Jake Auchincloss

On the City Council, Jake chaired the Transportation & Public Safety Committee & was a member of the Land Use Committee, where he consistently supported pro-housing policies to address spiraling costs. Jake also worked on housing & transportation at Liberty Mutual's innovation lab. Prior to that, Jake worked in cybersecurity & led the startup competition at MIT, where he has an MBA in Finance.

Jake is a Marine veteran and one of the youngest Democratic parents in Congress. Jake is dedicated to protecting the Constitution and individual rights. He is fighting special interests to lower drug prices for seniors and the middle class. From immigration rapid-response to housing and healthcare policy, Jake is focused on defending democracy in Washington and lowering prices in Massachusetts.

Jake joins Bloomberg to discuss how he will not vote “for a single dollar” to fund what he calls a failed and illegal war, arguing Congress must prevent it from becoming a “forever war.”

Now in Congress, Jake is offering fresh, independent solutions to treat cost disease in housing & healthcare, protect our public health institutions, and defend the rule of law. He now sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

In Panama, I commanded Reconnaissance Marines and Colombian Special Forces in a combined training mission. We conducted drug interdiction exercises with the Panamanian Public Forces. I experienced how effective the United States can be when it works with allies. I support U.S. allies in Congress, today, like NATO, Ukraine, and Israel.

Use congressional authority to prevent future open-ended military conflicts.

• Preserve the candidate's stated lesson from prior wars without biography.

Voted against Pentagon spending he considered insufficiently accountable and advocated spending more effectively rather than simply increasing totals.

• Preserve the completed vote and campaign-attributed rationale.

Supported local pro-housing policies while serving on the Newton City Council.

• Preserve the completed local-government record without inventing ordinances.

Develop federal policies intended to reduce structural cost growth in housing and health care.

• Preserve the two cost areas without inventing mechanisms.

Protect United States public-health institutions.

• Preserve the institutional objective without inventing funding levels.

Use federal office to defend constitutional governance and the rule of law.

• Preserve the governing principle without generic campaign praise.

Reduce prescription-drug prices for seniors and middle-class households.

• Preserve the affordability objective and beneficiary groups without inventing a pricing mechanism.

Support rapid community and legal responses to immigration-enforcement actions.

• Preserve the campaign's stated focus while avoiding inference about specific services.

Refuse to vote for additional federal funding for a conflict the candidate characterizes as illegal, failed, and at risk of becoming a forever war.

• Preserve the funding refusal while attributing the legal and policy characterizations.

Support United States alliances and partnerships, including NATO, Ukraine, and Israel.

• Preserve the three named partners without inventing funding or military commitments.