U.S. House of Representatives
Climate change As chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, Khanna presided over the "
Big Oil hearing", bringing the CEOs of
ExxonMobil,
Chevron,
Shell, and
BP to appear before Congress under oath to investigate their spreading of
disinformation about
climate change. The hearing took place on October 28, 2021. As late as 2000, Exxon advertised in
The New York Times that "scientists have been unable to confirm" that burning
fossil fuels causes climate change. The Big Oil hearings were the first time oil executives were compelled to answer questions under oath about whether their corporations misled the public about the effects burning oil, gas, and coal have on raising the Earth's temperature and extreme weather patterns such as intensifying storms, deadlier wildfires, and worsening droughts. During the hearing, Khanna called on the executives to "Spare us the spin today. We have no interest in it... Spin doesn't work under oath." In an interview with
Yahoo Finance, Khanna described the oil industry's role in obfuscating
climate science: "We will have scores of evidence that these big oil companies misrepresented to the American public the threat of climate change. They cast doubt and uncertainty, even though they had scientists in their own company telling them that climate change and climate crisis was going to be catastrophic. And that they continue to engage in a pattern of deception." Khanna led the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's two-year investigation, which uncovered documents showing how Big Oil continues to mislead the public about its commitment to climate goals. Khanna played a key role in year-long negotiations with Senator
Joe Manchin to secure the $369 billion climate investment in the
Inflation Reduction Act and bring House progressives and environmental groups on board. Khanna criticized oil executives for increasing their oil production on October 28, 2021; conversely, in March 2022, he called for an increase in production after gas prices increased. In a
Wall Street Journal piece, Khanna laid out a comprehensive strategy to increase production and supply in the short term to dramatically lower prices for the working class and to have a "moonshot" in
renewable energy for the long run to diversify energy sources and stabilize prices. In a
New York Times piece, Khanna called on President
Joe Biden to do "way more" to lower gas prices by having the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve buy and sell oil cheaply to stabilize prices. Khanna called climate activist
Greta Thunberg to testify in a hearing on eliminating
fossil fuel subsidies and worked with executive director of
Greenpeace Annie Leonard to lead the campaign to stop new fossil fuel permitting in California. In 2018, Khanna signed on to then Representative-elect
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "
Green New Deal" proposal, which seeks to form a climate change plan with a goal of a 100%
renewable energy economy. In March 2019, Khanna was one of 14 members of the House to cosponsor the PFAS Detection Act, legislation intended to provide $45 million (~$ in ) to the U.S. Geological Survey for the purpose of developing advanced technologies that can detect
PFAS and afterward conduct nationwide sampling for PFAS in the environment. In a December 2019,
New York Times op-ed, Khanna and former Secretary of State
John Kerry laid out a plan for how America should win the "green energy race", analogizing it to the
space race. Khanna and Kerry called for expanding the
electric vehicle tax credit to make it fully refundable at the time of purchase. This would mean that a person would receive money back immediately when buying an electric vehicle rather than waiting a year for a tax refund. They also called for an exponential increase in the Advanced Research Projects Agency's budget and for doubling the budgets for the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Office of Science, which they say would support renewable energy research to foster the sort of innovation necessary to meet the scale and urgency of the climate challenge. Kerry and Khanna also called for the creation of an infrastructure bank to finance a
high-speed rail system to relieve congestion, reduce pollution, increase energy efficiency, and provide alternatives to regional air travel. Finally, Khanna and Kerry called for the U.S. to match China's annual investment in public-private partnerships, noting that China spent $126 billion on renewable energy investments in 2016, while the U.S. spent just over $40 billion. Khanna has said that creating a select committee in the House of Representatives that is specifically dedicated to a Green New Deal would be a "very commonsense idea", based on the recent example of the
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (2007–2011), which proved effective in developing a
2009 bill for cap-and-trade legislation.
Internet Bill of Rights In April 2018,
Nancy Pelosi asked Khanna to draft the Internet Bill of Rights in wake of
Cambridge Analytica's breach and
Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress. In October 2018, Khanna released a set of principles for an Internet Bill of Rights, including the right of U.S. citizens to have full knowledge of and control over their personal online data, the right to be notified and consent when an entity seeks to collect or sell one's personal data, and the guarantee of
net neutrality. The inventor of the
World Wide Web,
Tim Berners-Lee, has endorsed Khanna's principles for the Internet Bill of Rights, saying, "This bill of rights provides a set of principles that are about giving users more control of their online lives while creating a healthier internet economy." Former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton praised the efforts to establish an Internet Bill of Rights in her keynote speech at
Mansfield College, Oxford, saying, "it is past time to demand that all nations and corporations respect the right of individuals to control their own data... There is important work now being done by technologists like Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Ro Khanna, the U.S. Congressman representing
Silicon Valley. They are trying to develop guidelines for how this could work."
