Skip to content
Hill Policy
U.S. SENATE

Abdul El-Sayed

DemocratMichiganSenator-elect (reported)

The upcoming term has not begun.

What they said 21

Their stated policy positions and commitments, with quotes and links to the original sources.

All statements (21)Campaign (14)After election (7)
Campaign position · Original date not established
Immigration

Abolish ICE and redirect its funding to immigration courts

AI-assisted summary

El-Sayed supports abolishing ICE, which he says cannot be reformed or retrained. He supports a safe, secure border and immigration enforcement under a new structure that prioritizes human dignity and the rule of law. He would repurpose ICE funds to expand the legal infrastructure of courts and create a clear path to citizenship for people stuck in the current system.

Context: The proposed replacement enforcement structure is not specified in detail.

Campaign position · Original date not established
HealthcareCivil rights & justice

Protect healthcare choices and medical privacy

AI-assisted summary

El-Sayed believes healthcare decisions should remain between patients and their doctors, and that government should not interfere with people’s healthcare choices. He supports keeping healthcare data private and limiting state and federal access to cases where the data is needed to provide healthcare. He also supports protecting providers from government coercion over sharing data or providing or withholding care they deem necessary.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.

Sources & original wording
Healthcare data must remain private, and state and federal government should have no right to access your data unless it’s for the purposes of providing you healthcare.
Original date
Original statement date has not been established. The capture date is not the statement date.
Collected
11/10/2026
Source: Abdul El-Sayed: Civil Rights & Liberties ↗Read the original source ↗
Campaign position · Original date not established
Government & elections

Make voter registration and voting easier

AI-assisted summary

El-Sayed opposes mandatory voter ID laws, including the SAVE Act. He supports automatic voter registration at age 18 and automatic re-registration when people move, making Election Day a holiday, and offering no-reason absentee and early in-person voting.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.

Campaign position · Original date not established
Government & elections

Abolish the Senate filibuster

AI-assisted summary

El-Sayed believes the Senate filibuster should be abolished. He argues that senators use it to shield one another from taking difficult votes and that it is antidemocratic.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.

Campaign position · Original date not established
Government & elections

Limit Supreme Court justices’ terms

AI-assisted summary

El-Sayed supports Supreme Court reform that would end lifetime appointments, impose limited terms, and allow the same number of appointments during each presidential term. He presents these changes as a way to address what he sees as the Court’s role in limiting rights and expanding presidential power.

Context: The passage does not specify the length of terms or how the appointment schedule would work.

Campaign position · Original date not established
Government & elections

Draw congressional districts through a federal nonpartisan committee

AI-assisted summary

El-Sayed supports having a federal committee of nonpartisan experts draw congressional districts. Committee members would serve defined, rolling terms and work with the U.S. Census Bureau. He says this approach would come as close as possible to eliminating partisan gerrymandering caused by partisan state governments.

Context: The committee is a proposed federal approach; the passage does not specify how its members would be selected beyond the stated appointment and term structure.

Campaign position · Original date not established
Economy, taxes & work

Tax billionaire wealth

AI-assisted summary

Abdul El-Sayed lists taxing billionaire wealth as a priority for putting money in people’s pockets. He says that, as a U.S. senator, he will fight for a government that works for people rather than billionaires, but the campaign material does not specify how the tax would work.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.

Campaign position · Original date not established
Government & elections

Ban corporate money in politics

AI-assisted summary

Abdul El-Sayed supports banning corporate money in politics.

Context: The campaign page does not define the proposed ban.

Campaign position · Original date not established
Healthcare

Expand Medicare drug-price negotiations

AI-assisted summary

El-Sayed supports expanding the drug-price negotiation law he helped design so Medicare can negotiate prices for every prescription drug, and begin negotiating much earlier after drugs reach the market. He also supports making negotiated prices available to all patients, not only people on Medicare. He says he would support public manufacturing of essential medicines such as insulin, oppose excessive drug patents, and end pharmacy benefit managers, which he says price-gouge without providing an essential benefit.

Context: The proposal does not specify how much earlier negotiations would begin.

Campaign position · Original date not established
Healthcare

Abolish medical debt for every American

AI-assisted summary

El-Sayed supports immediately abolishing medical debt for every American. He says Americans hold more than $225 billion in medical debt and points to having erased debt for tens of thousands of people in Wayne County as his past work on the issue.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.