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Sarah McBride

DemocratDelawareCurrently serving

Sworn in for the 119th Congress on January 3, 2025 Source ↗

What they said 16

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

All statements (16)Campaign (15)In office (1)

While serving · 11/3/2026

Require federal immigration officers to follow law-enforcement guardrails

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McBride supports secure borders alongside a humane immigration system that follows the law. She wants Congress to hold the administration accountable and require federal immigration officers, at a minimum, to follow the same rules, requirements and guardrails as local and state law enforcement.

Context: She did not specify which rules or guardrails Congress should require. WHYY explicitly attributes these federal enforcement guardrails to McBride election-night remarks, outside the following-day research window.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Support healthcare workers with federal investments in Delaware

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McBride says she will continue supporting healthcare workers by bringing federal investments to Delaware for education and career support. She identifies long waits for care, burnout, and staffing shortages as problems facing patients and providers.

Context: The source does not specify the amount or design of the investments.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Protect Medicaid and reverse recent cuts

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McBride says she will continue fighting to protect Medicaid from the administration’s agenda. She cosponsored the Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act, which would reverse healthcare and Medicaid cuts included in the Big Ugly Bill.

Context: The source describes the bill as cosponsored; it does not establish that its provisions were enacted.

Campaign position · Original date not established

Support voluntary Medicare for All

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McBride supports a Medicare for All option for people who want it, as part of policies intended to move the country toward universal health coverage.

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

Campaign position · Original date not established

Expand Medicare benefits and lower its eligibility age

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McBride supports expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing care and lowering the age at which people can enroll. She presents these changes as a minimum step toward universal health coverage.

Context: The source does not specify a proposed eligibility age.

Campaign position · Original date not established

Support comprehensive immigration reform

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McBride supports comprehensive immigration reform that restores accountability, protects civil liberties, and creates a pathway to legal status for long-standing members of communities. She says reform should also maintain an orderly, secure immigration system and humane enforcement consistent with the Constitution and American values.

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

Campaign position · Original date not established

Protect access to IVF and insurance coverage

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McBride cosponsored the Right to IVF Act, which would protect access to fertility treatments and ensure insurance coverage for assisted reproductive technologies.

Context: The source identifies this as a bill she cosponsored; it does not establish that the bill became law.

Campaign position · Original date not established

Healthcare Civil rights & justice

Protect interstate travel for abortion care

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McBride supported the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act. The measure would protect the right to travel across state lines for abortion care and prevent states from interfering with patients or people helping them access care.

Context: The source describes her support for the measure, not its enactment.

Campaign position · Original date not established

Healthcare Civil rights & justice

Codify a federal right to abortion care

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McBride cosponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would establish a nationwide statutory right to provide and receive abortion care, free from medically unnecessary restrictions, and codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law.

Context: The source identifies this as a bill she cosponsored; it does not establish that the bill became law.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Healthcare Civil rights & justice

Strengthen maternal healthcare and address disparities

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McBride says she will continue efforts in Congress to strengthen maternal healthcare and address maternal health disparities that disproportionately affect women of color. She also supports protecting access to the full range of reproductive healthcare.

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