H.Res. 1028

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1028 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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 
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.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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

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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 themselves as free citizens;
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 government;
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 Government has vigorously 
combated excessive concentrations of power and wealth by breaking up 
monopolies, rooting out government corruption and cronyism, taxing high 
incomes and large estates, and enacting rules to prevent the powerful 
from exploiting workers and the environment;
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 households 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 contributions and by exploiting their monopoly control in key 
sectors of the economy, and especially over media, information, and 
emerging digital technologies;
Whereas President Trump has permitted pay-to-play schemes to become endemic, as 
oligarchs leverage political contributions to win hundreds of billions 
in taxpayer-funded Federal subsidies, tax breaks, regulatory rollbacks, 
and government contracts despite exploiting workers and polluting 
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 
support for renewables, and a green light to complete the destruction 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 dollars, 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, regulatory rollbacks, political pardons, and dropped 
charges, facilitating new channels for corruption via meme coins and 
stablecoins, which President Trump has already utilized to increase his 
family's net worth by billions of dollars;
Whereas President Trump is wielding autocratic power to enrich his oligarchic 
backers and accelerate the transfer of wealth to corporations and 
billionaires, including by enacting massive tax cuts for the rich while 
slashing benefits for the poor;
Whereas the quid pro quo between President Trump and the oligarchs corrupts the 
Federal Government, erodes democracy, undermines citizen freedom by 
deepening economic inequality, and blocks popular action on urgent 
crises 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 enrich the wealthiest individuals and most 
powerful corporations;
Whereas the Supreme Court is complicit in deconstructing American democracy by 
interpreting money as speech, and misusing the Constitution as an 
instrument for entrenching oligarchic power over the government, the 
economy, and working people;
Whereas the labor movement has played a significant historical role in 
counteracting corporate power, reducing inequality, 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 decisions, to the ability to set the 
political agenda and influence public policy;
Whereas concentrated economic power is inconsistent with the core democratic 
value of political equality;
Whereas a truly democratic society requires a democratic economy, where power 
derived from ownership and control 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 Representatives 
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, 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.
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