AFFORDABILITY

Lower the bills families actually pay.
Build more.
Take on the middlemen

Ordinary people are working harder than ever and have less to show for it. Rent, groceries, the power bill, day care, and the cost of caring for a parent keeps going up while wages are not moving. Fred won't wait. 

Here is what he will fight for in Congress: 

Cheaper Groceries 

  • Roll back the tariffs raising your grocery bill. Put tariff power back in Congress, where the Constitution puts it.

Lower Health Care Costs 

  • Cap insulin at $35 and drug costs at $2,100. Extend the caps seniors already have to everybody else.

  • Restore the health insurance tax credits. Congress let them expire and premiums more than doubled.

  • Let people buy into Medicare early. Lose your job at fifty-eight and you're buying insurance in the worst market there is. Let people buy into Medicare early. They pay the premium. It's an option, not a handout.

Make It Easier To Raise and Care For A Family

  • Expand the child tax credit and child care credit. Day care in Missouri can run $14,000 a year per child.

  • Support families caring for aging parents. A caregiver tax credit, help with assisted living, and a home care workforce that exists.

  • Create paid family and medical leave. Nobody should choose between a paycheck and a newborn or a dying parent.

Make Housing More Affordable

  • Stop Wall Street from outbidding families. End the tax breaks that let investors beat first-time buyers to the closing table.

  • Build more housing. Expand the housing tax credit so affordable units actually get built.

Lower Utility Bills

  • Help families pay the heating and cooling bill. Ameren went up about 12% and asked for more.

  • Bring back the $30 internet discount. Twenty-three million households had it. Congress let it die.

  • Give data centers strong guardrails and make them pay for their own power. Their business should not make your community’s families foot the bill.

  • Build the power grid we need to lower costs. Speed up permitting so power lines actually get built.

What's At Stake

Washington cut food assistance, cut Medicaid, let the health insurance tax credits expire, and put tariffs on nearly everything families buy. Costs went up, and Missourians got nothing for it. Fred will fight to reverse the cuts, take on the corporations and middlemen driving up prices, and put money back in families' pockets.