Former Virginia AG Jason Miyares says 32 Capitol Hill bills push socialist goals straight from Castro’s playbook, as his group launches a watch list.
Jason Miyares sat down with Fox News Digital and put a hard label on a fresh stack of proposals moving through Congress. The former Virginia attorney general, now honorary chairman of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, said the bills track socialist policy goals across health care, energy, labor, housing, and taxes.
His group just launched “Socialism Watch” to track 32 bills introduced on Capitol Hill. Miyares did not hold back about where he thinks the ideas come from.
“Straight from Castro’s playbook,” he said.
That charge lands with personal weight. Miyares’ mother, Miriam, fled Fidel Castro’s regime in 1965 at age 19 and arrived in the United States after leaving nearly everything behind. He has also said an uncle who opposed Castro was arrested after the Bay of Pigs invasion and put through a mock execution.
The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, a conservative trade group representing American businesses, is calling out measures it describes as a neo-Marxist and socialist agenda. The watch list is not a single package. It is a spread of introduced bills that, taken together, would expand federal control over private markets and daily life.
Highlighted proposals include a nationwide fracking ban beginning in 2029. Others would prohibit greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants and restrict new liquefied natural gas infrastructure along with most U.S. oil and natural gas exports.
Labor and welfare ideas sit in the mix as well. The group flags government-backed job-guarantee programs. On health care, it points to plans that would replace private insurance with a national Medicare for All system.
Tax policy gets the same treatment. One track would impose annual taxes on accumulated wealth even when gains are not realized through a sale. Housing policy appears as a “Housing is a Human Right Act” described as a $300 billion measure. Infrastructure talk includes a quasi-governmental “National Infrastructure Bank.” Education spending shows up as a $1.6 trillion “Green New Deal for Public Schools,” which the group warns would hand local school district operations over to the federal government.
None of these items is described as signed law in the reporting. They are introduced bills. The point of Socialism Watch is to name them early and keep the public from sleepwalking past the pattern.
Miyares framed the fight as a history lesson young voters keep skipping. He argued that good intentions are the wrong scorecard for an economic system.
"So many young people have forgotten really, really painful lessons of history that you cannot judge a bill or an economic system based on intentions, you have to judge it on results."
He drove the results argument home with Cuba. In his account, the year Castro took power, Cuba had the same GDP as Greece. The year Castro died, he said, Cuba had the same GDP as Sudan.
"Socialism doesn't work. It impoverishes every country that embraces it."
He pressed the same point on the people socialism claims to serve.
"These young people are embracing socialism thinking that it leads to helping those that are poor, disadvantaged. The reality is it does the opposite. It actually hurts the very people that it wants to help."
And he closed the circle on the record abroad.
"What we've seen time and time again is socialism fails everywhere it's been tried."
Miyares also aimed at the cultural branding that softens hard-left economics. He referenced Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a line that treated “woke” as more than a joke.
"AOC joked that woke one was crazy. Well, it’s clear that woke two should belong in an insane asylum because it’s a full-blown embrace of Marxism and socialism."
That is his characterization, not a neutral label. The underlying claim is simple: the packaging changed; the program did not. Job guarantees, single-payer health care, wealth taxes on paper gains, energy shutdowns, and federal takeovers of housing and schools are not mild “equity” tweaks. They are command-and-control tools.
An image tied to the coverage shows Democratic Socialists of America members gathering outside a Trump-owned building in New York City on May Day, May 1, 2019. The street theater is not the bill text. The bill text is what Socialism Watch is trying to keep in view.
Miyares’ warning is not abstract theory. It is a son of a refugee telling Congress that the United States is flirting with the same economic religion that hollowed out Cuba. His mother left at 19. His uncle faced the regime’s fist. He now watches members of Congress file proposals that expand state power over energy production, private insurance, accumulated savings, and local schools.
AmFree’s list is a political accountability project. It groups measures by theme, health care, energy, labor, housing, taxation, and dares lawmakers and voters to treat each bill as an isolated “investment.” When the same session stacks a fracking ban, export limits, Medicare for All, unrealized-gains taxes, a $300 billion housing right, and a $1.6 trillion Green New Deal for schools, the pattern is the story.
Voters can still demand bill numbers, sponsors, and floor status. The open gap in public debate is often that homework. Until those details are forced into the open, activists get to sell the intention while taxpayers eat the result.
Free enterprise built the country refugees still risk everything to reach. Central planning keeps failing the poor it claims to champion, and Congress should stop pretending otherwise.
