During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign,
The Baltimore Banner described Alsobrooks as center-left. and Harris—whom she has also called her longtime friend—as her political mentors. Alsobrooks voted with President
Donald Trump's stated position 6% of the time in the
119th Congress through 2025, according to a
VoteHub analysis.
Crime and policing As state's attorney, Alsobrooks opposed removing
school resource officers from Prince George's County public schools. She also sought harsh sentences for juveniles who committed violent crimes and supported increasing minimum sentences for people convicted of illegal gun possession, In one of her first cases as state's attorney in February 2011, Alsobrooks sought the
death penalty for Darrell Lynn Bellard, who had killed four people, including two children, in Prince George's County. After Governor
Martin O'Malley signed a bill banning the death penalty into law in 2013, she withdrew her death penalty notice and instead sought a sentence of life without parole. Alsobrooks did not say whether she supported attempts to place a ballot initiative on the 2014 ballot to overturn the death penalty repeal, but said that she would consider seeking the death penalty if it were available. Bellard was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to four consecutive life sentences on June 27, 2014. In December 2023, Alsobrooks told
MoCo360 that she did not support reinstating the death penalty and would support
repealing it on the federal level if elected to the U.S. Senate. In 2012, Alsobrooks said she opposed the
Maryland Court of Appeals's ruling in
Maryland v. King, which held that collecting cheek swabs from arrested individuals violates their
Fourth Amendment rights. When asked by
The Intercept if she still supported collecting DNA information from arrestees, a spokesperson for Alsobrooks said that collecting these records is a "valuable tool" in prosecuting violent criminals. During the 2023 legislative session, Alsobrooks testified against a bill that would increase privacy restrictions on police collection of biometric data. and another bill to require police and healthcare workers to report threats of abuse. She also supported a bill to increase sentences for crimes committed around minors. In 2014, after the Maryland General Assembly voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of
marijuana, Alsobrooks formed a committee to develop a plan on how to handle marijuana-related offenses. As state's attorney, she advocated for drug diversion programs that would provide treatment services to individuals charged with low-level marijuana offenses, including a program that allowed low-level drug offenders to attend
Prince George's Community College and complete
community service instead of serving prison sentences. In November 2015, Alsobrooks controversially claimed on
WAMU's
The Kojo Nnamdi Show that the decriminalization of marijuana resulted in a 30% increase in murders in Prince George's County. In February 2019, after her political committee conducted a poll asking voters about legalizing recreational marijuana for adults, Alsobrooks said on
The Kojo Nnamdi Show that while she did not care how adults used marijuana, she had concerns with how its use could impact kids'
development and their ability to get a job. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Alsobrooks said she would vote to legalize recreational marijuana on the federal level. In November 2016, Alsobrooks spoke in support of a proposed rule prohibiting prosecutors from setting a high bail on poor defendants, arguing that the change would provide equal protection under the law for low-income individuals. In 2017, she opposed a bill that would set new standards for pretrial releases and increase the use of cash bail. During her 2018 county executive campaign, Alsobrooks said she supported abolishing cash bail. During the 2018 legislative session, Alsobrooks testified in support of bills to make
mandatory reporters liable for unreported child neglect, to make
contract killing a felony, and to require domestic violence offenders to surrender their firearms. Following the May 2020
murder of George Floyd, Alsobrooks announced in June that the county would forgo expanding its police training facility, instead funding a $20 million public health facility to treat mental health and addiction. She also condemned a video showing county police officers throwing down and kicking an individual at a
Langley Park gas station as "disgusting" and said the officers involved should be fired, and called for reform of Maryland's
Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights. In July 2020, Alsobrooks established a Police Reform Task Force to come up with recommendations on public police reform. In February 2021, Alsobrooks announced that the county would implement the reforms recommended by the task force, including updates to the department's
use of force policy and creating a new office of integrity led by an independent
inspector general. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Alsobrooks supported the
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and called for reforms to the criminal justice system to promote safety, justice, and equity for residents. and created a task force to intervene in and prevent violent crimes among juveniles. In September 2022, she announced a 30-day juvenile
curfew that charged violators with civil penalties and fines. While it was in effect, crime decreased five percent but overall increased two percent during all hours of the day. In October 2022, the curfew was extended until the end of 2022. Following a large teen brawl at
National Harbor in April 2024, Alsobrooks declared a state of emergency and signed an executive order reinstating the youth curfew. In June 2023, Alsobrooks issued her first-ever veto to an amendment to the county's $5.4 billion budget, which increased funding for the county's Emerging Adults Program, a program to reduce recidivism in young people, by $250,000. She said her decision to veto the youth program funding was "strictly a budget decision", explaining that she had to optimize spending while not raising taxes as the county dealt with a potential $60 million budget shortfall. In August 2025, Alsobrooks criticized President
Donald Trump's deployment of the
National Guard to
Washington, D.C., calling it "drastic executive overreach" and blaming congressional Republicans for a hiring freeze affecting the
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia by cutting $1.1 billion in funding from the District's government.
