InProgress

from the Center for American Progress

In this edition:

• CAP’s new plan to provide immediate relief for electricity rates 
  
• How CAP’s affordability policy ideas could save a typical family $4,133 a year.
  
• Hawaii passed the bill to undo Citizens United. What’s next?
  

Your power bills keep rising. CAP has a plan to provide immediate relief.

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Electricity costs are squeezing family budgets across the country, and in 2025, electricity prices rose at more than twice the rate of inflation. Worse yet, the Trump administration threatens to drive up Americans’ power bills even further by taking energy off the grid at a time of record demand.

A new report from the Center for American Progress lays out a plan to deliver immediate relief while building a more affordable power system for the long term. CAP’s proposal would save residential consumers more than $125 billion over four years—about $900 for the average household—through a mix of rate relief, new investments to lower system costs, and policies to ensure that large AI data centers pay their fair share for their electricity demand.

As families face mounting utility bills, CAP’s plan offers a road map to lower costs now and build a stronger, more resilient grid for the future.

How much could CAP’s ‘Path Forward on Affordability’ plans save your family?

A new analysis shows that CAP’s “Path Forward” plans on housing, healthcare, utility bills, and groceries would save a typical family $4,133 per year.

CAP’s plans include reforms to fix market competition where it is broken, correct underinvestment that has constricted supply or sapped productivity gains, and ultimately help wages catch up to costs. The proposals also include policies that would answer the American people’s demands for relief today and address many of the longer-term structural issues that are driving up costs.

Hawaii and Citizens United: What comes next?

CAP’s Tom Moore appeared on MS NOW with Ali Velshi to discuss what happens now that Hawaii has become the first state in the nation to pass a law to effectively undo Citizens United and get dark and corporate money out of its politics. 

More on Citizens United and how CAP’s Corporate Power Reset plan is going after dark money:

• “Addressing Questions Surrounding Hawaii’s Bold Move To Undo Citizens United” 
  
• “The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant”
  
• “Undoing Citizens United and Reining In Super PACs”