PRIORITIES
LGBTQ RIGHTS
Protecting the LGBTQ Community From MAGA’s Assault
Scott is one of the foremost champions for LGBTQ equality in the country, authoring the nation's first trans state of refuge law and passing landmark protections for LGBTQ youth, LGBTQ seniors, and people living with HIV. As San Francisco’s first gay member of Congress, he will take his fight against Trump's unprecedented assault on LGBTQ people — even at his own personal risk.
Immigration and fighting ICE
Fighting Trump’s Assault on Our Immigrant Communities
When masked agents began disappearing people off the streets, Scott passed first-in-the-nation legislation to make it illegal for ICE to wear masks, and he is now working to end impunity for ICE by allowing you to sue them when they violate your rights — it’s currently nearly impossible to sue them under federal law. In Congress, Scott will fight to protect our immigrant neighbors and ABOLISH ICE!!!
HOUSING
Lowering Housing Costs and Building 8 Million New Homes
Scott is a nationally renowned leader on housing, authoring California's most consequential streamlining laws resulting in the construction of tens of thousands of homes — including 3,000+ below market rate, affordable homes in San Francisco. He helped build the statewide YIMBY movement and turned a political third rail into policy reality by taking on the status quo and Sacramento insiders.
HEalthcare
Fixing Our Healthcare System and Finally Achieving Universal Healthcare for All
We need Medicare for All. And until we get there, Scott will tackle healthcare affordability in Congress just like he has in the Legislature: by capping insulin at $35/month, forcing insurance companies to cover mental healthcare, reducing prior authorizations, lowering prescription drug prices, and working to reverse Trump's cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
Transportaton
Saving Our Public
Transit Systems
As a 29-year daily Muni rider — and frequent BART rider as well — Scott secured billions in state funding to keep Bay Area transit running and authored laws to fast-track clean energy projects. Scott is California’s leading advocate for affordable and reliable transportation and in Congress, he’ll fight to expand federal funding for transit and cut red tape to deliver projects faster and at lower costs.
Climate
TAKING ON CORPORATE POLLUTERS AND TACKLING THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Named a TIME100 Climate Champion, Scott passed a first-in-the-nation law requiring large corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. Scott has taken on the giant corporate polluters and the status quo to protect Californians, and he’ll do the same in Congress.
Public Safety
Making San Franciscans Safe in Every Neighborhood
Scott championed conservatorship reform to get people in crisis the care they need, closed the "locked-door loophole" that let car break-in perpetrators avoid accountability, and worked with street vendors to stop the sale of stolen goods disrupting our neighborhoods. We can have both compassionate and sensible solutions to public safety, and in Congress, Scott will continue leading that fight.
Criminal Justice Reform
Taking Bold Stances on Criminal Justice Reform to Make Change
Scott authored laws ending mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, eliminating the most overused sentence enhancement, and ensuring innocent people wrongly convicted of crimes can be exonerated and released. In Congress, he’ll support reforms to reduce police use of lethal force, make it easier for the wrongfully convicted to prove their innocence, and ensure our laws are rooted in compassion and rehabilitation.
Defending Science
Defending Against Trump’s Assault on Science and Keeping California a Global Science Leader
Scientific research is key to California’s success. As Trump dismantles federal research funding, Scott is leading a coalition to build a new California state science grantmaking agency to fund our research infrastructure and biotech leadership. In Congress, he’ll fight to restore our science agencies and build them back even stronger to help us tackle the challenges ahead.
Net Neutrality
Safeguarding a
Fair Internet
Scott authored California's landmark net neutrality law — the strongest in the nation — restoring open-internet protections repealed by the Trump FCC and shielding startups from telecom discrimination. It is mind-boggling that in 2026, we don’t have any federal net neutrality laws. In Congress, Scott will fight for a fair internet that lets small businesses compete with Big Tech.
Foreign Policy
A Foreign Policy Rooted In Peace, Democracy, and Protecting Civilians from Death and Destruction
For too long, our foreign policy has been driven by bloated defense budgets and interventionist impulses. Trump has demolished U.S. standing abroad by alienating our closest allies, withdrawing the U.S. from critical international bodies and agreements, destroying USAID (and thus causing a huge number of deaths and spread of disease), and an impulsive return to forever wars that are destabilizing the world, killing civilians, and driving prices up for working people. To protect innocent lives and prevent ruinous economic consequences, America urgently needs to become a force for peace and democracy in the world again.
Defending Democracy
Defending Democracy With The Bold Action It Demands
Our democracy is under attack and it goes beyond Trump and MAGA. For over two decades, Republicans have been chipping away at our democracy: flooding our system with money, stacking the Supreme Court with partisans, and breaking every norm in the book. Democrats have been weak in their response to this ongoing crisis. Scott will respond to these attacks with bold action that they demand.
Education
Securing the Education Every Student Deserves
Scott authored California's landmark net neutrality law — the strongest in the nation — restoring open-internet protections repealed by the Trump FCC and shielding startups from telecom discrimination. It is mind-boggling that in 2026, we don’t have any federal net neutrality laws. In Congress, Scott will fight for a fair internet that lets small businesses compete with Big Tech.
