Our Platform

Core Priorities

Universal Healthcare

Healthcare should be a basic guarantee, not something tied to employment, wealth, or luck.

The New Deal Coalition supports universal healthcare that covers every person, protects families from medical bankruptcy, reduces wasteful insurance bureaucracy, and ensures access to primary care, emergency care, mental health care, reproductive care, dental care, vision care, and prescription drugs.

No one should delay care because they cannot afford it. No one should lose healthcare because they lost a job. No one should be bankrupted because they got sick.

Food Security: No One Should Go Hungry

In a wealthy society, hunger is a policy failure.

The New Deal Coalition supports strong food programs for children, seniors, people with disabilities, low-income families, veterans, and anyone facing hard times. Food assistance should be easy to access, free from stigma, and strong enough to actually prevent hunger.

No child should go to school hungry. No senior should have to choose between food and medicine. No family should be treated as disposable because they are struggling.

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid

The New Deal Coalition supports protecting and strengthening Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These programs should not be cut, privatized, or weakened to fund tax breaks for the wealthy, giveaways to powerful interests, or manufactured budget crises.

Social Security should remain a reliable foundation for retirement and disability security. People who worked their whole lives should be able to retire with dignity. People with disabilities, surviving spouses, and dependent children should not be pushed into poverty because of age, illness, disability, or family tragedy.

Medicare and Medicaid should be strengthened so seniors, people with disabilities, low-income families, children, and people needing long-term care can receive care with dignity. These programs should be improved, expanded where necessary, and protected from Wall Street privatization schemes.

A decent society does not abandon people when they grow old, get sick, become disabled, or fall on hard times.

Economic Security and Poverty Reduction

No one in America should live in desperate poverty while the country has more than enough wealth to provide basic security for all.

The New Deal Coalition supports a serious national commitment to reducing poverty, ending extreme hardship, and ensuring that every person has access to the basic conditions of a stable life: food, housing, healthcare, education, childcare, transportation, and meaningful opportunity.

We support stronger income supports for families, children, seniors, people with disabilities, veterans, caregivers, and people facing temporary hardship. Public policy should help people get back on their feet, not punish them for being poor.

We support reducing child poverty, homelessness, hunger, medical debt, and predatory debt traps. We support making essential benefits easier to access, not harder, with less bureaucracy, fewer punitive rules, and more respect for human dignity.

Economic security is not about dependency. It is about freedom. People cannot build stable lives, raise families, start businesses, change jobs, or participate fully in democracy when they are trapped in permanent insecurity.

Clean Democracy and Majority Rule

Political power should come from voters, not billionaires, corporations, or dark-money groups. People cannot build decent lives when government is captured by wealthy interests, partisan mapmakers, and politicians who choose their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians.

The New Deal Coalition supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and restore the power of the people, through Congress and the states, to set reasonable limits on campaign spending, require full donor disclosure, regulate corporate political spending, and protect elections from domination by big money.

We support ending partisan gerrymandering through independent redistricting commissions and strong national standards for fair, transparent, and representative maps. Politicians should not be allowed to rig districts to protect themselves from voters.

We support restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act so that states and local governments cannot use voter suppression, racial vote dilution, discriminatory district maps, or manipulative election rules to weaken the political power of any community.

Voting should be secure, accessible, and simple. We support automatic voter registration, same-day registration, strong early voting, vote-by-mail protections, accessible voting for seniors and people with disabilities, and safeguards against wrongful voter purges.

We support abolishing the Electoral College and electing the president by national popular vote. Until that constitutional reform is achieved, we support the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact as a practical way to make the winner of the national popular vote the winner of the presidency.

Democracy should mean one person, one vote — not one billionaire, one veto.

Accountable Government and Ethics Reform

The New Deal Coalition supports strong government ethics reform so public office serves the public, not personal profit. Members of Congress, senior executive officials, federal judges, and their immediate families should not be allowed to use public office, privileged information, or political power to enrich themselves.

We support banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks while in office. Public servants should not be making private investment decisions while writing laws, receiving confidential briefings, overseeing industries, or shaping economic policy.

