DSA Platform Backs Abolishing Senate, Supreme Court

Democratic Socialists of America National Co-Chair Megan Romer confirmed during a Fox News interview that the organization wants to abolish the U.S. Senate and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, replace the presidency and Supreme Court and eventually eliminate prisons and national borders.

Romer made the comments Sunday during a rapid-fire exchange with “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream about DSA’s newly released platform, “Workers Deserve More.”

Asked whether DSA supports abolishing the Senate, Romer answered, “True.” She replied “Yep” when asked about replacing the presidency and Supreme Court and “Absolutely” when Bream raised abolishing ICE and defunding the Pentagon.

Romer described eliminating borders and much of the prison system as “a long-term plan.” She also affirmed DSA’s support for placing most large corporations under government or public ownership.

The interview left little uncertainty about how DSA’s national leadership views its proposals. It also sharpened a dispute over the socialist organization’s relationship with the Democratic Party as the 2026 midterm elections approach. Critics point out the platform mirrors former policies of Communist countries, except even they controlled their borders.

DSA is an activist organization, not a registered national political party. Its members, however, frequently run as Democrats in primaries and general elections. The new program says the organization is “building a party” to create a “democratic socialist republic” to replace the democratic republic that has guided the nation for 250 years.

Romer said third-party “ballot line access is extremely difficult” and that DSA candidates run as Democrats when the organization considers that the practical route to office.

The organization reported reaching 120,000 members July 4, 2026.

Under its government plan, DSA would abolish the Electoral College and Senate while expanding the House of Representatives. The United States would adopt a multiparty system using proportional representation and ranked-choice voting.

Congress would select an executive and judiciary to replace the president and Supreme Court. Both would be subordinate to the legislature.

Romer called the Senate “an anachronistic institution” and argued that it was designed to limit the public’s influence. DSA proposes replacing the current Congress with a unicameral legislature.

Its platform also calls for taxpayer-funded. Voting rights would extend to non-citizens, incarcerated people and those with felony convictions. Washington, D.C., would become a state.

The economic provisions would shift some of the country’s largest private businesses to government control. DSA wants public ownership of major corporations and essential industries, including energy and transportation systems. But some DSA members believe no business should be in private hands.

Its platform supports aggressive wealth taxes on individuals and corporations, a federal jobs guarantee and a 32-hour workweek without reductions in pay or benefits.

DSA supports a taxpayer-funded universal health care system without premiums, deductibles or copayments. Coverage would include abortion and gender-transition procedures. The platform also proposes publicly owned hospitals and clinics, along with free, publicly funded medical education. It would eventually end all privately-run hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices.

Its housing plan declares housing a human right. DSA would establish nationwide rent control, regulate investment properties and build publicly owned housing. Tenants facing eviction for non-payment of mortgages or rent would receive government-guaranteed legal representation.

The criminal-justice provisions are equally sweeping.

The organization describes measures to “fully abolishing the police and prison system.” DSA proposes ending qualified immunity for police and reducing the power of police unions. Police departments would be demilitarized, while law-enforcement funding would be redirected toward public services. Drug addiction and mental illness would be treated as health matters rather than crimes.

DSA also supports taxpayer-funded reparations for slavery and “colonialism”, additional government investment in minority communities, and recognition of tribal sovereignty and treaties which.

Its social platform supports abortion, gender-transition procedures and what it calls “queer liberation.” DSA opposes government restrictions involving gender expression, marriage, divorce, childbirth and family arrangements. It also proposes public support and fair compensation for care work.

On immigration, DSA would abolish ICE, stop immigration detention and deportations and grant amnesty to an estimated 20 million immigrants regardless of their legal status. It would eliminate visa caps and quotas while creating a citizenship pathway for permanent residents.

The official platform calls for “legalizing migration.” Romer endorsed eliminating national borders as a long-term objective during the Fox News interview.

Overseas, DSA wants deep reductions in military spending, closure of American bases and an end to U.S. involvement in foreign wars. It would lift economic sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.

The platform also demands an end to all U.S. military and economic cooperation with Israel. It supports a Palestinian right of return (which would abolish the legal status of the State of Israel), says Jerusalem is militarily “occupied, and demands Jerusalem be named the capital of a Palestinian Arab state.

A committee of DSA members wrote the platform between April and June under procedures established at the organization’s 2025 convention. It will guide national endorsements, with candidates expected to promote the program and align their campaigns with it.

Republicans and some leading Democrats have criticized the proposals.

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John FettermanSen. John Fetterman on first visit to Israel called the agenda “anarchy,” while Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas has directly and forcefully criticized DSA.

Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona also criticized the policies, warning that proposals such as eliminating police and prisons, abolishing borders and defunding the Pentagon “don’t make sense” and could cost Democrats congressional seats. His criticism was aimed more at the policies and their effect on the Democratic Party than at DSA by name.

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