Tracking The Issues In The 2020 Election
From Health Care To The Economy: Where Trump And Biden Stand
October 16, 20208:09 AM ET
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President Trump and Democratic nominee
Joe Biden have very different views on how to tackle America's pressing issues.
That much is clear. But what
specifically are they proposing?
NPR
Politics has sifted through Trump's and Biden's plans, as released by their
campaigns, and narrowed in on a few key issues to show what they're promising
and how each man's priorities differ from his opponent's.
BIDEN AND TRUMP ON THE ISSUES
COVID-19 • Economy • Racial Equality • Criminal Justice • Environment • Health Care • Education • Immigration • National Security
The Biden campaign has released an
extensive set of policy proposals, prioritizing efforts to deal with the
coronavirus, the economic recession and racial justice. The Democrat also has
plans for major issues like climate, education, health care, criminal justice
and immigration.
Biden came into the planned debates with
a larger proposed agenda than Trump. And while incumbent presidents often run
for reelection with fewer proposals compared with their opponent, Trump's
campaign is noticeably light on policy.
The Trump campaign has released a
bulleted list of second-term agenda items, hammering home similar messages
heard in 2016. Trump has also set an ambitious goal of distributing a
coronavirus vaccine by January 2021 — a timeline largely disputed by health
experts.
Trump's And Biden's Plans On The Coronavirus Pandemic
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BIDEN AND TRUMP ON THE ISSUES
COVID-19 • Economy • Racial Equality • Criminal Justice • Environment • Health Care • Education • Immigration • National Security
Key Priorities: COVID-19
§ Testing: Improve
testing capacity and accessibility,
§ PPE: Expand
access to personal protective equipment, or PPE.
§ Vaccine: Establish
a plan for effectively producing and safely distributing a vaccine.
§ Race: Address
disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on communities of color.
§ Read details of Biden's
plans below.
§ Vaccine: Begin
distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year and have 300 million
doses by January 2021.
§ Read details of Trump's
plans below.
Biden's Plans For COVID-19
Biden's COVID-19 response plan advocates
for increased use of federal funds to expand testing capability and access to
PPE and to an eventual treatment and vaccine.
Unlike
Trump, Biden wants to use the full authority of the Defense Production Act to create additional
personal protective equipment, which includes masks and face shields. Biden's
plan would also increase drive-by testing twofold and calls for the creation of
at-home tests and instant tests. He would additionally allocate increased
federal aid to state and local governments, schools and local businesses
affected by the disease.
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As for vaccine production, Biden would
put $25 billion toward the manufacturing and distribution of an eventual
vaccine. He does not explicitly call for a vaccine by a certain date.
Biden
would also create a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force, meant to
address the communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus, an initiative started by his running mate
California Sen. Kamala Harris in the Senate. After the pandemic ends, the task
force would morph into an Infectious Disease Racial Disparities Task Force. The
plan also advocates for a return to Obama-era pandemic response procedures and
calls for a repaired relationship with the World Health Organization, from
which Trump withdrew in July. Biden pledges to rejoin on Day 1 as president.
Trump's Plans For COVID-19
Trump's campaign has not released a full
COVID-19 action plan for his second term, even after the president himself
contracted the coronavirus.
His
agenda for battling the virus centers on having a vaccine widely available by
the end of the year. Health experts, including those in the federal government,
say that timeline is highly unlikely. Trump has promised that during a
second term, he will hold China "fully accountable" for the spread of
the virus.
The
White House has pledged to create 300 million doses of a vaccine by January 2021.
The plan, published by the Department of Health and Human Services, outlines
that "steps will proceed simultaneously" as government-funded
companies continue with their research and trials of possible vaccines.
As a part of this effort to accelerate
the process, the government is supporting the development of possible vaccine
candidates before they've demonstrated effectiveness — so that once something
is proven to work, distribution could happen more quickly.
Trump
has also touted his own treatment and has vowed to make the
drugs he had widely available, though it is unclear whether or when that could
happen. The makers of his therapies have applied for emergency use
authorization.
