Keep Fighting to Make Life More Affordable

This Congress and administration have taken important steps to address the cost-of-living crisis created under Biden. Congress should keep building on that progress by advancing reforms that lower housing, energy, health care, and grocery costs.

Americans are doing their part: Working hard, raising families, and paying their bills. But today, that same effort results in a lower standard of living than in past decades.

Americans are working just as hard as they always have. The problem is that the system around them has become slower, more expensive, and more complicated. When it takes years to approve housing, energy, or infrastructure projects, supply falls behind demand — and prices rise.

Protecting families from higher taxes was a critical step forward. But tax relief alone cannot solve a cost-of-living crisis that is decades in the making. Congress should keep building on that momentum and continue the fight to restore affordability.

Dear [Lawmaker],

I’m writing to urge you to continue advancing policies that build on the Working Families Tax Cuts and restore affordability for American families.

For too many families, the American Dream feels harder to reach than it did just a generation ago. After Biden's 40-year high inflation rate, continuing the fight for affordable housing, groceries, energy and health care is important.

Housing costs have surged. Energy bills are unpredictable. Health care premiums keep rising. Even building basic infrastructure takes years of delays and endless permits.

Americans are still working hard. The problem is a system that has become slower, more expensive, and stacked against growth.

When we block supply and delay investment, prices rise, and families pay the cost.

That’s why Republicans protecting families from higher taxes through the Working Families Tax Cuts was such an important step forward. By preventing a massive tax increase and encouraging small business investment, Congress helped families keep more of what they earn and strengthened our economy.

But protecting paychecks is only part of the solution.

Decades of red tape, overregulation, and government barriers won’t disappear in a single year. If we want to truly restore affordability, we must continue removing the obstacles that make it harder to build, produce, and compete.

Here is a cohesive governing framework you can adopt.

Make housing more affordable: Remove federal barriers that restrict development and encourage state and local reforms that allow more homes to be built. Artificial scarcity drives up prices. Increasing supply lowers costs.

Unleash energy abundance: Streamline permitting and modernize outdated federal rules that delay projects for years. When it is easier to build energy infrastructure, supply increases, and costs fall.

Put patients in control of their health care: Expand access to Health Savings Accounts and Direct Primary Care. Fund patients directly, not insurance middlemen. Competition and transparency lower health care costs.

Lower grocery costs: There is no single silver bullet to bring down grocery prices. Energy, labor, transportation, and inflation all shape the price at checkout. The way to bring prices down is to lower barriers across the supply chain — not impose price controls that create shortages.

Restoring affordability is not about expanding government control. It is about removing the barriers that prevent Americans from building, working, and innovating.

At the end of the day, this is a choice between two futures:

One where government continues to default to “no,” delaying projects and driving up costs.

Or one where we make it possible to say “yes” — to building, working, investing, and growing again.

Please continue advancing policies that expand opportunity, strengthen our economy, and make life more affordable for American families.

Sincerely,
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