With three weeks to go before Election Day, House Democrats aren't just hoping to win the majority back — they're drafting the opening moves for the day after. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has laid out a 100-hour legislative sprint built around two priorities: slashing costs for families and launching sweeping oversight of President Trump's administration, according to an Associated Press report detailing the plan.

If Democrats flip the House on Nov. 3, Jeffries, D-N.Y., would become the first Democratic speaker since Nancy Pelosi. His opening agenda includes restoring the expanded Affordable Care Act tax credits that lapsed last year, reversing Medicaid work-requirement cuts from Republicans' tax-and-spending package, forcing votes to end U.S. involvement in the conflict with Iran, and clawing back congressional authority over Trump's tariffs.

Five Working Groups, One Message

To build the platform, Jeffries assembled five issue-specific working groups — on health care, housing, groceries, utilities and caregiving — each paired with one progressive and one centrist co-chair. The health care group is led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama, an arrangement the two lawmakers' offices confirmed earlier this year.

Rep. Greg Casar of Texas, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, framed the split with House Republicans' right flank bluntly: progressives, he said, "want to pass things," while the Freedom Caucus "breaks things." Rep. Nikki Budzinski of Illinois, campaigning to lead the centrist New Democrat Coalition, said the goal is to prove Democrats "know how to govern."

The oversight piece is just as developed. Ranking Democrats on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees have spent months building a paper trail — near-daily letters to the administration and amicus briefs in court fights — that would become the backbone of investigations into Trump, his family's finances and immigration enforcement practices. Jeffries has been deliberately noncommittal about where that leads.

"WE HAVEN'T RULED ANYTHING OUT, AND WE HAVEN'T RULED ANYTHING IN," Jeffries said of impeaching Trump or Cabinet officials, according to an earlier Associated Press account of the party's oversight planning.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has dismissed the Democratic planning as premature, saying Republicans intend to keep governing on their current agenda if they hold the chamber. Republicans currently control the House by a narrow margin, and strategists in both parties say the majority could come down to fewer than two dozen seats.

Caveats abound. The size of any Democratic majority would determine how much of the wish list survives, Senate control remains a separate and uncertain fight, and Trump retains veto power over anything that reaches his desk. Still, the level of detail — named working-group chairs, a committee-by-committee investigative roadmap, a specific legislative sequence — signals a party trying to avoid the drift that marked the opening months of past Democratic majorities.

The plans will be tested fast. If Democrats win, the new Congress convenes in January, and Jeffries' team is aiming to move on its priorities within the first 100 hours of session — a compressed timeline that mirrors the early sprints both parties have used after decisive midterm wins.