Topic
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Biden
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Trump
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Criminal Justice
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Abolish capital punishment, end the cash bail reform, scrap cocaine sentencing disparities, eliminate mandatory minimum sentences reform, eliminate private prisons
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The First Step Act: gives nonviolent offenders the chance to reenter society, allows people early release from prison and could cut more prison sentences in the future
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Economy
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Raise the federal minimum wage to 15$/hour, supports for paid family and sick leave, study reparations
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Lower individual and corporate taxes, cut regulations and end trade deficits
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Education
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Against for-profit charter schools, two years of college should be free, expand or fix existing student debt relief programs, boost teacher pay
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Increase federal charter school grants
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Elections
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Unlimited spending shouldn’t be allowed in politics
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Signed an order that allowed sanctions to be placed on individuals and entities who interfere with US elections
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Food and Agriculture
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Wants to protect small and medium-sized farmers by enforcing three core laws: The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act and the Packers and Stockyards Act, pay farmers to adopt climate-friendly practices, expand farmworker protections, has no specific plans for USDA civil rights
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Signed an $867 billion farm bill into law
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Energy, Environment and Climate Change
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Support developing new nuclear technologies as an effort to fight climate change, end new oil and gas leases on federal land and end offshore drilling, tax carbon emissions, stay on the Paris Climate Accord
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Wants the U.S. to leave the Paris Climate Accord, rolled back on 85 environment policies, lowered regulations of industrial polluters and loosened offshore drilling safety regulations
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Gun Control
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Support a voluntary buyback program, in favor of universal background checks, in favor of a national firearm registry
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Would veto the bill proposing background checks for commercial and private firearms sales
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Health Care
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Some limits on abortion, build on the ACA’s foundation, linking to overseas drug prices, opposes Medicare for All but would expand coverage
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Promised a replacement for the ACA but not until after 2020, wants to require immigrant-visa applicants to ensure they can obtain health insurance within 30 days of entering the US, requires pharmaceutical companies to post drugs’ list prices in commercials, undo Obamacare and reform Medicaid, limit access to abortion
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Immigration
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Keep criminal immigration penalties on the books, citizenship for Dreamers
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End birthright citizenship, has issued many travel bans, declared a national emergency to gain federal funding for the border wall
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Infrastructure
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Pay for infrastructure through changing taxes on corporations, the wealthy
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Proposed $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years, where $1.3 trillion would come from state and local governments and the private sector, $200 billion in federal funds
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Marijuana
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Let the states decide on legalizing it, scrap past convictions
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Rescinded the policy that deprioritized the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states where marijuana had been legalized
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Military
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Boost the defense budget and keep the troops deployed
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Ban on transgender troops in the military, withdraw abroad troops
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Taxes
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Increase the capital gains tax rate, raise corporate taxes but keep them lower than before 2017, increase existing taxes on upper-income Americans
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Lower tax rates for individuals and corporations
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Technology
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Dedicate open-ended federal funding to support rural broadband, proposed investing $20 billion, consider holding companies legally liable for user posts, need more investigations first
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No director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the federal budget has declined
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Trade
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Don’t worry about China so much, supports the revised USMCA, don’t use tariffs to pressure countries, support joining CPTPP
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Renegotiated NAFTA to be USMCA
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