Elect a veto-proof Democratic Congress.

Answers, under oath, to the questions Americans keep asking.

• The Epstein files. Congress passed a law, 427⁠–⁠1 in the House, ordering the Justice Department to publish all its unclassified Epstein records, with narrow exceptions, within 30 days.⁠^{[4, 5]} A federal judge has since ordered the Department to unredact more of them or explain why they must stay blacked out,⁠^[6] and its own inspector general is auditing whether it obeyed the law.⁠^[7]
• Why prices went up. Prices rose 3.4% in the year to August: gasoline 27.4%, electricity 3.8%.⁠^[8] Economists at the New York Fed found that American companies and consumers paid nearly 90% of the cost of last year’s tariffs.⁠^[9]
• Why the war didn’t go as expected. “Well, we intended four to five weeks,” the President said of the Iran war on March 1.⁠^[10] Seven months later, the Pentagon counts 880 American troops killed or wounded.⁠^[11]
• Why apparent bribery goes unprosecuted. Money and gifts for the President, and what followed:
  • A jumbo jet. Qatar’s royal family gave a Boeing 747 worth about $400 million to fly as Air Force One and then, the administration said, to pass to the President’s library foundation.⁠^[12] Months later, he signed an order pledging to treat any armed attack on Qatar as a threat to the United States.⁠^[13]
  • Swiss gold. Swiss executives gave him a gold bar and a gold Rolex desk clock, accepted for his presidential library; ten days later, the United States announced a deal cutting tariffs on Swiss goods from 39% to 15%.⁠^[14]
  • Campaign cash. Weeks before the 2024 election, Nikola founder Trevor Milton and his wife gave more than $1.8 million to the Trump 47 Committee, which raised money for the President’s campaign and his party.⁠^[15] Milton had been convicted of defrauding investors and sentenced to four years in prison,⁠^{[16, 17]} and prosecutors had asked the court to make him repay about $695 million.⁠^[18] Five months after the donations, the President pardoned him, erasing the sentence and any repayment.⁠^{[17, 18]}
  Meanwhile the section that prosecutes public corruption went from 36 full-time lawyers to two in 2025.⁠^[19]

How Congress delivers it The majority picks every committee chair, and committees can compel documents and sworn testimony by subpoena.⁠^[20] This one needs no two-thirds: a simple majority in either chamber is enough.

New prosperity: lower prices, good jobs, and a fair deal for working families.

• Lower prices. Tariffs are taxes paid at home: the Tax Foundation puts this year’s at $820 for the average household.⁠^[21] In February the Supreme Court ruled that the emergency law the President relied on gave him no power to impose tariffs,⁠^[22] yet tariffs under other laws still run as high as 50% on steel, aluminum and copper, and 100% on patented drugs.⁠^[21]
• High-wage green jobs. Since January 2025, companies have cancelled 214 clean-energy projects: $84.3 billion of investment and 160,561 planned jobs, more of both than all the new projects announced in that time.⁠^[23] These are good jobs: wind turbine technicians earn a median $64,120 a year, against $50,980 for all workers.⁠^[24]
• Working families before billionaires. The 2025 tax-and-spending law leaves the poorest tenth of households $1,214 a year worse off, on average, and the richest tenth $13,622 a year better off, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.⁠^[25] With the extra health-insurance tax credits gone, people who buy coverage on the ACA marketplaces pay 58% more for it this year: $178 a month on average, up from $113.⁠^[26]

How Congress delivers it The Constitution gives the power to tax, tariffs included, to Congress.⁠^[22] Two-thirds of each chamber can refocus tariffs on protecting good jobs and lowering prices, rebuild clean-energy investment and rebalance the tax law toward working families, no matter what the President says.

A sound peace: an end to the war with Iran, and a deal that inspectors can verify.

• Diplomacy was cut short. On February 19, the President gave Iran 10 to 15 days to make a deal, warning that otherwise “bad things happen”.⁠^[27] On February 27, Oman’s foreign minister, who was mediating, said Iran had agreed never to hold material for a bomb, with full access for inspectors, and that technical talks were set for the following Monday. The President said he was not happy with the pace and wanted no enrichment at all.⁠^[28] The surprise strikes that he had ordered with Israel then began the next day, nine days after he made his ultimatum and one day before even its shortest deadline.⁠^{[29, 30]}
• By the administration’s own account, there was no enrichment program left to stop. Eighteen days into the war, the Director of National Intelligence told the Senate in writing that U.S. strikes eight months before it began had left Iran’s nuclear enrichment program “obliterated”, that “there has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability”, and that the entrances to the bombed sites had been “buried and shuttered with cement”.⁠^{[31, 32]}
• A war Congress never approved. It began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on February 28, 2026, and Congress has never voted to authorize it.⁠^{[29, 33]} The House has passed three resolutions ordering U.S. forces out of the fighting, and in June the Senate agreed to the first, 50⁠–⁠48. The war went on, and in September the Senate rejected another such resolution, 49⁠–⁠50.⁠^{[29, 33]}
• What it is costing us. By the Pentagon’s count, 19 U.S. troops have died and 861 more have been wounded.⁠^[11] The war has cost $45.1 billion so far.⁠^{[34, 35]} Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz drove up oil prices worldwide,⁠^[29] and gasoline costs $4.40 a gallon, against $3.16 a year ago.⁠^[36]
• Diplomacy has worked before. Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran’s enrichment was capped at 3.67% and its stockpile at 300 kilograms,⁠^[37] and international inspectors found Iran within those limits until after the United States quit the deal in 2018.⁠^[38]
• What a sound peace looks like. Inspectors inside Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. Security for Israelis and fair treatment for Palestinians, with each side held to its commitments. Rewards for keeping the peace, and consequences for breaking it.

How Congress delivers it A law can order U.S. forces out of the fighting and cut off the money for it. Passed by two-thirds of each chamber, it stands even over a veto.⁠^[39] The same power over laws and money lets Congress tie sanctions and aid to keeping the peace.