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American workers and manufacturers are the best in the world. When Congress makes decisions about the future of our country, those workers need leaders at the table who will fight for them and keep our country moving. At a time when it feels like Congress gets nothing done, I’m excited to join my colleagues from both parties to launch the Build America Caucus and tackle some of our nation’s biggest challenges, grow our economy, and invest in the people who make America the greatest country in the world.

I spent my career building things in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and I came to Congress to keep building," said Rep. Rob Bresnahan. "I'm proud to be part of bipartisan efforts to strengthen our nation's highways, bridges, levees, rail lines, and airports. But a project that takes years and years just to clear the paperwork doesn't help anyone. The Build More Agenda will get shovels in the ground faster, and I'm ready to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get it done.

As a senior member of the Housing, Transportation, and Urban Development Subcommittee, I’m proud to be a member of the bipartisan Build America Caucus. My constituents tell me every day they want to see their representatives in Washington take actions that will make their lives better – lower the cost of housing, health care, and energy,” said Rep. Mike Quigley IL-05). “At a time of deep political division, we have the unique opportunity to come together as Democrats and Republicans to lower costs and solve the housing crisis.

Congress passed a housing abundance bill this term. It's seriously debating a bipartisan energy abundance bill. Build America has momentum in its mission to lower prices by building more, faster & better – next up are unlocks to lower prices in medicine, transportation and childcare.

A housing shortage is a tax on working people, and they pay it every month in rent. For decades, we have piled on rules and caps that make it slower and costlier to build homes, and few places have paid a higher price than the Bronx. The surest way to bring down the cost of housing is to bring up the supply of housing. The Build More Agenda is built on that principle, because a pro-growth agenda is a pro–working class agenda. Progress should be measured not by how many projects we regulate but by how many we deliver.

The Build More Agenda reflects what we can accomplish when we work across the aisle to tackle challenges facing American families and businesses,” said Rep. Gus Bilirakis. “I’m proud to join my colleagues in the bipartisan Build America Caucus to advance practical solutions that cut unnecessary red tape, lower costs and help America build faster and smarter. By modernizing infrastructure and creating opportunities for American workers and manufacturers, we can strengthen our economy, make taxpayer dollars go further and deliver lasting results for our communities.

America used to pride itself on accomplishing big things - winning world wars, sending man to the moon, or discovering the next medical breakthrough. Today, our challenges have not gone away but our capacity to achieve great things has. Our constituents are counting on us to put politics aside and invest in our country’s future to make their lives better. The bipartisan Build More Agenda includes ways to do exactly that: lower costs, create good-paying jobs, strengthen communities, and restore America as a global leader in progress and innovation

Kansans don’t want D.C. talking points — they want lower utility bills, homes they can actually afford, and roads that aren't falling apart. The problem isn't a lack of good ideas; it's the bureaucratic red tape slowing projects down for years. I’m joining the bipartisan Build America Caucus to cut through the government gridlock and start building these projects now, not a decade from now.

Whether it's housing, transportation, energy or infrastructure, the federal government needs the tools and capacity to deliver for the American people. Meeting those demands requires a government whose systems and processes make delivery possible, and right now ours is not built to keep pace with changes in the workforce, technology and the public's needs. The Build America Caucus's policy agenda takes this challenge head on, rightly recognizing state capacity as essential to unlocking a prosperous future for our country

The housing affordability crisis is the result of many different factors, and solving it requires an all-hands-on-deck approach. The Build America Caucus agenda delivers this, with solutions that make it easier and less expensive to build housing. Critically, it does the same for transportation infrastructure and buses, because abundant housing and effective transportation options work together to connect people to economic opportunity

For the past year, the Build America Caucus has worked across the aisle to notch key policy wins, making it easier, cheaper, and faster to build in America. The Build More Agenda strengthens that foundation, with over sixty policy proposals covering seven different policy areas. NAIA looks forward to working with the Caucus to back the builders.

The Build More Agenda is an innovative, bipartisan framework for creating a more abundant future in America. The priorities laid out in this agenda have the potential to make a massive difference in areas from science and innovation to housing, transportation, and energy. For example, we were thrilled to see X-Labs and metascience units highlighted as vehicles to accelerate scientific discovery and increase the return on investment for R&D. Similarly, the Agenda’s focus on reducing land use regulations, building transit at lower cost, and achieving energy abundance is crucial for letting America build again and innovate in the world of atoms.

Through their work with the Build America Caucus, Reps. Harder and Maloy have asked how we can build more of what Americans actually need and answered it across housing, child care, energy, and more. We applaud this effort and its goal to build 5 million homes, add millions more new child care slots, modernize the energy grid, and get infrastructure built faster. This comprehensive plan demonstrates that pragmatic, actionable solutions can still be ambitious. This Agenda, written by a Democrat from California and a Republican from Utah, also shows the strength of abundance solutions in building coalitions. I urge Congress to take action on these solutions

Getting lawmakers from both parties to agree on what's holding the country back is no easy feat, and we applaud the Build America Caucus for assembling a genuinely bipartisan coalition around these questions. BPC Action has long argued that the problems on this list—the cost of building housing, the time it takes to approve energy projects, and a broken child care system—are solvable ones. We look forward to working with the caucus and its members as they move from agenda to legislation.

Americans are tired of Washington making it harder and more expensive to build, innovate, and grow. The Build More Agenda brings Republicans and Democrats together around commonsense solutions to cut red tape, lower costs, strengthen American energy, improve access to health care, and get critical projects built. I’m proud to work with the Build America Caucus to turn good ideas into real results for the American people.

America knows how to build, we just have to get out of our own way and start doing it. More homes, better roads and bridges, new technology, and good jobs – this agenda is about turning big ideas into things people can actually see and feel in their communities. I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and help get it done.

For too long, we’ve treated a four-year college degree as the default path to a good career. The Build America Caucus’s push to get more apprenticeships and higher-quality workforce training programs off the ground is a critical step forward. If we want to build more in America, we need to make it easier for more Americans to learn how to do the building.