 In May 2018, City & State reported that she had "moved sharply leftward on economic issues, embracing a number of proposals to expand the social safety net and bolster lower-income families".In July 2018, "The New York Times" stated that Gillibrand had "spent recent months injecting her portfolio with a dose of the kind of economic populism that infused Senator Bernie Sanders's campaign in the 2016 presidential primary".In a 2019 reversal of a past position, Gillibrand stated her support for driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.