‘An Ambitious Vision for Our Country’: Hill Democrats Begin Lining Up for the Harris Agenda
Vice president outlined economic policies in North Carolina
While Republicans try to paint the economic policies Vice President Kamala Harris has begun outlining as “Communist” and out of touch, Democrats in Congress have begun embracing her ideas.
Harris, who is running for president alongside her running mate — Minnesota Gov Tim Walz — sketched her initial economic proposals late last week in a campaign stop in Raleigh, NC.
Those policies include expanded tax credits for things like children and home buying, cracking down on corporate price-gouging of essentials like groceries and fuel, and improving on the caps on pharmaceutical prices already started under President Biden.
Although Republicans and others on the political right have begun assailing the Harris proposals as out of the mainstream, by contrast the Democrats on Capitol Hill who would be passing much of those policies into law should the vice president win the election are coming out in support of the plans.
“You look at what Kamala Harris is proposing here. The child tax credit, something so many people, Democrats and Republicans support upping. The work on pharmaceuticals. I can tell you firsthand because I carried the bill for years on negotiation of prices under Medicare and stopping that sweetheart deal,” said Sen Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Walz’s state of Minnesota. “Donald Trump never got that done. It was the Biden-Harris administration that did, and Kamala Harris is now proposing making sure that those benefits on insulin, the $35 cap, and the $2000 cap for total prices for prescription drugs apply to everyone and not just seniors. That is a forward-looking plan.”
Meanwhile, a Democrat from Harris’s home state of California praised the vice president’s proposals as “ambitious” to address basic affordability for Americans.
“Look, I watched yesterday, the vice president put forth an ambitious vision for our country, an ambition to build an economy of opportunity, tackling key economic drivers, that working families are facing every single day, they bring tough choices,” said Sen Laphonza Butler. “The rising cost of healthcare. The rising cost of food and basic needs, and let alone, the rising cost of housing, where so many working Americans are finding themselves having to live in their cars, not being able to afford an apartment or suitable place for them and their families.”
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