Aisha Wahab knows what it means to be priced out, counted out, and forced to fight for every opportunity. From foster care to the State Senate, she has taken on powerful interests, lowered costs, expanded housing, protected healthcare, improved public safety, and demanded accountability from government. In Congress, Aisha will fight to make life affordable again — lower costs, protect Social Security and Medicare, build housing working families can afford, defend our freedoms, and put people before politics.

It’s Simple

1. Make Life Affordable Again

Drive down costs on the basics: housing, healthcare, childcare, utilities, groceries, gas, and prescription drugs.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Break up corporate monopolies and crack down on price-gouging.

  • Lower utility bills and hold energy companies accountable.

  • End corporate profiteering that raises the cost of food, gas, housing, and healthcare.

  • Raise the federal minimum wage so work pays enough to live.

  • Expand paid family leave and universal childcare so people can afford to work, raise families, and care for loved ones.

People are working harder than ever and still falling behind. Aisha will fight to lower costs, raise wages, and make sure the American Dream is not reserved for the wealthy and well-connected.

2. Healthcare for Every American

Healthcare should be a right — not a bill that bankrupts a family.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Pass Medicare for All healthcare.

  • Lower prescription drug costs.

  • Protect Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act.

  • Restore funding for programs families rely on, including Medicaid and SNAP.

  • Protect reproductive healthcare nationwide, expand contraception access, and defend family planning.


No senior should have to work a minimum-wage job just to survive. No family should go broke because someone gets sick. Aisha will fight for healthcare for all, lower prescription drug costs, and protect Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

3. Housing People Can Actually Afford

Build more affordable housing, protect renters, and help working families become homeowners.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Increase federal funding for affordable housing.

  • Expand first-time homebuyer assistance.

  • Invest in social housing, workforce housing, and deeply affordable housing.

  • Protect renters from displacement and corporate landlord abuse.

  • Make it easier to build housing near jobs, transit, schools, and services.


Aisha knows what it means to lose a home and still be a renter fighting for the dream of homeownership. In Congress, she’ll fight for housing working people can actually afford.

4. Protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP

Protect the programs millions of Americans earned, paid into, and rely on.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Protect Social Security from privatization.

  • Defend Medicare and Medicaid from cuts.

  • Restore and protect SNAP and food assistance.

  • Strengthen benefits for seniors, people with disabilities, veterans, children, and working families.


Social Security is not a handout — it is an earned benefit. Aisha will fight anyone who tries to privatize it, cut it, or gamble seniors’ retirement on Wall Street.

5. Good Jobs, Small Businesses, and the Economy of the Future

Create opportunity in a changing economy while making sure workers are not left behind.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Create good-paying union jobs.

  • Revitalize small businesses with targeted tax relief and incentives for local hiring and livable wages.

  • Invest in American manufacturing, semiconductors, clean energy, and advanced technology.

  • Provide high-speed internet nationwide.

  • Expand workforce training and apprenticeships.

  • Provide free tuition for community college, trades, and occupational training.


The economy should reward work, not just wealth. Aisha will fight for good-paying jobs, strong small businesses, workforce training, and an economy where working people can actually get ahead.

6. Education and Opportunity

Every child deserves a strong public education, and every adult deserves a pathway to a good career.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Protect Title I and IDEA funding.

  • Expand tutoring, after-school, and summer programs.

  • Provide free community college.

  • Provide free tuition for trades and occupational training.

  • Cancel student debt and stop predatory student lending.


Education should open doors, not bury families in debt. Aisha will fight for strong public schools, debt relief, free community college, and career training that leads to good-paying jobs.

7. Build for the 21st Century

Repair roads, bridges, transit, water systems, broadband, and clean-energy infrastructure while creating good-paying jobs.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Repair roads, bridges, and major public works.

  • Fund robust public transit to reduce traffic, pollution, and household transportation costs.

  • Invest in renewable energy infrastructure.

  • Reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

  • Protect clean air and safe drinking water.

  • Hold polluters accountable.

  • Invest in wildfire mitigation, smoke readiness, extreme-heat protections, and local disaster resilience.


We can lower costs, create good-paying jobs, reduce pollution, and build safer communities at the same time. Aisha will fight for infrastructure that works for people — not polluters and special interests.

8. Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Safe Communities

Defend freedom, equal protection, due process, and the dignity of every person.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Protect reproductive freedom nationwide.

  • Expand equal protection under the law.

  • Strengthen enforcement against discrimination in housing, employment, education, and healthcare.

  • Protect civil liberties regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or immigration status.

  • Create a secure, fair, and humane immigration system with due process and faster legal pathways.

  • Hold law enforcement and immigration agents accountable when they break the law.

  • Protect vulnerable communities from hate, violence, exploitation, and abuse.


Public safety means protecting people’s lives, rights, families, and freedoms. Aisha will fight for safe communities, due process, reproductive freedom, and equal protection under the law.

