Lower Costs, Less Chaos, Real Solutions
That is the slogan for the new American Promise Agenda released by the New Democrat House Coalition earlier this week.
Among the members of this coalition is Arizona House Congressional District Four Representative Greg Stanton.
Earlier in the month, another Arizona Representative, Yassamin Ansari, participated in the unveiling of the House Democratic Progressive Caucus's New Affordability Agenda.
A pragmatic progressive agenda, the major features include proposals for:
- Ending Trump's Tariffs.
- Extending the Affordable Care Act Tax Credits.
- Restore health care access to the 12 million people who have lost Medicare and Medicaid.
- Lower prescription drug prices.
- Protect reproductive freedom.
- Delivering a National Paid Family and Medical Leave Program.
- Reward businesses that provide paid apprenticeships.
- Strengthen labor unions.
- Invest in family farms, expand rural housing and broadband.
- Comprehensive Immigration Reform with Border Security, Dreamer Protection, and Path to Citizenship for eligible individuals.
- Build four million new homes in ten years.
- An innovation agenda that rivals and surpasses China.
- Promote AI Technology with appropriate guardrails.
- Invest in STEM and Innovation degree fields.
- Protect the Voting Rights Act.
- Ban insider trading, prediction market schemes, and crypto scams by Members of Congress and senior officials.
- Securing a code of ethics for the United States Supreme Court.
Please click here to read the whole New Democrat House American's Promise Plan and the proposed pieces of legislation already on file to accomplish it.
Earlier today, Stanton and other New Democrat House members released a short video highlighting what the American's Promise Program is about.
Please see the transcript of the video below:
"New Dems just released our American Promise. What is your promise to the American People?"
Representative Marilyn Strickland: "The federal government is going to make a massive investment in housing and build the housing that we need for people at every age and every stage of their lives.
Representative Salud Carbajal: "My promise to the American people is to continue working hard to bring down essential costs of living like child care, groceries, health care."
Representative Greg Stanton: "Finally, pass comprehensive immigration reform. And we need to actually have people gain more confidence in our government and stamp out the corruption that we're seeing."
Representative Greg Landsman: "My promise is to focus entirely on the two most important things for most people, which is financial well-being and public safety."
Representative Brad Schneider: "The new UDEMS American Promise is about making life better for the American people, securing their future, and providing prosperity and hope for the next generation."
Commenting when the American Promise Agenda came out, Representative Stanton posted on social media:
"New Dems believe the government can do big things again, make our economy work for working people, and restore faith in government. That’s our American Promise."
"People are exhausted by all the chaos, the corruption, and the costs that just keep climbing.
Today, the @NewDemCoalition released our American Promise: a real plan to take on the issues Americans face and put the country on the right track."
Matter of State Strategies Vice President and former Arizona Democratic Party Communications Director Matt Grodsky said of the American Promise Plan to Blog for Arizona:
"This is good branding and focused communication that will resonate with the audience Democrats need."
Also, commenting on the American Promise Plan, Democratic consultant Dr. Rachel Bitecofer wrote to Blog for Arizona:
"I think the New Deal Democrats package is a genuinely smart step in the right direction, especially because it finally recognizes something Democrats have been slow to internalize: politics is about ownership and contrast. You can’t just say “tariffs are bad.” You have to say “Trump’s tariffs.” Voters need to know who caused the problem and who’s offering relief.
For years, Democrats have struggled with economic branding while Republicans successfully claimed the mantle of the “working-class party,” even as their policies overwhelmingly benefit wealthy interests. That creates an opening for Democrats to reclaim economic populism in a direct, understandable way.
Repealing Trump’s tariffs is exactly the kind of clear, kitchen-table economic message Democrats should be running on. Prices matter. Affordability matters. And if Republicans are going to wreck their own economic brand through higher costs and billionaire-first policies, Democrats should absolutely seize the opportunity to define themselves as the party fighting for ordinary people’s economic security.
At the end of the day, Democrats need voters to understand who’s actually looking out for them economically — and unless you’re a billionaire, it sure as hell isn’t today’s Republican Party."
Third Way's Executive Vice President for Policy, Jim Kessler, provided the following statement on the New Democrat House Plan:
"The New Democrats’ American Promise Agenda is equal parts bold and pragmatic. There is no magical thinking or make-pretend policy slogans masking as real ideas. If voters thought this is what all Democrats stood for, Democrats would win majorities in the House and Senate for decades. Moreover, if the entire agenda were passed as one big, beautiful bill, the economic pessimism gripping the nation would be gone. Costs would come down, wages would rise, middle-class wealth would increase, opportunity would flourish in more places, and Americans would feel safe and secure where they live, work, and play. The New Dems always do the hard work of getting the policy right even if it doesn’t create viral moments on social media. I wish more elected representatives shared their love of doing the serious work."
Both progressive wings of the Democratic Party have put forth their agendas for moving the country forward and lifting people up.
Like Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in 2020, both these wings need to come together and forge a common progressive agenda that the whole party can run on in 2026.