Technology and manufacturing jobs Khanna, Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer, Senator
Todd Young, and Representative
Mike Gallagher coauthored the Endless Frontier Act, a massive increase in science funding that creates
technology hubs across the nation. The White House invited Khanna to be on stage with President Biden when he signed the Chips and Science bill. This law is based on Khanna's Endless Frontiers bill and is one of the largest investments in science and in chip manufacturing in American history. Khanna's Valor Act passed both the House and the Senate and was signed by President
Donald Trump on November 21, 2017. The legislation makes it easier for companies to offer apprenticeships to veterans. Trump signed Khanna's second bill, the IDEA Act, into law on December 20, 2018. It requires all federal agencies to modernize their websites to the standard of the private sector. In a
New York Times op-ed, Khanna laid out his vision for bringing technology jobs to rural and small-town America. He called for additional funds to existing community colleges and
land grant universities to create technology institutes, endorsed an $80 billion investment in high-speed fiber internet throughout the country, and called for federal incentives for government hiring of rural-based software development companies. Khanna also led a delegation of
Silicon Valley executives to
Jefferson, Iowa, where they partnered with local community colleges and Pillar Technology to create software designer jobs paying $65,000 a year. Khanna spearheaded a joint effort with Google, community colleges, HBCUs, and HSIs to establish a public-private partnership aimed at offering financial assistance, skills training, and access to high-paying positions in the technology sector to more than 100 students. This initiative was implemented at eight colleges, in Pennsylvania, Iowa, South Carolina, Mississippi, Illinois, New York, New Hampshire, and Nevada. Each participant received a $5,000 stipend and an 18-month credential. Khanna has argued that Silicon Valley should share its economic success with the rest of the U.S. He has also been a longtime supporter of bringing advanced manufacturing jobs across America, the topic of his book, ''Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing Is Still Key To America's Future''. In March 2017, Khanna traveled to
Paintsville, Kentucky, also known as "Silicon Holler", with a bipartisan delegation from Congress, to lend support to TechHire Eastern Kentucky, a program that trains Kentuckians in fields such as computer technology and coding. He expressed support for a broad technology apprenticeship program that could help areas of the United States such as
Appalachia by giving blue-collar workers the skills they need to launch careers in the technology sector. The press has called Khanna the "Ambassador of Silicon Valley". Khanna passed his first legislative initiative as the lead Democrat with Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy to enable veterans to use GI funding for tech training programs. Khanna called on Silicon Valley executives and technology companies to do more nationwide to create tech jobs and diversify their recruiting efforts by making sure to recruit the next generation of tech workers from not just Ivy League institutions but also state schools and historically black colleges and universities. In a
Washington Post op-ed, Khanna wrote, "Tech companies must offer an aspirational vision of how all Americans, regardless of geography, can benefit from a tech-driven economy. This means making investments not just in California, Massachusetts, and New York, but also in start-ups and entrepreneurs in cities and rural communities across the nation." In February 2018, Khanna and Representative
Tim Ryan led a tour of
venture capitalists encouraging them to invest in middle America. Khanna has been called an "unconventional ambassador" for the Democratic Party in bringing technology and innovation across America. In 2022, Khanna was appointed to the
National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, a bipartisan commission charged with making policy recommendations to Congress and the Executive Branch.
Trade policy Khanna has argued that trade policy should focus on rebuilding domestic manufacturing capacity and reducing trade imbalances in strategically important sectors. In a 2022 essay for
Foreign Affairs, he wrote that trade liberalization with China after the granting of permanent normal trade relations and China's entry into the
World Trade Organization accelerated U.S. deindustrialization, and called for "economic patriotism" centered on expanding domestic production, targeted tariffs, export promotion, and industrial policy. At the same time, Khanna has criticized across-the-board tariffs as inflationary and ineffective when not paired with public investment in workforce development and production. In April 2025, he said blanket tariffs on electronics would raise prices for consumers and shift production to countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam rather than return manufacturing to the United States, adding that tariffs could be useful only as part of a broader industrial policy. In September 2025, Khanna and Republican representative
Don Bacon introduced bipartisan legislation to exempt coffee from tariffs imposed after January 19, 2025, arguing that the duties were increasing prices for American consumers on a product not produced domestically at scale.
