Signature Policies
Health Care
- Medicare for All: free for children under 18 and families at or under the 200% federal poverty level, modest costs for everyone (middle class will not have to pay taxes) and eventual transition to completely free healthcare
- Anti-corruption reform for health insurance and drug companies
- Government-produced generic drugs
Economy
- Real Corporate Profits Tax: tax applies to income company reports to investors, with no exemptions
- Ultra-Millionaire Tax: only taxes households with a net worth of $50 million or more (bring in $3.75 trillion in revenue over a ten-year period)
- Created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010 to protect American consumers from corporate interests
Anti-Corruption Reform
- Tax lobbying
- Close relationship between health care executives/lobbyists and government
- Limit corporate donations in elections
POLICIES AT HOME
Climate
- Rejoin Paris Agreement and support Green New Deal
- Use Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s plan to achieve 100% clean energy in 10 years
- Three-part policy: Green Apollo will give $400 billion for R&D for clean energy; Green Industrial Mobilization will allocate $1.5 trillion to create, use, and export clean energy products (revoke military spending); Green Marshall Plan will create new federal office to sell clean-energy products and provide $100 billion to help other countries purchase and use technology
Gun Control
- Executive action: require background checks, report multiple purchases, and raise minimum age to purchase a weapon
- Extreme risk protection laws, meaning that family and the police can restrict access to firearms
- Higher taxes on gun companies, criminal liability for executives, and gun companies pay compensatory damages
- Ban on people convicted of hate crimes from owning gun
- Federal licensing and universal background checks
Criminal Justice/Race relations
- Small Business Equity Fund run by Department of Economic Development: grants targeted at closing the entrepreneurship gap for minority business owners
- Legalize marijuana and erase past convictions
- End the criminalization of homelessness
- Cap various fees and bails associated with the legal system
Education
- Cancel debt for more than 95% of the nearly 45 million Americans with student loan debt
- Opportunity to attend a two-year or four-year public college without tuition or fees and make free college universal
- Provide additional federal funds to address historical discrimination in the education system
Policies Abroad
Immigration
- Decriminalize migration
- Separate legal system for immigration
- Remake Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- Use the Justice Department task force to investigate accusations of serious abuses from migrant detention
- Expand legal immigration
- Create an Office of New Americans to support immigrants in their transition
Foreign Policy
- Cut funding to the military and support diplomatic options
- Workers are represented during negotiation of trade agreements
- Reform the U.S. to set an example for other democracies
Sources: Elizabeth Warren, Biography, The Hill
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