IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1028 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States 
must act urgently to end the political and economic dominance of billion-
aire 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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 30, 2026 
Ms. TLAIB (for herself, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mrs. RAMIREZ, and Ms. LEE of Penn-
sylvania) 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 subse-
quently 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. 
Whereas the United States was created to be a democracy, 
founded on the principle that all people are created equal, 
governed not by kings or corporate masters but by them-
selves as free citizens; 
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•HRES 1028 IH 
Whereas the people of the United States understand that the 
gravest threat to democracy and individual freedoms is 
the alliance of private wealth and authoritarian govern-
ment; 
Whereas the people of the United States have sounded the 
alarm and struggled to prevent democracy from being 
ruled by oligarchs over the course of the 250 years since 
the founding of the United States; 
Whereas, through United States history, the Federal Govern-
ment has vigorously combated excessive concentrations of 
power and wealth by breaking up monopolies, rooting out 
government corruption and cronyism, taxing high in-
comes and large estates, and enacting rules to prevent 
the powerful from exploiting workers and the environ-
ment; 
Whereas, over the past 50 years, the Federal Government has 
forfeited its role safeguarding democracy by allowing the 
wealthy to amass outsized economic and political power 
leading to skyrocketing income and wealth inequality; 
Whereas today, with the combined wealth of America’s 900 
billionaires now exceeding that of the 67,000,000 house-
holds in the poorest 50 percent, wages for working people 
have stagnated and basic needs, including housing and 
health care, have become unaffordable; 
Whereas President Donald Trump and ultrawealthy oligarchs 
and corporations are corrupting United States politics 
through billions in open and hidden campaign contribu-
tions and by exploiting their monopoly control in key sec-
tors of the economy, and especially over media, informa-
tion, and emerging digital technologies; 
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Whereas President Trump has permitted pay-to-play schemes 
to become endemic, as oligarchs leverage political con-
tributions to win hundreds of billions in taxpayer-funded 
Federal subsidies, tax breaks, regulatory rollbacks, and 
government contracts despite exploiting workers and pol-
luting communities; 
Whereas the oil and gas industry spent over $400,000,000 on 
lobbying, campaign contributions, and media buys in the 
2024 election cycle and in return has received at least 
$144,000,000,000 in tax breaks, the end of Federal sup-
port for renewables, and a green light to complete the de-
struction of the climate; 
Whereas Big Tech spent almost $400,000,000 in support of 
President Trump, who in return is recklessly promoting 
unrestricted development of artificial intelligence, which 
has enriched tech owners and investors by trillions of dol-
lars, while jeopardizing jobs, the environment, and public 
health; 
Whereas 
the 
crypto 
industry 
leveraged 
more 
than 
$274,000,000 in corporate contributions during the 2024 
electoral cycle to win industry-friendly legislation, regu-
latory rollbacks, political pardons, and dropped charges, 
facilitating new channels for corruption via meme coins 
and stablecoins, which President Trump has already uti-
lized to increase his family’s net worth by billions of dol-
lars; 
Whereas President Trump is wielding autocratic power to en-
rich his oligarchic backers and accelerate the transfer of 
wealth to corporations and billionaires, including by en-
acting massive tax cuts for the rich while slashing bene-
fits for the poor; 
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•HRES 1028 IH 
Whereas the quid pro quo between President Trump and the 
oligarchs corrupts the Federal Government, erodes de-
mocracy, undermines citizen freedom by deepening eco-
nomic inequality, and blocks popular action on urgent cri-
ses such as climate change, affordable health care, and 
workers’ rights; 
Whereas public funds belong to the people of the United 
States and should be invested in education, health care, 
housing, clean energy, and infrastructure, not used to en-
rich the wealthiest individuals and most powerful cor-
porations; 
Whereas the Supreme Court is complicit in deconstructing 
American democracy by interpreting money as speech, 
and misusing the Constitution as an instrument for en-
trenching oligarchic power over the government, the econ-
omy, and working people; 
Whereas the labor movement has played a significant histor-
ical role in counteracting corporate power, reducing in-
equality, and ensuring the political system is responsive 
to the interests of ordinary Americans, not just wealthy 
elites; 
Whereas the long-term decline in the percentage of workers 
who are union members has diminished the ability of the 
labor movement to play this crucial role; 
Whereas control of economic resources grants political power, 
from command over the workplace or investment deci-
sions, to the ability to set the political agenda and influ-
ence public policy; 
Whereas concentrated economic power is inconsistent with 
the core democratic value of political equality; 
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Whereas a truly democratic society requires a democratic 
economy, where power derived from ownership and con-
trol over economic resources is widely distributed and 
democratically accountable; and 
Whereas the people of the United States demand bold action 
to end oligarchic power and achieve real democracy: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(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, 
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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 com-
puting, 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 concentra-
tions 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 uni-
versal health care, affordable housing, debt-free edu-
cation, and climate resilience; 
(6) the President and Congress must reform 
the Supreme Court to ensure that a majority of Jus-
tices recognize the Constitution as enabling Con-
gress to take the urgent actions necessary to save 
democracy from corporate control, not as a bill of 
rights for oligarchs; 
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(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, multi-
stakeholder, 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. 
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