9. End Corruption and Put People First

Crack down on corruption in Washington and stop politicians from profiting while people struggle.

Aisha will fight to:

  • Ban congressional stock trading and insider trading.

  • Tighten regulations on lobbyists.

  • Stop corporate PACs and special interests from writing the rules.

  • Make government spending transparent and accountable.

  • Ensure taxpayer dollars serve the public interest.

  • End waste, fraud, and abuse.

  • Put American families, seniors, workers, veterans, and communities first.


Washington is too broken, too corrupt, and too captured by special interests. Aisha will fight to ban congressional stock trading, crack down on lobbyists, and make government work for the people again.

10. Foreign Policy That End Endless Wars & Invest in People at Home

Stop wasting taxpayer dollars on endless wars and invest in people here at home.

Aisha will fight to:

  • End pointless wars that drain taxpayer dollars and drive up fuel, food, and household costs.

  • Put diplomacy, peace, human rights, and accountability first.

  • Oppose blank checks to foreign governments without transparency, oversight, or clear public interest.

  • Ensure taxpayer dollars are spent on Americans’ needs: housing, healthcare, education, seniors, veterans, children, and working families.

  • Reject war profiteering and hold defense contractors accountable.

  • Bring a people-first foreign policy rooted in peace, safety, dignity, and human rights.

If Washington can find billions for war, it can find the money to feed people, house families, care for seniors, and rebuild America.

Working people are being told there is no money for healthcare, housing, schools, childcare, or Social Security — while Washington spends billions on endless wars and defense contractors. Aisha will fight to end blank checks, stop war profiteering, and put our tax dollars back into the people and communities that need them most.

Aisha’s Record

Fighting (and winning) for working families across California.

As a State Senator and Council Member, Aisha has taken on special interests, stood up to abusers, and passed laws that put safety, dignity, and fairness ahead of profit and politics. Real issues. Real results.

CIVIL RIGHTS & CONSUMER PROTECTIONS

  • Protected reproductive freedom — defended the right to make personal medical decisions without political interference

  • Strengthened civil liberties and public accountability, including policies preventing anonymous/deceptive enforcement

  • Protected survivors and closed loopholes that failed them

  • Defended privacy and basic dignity for people receiving assistance

  • Advanced protections for workers’ freedom from employer influence

  • Respected faith and culture in the workplace by allowing state employees to swap a holiday to observe a religious or cultural day

  • Passed crackdowns on junk fees

  • Fought price gouging during emergencies to protect seniors and families

IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SUPPORT

  • Supported safeguards protecting immigrants, patients, and students from fear tactics and protecting personal information

  • Supported immigration legal services so families have due process

  • Helped refugees get support sooner by improving access to essential information and resources

  • Led a bipartisan human rights resolution prioritizing civilian protection, humanitarian aid, and accountability

HOUSING

  • Secured $300 million for down-payment assistance for first-time buyers

  • Expanded the Renter’s Tax Credit to help with monthly costs

  • Capped HOA fines at $100 to stop unfair financial hits

  • Nation-leading zombie mortgage protections to stop predatory foreclosure tactics

  • Defended mobile-home communities and kept longtime residents from being displaced

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PUBLIC SAFETY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • Made organized retail theft a crime

  • Made deepfakes and pornographic images of children illegal

  • Required officers to show their face (no anonymous enforcement)

  • Protected seniors and families from surprise changes in care in retirement communities

  • Kept families together by removing unfair barriers that block reunification in court

  • Kept children safe during emergencies by creating clear, legal caregiving plans

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  • Expanded state-backed lending programs for small and underserved businesses

  • Increased funding for free 1:1 advising, technical assistance, and classes for business owners

  • Pushed agencies and contractors to buy more from certified small businesses on infrastructure projects

  • Continued major economic development awards to drive local job creation and expansion

HEALTHCARE

  • Capped insulin at $35 so families don’t have to ration medicine

  • Supported CalRx $11 insulin to bring prices down

  • Pushed prescription cost accountability against middlemen and drug companies

  • Expanded mental health, substance-use, and crisis prevention program coverage

EDUCATION

  • Ensured students receive two free school meals

  • Universal transitional kindergarten

  • Expanded after-school and summer learning programs (TK–6) for working families

  • Established CSU Direct Admission for first-gen and qualified students

  • Strengthened school suicide-prevention policy and prioritized behavioral health professionals

  • Secured $1.5 million for Fremont community Wi-Fi to close the homework gap

  • Pushed pay equity for staff at the California School for the Deaf and Blind in Fremont

ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY

  • Strengthened wildfire protection by pushing to make Cal Fire a year-round service

  • Took on utility price gouging by challenging CPUC-approved rate hikes

  • Advanced environmental justice through stronger protections in pollution-burdened communities

  • Focused on energy affordability and reliability during the clean-energy transition

  • Planned for a responsible refinery transition protecting public health and workers

  • Invested in community resilience for wildfires, extreme heat, and climate emergencies

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