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The platform

Every issue already has a chapter in the work.

Three pillars. Each one leads with something Tram has already done in the district, then tells you what doing it at the federal level looks like.

2025July 4, 2025What it looks like

The broker's-fee ban, enacted into Massachusetts law.

Tram filed H.449 to end the practice of forcing renters to pay a broker's fee they did not hire the broker for. The substance of the bill was enacted as part of the FY26 budget Governor Healey signed on July 4, 2025.

It saves Massachusetts renters an estimated thousand dollars per move at a moment when the state's housing market is the most expensive in its history. It is a federal-scale problem solved at the state level, the kind of work she is running to do in Washington.

“Every Massachusetts family deserves a safe, stable home they can afford.”
Tram Nguyen, campaign homepage
SourceMass Legislature (H.449) · Jul 4, 2025
Build housing people can actually afford.

Pillar 01 · Housing

Build housing people can actually afford.

We will not solve any other affordability crisis until we solve this one. The federal government has tools it has not used.

Rent in MA-06 has lapped wages for half a decade. First-time buyers are priced out of the towns they grew up in. The cause is not mysterious. We do not build enough homes, and the homes we do build are funneled toward the highest bidder.

Tram supports federal housing supply incentives, restoration of the federal LIHTC at meaningful scale, modernization of HUD's section 8 voucher program, and tax treatment that rewards owner-occupants and small landlords over private-equity rollups.

2024December 3, 2024What it looks like

36 new infant-care slots in a child-care desert.

Tram cut the ribbon on the Merrimack Valley YMCA's new child-care center at South Church in Andover. The center opened 36 new infant-care slots in a region with one of the most acute child-care shortages in the state.

Childcare is the line item that breaks more household budgets than rent. Funding it as infrastructure is the federal version of what she just helped open at the state level.

“This is a great example of how collaborations can directly benefit our communities.”
Tram Nguyen at the ribbon-cutting
SourceMerrimack Valley YMCA · Dec 3, 2024
Bring down the cost of food, childcare, healthcare, energy.

Pillar 02 · Lowering Costs

Bring down the cost of food, childcare, healthcare, energy.

Inflation eased. Costs did not. The federal levers that could move them are still sitting on the desk.

The cost of being a working family in Massachusetts is no longer reasonable. Childcare costs more than tuition. Groceries cost more than rent did a decade ago. Energy bills move faster than any household budget can.

Tram is running to take on consolidation in the industries that set those prices, expand drug-price negotiation, fund childcare as infrastructure, and stop subsidizing fossil-fuel producers who already make record profits.

2024June 20, 2024What it looks like

The Coercive Control law. Drawn straight from her own cases.

H.4744 was Tram's marquee bill. It expands the legal definition of abuse in Massachusetts to include coercive control: a pattern of behavior used to harm, intimidate, or punish a partner.

The bill was drawn directly from her Greater Boston Legal Services casework. She had represented survivors who could not get restraining orders because the law refused to recognize what was happening to them. The bill passed the House 151-0. Governor Healey signed it on June 20, 2024. It is now used as a model in other states.

“I've lived under authoritarianism once, and I'll never let it take root here.”
Tram Nguyen, campaign homepage
SourceMass Legislature (H.4744) · Jun 20, 2024
Defend democracy from extremism.

Pillar 03 · Defending Democracy

Defend democracy from extremism.

Voting rights, reproductive rights, the rule of law. These are no longer abstract.

The next two years of Congress will decide whether the United States goes back to a recognizable constitutional democracy or doesn't. Tram is running to be one of the votes that holds the line.

She has spent her career as a civil rights attorney and a state legislator pushing back on overreach, defending due process, and protecting the rights of working families. The fight has just moved to a bigger stage.

Specific positions

Where Tram stands, in detail.

Each pillar maps to a list of specific federal moves. No generalities. No throat-clearing.

Housing

Build housing people can actually afford.

  • Federal LIHTC expansion targeting middle-income working families, not luxury conversions.
  • Down-payment assistance for first-generation homebuyers in chronically priced-out districts.
  • Anti-trust enforcement against private-equity single-family-home rollups.
  • HUD section 8 modernization so vouchers actually clear in tight markets.
  • Federal incentives for small-multifamily and accessory-dwelling builds in towns that update zoning.

Lowering Costs

Bring down the cost of food, childcare, healthcare, energy.

  • Expand Medicare drug-price negotiation to a much larger drug list.
  • Fund childcare as federal infrastructure: provider grants, family vouchers, capital for new centers.
  • Real grocery-sector antitrust enforcement (the four-firm concentration is the price problem).
  • Federal energy assistance + targeted electrification rebates for working households.
  • Junk-fee enforcement across rentals, banking, ticketing, and telecom.

Defending Democracy

Defend democracy from extremism.

  • Codify Roe at the federal level and protect interstate reproductive care.
  • Restore and expand the Voting Rights Act after the Shelby and Brnovich rollbacks.
  • Protect birthright citizenship and restore due process at the border.
  • Federal anti-corruption framework: stock-trading bans for members, real ethics enforcement.
  • Defend the independence of federal civil servants from political purges.

This platform runs on you.

Tram won’t out-spend the corporate-money lane. She has to out-organize it. Pick the way you want to help.

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