In the 2020 election, Joe Biden presented himself as a moderate candidate.
However, since taking office, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been tirelessly pushing far-left progressive policies, seemingly to appease the Democratic Partys base, according to Justin Haskins of The Blaze.
The Biden-Harris administration has reportedly spent trillions of dollars expanding the government's size and scope, forcing families to pay over $168 billion to "forgive" other people's student loan debt. Their spending and energy policies, combined with the Federal Reserve's actions, have allegedly led to an unprecedented inflation crisis. As a result, prices for nearly everything, from groceries to housing, have surged over the past three years.
Despite the progressive and destructive nature of the Biden-Harris administration, Haskins argues that Harris' policy ideas are significantly more damaging than those advanced by Biden. Harris may present herself as a mainstream politician, but her record suggests otherwise. According to Haskins, Harris is a democratic socialist who supports legislation designed to impose left-wing social justice ideology on schools, encourage illegal immigration, and fundamentally transform America's society and economy.
Harris has cosponsored or sponsored ten bills in the U.S. Senate that align more with socialists like Bernie Sanders than with moderate Democrats. For instance, Harris cosponsored the Green New Deal in the Senate, a proposal that aims to "upgrade" nearly every home and business in the United States, create a new electricity grid, guarantee government jobs, establish basic-income programs, transform U.S. agriculture, and commit trillions to wind and solar development. The Green New Deal would reportedly cost an estimated $92 trillion, making it one of the most expensive legislative proposals in history.
Harris' Climate Equity Act would establish a Climate and Environmental Equity Office within the Congressional Budget Office. This new agency would be responsible for ensuring that far-left ideas about the alleged dangers of climate change are part of new legislation, regulations, and government investments related to any environmental or climate-change issue.
In 2019, Harris cosponsored socialist Senator Bernie Sanders' legislation that would create a government-run universal health care system in the United States. The Mercatus Center estimated the cost to taxpayers to cover Sanders health care proposal would be more than $32 trillion over a single decade.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Harris sponsored legislation to fund radical "anti-racism training" programs for health care providers. In 2020, she sponsored the Saving Our Street Act, a COVID-19 aid program for small businesses that would have required the government to give priority to people of color, veterans, women-owned community businesses, and socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
Harris' VoteSafe Act would have forced all states and local jurisdictions to enact reforms in the 2020 election that would have significantly reduced election security. The Maternal CARE Act, a bill sponsored by Harris in 2019, would provide government funding for "health-professional training programs for training that addresses implicit bias (e.g., racial bias) in the practice of obstetrics and gynecology."
In July 2019, Harris proposed the DONE Act, which would ban the Department of Homeland Security from building or expanding immigration detention facilities. The Environmental Justice for All Act, sponsored by Harris, would establish "several environmental justice requirements, advisory bodies, and programs to address the disproportionate adverse human health or environmental effects of federal laws or programs on communities of color, low-income communities, or tribal and indigenous communities."
Harris was one of only 13 cosponsors of the Patsy T. Mink and Louise M. Slaughter Gender Equity in Education Act of 2018. The legislation would create a new Office for Gender Equity within the Department of Education, which would provide grants and perform activities to reduce or prevent discrimination, bias, harassment, or violence based on actual or perceived sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or stereotypes in all areas of education.
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