I will work to expand paid leave protections for families nationwide.

Sarah McBride · Delaware · Democratic

policy impact 0.78 specificity 0.76 extraction confidence 87%

Occurrences

she is working to expand paid leave protections for families nationwide

McBride says she is continuing her work in Congress to expand paid family and medical leave protections nationwide.

Rep. McBride Calls on Congress to Make Paid Leave the “Law of the Land” | Congresswoman Sarah Mcbride
primary · press_release · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

The site's Latest News section lists a May 21, 2026 press release, "Rep. McBride Calls on Congress to Make Paid Leave the 'Law of the Land,'" describing her remarks to Paid Leave for All and the National Partnership for Women & Families.

McBride made a concrete public advocacy push for nationwide paid leave in the lookback window, but this is not a federal enactment or a bill passage.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Congresswoman Sarah Mcbride | Representing the people of Delaware
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 93%

The official House site's Latest News section listed a May 21, 2026 press release titled "Rep. McBride Calls on Congress to Make Paid Leave the 'Law of the Land,'" describing remarks to Paid Leave for All and the National Partnership for Women & Families.

McBride used her federal office in the same House term to publicly press Congress for national paid leave, which directly satisfies an effort-based promise to work on expanding paid leave protections nationwide.

delivered same_term A for effort

Congresswoman Sarah Mcbride | Representing the people of Delaware
primary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

The official site says McBride was selected by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries to lead the House Democratic Caucus Working Group on Caregiving, charged with developing the caucus's legislative agenda on caregiving for the next Congress.

Leadership of a House Democratic caregiving legislative-agenda group is a concrete same-term action aligned with expanding family-support policies, though the listing does not by itself show enactment of a national paid leave law.

delivered same_term A for effort

Congresswoman Sarah Mcbride | Representing the people of Delaware
primary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%

McBride's official House site describes Delaware Paid Leave benefits, including paid leave for a new child, a family member with a serious health condition, a personal serious health condition or injury, and overseas military deployment-related leave.

This official page shows McBride's office continuing to promote paid family and medical leave protections, but the program is Delaware-specific rather than a nationwide federal expansion.

partial same_term

Delaware Paid Leave | Congresswoman Sarah McBride
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 77%

The Delaware Department of Labor says Delaware Paid Leave went into full effect on January 1, 2026, that employees can submit claims, and that the Healthy Delaware Families Act was signed into law on May 10, 2022 to create the state's paid family medical leave insurance program.

The state program demonstrates McBride's prior paid-leave policy record and the protections her office references, but it is not a nationwide federal enactment during her House term.

partial unknown

Delaware Paid Leave - Delaware Department of Labor
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%

AP reported that McBride's policy focus includes paid family leave and that helping pass paid family and medical leave in Delaware was her signature accomplishment; McBride described lack of paid leave as a moral failing of the country.

This pre-swearing-in reporting corroborates that paid leave was a central policy priority and provides context for judging later federal advocacy, but it is not itself a federal action.

partial unknown

Transgender trailblazer Sarah McBride heads to her debut in Congress | AP News
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 78%

Assessments

delivered same_term A for effort

The promise was framed as an effort commitment: to work to expand paid leave protections for families nationwide, not necessarily to enact a national paid leave law single-handedly. In her current federal House term, McBride publicly pressed Congress to make paid leave national law and was selected to lead a House Democratic caregiving working group tasked with developing related legislative priorities. Those are concrete federal actions directly aligned with the promised nationwide paid leave work. The evidence does not show enactment of a national paid leave expansion, but enactment is not required by the wording of this claim.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

delivered same_term

The promise is framed as an effort commitment to work toward expanding nationwide paid leave protections, not as a guarantee of enactment. The available evidence shows McBride using her office during the current term to publicly press Congress to make paid leave national law, which is a concrete official action consistent with that pledge. There is no evidence here that nationwide paid leave was enacted, but enactment is not required to satisfy this narrower promise to work on the issue. On the present record, this is best scored as delivered in the same term.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 84%