Lowering Costs

  • Helped pass a historic investment of $7 billion over four years to make childcare more affordable for working families, lowering costs from thousands annually to 1% of household income for qualifying families.

  • Successfully fought against proposals to ban new gas-powered heating appliances in homes.

  • Approved $400 million to provide relief to New Yorkers experiencing high electric bills and help lower energy burdens through electrifications and retrofits.

  • Helped pass state budgets that lower income tax rates on the middle class and provide billions in property tax rebates.

  • Advocating for legislation to close unfair property tax loopholes used mainly by the wealthy, which will ease property taxes for everyone else.

  • Increased and expanded eligibility for the Tuition Assistance Program to help working families more easily afford higher education.

Increasing Wages and Assistance

  • Helped raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in Upstate NY, followed by $16 an hour in 2026 and incremental increases at the rate of inflation thereafter.

  • Stands strongly with organized labor, including marching in picket lines and advocating for contracts that boost pay and benefits for workers.

  • Helped expand the Empire State Tax Credit to include children under age four.

  • Introduced legislation to shorten the waiting period for striking workers to receive the unemployment benefits they need and deserve.

  • Advocated for bonuses and higher wages for underpaid nurses, healthcare, childcare, homecare, and nursing home workers, and professionals who care for people with special needs.

Providing Help for Those in Need

  • Successfully advocated for the Homeowner Protection Program to help families facing foreclosure.

Supporting Care for the Special Needs Community

  • Fought for historic investments in the home care workforce in order to reverse the shortage of these essential workers.

  • Helped pass legislation to provide more funding for special education schools and early childhood education for toddlers with disabilities.

  • Advocated for more funding for direct support professionals who care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

  • Helped pass $1 billion investment to transform and strengthen the state mental health care system.

“I’m laser-focused on providing relief for working families, especially those who have struggled amid the challenges of the pandemic and inflation. I’ve helped secure funding to help working families afford child care, lower the tax burden on the middle-class, increase tax credits for working families, and much more. I’ll always fight to help put more money into the pockets of working New Yorkers.”