{"id":2694061,"date":"2026-10-30T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-democrats-affordability-plan-is-to-expand-welfare-and-punish-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:07:01","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-democrats-affordability-plan-is-to-expand-welfare-and-punish-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-democrats-affordability-plan-is-to-expand-welfare-and-punish-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats&#8217; &#8216;Affordability&#8217; Plan Is To Expand Welfare And Punish Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-democrats-affordability-plan-is-to-expand-welfare-and-punish-elon-musk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2694061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A pair of articles in Axios this week should be a clue to voters that if and when Democrats take control of Congress after the midterms, their promise to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/10\/28\/affordability-is-a-trojan-horse-for-democrats-to-bring-back-the-biden-years\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/10\/28\/affordability-is-a-trojan-horse-for-democrats-to-bring-back-the-biden-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">focus on \u201caffordability\u201d<\/a> will amount to two things: a return to Biden-era welfare expansion and a lot of probing and hearings for corporate and tech CEOs, especially Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that Democrats would be able to do anything to lower prices on groceries, gas and rent, their actual proposals would do nothing. In fact, they would do the opposite. After the midterms, \u201cProgressives are eyeing a living wage, universal child care, lifting the payroll tax cap to shore up Social Security, and repealing a cap on federally subsidized public housing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-am-2261674a-47b8-445e-983f-a2ec43f6e119.html?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top&#038;lctg=586ee224a22762087d8b463b\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-am-2261674a-47b8-445e-983f-a2ec43f6e119.html?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top&#038;lctg=586ee224a22762087d8b463b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Mike Allen<\/a> of Axios on Thursday. Democrats also plan on pushing, again, \u201cMedicare for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of that is new. Democrats have been trying these busted policies for decades. And isn\u2019t it just what we need: More Section 8 housing would surely bring down the price of gas for middle-income earners. Democrats have tried this all over the country, and they injected those ideas with steroids during the Biden years, pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/07\/oh-snap-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-blown-on-free-food-fraud\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/07\/oh-snap-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-blown-on-free-food-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more food stamps<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/05\/10-reasons-house-republicans-shouldnt-extend-enhanced-obamacare-subsidies\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/05\/10-reasons-house-republicans-shouldnt-extend-enhanced-obamacare-subsidies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Obamacare benefits<\/a> for early retirees. The result was surging prices on health insurance, food, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/13\/biden-wanted-to-restore-the-soul-of-america-heres-how-much-that-cost-you-so-far\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/13\/biden-wanted-to-restore-the-soul-of-america-heres-how-much-that-cost-you-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">everything else<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent article on Friday revealed the rest of their \u201caffordability\u201d agenda, which is to use congressional subpoena power to endlessly hound Elon Musk and other business leaders who so much as said \u201cgood morning\u201d to the president. \u201cThe CEOs who staked their reputations and fortunes on MAGA\u2019s staying power could spend the final two years of Trump\u2019s presidency defending their dealings under oath,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/30\/democrat-subpoenas-investigations-corporate-trump?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top&#038;lctg=586ee224a22762087d8b463b\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/30\/democrat-subpoenas-investigations-corporate-trump?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top&#038;lctg=586ee224a22762087d8b463b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Zachary Beau<\/a> of Axios. \u201cA Democratic House would carry its campaign against billionaire power and corruption deep into corporate America, scrutinizing the relationships between Trump\u2019s White House and the\u00a0executives who courted him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that Trump has run a squeaky clean White House, pure as the morning snow. But Democrats are lying when they profess to be looking for \u201ccorruption.\u201d People are allowed to ingratiate themselves to political leaders. That\u2019s called the First Amendment. Of course they trade campaign donations or other favors for preferable regulations. What Democrats hope to do is embarrass Musk and other executives and intimidate them out of political participation. Or, at least out of <em>Republican<\/em> participation.<\/p>\n<p><em>And watch those grocery bills drop like a rock!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Conventional wisdom is that Republicans are heading for major defeat in just a few more days. If that\u2019s the case, voters should prepare for an \u201caffordability\u201d agenda that does nothing they want.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>   Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of articles in Axios this week should be a clue to voters that if and when Democrats take control of Congress after the midterms, their promise to focus on \u201caffordability\u201d will amount to two things: a return to Biden-era welfare expansion and a lot of probing and hearings for corporate and tech CEOs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2694062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Talarico-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Talarico-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2694062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}