LEESBURG, Virginia — House Democrats say they’re intent on putting a legislative agenda behind their midterm affordability message. They don’t know yet what’s going to be on it.
But they have gathered at a resort outside Washington to spitball some options for putting specifics behind their pledge to address Americans’ rising costs of living, with sessions devoted to utilities, housing, groceries and the “care economy.”
“We know it’s not enough to just lay out the issues and what the problems are,” said House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.). “Our goal is to have simple solutions that we can put out and lay out that vision, that if you give Democrats the gavels back, this is exactly what we’re going to do.”
A few Democratic evergreens have started to emerge as consensus proposals — such as expanding the child tax credit and increasing the federal minimum wage. But by and large, the policies that most unify Democrats are simply reversing what President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have already done.
