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The DSA’s Agenda Could Cost More Than $200 Trillion—and You’ll Be Picking Up the Tab

“Imagine taking a day off from work in a future without capitalism,” reads the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) website. 

“You have no debt. You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities,” it continues.

Sounds pretty good, right? Conveniently, the DSA fails to mention how much it would cost to create this socialist utopia. Unsurprisingly, it would be a lot of money.

This week, Adam Michel, director of Tax Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, added up nine of the largest proposals in the DSA platform. Based on his estimates, the proposals would require between $71 trillion and $212 trillion—which represents 18 percent and 53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), respectively—in additional government spending.

In the U.S., government spending already makes up about 38 percent of GDP, which is relatively high by historical standards but low compared to the rest of the world. Under a high-end estimate of the DSA’s agenda, that 38 percent would rise to 92 percent of GDP, according to Michel. A lower-end estimate would raise spending to more than 57 percent of GDP, higher than most European countries.

No major advanced economy spends anything close to 92 percent of GDP. This level of expenditure would require the mass confiscation of private property, handing an unprecedented amount of power to politicians. These estimates are, as Michel tells Reason, “much closer to estimates of state control under Soviet-style communism than to today’s European welfare states.”

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DSA Steering Committee Member Cliff Connolly Shares ‘Hatred of the United States Constitution’ as the ‘Obstacle We Finally Have to Get Over to Have a Revolution’

The War Room’s Natalie Winters shared a disturbing video from the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) Steering Committee member Cliff Connolly, admitting what we already know about the far-left organization….they hate the very principles on which America was founded.

Winters shared a clip from the Varn Vlog podcast episode “The Revolution in Democracy: Marxist Unity Group’s Vision for DSA,” released on July 7, 2025 in which Connolly shares his ‘hatred of the United States Constitution.’

Additionally, he describes the Constitution as an ‘obstacle’ that the organization will ‘have to get over’ to have a revolution

The panel discussion, hosted by C. Derick Varn, includes Connolly, and Amy Wilhelm, Jean Allen, and Aliyah VanPelt, who are members of the Marxist Unity Group (MUG), a caucus within DSA.

Connolly stated, “So the two things that we’re famous for, uh, is our commitment to a program and our, uh, hatred of the United States Constitution.”

“And what the program does is it gives us a roadmap to revolution, and it gives us the obstacle that we finally will have to get over to have a revolution, which is the United States Constitution, the basis of the United States government.”

“And what the Minimum/Maximum Program specifically, what that format specifically gives us, is that roadmap. It gives us the minimum circumstances under which we would be able to take power and govern, and it gives us the maximum program, which is the goals that we’re actually aiming for.”

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OF COURSE: Abdul El-Sayed’s Half-Sister is a Radical Professor at the University of Chicago Who Allegedly Assaulted a Police Officer

Being a radical, leftist lunatic apparently runs in Abdul El-Sayed’s family. The half-sister of the Michigan senate candidate is a professor at the University of Chicago who has participated in anti-ICE protests and even allegedly assaulted a police officer.

What a charming family they must be. Don’t you want to elevate them to the United States Senate after hearing this?

This is just another warning sign about El-Sayed as a candidate.

FOX News reported:

Controversial socialist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing fresh scrutiny after it was revealed that his close relative is a far-left professor who was arrested on a felony charge last year for her role in an anti-ICE riot.

Eman Abdelhadi is a polarizing figure. She works as an associate professor at the University of Chicago’s Department of Comparative Human Development, and has a years-long history of landing in the national spotlight for radical activism and inflammatory statements.

She’s also El-Sayed’s half sister.

Last fall, as leftist zealots spent months protesting, sometimes violently, outside an ICE detention facility in suburban Chicago, Abdelhadi was booked after allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper. She was charged on Oct. 3 with two counts of aggravated battery to a government employee, a Class 3 felony, and two counts of resisting/obstructing peace, a Class A misdemeanor.

A day before her arrest, she appeared on a podcast called “Movement Memos,” which is affiliated with the far-left publication Truthout. During that interview, she recalled her previous experiences at the riots at the Broadview facility.

