Jake Levine

My opponent, Brad Sherman, has not been on the record as to where he would be on funding this war.

I wanna be very clear that I would not support funding this war at a moment when we have enormous economic challenges and needs for everyday working families here in our district.

And we deserve a member of Congress who will fight for that and be clear about where they stand on everything else.

Yeah, well, I wanna also stipulate to everything you had to say about Trump, but that's the table stakes, right?

I mean, we'll all stipulate to that.

And I think what will distinguish Democrats and we'll see this

in the presidential election debates coming up is what are we articulating that is an affirmative message for what people need that is not about purely opposing Trump?

What we're focused on is three things fundamentally.

One is

on bringing the cost of living down so that people can afford to live where they work here in LA.

Number two is making a safer Los Angeles, and I'll talk about that in a second.

And number three is electing effective members of Congress, people who can build coalitions and get things done.

So bringing costs down, I mentioned housing, where we're really focused on supply side and also supports for

mortgage support and renters support.

But we're also focused on bringing down the cost of utilities like I did when I helped start a tech company called Opower that has saved people billions of dollars on their electric bills.

We can do this by deploying cheap, affordable, clean energy.

We're focused on bringing down the cost of childcare and education by providing support through federal programs that can

be improved through streamlining and additional funding in those areas.

And we're focused on bringing down the cost of insurance.

And I've got an opponent who's taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the very insurance companies that are denying claims to survivors in the Palisades and in Malibu, when we actually need to be providing accountability on the insurance industry to be ensuring that prices are affordable and that coverage is provided.