We support Supreme Court reform, including a binding ethics code, real disclosure requirements, enforceable recusal standards, term limits for justices, and serious consideration of court expansion if necessary to restore balance, accountability, and public trust. Lifetime power without meaningful checks is not healthy for democracy.

Public trust cannot survive when public power is used for private gain.

Fair Taxes on Extreme Wealth

Extreme wealth should not become permanent political power.

The New Deal Coalition supports much higher taxes on billionaires and multimillionaires, including stronger taxes on very high incomes, capital gains, large estates, and major concentrations of wealth. People who have benefited the most from our economy should contribute more to the country that made that success possible.

This is not about punishing success. It is about preventing oligarchy, funding basic public needs, and making sure nurses, teachers, truck drivers, engineers, small-business owners, and ordinary families are not carrying the country while billionaires avoid their fair share.

We support taxing income from wealth more fairly, including capital gains, dividends, carried interest, and other investment income that is often taxed more lightly than wages. Work should not be taxed more heavily than wealth.

We support closing loopholes that allow the ultra-rich to avoid taxes by borrowing against appreciated assets, hiding income through complex partnerships, shifting profits offshore, or passing massive fortunes across generations with little or no tax.

We support stronger estate taxes on very large inheritances, stronger enforcement against tax evasion, and a well-funded IRS focused on wealthy tax cheats, large corporations, and complex avoidance schemes — not ordinary workers and small businesses.

Revenue from fair taxes on extreme wealth should strengthen the public goods that allow working families, small businesses, and communities to thrive.

An economy where billionaires can build unlimited fortunes while working families struggle with medical bills, rent, groceries, and childcare is not rewarding hard work. It is rewarding rigged rules.

Affordable Housing

Housing should be treated as a basic foundation for a stable life.

The New Deal Coalition supports major public investment in affordable housing, stronger protections against predatory rent increases and abusive corporate landlords, more housing supply where it is needed, and serious action against homelessness.

People should not be priced out of their communities. Families should not be one rent increase away from disaster. Communities should not be hollowed out by speculation.

We support building more homes where people need them, including affordable apartments, starter homes, senior housing, supportive housing, and mixed-income development near jobs, schools, transit, and services. Local rules should not be used to preserve artificial scarcity or block working families from living in thriving communities.

We support restrictions on large-scale speculative investment in housing, including stronger rules for corporate landlords, absentee owners, bulk purchases of single-family homes, and foreign or institutional investors who treat housing as a financial asset while pricing residents out of their own communities.

We support serious action to prevent and reduce homelessness, including emergency shelter, permanent supportive housing, mental health care, addiction treatment, eviction prevention, rental assistance, and pathways back to stable housing.

Fair Wages, Paid Leave, Strong Unions, and Fair Labor Rules

A good economy should reward people who do the work.

The New Deal Coalition supports strong unions, fair wages, paid family and medical leave, safe workplaces, predictable scheduling, overtime protections, and real penalties for wage theft and union-busting. People should be able to organize for better pay and conditions without fear of retaliation.

The New Deal Coalition supports a strong minimum wage because full-time work should not mean poverty. The federal wage floor should be raised to a meaningful living-wage benchmark and then automatically indexed so it cannot be allowed to decay for decades.

The wage floor should rise over a responsible phase-in period, with support for true small businesses, rural communities, nonprofits, and care providers that need time to adapt. States and local governments should remain free to set higher wage standards, but no region should be allowed to fall below a decent national baseline.

The New Deal Coalition supports ending sub-minimum wage loopholes, including poverty-level tipped wages and unjustified disability wage exceptions. A fair day’s work should receive a fair wage.

A strong wage floor must be backed by serious enforcement. Wage theft, retaliation, illegal misclassification, and union-busting should carry real penalties. Workers should not have to fight alone to receive the pay they have already earned.

Minimum wage policy should work alongside refundable tax credits, food security, childcare, housing affordability, and universal healthcare. A fair economy needs both decent wages and strong public guarantees.

People should not have to choose between a paycheck and caring for a newborn, a sick spouse, an aging parent, or their own serious illness. The New Deal Coalition supports guaranteed paid family and medical leave as a basic part of a decent economy.