She seems nice.

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Jeffries: Democratic Socialists of America Will Be Part of Our ‘Broad Caucus’

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said if elected, some Democratic Socialists of America members will be part of the Democrats’ “broad caucus.”

Host Kristen Welker said, “Do Democratic Socialists belong in the Democratic Party?”

Jeffries said, “Well, what I can say is that I do not support defunding the police. I do not support open borders. I do not support abolishing the Senate. We’re focused on actually solving problems that hardworking American taxpayers want us to solve, which is to lower the high cost of living in a situation where life is far too expensive in this country. That’s the democratic agenda. That’s what House Democrats are fighting to achieve.”

Welker said, “Do you think, though, that there is room in the Democratic Party, under the tent of the Democratic Party, for Democratic Socialists, is it big enough?”

Jeffries said, “Well, listen, I don’t support the DSA agenda, as has been articulated, by the DSA itself. Now you’re going to have individual members, who have been elected in Democratic primaries and if they are elected in the general in November, will be part of the House Democratic caucus. It’s going to be a broad caucus.”

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Dem Rep. Moore: Democratic Socialists Just Believe in Regulations, Safety Net But ‘Believe in Capitalism’

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) argued that “democratic socialists are people who believe in a market economy, they believe in capitalism, but they believe in regulations as well.” And “we’re not going to be bullied by their characterization of maintaining a safety net for Americans and calling it Communism, no.”

Moore said, “Republicans are very disappointed that David Crowley won that election, because they had planned their entire campaign around characterizing Francesca Hong as a Communist, as a democratic — as a socialist and really conjuring up fear among people who have come to understand the extremes in those regimes as having been very harmful for them.”

Later, she added, “I’ll tell you, socialism is one extreme of an economic system and totalitarianism is another extreme. I think — she tried to distinguish herself, because democratic socialists are people who believe in a market economy, they believe in capitalism, but they believe in regulations as well. They believe that a company shouldn’t be able to dump their chemicals into fresh water, that there ought to be reg[ulations], you ought not be able to drill everywhere, that there ought to be a safety net, people ought to have Social Security and [Meals on Wheels] and Medicaid and Medicare. And these are things that Republicans, historically, every minute of the existence of Medicare and Medicaid have called socialism. So, we’re not going to be bullied by their characterization of maintaining a safety net for Americans and calling it Communism, no. Francesca Hong ran a very great campaign, which is what I was referring to. She had boots on the ground, they talked to people, they talked to people about affordability, and they really latched onto the sentiment of most people who are just sick and tired of being sick and tired and are exhausted trying to negotiate more month than money.”

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New York City Losing Millions to Fare Skippers as People Embrace Zohran Mamdani’s Promise of ‘FREE’ Buses

During the mayoral race, communist Zohran Mamdani made the promise of ‘free’ buses a central part of his campaign. He hasn’t delivered on this promise yet, but that hasn’t stopped New Yorkers from pretending that he did and skipping bus fares.

The lost revenue is costing the city millions, which could put a damper on the mayor’s many other promises of free stuff.

It’s just the sort of basic economics that people on the left refuse to understand.

FOX News reports:

New Yorkers take Zohran Mamdani free bus promise literally as MTA loses millions in skipped fares

Political promises of “free buses” in New York City are contributing to a spike in fare evasion that is costing the city’s mass transit system millions of dollars, transit officials warn.

In July, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman Janno Lieber blamed political rhetoric for fueling fare evasion, though he never mentioned Mayor Zohran Mamdani by name.

“There’s a trend that broke out,” Lieber told reporters following a meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board, according to the New York Post. “With malice towards none, I say all of the talk of free buses, it has an impact.”

The MTA reported that paid bus ridership fell nearly 8% in June compared to the same month last year. During Mamdani’s first six months in office, bus fare revenue fell by $31 million compared to the first half of 2025. Agency estimates show nearly half of bus riders now skip the $3 fare.

