Gabbard supports a two-tier universal health care plan that she calls "Single Payer Plus". She supports strengthening "Roe v. Wade" by codifying it into federal law, and believes that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare", although she has said it is not a choice she would personally make. She co-sponsored the Family Act for paid family and medical leave and endorsed universal basic income. She opposes military interventionism, although she has called herself a "hawk" on terrorism. Her decision to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and her skeptical approach to two claims that he had used chemical weapons were controversial.