Joe Biden

Presidential Candidate: Democratic Party

Running Mate: Kamala Harris

ECONOMIC PLANS

Repeal Trump administration's 2017 tax reform
- - - Increasing the corporate tax rate
    - Increase tax on high-income earners
    - Increase middle-class benefits, such as child tax credit
Ending the practice of shell companies
Advocates for free community college, vocational training, and public four-year college
Raise federal minimum wage to $15
Create $1.3-2 trillion in infrastructure
- - - Create jobs
    - Lessen greenhouse emissions
    - Increase mobility and economic opportunity for the middle class

'Nationalize' COVID response, rather than relegate decisions to state governments
- - - Rejoin World Health Organization, working closely with the UN
Eliminate all cost barriers to COVID-19 treatments
Invest $25 billion towards the manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine
Address disproportionately affected communities, based on sociodemographic status
Mandate wearing masks in public
Use federal programs to protect workers
- - - Mandated paid sick leave policies, expand unemployment benefits, additional funds for food programs, loaning to small businesses

Aims to end wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East, but keep some troops to fight against terrorist groups
End support for the war in Yemen
Strengthen alliances with other world democracies through a "Summit for Democracy"
Mount pushback against Beijing and China's trade pushback
Restore US Support for NATO
Rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, Paris climate accord

Protect the Affordable Care Act, building upon it
Create a public health insurance option, similar to Medicare for All (but not)
- - - Reduce costs for patients
    - Cover primary care costs, eliminate co-payments
Lowering the Medicare edibility age to 60
Eliminate 400% income cap on premium tax credits
- - - As of now, if your family earns at least 400% ($94,200) of the poverty line, they cannot qualify for insurance premiums
Aims to insure 97%-all Americans
- - - Will pay for this through revenue from capital gains reform

Push more regulation and oversight over ICE and Customs and Border Protection
Stop construction of Trump's border wall, doing away with restrictions put in place during the Trump administration
Expand resources to immigrants already residing in the US
- - - Permanently reinstate the DACA program, allowing unlawful immigrants the opportunity to receive a work permit in the US, if lived in the US since childhood.
    - Provide 'road map to citizenship'

The Biden Plan will...
- - Achieve 100% clean energy by 2050
  - 0 net emissions by 2050

Believes no one should be incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses
- - - Instead should be diverted to Drug Courts and treatments

Establish task force on procedural discretion
Lower mass incarceration and invest in the communities have been most affected by it
Focus on prevention: funding for mental health and educational opportunities

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