Development initiatives In November 2018, Alsobrooks said she would work with Hogan and the owners of the
Washington Redskins to keep the football team in
Prince George's County. In 2021, Alsobrooks proposed developing a year-round sports and entertainment venue near FedExField as an incentive to keep the Washington Football Team in Maryland. During the 2022 legislative session, she supported a bill providing $400 million toward developing the entertainment venue, which Hogan signed into law in April 2022. Alsobrooks supports relocating the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's headquarters to Prince George's County. In November 2022, she criticized
General Services Administration criteria that she said "clearly favored
Springfield, Virginia" over Prince George's County. In March 2023, Alsobrooks joined Democratic members of Maryland's congressional delegation and Governor
Wes Moore in co-signing a letter to President
Joe Biden asking him to get involved in the FBI's headquarters selection process. In November 2023, the
General Services Administration announced that it would locate the FBI's new headquarters in
Greenbelt, Maryland. But in March 2025, President
Donald Trump blocked the move to Maryland, saying the agency should be in Washington, D.C., as opposed to "liberal" Maryland. In July 2025, after Trump said that he wanted the new FBI headquarters to be the
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., Alsobrooks signed on to a letter saying that she and other Maryland lawmakers would "be fighting back against this proposal with every tool we have". In February 2023, Alsobrooks signed into law a bill to temporarily cap rent increases at 3 percent. In April 2023, she expressed concerns with a bill to provide rental assistance to low-income residents, saying she wanted to wait for long-term recommendations from a housing work group. In October 2024, Alsobrooks praised the passage of a bill to cap rent increases at 6 percent per year or the
consumer price index plus three percent, whichever is lower. In June 2023, Alsobrooks said she opposed a bill to place a two-year moratorium on new townhouse developments in commercial areas and areas surrounding Metro stations, which she claimed would "discourage investment from businesses". In October 2023, she expressed concerns with a proposal to limit new building permits annually issued by the county until 2029. In 2025, Alsobrooks supported the ROAD to Housing Act, a bipartisan housing reform package that aims to increase affordable housing nationwide. She co-led efforts to add the Community Investment and Prosperity Act, which allows banks to spend billions more than currently allowed on affordable housing and community development projects, to the bill.
Economic issues In 2015, Alsobrooks supported a bill that required Prince George's County businesses to provide employees up to seven days of
paid sick leave annually. In 2019, Alsobrooks endorsed legislation in the Maryland General Assembly to raise the state's
minimum wage to
$15 an hour by 2023, saying "[n]o one jurisdiction can achieve this on its own, because unless each city and county adopts the $15 minimum wage, it will not be a viable solution". During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, she supported raising the
federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and indexing future increases to inflation, as well as repealing the
disability exemption from the
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which allows employers to pay employees with disabilities below the minimum wage. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Alsobrooks opposed the
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. as well as expanding the
child tax credit and capping childcare costs for low-income families. In March 2024, Alsobrooks supported policies to "harness the benefits of cryptocurrency" to support underserved communities. During the 119th Congress, she co-sponsored the
GENIUS Act, which would regulate
stablecoins, but later told
The American Prospect that she supported her Democratic colleagues' efforts to prevent the bill from advancing from committee without additional commitments. Alsobrooks was part of a bipartisan group of senators that negotiated a deal on the GENIUS Act to expand consumer protection safeguards and impose limits on tech companies issuing stablecoins, and was one of 18 Democrats to vote for the bill. In September 2025, Alsobrooks and eleven other Senate Democrats released a framework for legislation to regulate the issuance and trading of
digital assets.
