Rep. Jake Auchincloss

08/03/2026

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

08/03/2026

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

08/02/2026

Tariffs must be stable, not slapdash.

08/02/2026

This war was illegal, expensive, and optional.

08/01/2026

Sometimes politics is about turning private knowledge into common knowledge.

07/31/2026

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

U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss visited Flip This Dollhouse, the world's largest dollhouse specialty store, with owner Nathaniel Ellis. See link below ⬇️

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07/29/2026

Community Counseling of Bristol County provides behavioral health, homelessness, and children's services. I met with leadership in Taunton to discuss funding & programming priorities. I strongly support federal & state initiatives that are proactive, rather than reactive, to addressing chronic homelessness; instead of waiting for those in need to show up at ERs – one of the most expensive & least salutary sites of care for this population – it is more effective to meet them where they're at and offer the shelter & treatment that can stabilize their lives. These initiatives require up-front funding and intensive logistics & collaboration, so leadership is critical. Health & Human Services under RFK, Jr. does not offer that leadership, but Massachusetts could. Through Medicaid 1115 negotiations between the state and Washington, which I am engaging on, MassHealth could work with outfits like Community Counseling of Bristol County to take out costs and improve outcomes in healthcare and social assistance.

07/29/2026

I recently convened a roundtable with biotech companies at Mansfield BioIncubator to discuss my MVP Act, which helps Medicaid purchase cell-and-gene therapies using contracts based on patient outcomes.

By codifying President Biden’s “multiple best price” regulation, the MVP Act updates the law for an era of medicines that are one-and-done potential treatments, rather than ongoing prescriptions. The bill rewards innovation, and reduces risk for Medicaid, by empowering and assisting state agencies to tie cell and gene therapy payments to patient outcomes.

07/27/2026

2 Jerks BBQ & Market in Raynham is founded & run by two brothers – and was named by their mother, who runs the books for them and is now seeking to open their second site, in Taunton. This amusing anecdote & many others featured in my small business day in Greater Taunton. First at a roundtable hosted by the South Eastern Economic Development Corporation, a non-profit that provides financing to small business, and then on a walking tour with the mayor, I met a broad cross-section of Main Street, including:

- a restaurant owner retiring after 42 years running his beloved diner, who loves bringing people together IRL in an era of social media
- a developer turning a former factory on the Taunton River into a walkable, mixed-use neighborhood, starting with artist housing & galleries
- a paint & coatings producer who installed solar panels to reduce her utility bills, but is struggling with red tape
- a baker who has dreamed of being a pastry chef since she was 19 years old and finally opened her own baking studio, with a lot of hard work and a little help
- a driving range owner whose land has been in the family since the 1600s (purchased from the King of England) and is the latest generation to be creative in how to steward the land

And more. I love these meetings & stories because, in an age of too much cynicism, starting a business is an act of optimism. Government at all levels should make it easier.

One impactful way to unlock more business success is to lower two of the costs they face: health care premiums and utilities. I spoke with business owners about my work in Congress to take cost out of healthcare through reforms to pharmaceuticals, hospital pricing, and insurance companies.

Government at both the state and federal level should also explicitly measure & program for entrepreneurship, which the World Bank measures as new business registrations per 1,000 individuals aged 15-64. The USA's data is not recorded or reported any longer, apparently. The numbers should be transparent and American policy-makers should be marking ourselves against high-scoring countries like Estonia & China.

07/27/2026

Earlier this month, I joined JCRC’s Jeremy Burton in Boston for a wide-ranging conversation on politics, policy, patriotism & more. We also talked about rising antisemitism in American politics on both the left and the right as well as the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship. You can listen to the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkFo_D_JPqs