Education and Childcare

A strong society invests in its people.

The New Deal Coalition supports affordable childcare, strong public schools, well-paid teachers, debt-free paths to public college or vocational training, and serious investment in apprenticeships, trade schools, and lifelong learning.

Education should open doors. It should not trap people in decades of debt.

Childcare should be affordable, reliable, and available to working families in every community. Parents should not be forced out of the workforce because care is impossible to find or too expensive to afford, and childcare workers should be paid as the essential professionals they are.

Public education should prepare people for real opportunity, whether through college, community college, apprenticeships, trade schools, technical training, or continuing education. A decent society should help people build skills without trapping them in lifelong debt.

Limit Corporate Power, Protect Fair Markets, and Support Small Business

The New Deal Coalition supports private enterprise, small business, entrepreneurship, independent work, family businesses, local enterprise, and fair competition. But we oppose monopoly power, price gouging, corporate abuse, predatory lending, and political capture by giant firms.

A fair economy should make it easier for ordinary people to start and grow small businesses. Entrepreneurship should not be reserved for people with rich parents, inherited wealth, venture-capital connections, or the ability to risk medical bankruptcy and financial ruin.

The New Deal Coalition supports practical assistance for small-business creation, including startup tax credits, low-interest public loans, microgrants, expanded small-business lending, technical assistance, simplified compliance for true small businesses, and stronger support for first-time entrepreneurs.

Universal healthcare, affordable childcare, food security, paid leave, and a basic security floor are also entrepreneurship policies. People are more able to start a business, change careers, retrain, relocate, or build something of their own when they are not trapped in a job solely to keep healthcare or avoid financial collapse.

We support stronger antitrust enforcement, consumer protection, banking and financial regulation, and rules that prevent large corporations from rigging markets against workers, consumers, small businesses, startups, and local communities.

Markets work best when they are fair, competitive, open to new entrants, and accountable. The goal is not to punish business. The goal is to stop monopoly power, support honest enterprise, and make sure ordinary people have a real chance to build prosperity.

Climate, Energy, and Infrastructure

The New Deal Coalition supports major investment in clean energy, modern infrastructure, public transportation, resilient power grids, clean water, wildfire prevention, flood protection, and good jobs in the industries of the future.

Climate policy should lower costs, create jobs, reduce pollution, protect communities, and make the country more resilient. The transition should be practical, pro-worker, pro-community, and built around real results.

We support rebuilding American infrastructure for the next century, including roads, bridges, ports, rail, broadband, water systems, schools, hospitals, and public buildings. Public investment should create good jobs, strengthen domestic manufacturing, reduce dependence on fragile supply chains, and make communities safer in the face of extreme weather, fires, floods, heat, and power failures.

Civil Rights, Equal Justice, and Personal Freedom

Economic security and political democracy cannot exist without equal rights under law.

The New Deal Coalition supports equal protection, voting rights, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy rights, and equal treatment for all people.

Civil rights are not special privileges. They are basic guarantees that every person should be treated equally under the law, free from discrimination, intimidation, and government abuse.

Government should protect people from discrimination and abuse, not impose one group’s private beliefs on everyone else.

Immigration with Order and Humanity

The New Deal Coalition supports a fair, humane, and orderly immigration system.

That means secure and functional borders, efficient asylum processing, a path to legal status for long-term residents who contribute to their communities, protection for Dreamers, fair labor standards that prevent exploitation, and immigration courts with enough resources to do their jobs.

A broken system helps no one. We need both order and decency.

Peace, Security, and Responsible Foreign Policy

The New Deal Coalition supports a foreign policy based on democracy, human rights, diplomacy, strong alliances, and national security without reckless wars.

We should defend allies, oppose authoritarian aggression, support diplomacy where possible, and avoid unnecessary military interventions that cost lives and drain resources needed at home.

American foreign policy should apply human rights standards consistently. The United States should oppose terrorism, hostage-taking, ethnic cleansing, mass killing of civilians, illegal occupation, and collective punishment, regardless of who commits them.