Brown: The Trump Administration has been a failure, both domestically and internationally.

Brown: Oppose. The federal tax cuts resulted in the top 1% of income earners receiving 83% of the benefits, and will increase the federal debt by $2.3 trillion dollars.

Brown: The national debt is a concern and will be a crushing burden on our children and grandchildren. To reduce the national debt, we must reduce our trade deficit, grow our economy through targeted investments in education and infrastructure, and reform our tax code to ensure that everybody pays their fair share of taxes.

Brown: Economic inequality is a severe problem in the United States and can be addressed by a more progressive tax code, greater investments in education and workforce development, greater federal investments in communities experiencing persistent poverty, expand small business and entrepreneurial opportunities, and ensure equal access to homeownership.

Brown: Federal gun laws should be changed by establishing universal background checks, closing the gun show loophole, banning bump stocks and assault weapons, limiting the capacity of ammunition magazines, and expanding the no-buy list to domestic violence perpetrators and people on the no-fly list.

Brown: The Affordable Care Act was a step in the right direction and needs to be strengthened, and eventually replaced with a single payer system.

Brown: The federal government should help cities like Baltimore by investing in federal programs that create employment opportunities in high unemployment communities, investing in aging infrastructure and affordable housing programs, providing summer jobs and year-round training to at-risk youth, addressing food insecurity by combatting food deserts, and implementing the Congressional Black Caucus’ 10-20-30 formula whereby federal agencies commit 10% of their budgets in communities where 20% of the population has been living in poverty for the last 30 years.

Brown: Congress must increase funding to state and local government to support community and evidence-based programs to address the opioid epidemic, and develop opioid prescribing practices to reduce opioid misuse and overdoses.

Brown: Congress must pass comprehensive immigration reform that promotes family reunification and diversity, strengthens our workforce and economy, and provides refuge for asylum seekers and refugees, while at the same time protects our borders.

Brown: The United States should support free trade, while also ensuring that our trading partners abide by the international rules, do not manipulate their currencies, and protect consumers, the labor force, the environment and intellectual property rights.

Brown: The Iran Nuclear Deal is a framework agreed to by Iran, the United States, and a group of world powers. The framework did not address Iran’s ballistic missile program, its malign activities throughout the Middle East, and its arms sales to state and non state actors that pose a threat to the United States and our allies and partners. The framework also is weak in the areas of inspecting Iran’s compliance and with next steps when the framework terminates. As a member of Congress, I support addressing these issues.

Brown: The United States should emphasize diplomacy, supported by a strong military posture, with the goal of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy should include our allies and engage China.