The Minnesota Capitol was the site of the inaugural Senior Caucus rally on April 30, 2025. We rallied in protest of the federal administration cuts and threats to Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, veterans health care, and supports for people with disabilities. Approximately 700 seniors and supporters rallied with us. Many interesting speakers engaged the crowd.
Please Join Us!
Join us and become an active member of our DFL Community Caucus to help us address the needs of seniors. You can join one or more of our local chapters and any of our committees leading us on vital issues that concern us all. Your membership allows us to reach more seniors and have a larger voice on issues. You become part of a mission and movement to address the needs of senior citizens across Minnesota.
Making a better world for our Children, our Grandchildren, and Ourselves!
ISSUES & LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
What are the issues that the Senior Caucus cares most about?
The primary goal of the Senior Caucus is to impact public policy, to bring focus and accountability to senior issues, and to elect representatives who support the issues that are important to seniors. Members identified the following issues in the autumn of 2025.
- Health and health care, including costs of care and insurance premiums, cutbacks in federal funding, shortage of doctors and medical staff, prescription drugs, mental health options, rural hospitals, and care facilities
- Economic insecurity, including cuts to Social Security, inflation, prescriptions, insufficient retirement savings, medical debt, bankruptcy, housing insecurity, and food insecurity
- Housing insecurity, including property taxes, affordable housing, assisted living, moving out of my home for health or financial reasons, in-home services, home maintenance, loss of assets due to need for Medicaid, and paying mortgage or rent
- Safety and security, including fraud, gun violence, elder abuse, crime, and domestic abuse
- Quality of life, including no one to take care of me, lack of transportation, isolation and loneliness, loss of cultural events, access to medical aid in dying
Click here to read the full report.
Endorsement of Candidates
The DFL Senior Caucus endorses candidates who request our endorsement and pass the screening interviews. To view the candidates who are endorsed for 2026, click here.
To be considered for endorsement, click the link for the office you seek to win from the following list, fill in the questionnaire form, and click Submit.
Questions for MN House and Senate Candidates
Questions for US House & Senate Candidates
Questions for County Sheriff Candidates
Questions for County Commissioner Candidates
Questions for County Attorney Candidates
Questions for School Board Candidates
Questions for Mayor and City Council Candidates
Resolutions for Caucus
Senior Caucus approved the following resolutions for 2026, which were submitted to caucuses all over the state. Watch as they progress through the approval process at local conventions and the state convention.
The DFL Platform lacks a section that focuses on senior issues. Our goal is to create an Aging with Dignity category in the platform and then work to add the other policies.
Make Healthcare More Affordable
Support Options for Aging in Place