High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.

As a member of Congress, I will focus relentlessly to make life easier and more affordable. 

Policy choices have directly driven up costs. The biggest example is Trump’s tariffs and unnecessary trade wars. But we’ve also made it way too hard and costly to build housing. We’ve prohibited Medicare and Medicaid from negotiating drug prices on all but a handful of drugs. And we’ve turned a blind eye when the consolidation of corporate power reduces competition and drives up costs. 

In some areas, we need to make investments that the private sector won’t make on its own. For example, expanding the supply of clean energy, building a modern electric grid, and building 21st century transit. 

Making things more affordable means being serious about how markets actually work and recognizing when they don’t. It means fixing bottlenecks that artificially drive up prices, from permitting delays to outdated regulations. It means making smart public investments. And it means doing everything possible to create more good, well-paid jobs.