Here are policies Biden/Harris have supported, and what we could see in his presidency
Heathcare: a public option, increasing ObamaCare subsidies, lowering the price of prescription drugs, and regulating against surprise billing
Climate policy: a green new deal with a carbon tax, support for nuclear power, and $500 billion dollars a year in green spending, and rejoining the Paris Agreement, in order to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035
Education: free Pre-K and more funding for K-12 schools, plus Bernie’s college tuition bill from the Senate, and providing student debt relief for lower income graduates
A $15 dollar minimum wage, which was a progressive staple back in 2016
Worker’s rights: mandating paid family leave, bringing back the Obama overtime rule that ensured millions of salaried workers would qualify for overtime pay, taking California’s “ABC standard” nationwide to stop gig companies improperly categorizing their workers as independent contractors in order to deny them benefits, ending mandatory arbitration clauses, and more
Union policy: various pro union policies, like “card check”, the House PRO Act (which gives workers more power in labor disputes, increases penalties on retaliation against unionization, would grant hundreds of thousands of workers collective bargaining rights they don’t currently have, and would weaken “right to work” laws), and defending public employee collective bargaining
Criminal justice reform: eliminating private prisons, cash bail, and sentencing disparities, eliminating the death penalty, and more. As well as banning choke holds, pushing more focus on deescalation, stopping the provision of police with military equipment, denying federal funding to problem police departments, reigning in qualified immunity, and other police reforms
Drug reform: legalizing medical marijuana, decriminalizing recreational marijuana, and scrapping federal convictions for mere possession. And with harder drugs, shifting away from mass incarceration, encouraging sending people who merely use various hard drugs to be directed to treatment instead of sent to prison
Immigration reform: giving DREAMers citizenship, ending the wall, ending deportations of non-felon undocumented immigrants, ending attacks on sanctuary cities
Tax reform: undoing Trump’s tax cuts and implementing further tax increases on the wealthy
Increasing funding for infrastructure, with a $1.3 trillion plan, including spending on green infrastructure
Housing and Homelessness: a $640 billion plan to aid in housing, including subsidies to ensure that nobody’s housing costs need to be more than 30% of their income, enacting Maxine Waters’ Ending Homelessness Act to provide $13 billion over 5 years to fight homelessness and build 400k new housing units for the homeless, and the Clyburn-Bennett eviction bill to provide aid for those facing eviction due to financial issues
Rebuilding our alliances, strengthening NATO and the San Francisco system, pulling away from Trump’s belligerent stance on Iran, and ending Trump’s disastrous trade wars
Elizabeth Warren’s bankruptcy reform bill
$78 billion a year on caregiving for expanded childcare and homecare
The Equality Act for LGBT + rights, to outlaw discrimination
As well as the Supreme Court. If Trump gets to replace Breyer and RGB, then you can say goodbye to any progressive reform in the next few decades
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