Club for Growth Issues Affordability Hill Memo
Washington, D.C. – Club for Growth has issued a memo to all Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate outlining a plan to tackle affordability in the areas of healthcare, housing, energy, and food. The memo urges legislators to remind their constituents that Democratic policies under the Biden Administration are responsible for higher costs, offers a series of proposals to reduce prices, and encourages Members to present their legislative achievements and important executive orders issued by President Trump to constituents during the Christmas break.
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EXCERPTS:
Republicans should treat the 2025 elections not as a defeat, but as a warning. The message from voters is unmistakable: they are furious about the cost of living, and they’re not hearing solutions from us. Our message should be clear and relentless. Stop inflation by stopping the spending. Cut costs by freeing markets, not expanding government.
Remind voters Biden created this mess — and Trump and Congressional Republicans are fixing it and planning to do even more to end the affordability crisis.
On health care, price transparency combined with robust HSAs will alleviate higher costs.
In housing, policymakers should embrace policies that increase supply and eliminate distortionary subsidies that raise home prices.
Restoring energy independence can be accomplished through unleashing American production through deregulation and ending permitting delays.
Finally, higher costs at grocery stores will be relieved for families through scaling back unnecessary tariffs combined with the energy reforms we propose which will decrease transportation costs.
We know far too many Americans feel the affordability crisis at the kitchen table when balancing the checkbook, the checkout counter when buying groceries, and with utility bills or at the gas pump as energy costs have soared. And the American Dream of homeownership seems out of reach for tens of millions of people through high mortgage interest rates, higher costs resulting from supply chain shortages, and increased demand after Biden allowed millions of illegal aliens into America while inflation soared and interest rates have tripled.
Although President Trump and Republicans have done more over the past 11 months to confront cost- of-living issues, including making the One Big Beautiful Bill Act law, which stopped a $4.5 trillion tax increase, made permanent the full expensing of capital expenditures, included the most substantial welfare reform in history to Medicaid and SNAP, and increased school choice by including the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA), many of these reforms are not being felt immediately. Still, Bidenflation is not going away so Republicans need to message on the accomplishments that will continue to help alleviate the affordability crisis and plan for doing even more in 2026.