P1-Family Cost Relief Act

Program 1: Family Cost Relief Act

Goal: a visible drop in everyday costs by mid-2027, and clear ownership of the price issue.

Components:

1. Tariff review and rollback. Require congressional approval for tariffs on food, household staples and inputs to them, with automatic sunset of existing ones unless reauthorized.
2. Utility bill relief. Fund LIHEAP-style energy assistance and require utilities to pass through federal relief as a line-item credit on bills.
3. Grocery and fuel price transparency. Direct the FTC to investigate price gouging in food processing and fuel distribution, with public quarterly reports.
4. A monthly cost dashboard. Publish what each measure saved a typical household, so relief is felt and credited.

Why the data supports it: two-thirds of voters said tariffs hurt the economy, and the cost-of-living voters who called their hardship severe broke heavily Democratic. Pre-election polling found tariffs mobilized their opponents roughly twice as much as their supporters, including high-turnout seniors and college graduates.

Bipartisan hook: farm-state and manufacturing-district Republicans hurt by retaliatory tariffs; restoring Congress’s Article I trade authority appeals to institutionalists.