Mamdani made the slogan “fast and free buses” a major part of his 2025 mayoral campaign. However, the MTA is controlled by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state, rather than City Hall. While the mayor and Hochul unveiled plans on July 8 to focus instead on speeding up bus routes, experts and union leaders say the “free bus” rhetoric has already contributed to fare evasion.

Who could have predicted this, besides every conservative in the country?

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Socialism Simplified: A System Where Government Uses Your Money To Solve Everyone Else’s Problems

They are coming for your money, and they have a ton of momentum right now. Democratic Socialists are winning election after election by promising free stuff, but of course free stuff is never actually free. Somewhere along the way, someone has to pay for it. If you find yourself protectively reaching for your wallet as you read this, I don’t blame you one bit. Socialism is a system where the government uses your money to solve everyone else’s problems. Unfortunately, it is also a system that is becoming increasingly popular among our young adults.

In a previous article, I noted that a poll that was taken in 2025 found that a whopping 62 percent of U.S. adults under the age of 30 now have a positive view of socialism.

That should chill you to the core.

Meanwhile, Americans view capitalism less favorably than they once did…

  • Fewer than half of Americans say capitalism is working even “somewhat” well — down from 60% about a decade ago, according to a June Wall Street Journal-NORC poll.
  • 61% of Americans said they were bothered “a lot” by the feeling that the wealthy don’t pay their fair share in taxes, per a Pew Research Center poll in January. That included 41% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.
  • The same poll showed another 60% overall — and 42% of Republican-inclined voters — said the same about some corporations paying their fair share.
  • And views of big business went from 19 points positive in 2012 (58%-39%) to 25 points negative last year (37%-62%), according to the Gallup data.

This is crazy.

So why is this happening?

Well, the truth is that a large portion of the population is very frustrated with the economy.

The rising cost of living has been absolutely eviscerating the middle class, and many young adults consider homeownership to be completely out of reach because home prices are so absurdly high.

When someone comes along and starts promising all sorts of free stuff in this very harsh economic environment, it can be very seductive.

But if the Democratic Socialists of America were actually able to implement their entire agenda on the federal level, it would more than triple federal spending…

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) propose new spending that could more than triple federal outlays. They propose the government pay for health care, housing, higher education, and electricity. Jobs are government-guaranteed, retirement benefits are expanded, paid family leave is universal, fossil fuels are eliminated, and reparations are paid.

The DSA platform claims that the bill for all this will be sent to “the richest individuals and corporations.” Tally up that bill, and it ballparks between $71 trillion and $212 trillion in new spending over the next decade. Confiscating every dollar of high-end wealth and corporate profits would cover only a fraction of those costs. The DSA agenda necessitates high taxes on middle-class Americans.

If you took every penny from every billionaire in America, that would only account for 8.4 trillion dollars.

So where is the rest of the money going to come from?

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DSA Members Can’t Bring Themselves to Admit Cuba is a Dictatorship – Immediately Try to BUT TRUMP!

During a recent conversation with Latino journalist Jorge Ramos, high ranking members of the DSA turned into a stuttering mess when they were asked a simple question about whether or not Cuba is a dictatorship. HINT – It is.

They immediately try to make the issue about Trump and the blockade on Cuba, because they cannot answer this question honestly.

Ramos keeps trying to give them an opportunity to answer the question, pointing out that Cuba has not had real elections in decades, engages in all forms of censorship and has political prisoners, but they just won’t embrace the truth.

From Stu Smith:

DSA Co-Chairs Squirm When Pressed on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua

This is a longer clip, but it captures the best parts of a broader discussion DSA national co-chairs Ashik Siddique and Megan Romer had with The Moment hosts Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos.

Jorge repeatedly presses them on whether Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are dictatorships. They repeatedly avoid giving him a direct answer.

Romer eventually responds that “Cubans have access to their democracy in a way that we do not,” pointing to Cuba’s 2022 Family Code referendum as evidence. That referendum was only four years ago, making it an especially curious answer to Jorge Ramos repeatedly pressing her on decades without multiparty elections.