Education During her county executive campaign, Alsobrooks said her administration would increase investment in
pre-K education, career and technology education, and infrastructure improvement projects within the county's schools, In 2019, Alsobrooks announced that Prince George's County would use
public-private partnerships to build and maintain several of the county's schools, making it the first jurisdiction in the United States to do so. According to
The Baltimore Sun, six new schools have been built using these partnerships and eight more are currently being built as of September 2024. In 2020, Alsobrooks testified in favor of legislation that would allow the
Maryland Stadium Authority to issue up to $2.2 billion in bonds to pay for school construction projects. During the 2024 legislative session, she supported a bill giving Prince George's County more discretion over county telecommunications and energy tax revenues, saying that the county needed "flexibility" to plan for the future. Currently, the money earned from these taxes goes toward funding the county's school system. During the 2020 legislative session, Alsobrooks said that she supported the
Blueprint for Maryland's Future, but expressed concerns with the education reform bill's funding requirements—which would have required Prince George's County to increase its education funding by $360 million by 2030—telling legislators that she would have to defund the county's police department to pay for the proposed education reforms. She also said she would not raise taxes to fund the Blueprint. In response, legislators amended the bill's funding formulas to lessen its impacts on poorer areas of the state, which decreased the bill's cost to Prince George's County to $183 million by 2030. In September 2021, Alsobrooks wrote to Hogan to express concern that none of the nominees to the state's education reform panel lived in Prince George's County. The panel refused requests to reopen applications, waiting for clarity from the
Attorney General of Maryland. In September 2023, she said she would support giving counties increased oversight over education spending amid the Blueprint's implementation. In January 2021, Alsobrooks appointed former state delegate Juanita Miller as chair of the Prince George's County Board of Education. After ethics charges were filed against almost all members of the Prince George's Board of Education in August 2021, Alsobrooks asked the state's top school officials to "immediately" investigate the allegations. The
Maryland State Board of Education said it was unable to review the ethics allegations made against the school board members, saying that the report is confidential "until accepted by the local board of education". In June 2022, Alsobrooks asked Miller to resign from the school board after the Maryland State Board of Education made public two charges against her. Miller's term ended in the summer of 2024. In February 2022, Alsobrooks asked the
Maryland General Assembly to pass legislation to allow the Prince George's County school board to return to an all-elected school board, with nine members elected by district and one student member. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Alsobrooks supported expanding the federal
Pell Grant program and said she would work with the Biden administration to provide student loan relief. She also expressed support for increasing funding for
Title I schools and the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. She endorsed two bills to repeal the developer contributions ban partially, which became law later that year. In July 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Alsobrooks sent a letter to Governor Larry Hogan asking him to provide multiple voting options for the
2020 general election, including
mail-in voting and an expansion on in-person voting locations. The following day, Hogan ordered the Maryland State Board of Elections to hold full in-person elections for the general election and to send all registered voters an application for an
absentee ballot. In response, she requested that the state elections board consolidate the county's 229 polling places into 15 vote centers, which Hogan criticized as a violation of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965. Alsobrooks responded to this criticism by accusing him of mocking the county's residents for their concerns about the spread of COVID-19. During the 2024 election, Alsobrooks indicated that she would support extending voting rights to undocumented immigrants and 16-year-olds. She also supported expanding the U.S. Supreme Court to thirteen members and imposing term limits on its justices. Alsobrooks supports eliminating the
filibuster to pass the
Freedom to Vote Act In January 2026, Alsobrooks voted to recommend a congressional redistricting map that would increase the Democratic Party's chances of winning
Maryland's 1st congressional district, the only one represented by a Republican. In April 2026, Alsobrooks criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in
Louisiana v. Callais.
Environment As county executive, Alsobrooks established a county
composting program for residents and spent over $1 billion on stormwater management programs. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, she praised the
Inflation Reduction Act, promising to expand on its programs if elected, and supported initiatives to make
electric vehicles more affordable, to increase federal funding for
Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction programs, and to impose a
carbon tax on the biggest carbon polluters to pay for
climate change mitigation programs.
Foreign policy Alsobrooks has cited preserving democracy as the most significant foreign policy issue facing the United States. She supports the expansion of
NATO. Alsobrooks opposes sending U.S. troops to fight in the
Russo-Ukrainian War China In 2025, Alsobrooks introduced a bill that would prohibit
United States foreign adversaries from buying up the nation's farmland and timberland to spy on the U.S. and interrupt its food supply chains.
Iran During her 2024 Senate campaign, Alsobrooks supported building on U.S. relations with
Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, and the
United Arab Emirates to counter
Iran. After the June 2025
United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, Alsobrooks called them an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress's powers and something that would endanger U.S. service members and civilians. She also decried the possibility of another war in the Middle East and challenged President Trump to negotiate a diplomatic solution to end the
Twelve-Day War. Alsobrooks voted for the
Iran War Powers Resolution, which would have required congressional approval for another military strike against Iran. In February 2026, she criticized further
U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran, citing Trump's campaign promises to end U.S. involvement in foreign wars and demanding that the U.S. Senate vote on a War Powers Resolution restricting the federal government's ability to continue strikes on Iran.
