Democrats will continue using every tool at our disposal to improve the lives of hardworking families.
I’ll continue using every tool at our disposal to improve the lives of hardworking families.
Occurrences
Evidence
“Today, House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar and Vice Chair Ted Lieu held a press conference calling on Republicans to work with Democrats on policies that lower costs and make life better for the American people.” Aguilar said Democrats would continue using every tool at their disposal to improve the lives of hardworking people.
Aguilar announced 20 Community Project Funding requests totaling $49,739,093. The release says the requests would fund job training and research programs, water and flood infrastructure, public safety, affordable housing, roadways, transportation, and healthcare services, and that he would continue working tirelessly to lower costs and make life better for the people in his community.
Aguilar said, “In Congress, one of my top priorities is to lower the cost of housing so that people who want to live, work and raise a family here in the Inland Empire can do so.” The release announces $3,000,000 in community project funding for affordable housing.
The homepage lists recent May 2026 actions including efforts to address food assistance cuts and multiple district investments, showing continued activity in office during the lookback period.
Assessments
The claim is a broad commitment to keep using federal tools to help hardworking families, not a narrow measurable promise. The evidence shows Aguilar actively doing that during his current term through official advocacy, community project funding requests, and a reported $3 million affordable-housing allocation aimed at lowering costs and improving living conditions. That is enough to treat the promise as fulfilled in office, even though the language is aspirational and ongoing.
The promise is broad and rhetorical, centered on continuing to use official tools to improve conditions for hardworking families rather than on a single measurable end state. The evidence shows Aguilar was actively doing that in office during the same term: he publicly pushed policies to lower costs, requested nearly $50 million in community project funding for jobs, housing, infrastructure, safety, transportation, and health care, and most concretely secured $3 million for affordable housing in San Bernardino County. Because this is an ongoing, low-specificity promise about continued effort and tangible family-oriented improvements, these actions are sufficient to count as delivered.