Economics Khanna has called on his colleagues to adopt a more
progressive economic platform. He is an original co-sponsor of Senator
Bernie Sanders's College For All Act, legislation aiming to make public colleges tuition-free. He also has proposed $1 trillion expansion of the
earned income tax credit (EITC), financed by a
financial transaction tax, to help working families across America. In the Budget Committee, Khanna pointed out that Trump was for a
single-payer healthcare system in 2000. Khanna now supports a House bill to provide "
Medicare for All". Fred Hiatt, the editor of
The Washington Post editorial page, has suggested that Khanna is a thoughtful and new economic voice for the Democratic Party. Khanna has co-sponsored the
Reward Work Act of 2018, to reform
U.S. labor law and
corporate law by guaranteeing the right of employees in listed companies to elect one third of the
board of directors. Khanna supports the unionization of
Starbucks and
Maximus, and urged California lawmakers and Governor
Gavin Newsom to enact AB257, which sets workplace standards covering the state fast-food industry, including wages, working hours, health and safety, and training. Khanna led Congress in writing a letter to
Howard Schultz to stand up for Starbucks workers' right to unionize. In 2025, Khanna co-sponsored the
Protecting the Right to Organize Act, a proposal to expand protections for
labor union organizing and strengthen enforcement of the
National Labor Relations Act. In 2025, Khanna was an original co-sponsor of the
Raise the Wage Act of 2025, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $17 and phase out subminimum wages for tipped workers, youth workers, and workers with disabilities.
LGBT rights Khanna led the legislation to implement a
gender-inclusive "X" identifier on U.S. passports that served as a basis for the action on the issue by the State Department.
China House Democratic Leader
Hakeem Jeffries appointed Khanna to the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Khanna is pushing for rebalancing the U.S. relationship with China
NO PAC caucus In 2017, Khanna co-founded the NO PAC Caucus in the House with two other members,
Beto O'Rourke and
Jared Polis. Three more U.S. Representatives subsequently chose to refuse all contributions from political action committees:
Phil Roe,
Francis Rooney, and
John Sarbanes. These members would not fill out questionnaires or pledge positions to political action committees in exchange for contributions. Khanna and O'Rourke also introduced a bill to ban PACs from contributing to members of Congress. In December 2018, Khanna, constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman and Senator
Russ Feingold proposed a plan for "Democracy Dollars". Under the proposal, every American citizen would get $50 to spend on federal elections. Khanna has also worked with Republican Representative
Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin on reform proposals. Khanna has said he believes the Democratic Party needs to rethink its political program by running on
progressive issues like free college, Medicare for all, and the removal of corporate influence and money from politics.
Childcare In 2024, Khanna introduced a universal childcare bill modeled after Canada's system. The legislation caps childcare costs for families making under $250,000 annually at $10 per day and mandates a minimum wage of $24 for childcare workers. The bill, with an estimated cost of $780 billion over 10 years, allows families to choose between private, public, neighborhood, or home-based childcare options. Stay-at-home parents are also supported through the program. Providers have the option to participate in the $10 a Day program and receive grant incentives. Nothing is mandatory.
Constituent services and office culture Khanna was honored as one of two offices out of 435 for having the best workplace culture by the Congressional Management Foundation in 2023 and for best constituent services in 2019.
Reforming H1B abuse Khanna co-sponsored H.R.1303, a bipartisan companion bill to the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2017 designed to prevent the exploitation of foreign workers while still recognizing the contributions immigrants make to the US economy. The bill would overhaul the
H-1B and
L-1 visa programs to protect American workers and crack down on the outsourcing of American jobs abroad.
Safety for sex workers Khanna partnered with Senator
Elizabeth Warren to study the impact of
FOSTA/SESTA, including increased violence and sexual assault, on sex workers.