Trump
has used some of his authority under the Defense Production
Act, but critics argue that the federal government should have used the powers
of that law more broadly to direct the production of needed medical supplies.
The
White House has also tasked an interagency committee, led by Housing and
Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, with looking for ways the administration
can address the pandemic's disproportionate impact on communities of color.
See more of the major
presidential candidates' key policy agendas here.
NPR
White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe and political correspondent Asma Khalid
contributed to this report.
Trump's And Biden's Plans For The Economy
October 16, 20208:00 AM ET
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BIDEN AND TRUMP ON THE ISSUES
COVID-19 • Economy • Racial Equality • Criminal Justice • Environment • Health Care • Education • Immigration • National Security
Key Priorities: Economy
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Increase investments in American-made
products and companies, pouring $400 billion into procurement and $300 billion
into research and development, with the aim of creating 5 million new jobs.
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Reverse Trump tax breaks to corporations
and seek a higher minimum wage and expanded benefits for low- and middle-income
workers.
§ Read details of Biden's
plans below.
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Create 10 million jobs in 10 months, as
well as 1 million small businesses.
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Push American companies outsourcing jobs
in China back to the United States to establish 1 million new domestic jobs.
§ Read details of Trump's
plans below.
Biden's Plans For The Economy
The
Democratic nominee's economic plans center on his Build Back Better framework,
with planks on such areas as increasing domestic
manufacturing and investing in clean
energy.
Biden's
"Made in America" plan stands as his economic nationalist alternative to Trump's
"America First" policy. It would spend $400 billion in procurement,
increasing the demand for American-made goods, as well as $300 billion in
technological research and development. These investments would then go toward
U.S. businesses that create products in fields including clean energy, cars,
medicine, biotechnology, telecommunication and artificial intelligence.
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The Biden campaign says the effort would
generate 5 million jobs.
Biden
Counters Trump's 'America First' With 'Build Back Better' Economic Plan
Biden also calls for the need to
diversify the manufacturing and innovation industries by providing
"historic investments" in communities of color as well as in cities
and rural locations.
The Democratic nominee supports a $15
minimum wage, universal paid sick leave and 12 weeks of paid family and medical
leave.
Biden
also wants to do away with the Republican corporate tax cuts passed in
2017, vowing to increase the corporate tax rate from 21%
to 28%. It's part of his $4 trillion tax package that his campaign says wouldn't directly raise taxes on people earning
less than $400,000.
Trump's Plans For The Economy
Trump touts the country's pre-pandemic
economy, saying he's the candidate to get it back out of its deep hole.
In a list of agenda items for a second term, released
in August, Trump's campaign said his priorities include creating 10 million jobs
in 10 months and creating 1 million small businesses.
He
supports enacting additional tax cuts and the expansion of the "opportunity zones" tax break, though he gives no
estimate of by how much.
Pandemic
Stalls New Money For 'Opportunity Zones' As Neighborhoods Try To Recover
Echoing goals set during his first
campaign and term in office, Trump calls for tax credits to businesses making
American products. And he says he will continue to enact "fair trade deals
that protect American jobs" and cut back on business regulations.
As part of his agenda on China, Trump
wants to establish 1 million domestic jobs that were previously based in China
and offer tax breaks for businesses to move jobs out of China and back to the U.S.,
focusing specifically on pharmaceutical and robotics companies that currently
outsource jobs.
There are no details about these plans,
apart from their inclusion on the agenda list.
The
White House says it will not give federal contracts to companies that continue
to manufacture products in China. The president signed an executive order in August that incentivizes
federal agencies to domestically source their jobs instead of outsourcing them.
Trump has signed several executive orders aimed at boosting domestic
production, but critics say that loopholes have allowed government agencies to
circumvent these "made in America" provisions.
See more of the major
presidential candidates' key policy agendas here.
NPR
White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe and political correspondent Asma Khalid
contributed to this report.
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