New Dems Offer a Path Forward for the Party
This week, New Dem leaders held a press conference to lay out the details of the Coalition's policy agenda
This week, New Democrat Coalition Chair Brad Schneider (IL-10) led a press conference on the New Dem policy agenda alongside Vice Chair for Policy Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) and Immigration & Border Security Working Group Chair Gabe Vasquez (NM-02), Secure Borders Task Force Chair Laura Gillen (NY-04), Global Competitiveness Task Force Chair Greg Stanton (AZ-04), and Housing Task Force Chair Emilia Sykes (OH-13).
Together, they discussed the recently-unveiled Immigration & Border Security Framework and Housing Affordability Agenda.
While Congressional Republicans ignore the needs of working families and barrel Congress toward the government funding deadline with no plan, no vision, and no willingness to work with our Democratic leadership, New Dems are laying out policy roadmaps with real solutions that tackle our nation’s biggest challenges.
Earlier this year, New Dems released our vision and policy priorities. We built this platform off of three main pillars - lowering costs, making our communities healthier and safer, and strengthening our national security and defense. These ideals have guided our work over the past several months, as our Working Groups and Task Forces have been putting their heads together to create actionable policy platforms that map the way forward.
- New Dem Chair Brad Schneider
While we must be united in standing up to this administration and calling out their blatant overreach and abandonment of working people. We can’t just be against – we must be for something. And that’s where our policy frameworks come in.
So far, we’ve developed 5 policy frameworks and agendas building off of these discussions: on immigration and border security, taxes, energy, innovation, and affordable housing.
-New Dem Vice Chair for Policy Nikki Budzinski
The 14 bills that we have introduced fall under three main principles: build more homes and get them on the market fast, make it easier to buy or rent a home, and finally, to improve housing data and transparency so we can surge resources where they are needed. Affordability, accessibility, efficiency. It's just that simple.
-New Dem Housing Task Force Chair Emilia Sykes
As New Dems, we know it’s time for change on this issue, and we are doing something about it.
Alongside the folks that stand here with me today, the Democratic Party is stepping forward with commonsense policies to secure our borders, boost local economies, and expand legal pathways in a humane, cost-effective way.
-New Dem Immigration & Border Security Working Group Chair Gabe Vasquez
New Dems will continue our work to advance real solutions in Congress based on these policy platforms, charting a path forward for the Democratic party with our commonsense agenda.