WATCH: House Dems dodge questions on socialist agenda that threatens to abolish key institutions

The Democratic Socialists of America platform also calls to abolish ICE and end all deportations.

By Hannah Brennan Fox News

Published July 18, 2026 4:00am EDT

SEE IT: House Dems pressed on socialist proposal to eliminate Senate and presidency

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Peter Aguilar, D-Calif., were reluctant to speak on the newly announced agenda by socialists to eliminate the Senate and presidency. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)

Prominent House Democrats appeared caught off guard when asked about the newly announced plan by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) that calls to destroy the current America’s political system — eliminating the Senate, president and Supreme Court.
"I don’t support that," Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said when asked about the new agenda. "I haven’t read the proposal."
The revision to the DSA platform, "Workers Deserve More" plans to abolish the Senate entirely and replace the president and Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary elected by and subordinate to Congress.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., one of the most progressive Democrats in Congress, dodged answering questions on the new socialist agenda from Fox News Digital.
"I'm not a member of the DSA, so I can't comment on any documents that they put out," Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said.
The political commitments of the program are split into three sections, with the last section calling "for a unicameral, proportional legislature (abolishing the Senate) and a parliamentary system (abolishing the presidency), among other goals."
The platform additionally calls for the complete abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), pardoning all immigrants, including those who have committed crimes, and defunding the Department of War.
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The organization has publicly advocated for ICE to be abolished since 2018 and its current platform calls for a slew of other extreme immigration reforms, including an "immediate end to all deportations," "extending full voting rights to people with criminal convictions and noncitizens" and easing restrictions on immigration control for migration between countries.

The far-left plan comes as the socialist agenda is proving to be making its way into the mainstream Democratic party as several DSA members and self-proclaimed socialists have been beating out more moderate Democrats in many of this year’s primary elections.
Aguilar told Fox News Digital that he was "not at all" worried about the wave of far-left, socialist candidates complicating the Democratic party’s agenda.
"I look forward to working with all our colleagues who run as Democrats," Aguilar said.
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Rep. Pete Aguilar questions U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a hearing at the U.S. Capitol on June 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In a statement published Friday in Democratic Left, the DSA's official magazine, the organization laid out the formal requirements for these socialist candidates to receive an endorsement from DSA.
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" Workers Deserve More will have a formal role in DSA’s national candidate endorsement process. Candidates will "be expected to accept and promote DSA’s program, and align their own campaign platforms with its contents to the best of their ability," according to the resolution calling for a new Workers Deserve More ."

The endorsement requirement means the platform is more than a policy wish list as candidates seeking a DSA endorsement are expected to campaign in line with its agenda, even as House Democrats like Omar, Khanna and Aguilar tell Fox News Digital they had either not read the proposal or declined to comment on it.

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