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Harris releases her ‘to-do list’ that builds on the Biden agenda

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Harris releases her ‘to-do list’ that builds on the Biden agenda

Vice President Kamala Harris released a “to-do list” during the closing days of the fair presidential election while trying to put specific proposals before voters.

The list contains 14 items with an item ‘and more’ at the end.

Several items are continuations and permutations of what President Joe Biden has tried to do. Her proposal to cap the cost of insulin at $35 and lower prescription drug prices is an extension of policies established by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Another item, protecting and strengthening Obamacare, was a plan by Biden and Harris. Recently, the president and vice president announced they would be expanding coverage of contraceptives under Obamacare.

Like Biden, Harris also noted that she wants to invest in clean energy and manufacturing.

Biden signed an executive order in July establishing, among other things, a Made in America office. He announced another $7.3 billion in September to bring clean energy to rural communities.

Other points are vaguer or things the Biden administration couldn’t accomplish. Harris said she wants to “restore reproductive freedom,” a common Democratic policy position that Biden has also adopted. She also wants to “advance gun safety laws,” another common policy position of Democrats.

Harris emphasized that she wants to pass the bipartisan border bill that failed despite Biden’s support, largely because former President Donald Trump opposed it. The prospects for the bill are unlikely to improve even if Harris wins the White House, as Republicans are favored to win the Senate.

Under the new policy that distances her from Biden, Harris said she wants to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Biden has softened his administration’s stance on the drug but has not yet gone so far as to outright legalize marijuana federally.

She also reemphasized her new economic policy, which aims to expand the child tax credit and offer new small businesses a large tax deduction. At the bottom, just before an “and more” note, Harris noted one of her more controversial policies.

“Enact the first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries,” she added.

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Trump has said policy would be a kind of ‘communist price control’, in that those markets would be influenced by the government rather than by supply and demand. Economists are divided on whether it would work.

Harris tried to create a contrast between her and Trump during her rally in Atlanta, Georgia, by mentioning her to-do list. “It’s either Donald Trump going through his enemies list,” Harris said. “Or that I work for you and check off my to-do list.”