be governed by leadership committed to peace and democracy. As a result, Scott, who for years has protested Benjamin Netanyahu and has referred to him as a “cancer,” has publicly called for a new government in Israel. Scott has also been clear that Hamas, which is a genocidal terrorist organization committed to Israel’s destruction and the slaughter and removal of Jews, must disarm and have no role in a future Palestinian state.
Scott has consistently supported Israel’s right to reasonable self defense, but he has vocally opposed the Netanyahu government’s destruction of Gaza. For example, when Hamas began launching missiles into Israel in 2021, and Israel responded with extreme bombing of Gaza, Scott called for an end to the violence and publicly criticized Israel for going beyond self-defense in its bombing campaign.
When Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, and engaged in the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Scott immediately and vocally condemned Hamas’s pogrom and supported Israel’s right to defend itself. However, Israel quickly went beyond self-defense in its over-the-top response in Gaza. Scott began opposing Israel’s escalations in Gaza on October 13, 2023. He supported a ceasefire on November 17, 2023. (Below are examples of Scott’s statements to that effect in 2023.)
The Netanyahu government — which includes vile messianic extremists who used to be banned from being part of Israeli governments and who have made indisputably genocidal statements about Palestinians — is a barrier to peace. It is deeply harming Palestinians and also harming Israelis. It is upending Israel’s standing in the world and damaging Israeli democracy.
SCOTT IS A LEADER IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ANTISEMITISM:
Scott has consistently called out antisemitism on both the right and the left — whether Trump’s empowerment of antisemites and efforts to elect Nazi-aligned governments in Europe or the casting out from progressive spaces of Jews who support Israel’s existence. Scott has vocally opposed antisemitism in our local community, whether the targeting of Jewish-owned businesses, the targeting of Jewish kids in our public schools, or antisemitic atmospheres at UCSF and San Francisco State University.
Scott, who helped lead the California Legislative Jewish Caucus for over five years, helped pass California’s law to address antisemitism in our schools. Scott has also vocally opposed Trump’s disingenuous and false use of antisemitism to defund universities and scientific research. Scott has been clear that when Trump disingenuously attacks universities and science in the name of the Jews — whereas he is actually doing so to further his own anti-science, anti-education MAGA ideology — it makes Jews less safe.
Scott is also proud of San Francisco’s vibrant Palestinian community. Scott has condemned bigoted attacks on Palestinians and Muslims, including violence directed at the community and political attacks by MAGA Republicans and others. Scott has long championed California’s nonprofit security grant program, which has helped make both Jewish and Muslim community institutions in San Francisco more secure from hate crimes.
Scott’s Video Statements on Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank
Scott’s video statement on genocide in Gaza
Scott’s video statement on Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank
