{"id":219186,"date":"2026-08-02T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/democratic-socialists-of-america-propose-radical-overhaul-of-us-govt-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:44:12","slug":"democratic-socialists-of-america-propose-radical-overhaul-of-us-govt-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/democratic-socialists-of-america-propose-radical-overhaul-of-us-govt-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Socialists of America propose radical overhaul of US govt – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0recently released\u00a0platform for the Democratic Socialists of America<\/a> is titled “Workers Deserve More” and it includes some proposals to ease cost of living for working families that are popular among many progressives, such as free healthcare and\u00a0pre-K.
“You have no debt. You\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0need health insurance,” the\u00a0platform\u2019s\u00a0website says, laying out its vision for American social democracy. “You don\u2019t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right.”\u00a0
The platform, released July 14,\u00a0drew widespread backlash from conservatives. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson<\/a> reacted to the platform calling it “communism” by “barbarians,” while slamming the more radical\u00a0policies\u00a0like\u00a0eliminating\u00a0the U.S. Senate or having the president selected by Congress.\u00a0
“This isn\u2019t just Common Sense vs. Crazy anymore,” Johnson wrote on X<\/a>. “It\u2019s Common Sense vs. COMMUNISM.”
Although not all self-described democratic socialists are in the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA is an increasingly influential player on the left. Members include New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u00a0and\u00a0Michigan Rep.\u00a0Rashida Tlaib, all Democrats. Three Democratic nominees for U.S. House of Representative seats\u00a0\u2013 Darializa\u00a0Avila Chevalier and\u00a0Claire\u00a0Valdez\u00a0in New York\u00a0and\u00a0Melat Kiros in Colorado \u2013 also belong to the group, as do a growing list of state and local officials.
A third of Democrats identify as democratic socialists,<\/a>\u00a0according to a July 30 CNN poll, but it’s possible that quite a few of those are not familiar with some of the DSA’s more unusual suggestions for overhauling the U.S. government. A July 28 Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a> revealed that 47% of Americans\u00a0say they don’t\u00a0understand democratic socialist policies.
While\u00a0President Donald Trump and his GOP allies slam<\/a> democratic socialists as “communists,”\u00a0the Democratic Socialists of America is defining its own brand in the new platform.\u00a0
The 120,000-member organization’s policy roadmap has three sections:\u00a0
“Working-Class Democracy” aims to\u00a0increase access to the electoral system by expanding voting rights beyond citizens to all permanent residents. It would also restore the right to vote to those stripped of it for a criminal conviction, and it calls for statehood for Washington, DC, and self-determination of U.S. territories, such as Puerto Rico and Guam.
The platform also calls for structural changes, some of which would require amending the U.S. Constitution, including:
On businesses, the platform calls for\u00a0making large corporations public, implementing “aggressive wealth taxes” and empowering workers to unionize.\u00a0
Under\u00a0“Thriving Working-Class Communities”\u00a0proposals, the Democratic Socialists of\u00a0America look at solutions for everyday people. Health care for all, housing for all and the Green New Deal are more well-known\u00a0left-leaning policies included in the category. Workers Deserve More also includes:\u00a0
The “Working Class Foreign Policy” section\u00a0of the platform lays out the Democratic Socialists of America’s view on how the United States should be involved \u2013 or not involved \u2013 in geopolitics and foreign intervention around the world.\u00a0\u00a0
They call for providing a path to citizenship for “all immigrants regardless of status” and easing requirements in an immigration policy that would abolish\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ending all ICE detention and deportations.\u00a0
“Free Palestine,” is another goal that would include ending all U.S. military aid to Israel and “Prosecute U.S. and Israeli leaders responsible for the genocide in Gaza.”
Perhaps the\u00a0most radical program is the “End the U.S. War Machine” section which calls to “defund” the Department of War,\u00a0closing overseas US military bases\u00a0and prosecuting U.S. war criminals in line with the International Criminal Court.\u00a0Supporting and employing veterans is also included. It is unclear if the proposal aims to entirely abolish the agency that oversees U.S. military action, but Romer said in the FOX News<\/a> interview that the it “absolutely” calls for defunding the Pentagon.
Finally, it calls for disengagement in non-domestic issues by ending blockades,\u00a0embargoes\u00a0and sanctions, specifically naming those targeting Iran,\u00a0Cuba\u00a0and\u00a0Venezuela.\u00a0
“People around the world deserve to live their lives without U.S. interference,” the Democratic Socialists of America write.\u00a0
USA TODAY reached out to Ocasio-Cortez, Mamdani, Tlaib, Kiros, Avila Chevalier and Valdez to ask if they support the “Workers Deserve More” platform \u2013 including calls to\u00a0abolish the Senate\u00a0and Electoral College, defund the Department of War,\u00a0close military bases, end economic sanctions against Cuba, Iran and Venezuela and to replace the president and Supreme Court.
Valdez’s campaign office declined to comment, and the other politicians did not respond.\u00a0
Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee and Texas Rep. Greg Casar were formerly endorsed by the organization, but both no longer identify\u00a0as members of the Democratic Socialists of America.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0recently released\u00a0platform for the Democratic Socialists of America is titled “Workers Deserve More” and it includes some proposals to ease cost of living for working families that are popular among many progressives, such as free healthcare and\u00a0pre-K.“You have no debt. You\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0need health insurance,” the\u00a0platform\u2019s\u00a0website says, laying out its vision for American social democracy. “You don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}