Israel on the anniversary of the
October 7 attacks, 2024 Alsobrooks supports Israel's "right to defend itself" and has described herself as an ally toward maintaining
Israel–United States relations, including supporting providing the country with funding and military assistance. In 2019, Alsobrooks traveled to Israel with other local elected officials on an
American Israel Education Foundation trip, during which she met with military officials and
Knesset members, and visited the
Golan Heights. According to the American Jewish Congress, she opposes the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and supports the
Antisemitism Awareness Act. She later expressed support for a ceasefire in the war alongside the release of
hostages held by Hamas, and argued that the U.S. should withhold its offensive weaponry to Israel if it
invaded Rafah. In April 2024, Alsobrooks distanced herself from U.S. senator
Chris Van Hollen's calls to suspend U.S. arms transfers to Israel amid the war and said that opponents of Israel in the Democratic Party were "more interested in talking about problems than in fixing them". In December 2025, Alsobrooks said she supported the
Gaza peace plan.
Ukraine Alsobrooks supports
Ukraine in the
Russian invasion of Ukraine and said during her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign that she would support legislation to provide foreign aid to Ukraine if elected to the U.S. Senate, She has also described Russian President
Vladimir Putin as a dictator and a tyrant, and expressed frustration with Republican efforts to hold up bills providing military assistance to Ukraine.
Venezuela In December 2025, Alsobrooks criticized
U.S. military strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea, saying they represented a "dangerous abuse of power" because they were not authorized by Congress. In January 2026, she criticized
U.S. military strikes in Venezuela, saying the strikes were likely illegal since Trump did not seek approval from Congress.
Gun control , 2013 Alsobrooks testified in support of the Firearm Safety Act of 2013, a bill restricting firearm purchases and magazine capacity in
semi-automatic rifles. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Alsobrooks blamed increases in gun violence on a lack of mental health resources and gun laws, and supported providing cities with access to federal data to enhance law enforcement's ability to trace guns. She also supports
red flag laws and federal legislation to implement
universal background checks for gun sales, combat
gun trafficking, and ban
assault weapons and
homemade firearms.
Health care In March 2019, Alsobrooks appeared in an ad to support legislation establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, a body tasked with making recommendations to the Maryland General Assembly on how to make prescription drugs more affordable. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Alsobrooks supported capping the price of
insulin at $35, protecting
Social Security, She also supported allowing
Medicare to negotiate the prices of drugs Alsobrooks supported raising the cap on
Social Security taxes and opposed proposals to raise the Social Security eligibility age. In May 2024, Alsobrooks signed onto a Maryland Healthcare for All pledge to support legislation to extend
Inflation Reduction Act-provided healthcare benefits beyond 2025. Since 2025, Alsobrooks has led opposition to
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as
Secretary of Health and Human Services and his
Make America Healthy Again movement. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, she decried his anti-vaccine advocacy and promotion of conspiracy theories, asking him "what different vaccine schedule would you say I should have received?" after he made false claims suggesting that Black people should receive vaccines on a different schedule than other people. Alsobrooks voted against his confirmation, In subsequent committee hearings, she sparred with Kennedy over his firings of federal scientists and health workers, funding cuts to various divisions within the
Department of Health and Human Services, and criticism of
diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. In July 2025, Alsobrooks voted against the
One Big Beautiful Bill Act, criticizing provisions that would cut Medicaid and the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through stricter eligibility requirements and saying they would pay for "tax breaks to his billionaire donors".
Immigration In October 2012, Alsobrooks spoke in support of
Question 4, a ballot referendum that sought to approve the
Maryland's Dream Act, a bill extending
in-state tuition to
undocumented immigrants. In February 2014, Alsobrooks spoke in support of a bill to limit the state's
Secure Communities program by requiring Maryland jails to ignore
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requests to detain
illegal immigrants for up to 48 hours. During her tenure as county executive, she declined to enter into an agreement with ICE, saying on her Senate campaign website in 2024 that she believed that "local law enforcement should not be involved in routine enforcement of a person's immigration status". In June 2019, Alsobrooks and other Democratic county executives released a joint statement condemning planned nationwide immigration enforcement raids and signed into law a bill prohibiting the
Prince George's County Police Department from working with ICE in noncriminal deportation cases. In November 2019, she signed the Act Concerning Community Inclusiveness, a bill banning local agencies from cooperating with immigration enforcement. During the 2024 election, Alsobrooks said she would support comprehensive immigration reform, including proposals to create a
pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants In January 2026, after footage from inside the Baltimore ICE detention facility went viral on social media, Alsobrooks said the video was further evidence that funding for ICE under Trump must be stopped. She later signed on to a letter to Noem and Lyons expressing concerns with conditions at the facility.
