In the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris is running against former President Donald Trump.
Below is the outline of each candidate’s agendas
Democratic Candidate: Kamala Harris
Harris grew up in California and has degrees in political science and economics. Harris worked as a district attorney before she became Vice President of the United States in 2020.
Republican Candidate: Donald Trump
Trump was raised in New York and received a degree in economics. He worked in different real estate fields, including a developer and investor before he became President of the United States in 2016.
Taxes
Harris plans to lower taxes for middle-class families by reinstating the Child Credit Tax and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Harris also plans to increase the Child Credit Tax to $6000 for families who have newborns. She also plans to have anyone who makes one million dollars or more pay 28 percent in taxes.
Trump plans to instate the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to double tax deductions and expand the Child Credit Tax. He also plans to get rid of taxes on tips.
Education
Harris plans to make preschools and childcare more accessible to middle-class families. She also plans to lower student debt and make college more affordable.
Trump plans to enforce schools of choice, end teacher tenure and adopt merit pay in K-12 schools. He also plans to “defund schools that engage in inappropriate political indoctrination of our children using federal taxpayer dollars” and have schools focus on history, math, science and reading. Trump plans to make higher education more affordable by offering alternatives to the traditional four-year degree and tuition deductions.
Border and Immigration
Harris plans to bring back the bipartisan border security bill. She plans to keep the current immigration efforts while helping reform the current policies to strengthen border security with a pathway for citizenship.
Trump plans to reinstate all border policies he had during his presidency. He also plans to have the Navy enforce a fentanyl blockade to inspect ships for fentanyl. He plans to increase penalties for those who enter the country illegally or overstay their visas, reverse the open border policies that are in place and invoke the Alien Enemies Act, which focuses on removing anyone who is suspected or is a part of gangs, the cartel or is a drug dealer.
Rights
Harris plans to bring back women’s right to reproductive health. She does not want a country-wide abortion ban and plans to sign off if Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive rights. Harris also plans to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights and the Freedom to Vote Acts to expand on early voting and voting by mail. Finally, she plans to pass an act to protect discrimination in health, education and housing among others, for LGBTQ communities.
Trump plans to ensure that the federal government will not get in the way of lawful speech and plans to defund institutions and hold bureaucrats accountable if they partake in illegal censoring. He also plans to ensure that anyone who practices religion can do so in the place of worship in public. He plans to have a federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias to investigate anything that may be discrimination against religion. Finally, Trump plans to ban late-term abortion, support prenatal care, birth control and IVF. He plans to keep the rights to life up to the states.
All information included in this article was taken from each candidate’s campaign website.