January 30, 2026
Ms. Tlaib (for herself, Ms. Jayapal, Mrs. Ramirez, and Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States must act urgently to end the political and economic dominance of billionaire oligarchs, halt the corporate subsidies and tax advantages that fortify their power, and reinvest in the needs of the American people to defend democracy from authoritarianism.
- (1) the Federal Government must act to defund the oligarchs in order to defend American democracy and safeguard individual liberties;
- (2) the President must not reward oligarchs and billionaire-controlled corporations with lucrative, publicly funded contracts, loans, and grants if they—
- (A) engage in corrupt political quid pro quo schemes;
- (B) fail to fairly compete in open markets; and
- (C) break Federal labor, environmental, and nondiscrimination laws;
- (3) the President and Congress must act with all deliberate speed to protect election integrity by stopping billionaire and corporate spending from drowning out the voices and votes of working people, and ensuring all elections are publicly financed with small dollar contributions;
- (4) the President and Congress must break up all concentrations of economic and political power, especially monopolies in traditional and new media, finance, and tech sectors, and act to ensure critical national security functions including cloud computing, surveillance, artificial intelligence, and space exploration are controlled by public servants, not oligarchs;
- (5) the President and Congress must drastically reduce levels of economic inequality and concentrations of inherited wealth by increasing tax rates for corporations and the ultrarich, enacting a wealth tax, and closing legal loopholes the wealthy use to evade paying their fair share, and that revenues from such measures should be directed toward universal health care, affordable housing, debt-free education, and climate resilience;
- (6) the President and Congress must reform the Supreme Court to ensure that a majority of Justices recognize the Constitution as enabling Congress to take the urgent actions necessary to save democracy from corporate control, not as a bill of rights for oligarchs;
- (7) the President and Congress must support the dramatic expansion of unions in order to curtail corporate power, ensure ordinary Americans benefit from economic growth, and provide an institutional basis for working people to make collective demands on the political system, countering elite dominance;
- (8) the President and Congress must explore ways to promote alternative, noncorporate forms of ownership, such as cooperative, nonprofit, multistakeholder, and public or community ownership, which can displace corporate power and form the building blocks of a democratic economy; and
- (9) the President and Congress must use public money to fund programs that raise the standard of living by providing affordable health care, housing, food, and education, so that the people of the United States have what they need to survive and thrive.