Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧

The last time a child in the U.S. died of measles was in 2003.

To help make real the American Creed, tax inheritance for billionaire heirs.

AI agents should be liable for torts, just like humans are. Current law is sketchy. My bipartisan bill makes it clear.

Tariffs must be stable, not slapdash.

This war was illegal, expensive, and optional.

Sometimes politics is about turning private knowledge into common knowledge.

Meeting with entrepreneurs always gives me energy — and Nathaniel is an entrepreneur with lots of energy!

The war is already a failure. It must not become a quagmire.

Trump lost the kinetic war against Iran this year for the same reason he lost the trade war against China last year: chokepoint control. Iran closed off the Strait; China closed off critical minerals. Strategy in a networked world requires control over the essential nodes. America can't bomb its way to that control, much as Trump tries.

The Alzheimer’s Early Detection Act would require health plans to cover biomarker testing for pre-symptomatic adults, especially those aged 50 and older, so that you can start taking medicines to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s years before cognitive decline begins.

Auchincloss: The arrogance and incompetence of this administration—to start an illegal war of choice without consulting Congress or our allies, to fail in that war, and then to come to Congress to bail them out of the war—is just eye-watering.

Two failures cause forever wars — sunk cost bias and groupthink. The Trump administration is making both mistakes.

No money for war & corruption.

Hegseth tomorrow is on Capitol Hill to ask Congress to fund an illegal war. No appropriations without authorization.

The WSJ gets the facts wrong (amendment has no effect on Iron Dome) in making the… interesting argument that America should have fought in Vietnam for longer. Americans didn’t want to fight in Vietnam & we don’t want to fight in the Middle East.

This is not about politics. American soldiers are dead. At the heart of FMF was a deal: - America ensures QME for Israel to fight terrorists - Israel never asks Americans to wage its wars Netanyahu & Trump broke that deal with this Iran debacle.

I am voting Yes on the amendment to State Department appropriations to zero out $3.3 billion in foreign military financing for Israel. If enacted, this measure would prevent the U.S. government from financing and selling attack aircraft, bombs & missiles, and targeting systems to the Israel Defense Forces. It would not affect U.S. support for Israel’s Iron Dome, David’s Sling, or Arrow air-defense systems. The authority from Congress to finance and sell American-made weapons to allies is a grant of trust to both a presidential administration and its counterparty heads of government. With their disastrous war against Iran, their empowerment of settler violence in the West Bank, and their strategic incoherence against Islamist terrorism, both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have sacrificed that trust. Congress must act where the executives have failed. I acknowledge that this amendment is not the ideal mechanism of action. Its sponsor, Representative Thomas Massie, recently ran a re-election campaign that featured antisemitic tropes. Also, the State Department has not issued clear guidance about whether the amendment could affect humanitarian programming, embassy operations, or West Bank security assistance; if the amendment becomes law, I will work with colleagues to hold harmless those efforts. I have weighed these problems against the central thrust of the amendment: there must be consequences for Trump and Netanyahu. Those consequences should not impair the State of Israel’s right to defend itself against the atrocities of the terrorist regimes that threaten it. Israel and the United States have common interests, shared values, and a long history. Israel and the United States are allies. Before the next appropriations cycle in 2027, when this policy will again be up for debate, Israel will hold elections, the repercussions of the debacle in the Strait of Hormuz will become more clear, and negotiations between the United States and Israel over what replaces the Memorandum of Understanding will pick up pace. This presents an opportunity to renew the U.S.-Israel alliance on shared principles and a bipartisan basis.

Employees' health premiums are too high, and the growth of the 340B program is one driver of that inflation. Instead of pointing fingers, it's time to fix the problems. This bill tackles the hard issues and asks every stakeholder to compromise for the common good. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

“The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind." - Common Sense, 1776 Happy 250th anniversary to the American Experiment.

Antisemitism mushrooms in failed societies. Meta, TikTok & the rest are platforming antisemitism because they host failed societies governed by algorithms that amplify the seven deadly sins.

I voted Yes on the KIDS Act tonight because it takes modest federal action against the productization of children online while preserving states’ authority to pass stronger legislation, like social media age limits. What persistently holds back bolder federal action is the framing of social media regulation as an infringement upon free speech. Reach is not speech. Algorithms and design features are not neutral. Social media companies are miners and merchants of digital dopamine; and they should be taxed and regulated to reflect that negative externality, particularly for our children. Critical to this effort is the imposition of a duty of care, enforced through litigation, that is guided by neuroscience and dedicated to the protection of developing brains from attention-fracking and dopamine manipulation.