Ashik Siddique fares little better. Asked whether Cuba is a dictatorship, he pivots to the U.S. embargo and the state of American politics, responding that “it’s hard for us to judge other countries being dictatorships when we have Donald Trump as president.”…

When it comes to international politics, DSA is often at its most revealing. Siddique and Romer are not even among the organization’s most die-hard internationalists. This is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how radical DSA’s international politics can get.

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Mamdani Burns Through New Yorkers’ Goodwill as the Grim Realities of Governance Hit

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is eight months into his term of office, and reality has stepped up and whacked him upside the head.

He had a decent start. After fulfilling a campaign promise to “tax the rich,” Mamdani saw three of his endorsed candidates coast to primary victories. He also presided over a feel-good moment when he joined the celebration of the New York Knicks’ first championship in more than 50 years.

But at some point, Mamdani had to come back to Earth. His anti-Israel rhetoric has become more toxic since the election, leading to a drop in his popularity ratings. He’s insulted the business community by making high-profile public appearances that directly target prominent corporate leaders, such as filming a promotional video outside the Manhattan residence of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin to announce new tax policy proposals. He also stacked the Rent Guidelines Board with allies to enforce rent freezes across roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments, publicly arguing that “landlords are doing just fine” and positioning real estate investors as profit-driven obstacles to affordable housing.

Leaders across real estate and finance have voiced frustration over his rhetoric, with CEOs arguing his messaging paints success as inherently suspect and actively drives investment and corporate headquarters out of the city.   

This week, “a judge swiftly paused a new tax on luxury second homes after a group of residents, including one of Mamdani’s own supporters, filed a lawsuit accusing the city of botching the rollout,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

What possessed Mamdani to post a list of more than 900,000 properties he claims “might” be subject to the new tax, but many more than likely won’t?

Justice Wayne Ozzi questioned why the list needed to be so broad. “I’m sure it caused concern amongst people,” the judge said. “Some may be embarrassed, some may be quizzical.” He also pointed out that the city had made “missteps” and criticized the administration for doing a poor job of vetting before sending out the mail notices. 

His rabid supporters are still “all in” with his socialist agenda. But others are not.

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WHOA! 41-Yr-Old Muslim Socialist-Dem Senate Candidate Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed Appears To Suggest Using Violence Against His 63-Yr-Old Republican Opponent Mike Rogers

Ever since the America-hating Dearborn Muslim Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed became the Democratic Party’s Socialist candidate for U.S. Senate, videos have been popping up across X revealing how deeply he hates whites, American history, ICE, law enforcement, the 2nd Amendment, and Capitalism. One of the videos that’s been resurrected and posted by anti-Muslim invasion of America advocate Amy Mek shows a speech that he gave at an event sponsored by CAIR. CAIR has been designated/labeled a terrorist organization by the UAE and certain U.S. state governments, like Texas and Florida.

In a shocking post on X today, 41-year-old Socialist- Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed appears to be advocating for violence against his 63-year-old Republican opponent Mike Rogers.

El-Sayed’s thinly veiled threat appeared on X in response to an interview Mike Rogers had with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

In the interview, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate can be heard stating facts discovered in videos about El-Sayed, Michigan’s most dangerous candidate to ever run for Senate in the state’s history, possibly in the nation’s history.

Mike Rogers told Sean Hannity, “You can almost hear a collective gasp across Michigan for all the things he [El-Sayed] spends time hating on,” adding, “When I go back, I wanna make sure we’re protecting our faith in our families in our factories and our freedoms while he’s advocating doing away with our fireworks, football, the Fourth of July. This guy spent hours hating on what most Michigan would enjoy in their pastimes, and he should be held to account for that. These are views that he held, that he was pretty strong about, but he knew that he had to delete them all, for if people really knew who he was, they wouldn’t vote for him. So you’re right-it’s just a matter of making sure we have the resources and the people that are out there fighting what I think is the heart and soul of the country in this particular race.”

El-Sayed shot back with what sure appears to be a threat on X: “Since you’re too afraid to debate me, how about you “hold me accountable” on a football field instead.” El-Sayed tweeted. “Tackle, no pads like we used to play when we were kids,” the childish phony medical doctor said, warning, “I’d be happy to show you how much I love football.”

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