Christina Khalil
Running for:
US Senate
Incumbent
Challenger
individual agenda
- Immigration overhaul including divestiture from ICE, investment in immigration lawyers, community support, mental health support for asylum seekers, and immediate pathways to citizenship.
- Immediate investment in renewables to combat climate change, using initiatives in the Green New Deal, legislation to clean water supplies, and holding corporations accountable.
- Wants to push for Universal healthcare By investing in education to combat the detrimental shortage of healthcare workers and supporting black and brown investors to increase minority-owned hospitals throughout the country.
- Incarceration reform through advocacy for more youth programs to end the school to prison pipeline, fund programs to combat poverty, investment in education and mental health rehabilitation centers, reduce police presence and increase support for community leaders, and raise the salaries of public defenders so defendants have greater access to legal support.
- Combat homelessness by including access to public banking, increasing the minimum wage, supporting local community investments, robust regulation of the housing market, the termination of luxury apartment contracts, and the expansion of public housing through repealing the Faircloth Amendment.
- Against establishment supported police brutality. Wants to invest in mental health response teams.
- Wants to end the war on drugs and redirect funds towards community development, healthy living policies, mental health support, and family support programs.
- Wants to further advance animal welfare through the Pet Safety and Protection Act, and the Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Farm Animals Act.
- Wants to get rid of the FICA tax and instead have the Federal Reserve fund Social Security and Medicare through methods such as tax, borrowing, and coin seignoirage.
- Wants campaign finance reform by limiting donations to $200, elemination of Super Pacs, and federal financing for poor and middle class people running for office.
- Wants to provide a federal job guarantee with a socially inclusive living wage to address unemployment, which would include replacing the traditional unemployment office with a Job Guarantee Office.
- Wants to expand the Violence Against Women's Act.
- Wants to invest in overall infrastructure focused on the disabled and geriatric communities.
- Wants comprehensive foster care reform, including better screening of foster parents, better training for foster parents, enhanced foster care networks, and more.
- Wants reparations for the African American and Native American communities.
- Wants to cancel student debt and invest in trade to help education moving forward.
- Wants to ban conversion therapy federally, invest in mental health, and develop transitional housing to help support the LGBTQ community.
- Wants to support veterans by investing in PTSD/mental health treatment.
- Wants oversight in the military to help prevent predatory behavior.
- Wants to end military interventions, reduce military spending, address climate change, and economic inequality to address international policy.
- Believes we can pay for all of the above because we are a currency issuer and therefore we can print more money without worrying because we can only go broke if we voluntarily default on our debts. Campaign Site
experience
- B.A. in Psychology
- Master's in Social Work
- Volunteer work for Bergen County LGBTQ+ Alliance