National Nurses United is committed to building a broad movement for transformative social change and confronting the powerful interests that dominate our economic and political system. We are proud to support congressional, state, and local candidates that share nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community. Learn more about all of our current supported national legislation.
- Medicare for All Act
- Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
- Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act
- Richard L. Trumka Protecting The Right to Organize (PRO) Act
- VA Employee Fairness Act and Protect America’s Workforce Act
- Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Data Center Moratorium Act
- Nurses Demand Congress Take Action to Abolish ICE
- Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act
- Block the Bombs Act and Joint Resolutions of Disapproval
- War Powers Resolutions
- Oppose » Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) America Act
Medicare for All Act (S. 1506 / H.R. 3069)
Today’s health care system fails to provide quality, therapeutic care to every U.S. resident and wastes hundreds of billions of dollars a year in unnecessary administrative costs. The recent cuts to health care programs from H.R.1 and the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the existing patchwork system of private for-profit insurers for what it is — ineffective, inefficient, and unjustifiably unaffordable for our patients and for our country. Medicare for All would expand the popular Medicare program to provide comprehensive, high-quality health care that has been proven to serve the needs of patients. Most importantly, a Medicare for All — single-payer — system would provide health care based on patient need, not on profit.
Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (S. 1232 / H.R. 2531)
Violence against nurses and other health care workers in hospitals and other health care facilities is a growing epidemic across the United States. Nurses report being punched, kicked, bitten, beaten, choked, and assaulted on the job — and some have faced stabbings and shootings. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the hazard of workplace violence, with nurses reporting an increase of violent incidents on the job since the beginning of the pandemic. The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act would mandate OSHA to promulgate a standard that would require all covered employers to develop and implement prevention plans to reduce workplace violence incidents. The Workplace Violence Prevention bill passed the House of Representatives in both the 116th and 117th Congress with significant bipartisan support.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act (S. 1709 / H.R. 3415)
There are no federal mandates regulating the number of patients a registered nurse can care for at one time in U.S. hospitals. As a result, registered nurses (RNs) are consistently required to care for more patients than is safe, compromising patient care and negatively impacting patient outcomes. These dangerous conditions are causing thousands of RNs to leave the hospital bedside. This legislation would improve patient care and increase nurse retention by setting mandated, minimum, registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
Richard L. Trumka Protecting The Right to Organize (PRO) Act (S. 852 / H.R. 20)
A union gives workers the ability to act together to advocate for safe working conditions, to improve their wages and benefits, and to protect their workplace rights through collective bargaining. For registered nurses, union advocacy and representation allows us to focus on what we do best: caring for our patients. Attacks on unions and the right to unionize have hurt efforts to improve the lives of working families. Current labor law does far too little to protect and allow workers to exercise our right to join a union. The PRO Act is an important step to protect workers’ rights to organize a union and to stop employers’ attacks so that every worker can organize without fear of retaliation. The PRO Act passed the House of Representatives in the 116th and 117th Congress with bipartisan support.
VA Employee Fairness Act (S. 1650 / H.R. 3261) and Protect America’s Workforce Act (S. 2837 / H.R. 2550)
Section 7422 of Title 38 of the U.S. Code limits the collective bargaining rights of certain Veterans Affairs (VA) clinical professionals, including registered nurses. This section restricts the ability of registered nurses to speak out about poor working conditions and to resolve disputes with management. As a result, the quality of patient care can deteriorate and problems in VA facilities can go unaddressed.
Compounding this threat, two Trump Administration executive orders issued in March and August of 2025 stripped more than a million federal union workers, including VA nurses, of their bargaining rights, further undermining nurses’ ability to advocate for patients and safe working conditions.
The VA Employee Fairness Act would improve patient care in VA hospitals by expanding the collective bargaining rights of registered nurses and other clinicians employed by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and the Protect America’s Workforce Act would reverse those harmful executive orders and restore hard-fought collective bargaining agreements for all federal workers. The VA Employee Fairness Act passed the House of Representatives in December 2022 with bipartisan support and the Protect America’s Workforce Act passed in the House in December 2025 with bipartisan support.
