Thread by @RepJayapal

Big news: Bold progressive champions inside and outside of Congress just unveiled The People’s Agenda!

This people-first legislative roadmap for the first 6 months of 2021 is an urgent, brave, and just agenda. It's the way forward. And we're ready to make it happen. Take a look:

1⃣Provide COVID-19 relief that actually meets the scale of this devastating crisis and addresses the disproportionate harm to BIPOC and other vulnerable communities. This includes protecting essential workers, sending grants to businesses, and putting money in people's pockets.

2⃣Put people back to work, give workers more power, and transform to a clean renewable energy economy. This includes investing in a bold green infrastructure package that prioritizes frontline communities while dramatically curtailing air, water, land, and climate pollution.

3⃣Ensure health care for all. As we work towards Medicare for All, we must automatically enroll anyone who loses their job into Medicare, expand Medicare to lower the eligibility age to 50 and cover those up to age 25, protect reproductive care, and lower prescription prices.

4⃣Defend and expand voting rights, strengthen democracy, and end corruption to return the vote and the voice back to the people. This includes taking on the dominance of big money in politics and reining in lobbying.

5⃣Dismantle racism and inequality in all institutions to create justice, ensure equality and opportunity for all, and end the racial wealth gap. Additionally, we are committed to humane immigration reform while also meeting all trust obligations to Tribal Nations and communities.

6⃣Stop endless wars and finally invest in diplomacy and peace. This includes ending massively increasing Pentagon budgets that fuel wars and sap communities of vital investments in housing, education, transportation and infrastructure, health care, clean energy, and child care.

7⃣End corporate greed and corporate monopolies to end poverty and stop poor and working people from getting poorer while corporations and the rich get richer. This includes strengthening antitrust laws and making the wealthy, corporations, and Wall Street pay their fair share.

People across America gave us a mandate to fight for them, to respond to the root causes of suffering, and to transform the structures of this country so people thrive—not just try and survive.

Now, we must deliver. And with The People’s Agenda, we’re ready to do exactly that.

Big thanks to those who helped us create this urgent road map. The @USProgressives are proud to team up with @UniteThePoor, @communitychange, @MoveOn, @SEIU & other organizers who have long been leading the fight for racial, social, economic, immigrant, and environmental justice.