Greg Casar

Look, the new affordability agenda is the Progressive Caucus's 10-point plan to bring down costs for everyday people, especially by taking on the big corporations and the ultra-rich that are screwing you over and making their money jacking up your prices.

And the reason that we put this agenda out now is because we want...

candidates campaigning on this agenda in their primaries.

We want people to win their elections by going and connecting with their voters about driving down costs.

And then here's the radical part.

If we take the majority, I want us to pass these kinds of policies to bring down your utility bill $500 next year, to pass policies to cap your childcare cost or reduce the cost of that prescription drugs cost, and then dare Donald Trump to try to block it.

If they pass it,

Great.

If they block it, then voters will know who to blame.

But right now, the idea I hear from a lot of voters is, okay, they know who Trump is.

They might be really pissed off at his lies and how he is, but they want to know what Democrats stand for, especially when it comes to these day-to-day economic issues.

Voters are so upset and rightfully pissed off right now at the way their costs keep going up and up and up.

For sure.

And so I hear from elected officials all over, but especially my Democratic colleagues, that we've got to do something about this.

And so I think this is a key opportunity to finally beat big pharma today.

and start producing tons of our own generic drugs as a country and collapse the prices of so many of the drugs people rely on for their health care.

Right now is a moment to finally take on these super PACs that are trying to buy politicians and elections and policies.

And so I smell blood in the water in this moment while voters are upset to forge a new consensus in the Democratic Party.

Yeah, look, as a progressive in a progressive district, I could put forward an economic agenda that polls really well in Austin, Texas, but maybe has more trouble, say, in some rural parts of the country.

We chose strategically not to do that and instead put out an agenda that polls very well with two out of three Trump voters, seven out of 10 independents.