"...Auchincloss, 37, is fixated on the broader question facing his party: what are the big ideas that Democrats can offer the American people?

TIME spoke to the rising House Democrat about owning up to the party's COVID-era mistakes, getting tough on social-media companies, building new cities, and what the Democratic vision of the future should be."

"Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a southern Massachusetts Democrat, is using his new seat on the Energy and Commerce Committee to advocate for overhauls of health care policies and provide a check on what he sees as the Trump administration’s anti-vaccine agenda."

“So, at the same time as they are taking a good economy and shoving it over a cliff, they are also cutting the social safety net meant to protect people in a bad economy - Social security and Medicaid, which they’re trying to cut." - Rep. Jake Auchincloss

“It’s a $2 billion chainsaw to the Massachusetts economy,” Auchincloss said. “I would argue [there’s] no state more sensitive to this than Massachusetts.”