Vice President Kamala Harris released a “to-do list” in the closing days of the presidential election as she attempts to lay out specific proposals to voters.
The list features 14 items with an “and more” item at the end.
Several of the 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 reduce prescription drug prices is an extension of policies instituted by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Another item, protecting and strengthening Obamacare, has been a plan from Biden and Harris. Recently, the president and vice president announced they would expand coverage of contraceptives under Obamacare.
Like Biden, Harris also noted she wants to invest in clean energy and manufacturing.
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Biden signed an executive order in July establishing a “Made in America” office, among other things. He announced an additional $7.3 billion in September to give rural communities clean energy.
Other items are more vague or things the Biden administration couldn’t accomplish. Harris said she wants to “restore reproductive freedom,” a general Democratic policy stance that Biden has adopted as well. She also wants to “promote gun safety laws,” another general policy stance from Democrats.
Harris emphasized she wants to pass the bipartisan border bill that failed despite Biden’s support, in large part because it was opposed by former President Donald Trump. The bill’s prospects are unlikely to improve even if Harris wins the White House, given Republicans are favored to win the Senate.
Among new policies that distance 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 hasn’t gone as far as to legalize marijuana federally outright.
She also reemphasized her new economic policies that seek to expand the child tax credit and offer a large tax deduction to new small businesses. At the bottom, right before an “and more” note, Harris noted one of her more controversial policies.
“Pass the first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries,” she added.
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Trump has said the policy would be like a “communist price control” in that those markets would be influenced by the government instead of by supply and demand. Economists are split on whether it would work.
Harris tried to draw a contrast between her and Trump at her rally in Atlanta, Georgia, by mentioning her to-do list. “It is either Donald Trump in there stewing over his enemies list,” Harris said. “Or me working for you, checking off my to-do list.”
