Overview
- The New Democrat Coalition released a plan to cut costs across five areas: groceries and other household goods, health care, housing, energy and family care.
- Policy planks include streamlining energy permitting, modernizing the grid, easing zoning to speed homebuilding, converting underused properties to housing and creating a national data‑center siting strategy.
- The agenda seeks lower prices by rolling back Trump‑era tariffs, strengthening domestic supply chains and promoting competition, while targeting real‑estate tax breaks for large investors.
- On health and family policy, the plan backs extending enhanced ACA subsidies, fully funding Medicaid, strengthening Medicare, national paid family and medical leave and universal pre‑K, while testing child‑care cost‑sharing pilots and eschewing single‑payer, new wealth taxes and credit‑card rate caps.
- Coalition leaders, who count 115 House members, present the package as their 2026 campaign platform to win back the House, pointing to weak public ratings of Trump’s economic management and a housing shortfall estimated at about 4 million homes.