Monopolistic behavior Khanna founded and co-chairs the
Antitrust Caucus in the House. He has called for a reorientation of
antitrust policy to consider the impact on jobs, wages, small business, and innovation, and for scrutiny of the Whole Foods/Amazon merger. In 2018, along with Senator
Bernie Sanders, Khanna proposed the
Stop BEZOS Act, which would tax firms for every dollar that employees earn in government health care benefits or
food stamps. The law would also make it illegal for any large company to investigate whether or not a potential employee receives federal assistance. Khanna's rationale for the legislation was that it would force corporations to increase salaries for workers or pay for the welfare programs their employees rely on. Khanna challenged Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos directly, saying that if Bezos "announced that [he] would pay everyone at least a $15 minimum wage and reliable hours, [he] could set the standard." In response to Sanders's and Khanna's legislation and criticism, on October 2, 2018, Bezos announced that Amazon would raise wages of all employees to $15 an hour, effective November 2018. Khanna wrote a letter to the inspector general of the
Department of Defense requesting that he look into TransDigm Group, an aviation parts manufacturer, and supplier of companies like
Boeing. In his letter, Khanna said TransDigm may be bypassing rules that protect U.S. taxpayers since the manufacturer conducts business with the Pentagon. He said he wants to make sure the TransDigm Group is not adding unnecessary costs to the U.S. taxpayer and is not contributing to the $54 billion increase in defense spending proposed by the Trump administration. TransDigm agreed to refund $16.1 million to the Defense Department. In November 2018, Khanna and Sanders introduced the Stop WALMART Act, intended to ban large companies from buying back their own stock unless the company has a minimum hourly wage of $15 (~$ in ) for all employees, allows employees to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave, and pays the company's CEO or highest-paid employee no more than 150 times the median pay for employees.
Pharmaceuticals On November 20, 2018, Khanna and Sanders unveiled a bill intended to abolish monopolies on pharmaceuticals, regardless of any patents, and authorize companies to make cheaper generic versions of a drug if its price is higher than the median price in
Canada, the
United Kingdom,
Germany,
France, and
Japan. Sanders said in a statement that the United States was the only country in the world that allowed "pharmaceutical companies to charge any price they want for any reason they want" and that the "greed of the prescription drug industry is literally killing Americans".
Foreign policy A supporter of a more
non-interventionist foreign policy, In 2019, Khanna was one of eight lawmakers to sign a pledge stating their intent "to fight to reclaim Congress's constitutional authority to conduct oversight of U.S. foreign policy and independently debate whether to authorize each new use of military force" and to bring "the Forever War to a responsible and expedient conclusion" after 17 years of U.S. military conflict.
Afghanistan In 2019, Khanna and Senator
Rand Paul led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in signing a letter to Trump asserting that it is "long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization" and they hoped this would "serve as a model for ending hostilities in the future—in particular, as you and your administration seek a political solution to our
involvement in Afghanistan." In a statement, Khanna said, "The president cannot pursue a foreign policy agenda without the advice and consent, let alone the support, of the Congress" and thanked Paul for helping him "in bringing an end to these wars", citing the Constitution as not being partisan.
Brazil ,
Pramila Jayapal and Brazilian president
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, February 2, 2023 Khanna has been critical of
Brazil's former president
Jair Bolsonaro, a
far-right politician criticized for
misogynistic,
homophobic, and anti-immigrant views who has been embraced by the Trump administration as an ally and partner. In March 2019 Khanna and 29 other Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo that read in part, "Since the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president, we have been particularly alarmed by the threat Bolsonaro's agenda poses to the LGBT community and other minority communities, women, labor activists, and political dissidents in Brazil. We are deeply concerned that, by targeting hard-won political and social rights, Bolsonaro is endangering Brazil's long-term democratic future".
Israeli–Palestinian conflict In December 2017, Khanna criticized Trump's decision to
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel, saying, "The United States and Israel share similar values of peace, democracy, and entrepreneurship. We should always look for ways to strengthen the relationship and address Israel's legitimate security concerns. The President's decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, however, is misguided and does not advance peace." During the
Gaza war, Khanna
called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and said Congress should more closely scrutinize
U.S. arms transfers to Israel. In March 2024, after reports that the Biden administration had approved more than 100 foreign military sales to Israel since the war began, he called for hearings in the House Armed Services Committee on the legal basis for the transfers and whether they complied with the administration's human rights policy. In June 2024, Khanna said he would not attend Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, saying he did not want to sit through a "one-way lecture"; he was among the more than 60 Democrats who boycotted the speech the following month. On July 31, 2025,
Jewish Insider reported that Khanna, along with fellow progressives in the
U.S. House, was circulating a letter advocating for a
two-state solution in the
Middle East. The proposed framework would condition recognition of a
Palestinian state on full recognition of
Israel and the disarmament of
Hamas, and came amid renewed international discussion of Palestinian statehood ahead of a United Nations meeting in September. In September 2025, Khanna led 47 House colleagues in a letter urging President
Donald Trump and Secretary of State
Marco Rubio to have the United States formally
recognize a Palestinian state. Reporting at the time linked the House effort to a Senate proposal calling for recognition of a demilitarized Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders and governed by the Palestinian Authority. In November 2025, Khanna was one of 20 Democratic members of Congress who cosponsored a resolution introduced by Representative
Rashida Tlaib to officially recognize
Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. In January 2026, Khanna and Senator
Peter Welch led 74 lawmakers in urging the Trump administration to oppose
Israeli annexation efforts in the West Bank and to preserve the possibility of a negotiated two-state solution.
