Five things in January
If his party takes the House, do the five things he listed actually reach the floor?
The Quote
Five things Democrats will do in January when we win back the House: Increase the minimum wage. Pass paid family leave. End the war in Iran. Hold a vote on Medicare for All. Tax the billionaires.
X, @RoKhanna, post 2102859378168647875, checked at source, Sep 23, 2026The new Congress is sworn in
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days to go, on 3 January 2027
Where it stands
- Not yet due Increase the minimum wage. January 2027, if the House changes hands
- Not yet due Pass paid family leave. January 2027, if the House changes hands
- Not yet due End the war in Iran. January 2027, if the House changes hands
- Not yet due Hold a vote on Medicare for All. A vote, not passage. January 2027, if the House changes hands
- Not yet due Tax the billionaires. January 2027, if the House changes hands
The people
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Ro Khanna
Member of Congress, California 17th
Listed the five on X on Sep 23, 2026. He is one member of 435 and cannot deliver any of them alone, so this is scored as a forecast about his party, not as a personal promise.
Filings since 23 September 2026
Named in the record
What would settle it
The roll-call record at clerk.house.gov, which publishes every recorded vote with every member's name on it. Each of the five is settled the same way: a vote is held or it is not, and it passes or it does not. Read the fourth one exactly as written, because it promises a vote rather than passage. Nothing here is scoreable unless his party wins the House in November, and if it does not, this closes as expired with no verdict against him.
On the record since then
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- 2026-09-28 Statement Khanna joined a California campaign for a one-time 5 percent tax on 250 billionaires he puts at $2.2 trillion, to stop children losing healthcare. Two of the five, taxing billionaires and healthcare, three months before the Congress he is talking about is sworn in, and at state level rather than federal. It does not settle anything on this page. It does show he means the fifth item. Source
- 2026-09-24 Note Watch opened. Nothing is scoreable until November decides whether his party controls the House, and nothing at all can be counted before the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2027.
- 2026-09-23 Statement Khanna posted the list on X. Checked at source rather than through coverage, so the wording here is his. Note the fourth item promises a vote on Medicare for All, not passage of it, and he will be held to what he wrote. Source
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