New Democrats (United States)

The New Democrats are a center to center-left and liberal faction within the United States Democratic Party. They are seen as culturally liberal on social issues while being fiscally conservative on economic issues. New Democrats dominated the party from the late 1980s through the early-2010s and continue to be a large coalition in the modern Democratic Party.

With the rise of progressivism in 2016 and 2020 amidst the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders, and that of the right-wing populism of Donald Trump, New Democrats began to change and update their ideological positions. Debates over tax cuts on capital gains have been reconfigured to removing caps on state and local tax deduction (SALT).

In 2024, at least two out of nine freshmen in the Congressional Progressive Caucus planned to also hold seats in the New Democrat Coalition (NDC), joining an additional twenty-two House Democrats who similarly claimed membership in both caucuses. The NDC lost approximately five members, yet gained twenty-three, reestablishing the coalition as the leading Democratic partisan caucus in Congress.

Brad Schneider, who spearheaded "plans" and "proposals" for SALT deduction caps as NDC platform planks, is NDC chairperson in the 119th United States Congress. Schneider endorsed Sharice Davids, his former rival for NDC chair, as Honorary Chair of the NDC ReNew Democracy Foundation (distinct from the Renew Democracy Initiative). In the aftermath of the 2024 United States presidential election, New Democrats raised concerns about increasing numbers of CPC members joining the NDC, but did not address the reverse happening to the CPC prior to the election.