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Data Center Moratorium Act (S. 4214)
Big Tech is driving the integration of artificial intelligence (A.I.) into virtually every aspect of our lives and has been allowed to operate without proper regulations to protect the public. The Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act would enact a pause on A.I. development by placing a moratorium on new data centers, putting nurses, patients, and working people in the driver’s seat. The moratorium will give us time to build enforceable protections into law to keep ourselves, our work, and our democracy safe, and autonomy to decide how and if we want A.I. to impact our lives.
Nurses Demand Congress Take Action to Abolish ICE
Armed, masked federal agents on our streets and in our communities, not immigrant workers, are the biggest threat to all our safety. Turning our neighborhoods into war zones endangers public health, which is why nurses demand that Congress take action to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE is a threat to public health. In cities across the country, these secret police have attacked, kidnapped, terrorized, and killed Black, Indigenous, Latine, AAPI, brown, and white people, citizens and noncitizens alike. These agents intimidate everyday people from going about their lives, whether that’s taking their kids to school, going to work, or coming to our hospitals. The Trump administration removed protections against immigration enforcement in hospitals and encouraged agents to target our patients when they are most vulnerable. This is resulting in people delaying or not seeking medical care because ICE makes it unsafe to leave home, adding to the public health crisis. Nurses reject ICE in our hospitals.
ICE violates nurses’ values. Nurses believe in a world built on care, not harm. We go into this work to take care of people, and we will not stand by while violence and harm comes to our patients. No human is illegal. Immigrants are not criminals, they are our patients, friends, and neighbors. Nurses are patient advocates first, which means we are here to heal all patients and fight for everyone’s health and safety. We will fight to abolish the agency terrorizing our patients and to return hospitals to safe spaces for healing.
Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act (S. 3956 / H.R. 7767)
The Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act begins to right the wrongs of our corrupt tax code, which has allowed the rich and corporations to hoard exorbitant amounts of wealth while the working class, whose labor creates that wealth, is forced to decide between paying for housing and food or prescription medications and health insurance.
Block the Bombs Act (H.R. 3565) and Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (S.J. Res. 136 / S.J. Res. 137 / S.J. Res. 138)
The U.S. government supplies Israel with billions of dollars in arms and military aid that are used in violation of U.S. and international law to carry out the genocide of Palestinians in the West Bank. Nurses firmly believe that every human being has the right to live a life free from terror, violence, and war.
The Block the Bombs Act prevents the Trump administration from sending major weapons to Israel. Specifically, the bill withholds weapons like 2,000-pound bombs, 500-pound bombs, and tank ammunition, which Israel has used repeatedly in documented apparent war crimes.
The Joint Resolutions of Disapproval would block the Trump administration’s attempt to bypass Congress and sell nearly $658.8 million in offensive weapons to Israel, including 250-pound, 500-pound, and 1,000-pound bombs directly implicated in tens of thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon.
Nurses firmly believe that we cannot be complicit in Israel’s crimes against humanity. These bills take the necessary step of blocking this latest weapons transfer, but much more is needed to achieve justice for Palestine.
War Powers Resolutions
As frontline health care workers, nurses bear direct witness to the devastating, real-life human cost of war and violence. Nurses stand firmly opposed to the Trump administration’s unconstitutional military escalations in Iran, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Cuba, conflicts launched without a declaration of war, congressional authorization, or regard for the lives of U.S. service members or the civilians caught in the crossfire. And while the Trump administration is destroying the lives of working families everywhere — not funding health care or building a healthier country here — who benefits? The corporate war machine and tech billionaires. Nurses say, “Enough!” Congress must reassert its constitutional authority and pass these War Powers Resolutions now.
Oppose » Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America Act (S. 128 / S. 3752 / H.R. 22 / H.R. 7296)
The SAVE Act and its expanded successor, the SAVE America Act, would require all Americans to present documentary proof of citizenship, typically a passport or birth certificate, to register or update their voter registration for federal elections. We strongly oppose this legislation and the damage it will inflict on our democracy and the citizens who participate in it. Noncitizen voting is already a federal crime and is vanishingly rare. These bills purport to solve a problem that does not exist and instead creates sweeping new barriers that would disenfranchise millions of eligible American citizens, including nurses, women, veterans, and low-income workers from participating in our nation’s democracy. The original SAVE Act passed the House in April 2025 and the SAVE America Act passed the House in February 2026.
National Endorsements
We are proud to support congressional candidates that share nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community. See our full list of federal endorsements here »