Iran In 2025, Khanna and Representative
Thomas Massie backed a bipartisan
War Powers Resolution effort aimed at requiring congressional authorization before U.S. involvement in hostilities with
Iran. In February 2026, after
U.S. strikes on Iran, Khanna and Representative
Thomas Massie again pressed a bipartisan War Powers Resolution aimed at requiring congressional authorization for further hostilities. The House rejected the measure in March 2026.
North Korea Khanna worked with former president
Jimmy Carter, who had agreed to travel to
North Korea to meet with
Kim Jong Un; in 1994, Carter met with Kim's grandfather,
Kim Il Sung. On January 18, 2018, Khanna organized a group of 33 House members to sign a letter urging Trump to reestablish military-to-military communications with
North Korea. He also called for two other steps that should be taken to alleviate tension with the DPRK. He reintroduced a bill explicitly stating that the president of the United States should not be allowed to launch a nuclear strike without congressional approval, and called upon Trump to send a bipartisan team to negotiate directly with the North Koreans. In February 2019, Khanna introduced a resolution to end the
Korean War while leaving American troops in Korea that urged the Trump administration to give "a clear roadmap for achieving a permanent peace regime and the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula." In a statement, Khanna said diplomacy between North and South Korea had "created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to formally end this war" and advocated that Trump "work hand in hand with our ally, South Korean President
Moon Jae-in, to bring the war to a close and advance toward the denuclearization of the peninsula."
Syria Khanna has been critical of the strikes on Syria. On December 22, 2018, Khanna laid out the progressive case for withdrawal of military forces from Syria and Afghanistan, noting that Congress never authorized the involvement of
U.S. troops in the Syrian civil war. In 2023, Khanna was among 56 Democrats to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President
Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from
Syria within 180 days.
Yemen On November 13, 2017, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning civilian deaths,
starvation and the spread of disease in
Yemen, admitting that much of the responsibility for that humanitarian crisis rests with the U.S. because of its support for a
Saudi-led military intervention, and noting that the war has allowed al Qaeda, ISIL, and other groups to thrive. Khanna, along with Representative
Jim McGovern, co-sponsored the resolution on the House floor. The resolution passed with a bipartisan majority of 366–30. On September 27, 2017, Khanna and Representatives
Thomas Massie,
Mark Pocan, and
Walter B. Jones Jr. submitted a bipartisan bill on the floor of the House that would halt U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen on the grounds that Congress never approved the American role in the war. In a joint statement with Pocan, Khanna said, "we aim to restore Congress as the constitutionally mandated branch of government that may declare war and retain oversight over it." In an op-ed for
The New York Times detailing the human cost of the continued war in Yemen, Khanna, Pocan, and Jones wrote, "We believe that the American people, if presented with the facts of this conflict, will oppose the use of their tax dollars to bomb and starve civilians in order to further the Saudi monarchy's regional goals." In November 2018, after American and Saudi officials announced that the
Trump administration had halted its inflight refueling support for the Saudi-led coalition aircraft engaged in Yemen, Khanna called the decision "a major victory" while asserting the need for Congress to pass a resolution ensuring all American involvement was ended. In February 2019, the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a bill ending American support for the Saudi intervention in Yemen. Khanna noted that more than "14 million Yemenis—half the country—are on the brink of
famine, and at least 85,000 children have already died from hunger and disease as a result of the war" and called on Congress to "end American complicity in the atrocities in Yemen." On February 13, after the House voted to withdraw support for the Saudis in Yemen, Khanna called the day "historic" and said he was "encouraged by the direction people are pushing our party to take on foreign policy, promoting restraint and human rights and with the sense they want Congress to play a much larger role."
