Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the first policy-focused speech of her 2024 campaign on Friday in North Carolina, where she outlined a plan to lower costs for households over the next four years.
Harris has taken significant criticism from Republicans for failing to produce a detailed policy platform thus far. Her Friday remarks focused on lowering housing, grocery, and healthcare prices and other costs while conceding that “many” people have yet to feel the economic wins claimed by the Biden administration.
“It will be my intention to build on the foundation of this progress. Still, we know that many Americans don’t yet feel that progress in their daily lives,” she declared before thousands in Raleigh. “Costs are still too high, and on a deeper level, for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to just be able to get ahead. As president, I will be laser-focused on creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability, and dignity.”
Harris’s proposals, which the campaign outlined ahead of her remarks, include $25,000 in down payment assistance for all first-time homebuyers and new tax breaks tacked on to the construction of “starter homes.”
On food prices, the vice president vowed to institute a federal ban on price-gouging for groceries, promising strict penalties for companies that engage in anticompetitive practices.
Furthermore, Harris said she will continue to push for legislation that would make President Joe Biden’s expanded child tax credit permanent, saving up to $6,000 per child.
Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign heartily criticized “Comrade Kamala” and her proposals Friday afternoon.
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“It’s hard to overstate how disastrous of an idea it is to let D.C. bureaucrats dictate the price of groceries in cities, suburbs, and rural communities across the country — dismantling necessary supply-and-demand signals of the free market and ultimately leading to higher prices for consumers,” the campaign claimed in a statement.
You can watch Harris’s remarks in full below.
