LEESBURG, Va. — Ahead of the fall midterms, House Democrats say they’re united around affordability messaging across their wide political spectrum. But they’re still trying to agree on what pieces of that should take priority in their flagship bill for the coming Congress if they take the majority.
The caucus is meeting in Virginia this week for its annual policy retreat to figure out which proposals under the large umbrella of “affordability” — health care, housing, energy, tariffs and taxes — should be the first to take legislative form.
“You deserve lower costs, and that’s housing, that’s child care, that’s groceries, it’s utility bills,” said Democratic Whip Katherine M. Clark, D-Mass. “You deserve a health care system that works for you … and you deserve a government that works for you, that’s being anti-corruption, that is building in efficiencies and building a fair tax code.”