National politics Alsobrooks opposed the
2018–2019 government shutdown, calling it "wicked" and President
Donald Trump "ruthless". In January 2019, she announced a relief package for federal workers affected by the shutdown, which included funds for food and rent assistance, student financial aid, and utilities. In September 2025, ahead of the
2025 United States federal government shutdown, Alsobrooks introduced a bill that would allow essential federal employees to apply for unemployment benefits during a
government shutdown. She later blamed Republicans for the shutdown, citing their control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress. In November 2025, Alsobrooks voted against a bill to end the government shutdown, saying that while she supported provisions to rehire federal employees who faced layoffs during the shutdown, she could not vote for a bill that did not extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. Following the
January 6 United States Capitol attack, Alsobrooks condemned the role of Trump and other lawmakers in inciting the attack. In October 2024, she blamed Trump for "a lot of" the
antisemitism in the United States following the
October 7 attacks, citing his comments following the
Unite the Right rally. After the jury's guilty verdict in the
Trump hush money trial, Alsobrooks expressed support for the U.S. justice system. In February 2025, Alsobrooks opposed the
U.S. federal deferred resignation program and the Trump administration's efforts to
fire and reclassify thousands of federal workers at various agencies, noting that the layoffs would affect Maryland, which is home to about 160,000 federal workers. Alsobrooks voted for four of Trump's Cabinet nominees (
John Ratcliffe,
Sean Duffy,
Doug Burgum, and
Marco Rubio), but later pledged to vote against all of his remaining Cabinet-level nominees because of the effect on Maryland of "the witch hunt that this administration has put forward against these civil servants".
Social issues Alsobrooks supported the
Civil Marriage Protection Act, which legalized
same-sex marriage in Maryland in 2012 and supported
Question 6. During her tenure as county executive, Alsobrooks issued several proclamations recognizing
Pride Month and expanded health services with people with
HIV/AIDS, and hired the county's first government liaison to the
LGBTQ community in June 2023. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Alsobrooks supported the
Equality Act and criticized
anti-trans laws passed in Republican states as well as national efforts to "undermine equality and promote discrimination" against LGBT individuals. Alsobrooks opposes restrictions on abortions, describing the decision to get an abortion as a "family decision for a woman, a family, and her doctor." In June 2022, she criticized the
U.S. Supreme Court's decision in ''
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization'', contrasting it with the court's earlier ruling in
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, Alsobrooks promised to immediately cosponsor the
Women's Health Protection Act, which would overturn the
Dobbs decision, said she would not support any judicial nominee who opposes abortion rights, and supported a
2024 referendum to codify the right to reproductive care into the
Constitution of Maryland. She also criticized the
Alabama Supreme Court's ruling in
LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, which held that
frozen embryos had the same rights as children. In February 2019, after it was reported that state delegate
Mary Ann Lisanti had described a district in Prince George's County as a "
n----- district" in a conversation with another legislator, Alsobrooks described her comments as "disturbing and offensive" and invited her to come to the county. She later called on Lisanti to resign from the
Maryland House of Delegates. In April 2023, Alsobrooks agreed with proposals to create a $2 million
universal basic income pilot program in Prince George's County but expressed concerns with its funding due to its tight budget constraints. The $4 million pilot program, which was funded using a
public-private partnership and provided $800 monthly payments to 125 seniors over a two-year span, was unanimously passed by the county council and launched in November. In April 2024, Alsobrooks expressed concerns with
proposals to ban TikTok in the United States. In October 2024, Alsobrooks's campaign told
The Baltimore Banner that she supported the
Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, which would study proposals to provide African-Americans with
reparations for U.S. slavery.
Transportation Alsobrooks opposed a proposal to build a
maglev train connecting Washington, D.C., to
Baltimore, describing the proposal as "outright disrespect to Prince George's County" and a "discourteous project". In May 2021, she sent a letter to acting Federal Railroad Administration Administrator
Amit Bose and Maryland Transportation Secretary Greg Slater to voice her opposition to the D.C.–Baltimore maglev proposal, arguing that the construction would "tear through environmentally sensitive areas" and that the 311-mile-an-hour train would cause vibrations and hurt property values. In late 2021, Alsobrooks launched programs to preserve and construct
mixed-use development around the
Blue Line and
Purple Line projects. In July 2023, Alsobrooks said she supported restarting the
Red Line in Baltimore. Following the
Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in March 2024, Alsobrooks supported the federal and state response to the disaster, as well as President Biden's pledge to cover 90 percent of the costs of replacing the bridge. During her 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, she criticized Hogan's cancellation of the
Red Line in Baltimore and promised to support transit projects in the city, calling it the "foundation of economic opportunity". ==Personal life==