Civil rights Khanna led efforts in the House to make the standard for the use of force only as a last resort. This was adopted in the
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which passed the House. Khanna has also been a vocal advocate of abolishing the filibuster and passing voting rights legislation. On April 25, 2018, 57 members of the House of Representatives, led by Khanna, released a condemnation of Holocaust distortion in Ukraine and Poland. They criticized Poland's
new Holocaust law and Ukraine's
2015 memory laws glorifying
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and its leaders, such as
Roman Shukhevych. The condemnation came in an open bipartisan letter to Deputy Secretary of State
John J. Sullivan. California's State Assembly passed a separate resolution calling upon Congress to pressure Polish lawmakers to change this new Holocaust speech law. Andrzej Pawluszek, an adviser to Polish prime minister
Mateusz Morawiecki, called the claims in Congress's letter "irresponsible and shocking". The Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (
Vaad of Ukraine) also rebuked the letter, calling it "anti-Ukrainian
defamation" like that used by Russian propaganda during the
war in Ukraine.
Combating Hindu nationalism After the visit of Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan to the U.S. in 2019, Khanna became the first Indian-American Congressman to join the Congressional Pakistan Caucus, which he claimed was to promote better ties between India and Pakistan, and in line with his pluralistic ideals for Hindus and Muslims. Varghese K. George of
The Hindu called Khanna "an unequivocal and strong supporter of a pluralist America, and India-U.S. ties," who "for the same reason rejects
Hindutva and its exclusive nationalism." In a statement targeted at
Tulsi Gabbard, Khanna said, "it is the duty of every American politician of Hindu faith to stand for pluralism, reject Hindutva, and speak for equal rights for Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Christians", a statement that was criticized in a letter published by the
Hindu American Foundation (HAF) and signed by what was described as "a record number of 230 Indian-American organisations in the U.S.", who also objected to Khanna's membership in the Congressional Caucus on Pakistan.
Biden administration As of October 2021, Khanna had voted in line with
Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time. Khanna remained an ally of Biden during the
2024 presidential campaign and served as a campaign surrogate. After Biden's poor performance in the
June 2024 presidential debate, Khanna publicly defended Biden's decision to remain in the race, said that Democrats should unite behind the nominee, and argued that the decision whether to continue belonged to Biden himself. Biden withdrew from the race on July 21, 2024, after weeks of pressure from fellow Democrats following the debate.
Abortion Khanna opposed the
overturning of Roe v. Wade, calling it "heartbreaking". He said the decision "strips Americans of their basic freedom and endangers the health and safety of millions. It strips women of the right to make their own decisions about their bodies and their futures", especially low-income women, women of color, and women living in rural areas.
Supreme Court Khanna has led a bill to limit the terms of Supreme Court justices. In 2022, he called the Court's recent conservative decisions anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic.
Free speech Khanna is an advocate of
free speech. In 2022, the publication of the
Twitter Files highlighted his efforts to stop the former
Twitter administration from censoring the
New York Post's reporting on the
Hunter Biden laptop controversy.
Roblox child safety In August 2025, Khanna advocated for transparency regarding
Roblox's safety issues. He has opened up a website where people can sign up and help contribute to this cause.
Epstein files In February 2026, Khanna used his time on the
U.S. House floor to publicly read the names of six individuals that he said had been redacted from the
Department of Justice’s publicly released files related to
Jeffrey Epstein. Khanna and
Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), who co-sponsored the
Epstein Files Transparency Act, reviewed unredacted documents and criticized the DOJ for withholding the names without clear justification. The lawmakers noted that inclusion in the files does not itself imply criminal wrongdoing. The six names Khanna read into the Congressional Record included
Leslie Wexner, and
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. Khanna stated, “Now my question is: why did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the Justice Department to get these six men’s identities to become public? And if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files.” According to
The Guardian, "the
Department of Justice said that four of the men Khanna named have no apparent connection to Epstein whatsoever, but rather appeared in a photo lineup assembled by the
southern district of New York (SDNY)."
Committee assignments For the
119th Congress: •
Committee on Armed Services •
Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation (Ranking Member) •
Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces •
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform •
Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation •
Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs •
Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Caucus memberships •
Climate Solutions Caucus •
NOPAC Caucus •
India Caucus •
Congressional Antitrust Caucus •
Medicare for All Caucus •
Congressional Equality Caucus •
Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment •
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