Vice President Harris has finally added policies to her campaign website for the first time since President Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed her 50 days ago.
The website divides the policy proposals of Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, into four sections: “Building an opportunity economy and relieving the burden on families,” “Protecting fundamental freedoms,” “Ensuring safety and justice for all,” and “Making America safe, secure, and prosperous.”
Prior to the new addition, Harris' campaign website included pages for buying merchandise, donating and reading candidate biographies, but it had not posted any policy plans for weeks after she formally accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago 17 days ago.
Harris' website currently features a promise to cut taxes for middle-class families by “ensuring that people making less than $400,000 a year pay no more taxes.” The website also promises that Harris and Walz “can take steps to strengthen the middle class while making sure the wealthiest and biggest corporations pay their fair share, reducing the deficit,” including “repealing Trump's tax cuts for the wealthiest, instituting a millionaire minimum tax, quadrupling taxes on stock buybacks, and other reforms that ensure the ultra-wealthy play by the same rules as the middle class.”
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Kamala Harris attends a campaign rally in Savannah, Georgia, on August 29, 2024. (Reuters/Elisabeth Franz)
The website touts a plan to give tax cuts to more than 100 million working and middle-class families by restoring the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Harris and Walz also say they would expand the child tax credit, providing a $6,000 credit for families with newborns.
“Under her plan, people making more than $1 million a year would have a 28% tax rate on long-term capital gains because when government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth, creates jobs, and strengthens the economy,” the website says.
The website also argues that Harris' “cost-cutting policies stand in stark contrast to Donald Trump's plans to raise prices, weaken the middle class, cut Social Security and Medicare, dismantle the Department of Education and preschool programs like Head Start, and repeal the Affordable Care Act.”
Donald Trump departs for a campaign event at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee, Wisconsin on September 7, 2024. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Much of the policy section of Harris' website is focused on attacking her opponents, and under each policy section, she has a subsection she calls “Trump's Project 2025 Agenda.”
Former President Trump and his campaign have repeatedly denied any affiliation to Project 2025, a policy initiative launched by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation to provide policy recommendations to the next Republican administration. Harris' website also claims that Republican candidate Trump would ban abortion and restrict in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments, which Trump has stated he opposes. Trump has said he would not ban abortion through federal law and has recently said he would consider having the government and insurance companies cover fertility treatments.
On the economy, Harris argues that Trump's plan would “add at least $3,900 a year to household bills by imposing the Trump Sales Tax on imported goods American families rely on, including gasoline, food, clothing and medicine,” and would raise rent prices, adding $1,200 a year to the typical American mortgage.
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“Trump's economic plan would create a recession by mid-2025, cost more than three million American jobs, threaten hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs, add more than $5 trillion to our debt, and send inflation soaring, hurting all but the wealthiest Americans,” Harris' website reads.
Harris' website, which lists policy proposals to “ensure safety and justice for all,” denounces Trump as a “convicted criminal who only thinks of himself” and claims that the Republican candidate “has proven time and time again that he only does what is politically beneficial for himself by caving to the gun lobby, doing nothing to address gun violence, and tearing up bipartisan border security agreements that are supposed to protect our borders and keep America safe.” It also says that if elected, Trump will implement Project 2025 to “consolidate his power, take direct control of the Department of Justice and the FBI, seize unlimited legal powers, pursue his enemies, and rule as a dictator from day one.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Kamala Harris is embraced by President Joe Biden during a campaign event at IBEW Local 5 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 2, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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On foreign affairs, the website said Harris “has been an energetic and effective diplomat on the world stage” and “will not hesitate to take any action necessary to defend U.S. forces and interests from Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups.” Though Harris boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, her website states that she “will always defend Israel's right to self-defense and will always ensure that Israel has the ability to defend itself.”
“She and President Biden are working to end the war in Gaza so that Israel can be secure, the hostages can be released, the suffering in Gaza can end, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination,” the website states. “She and President Biden are working around the clock to finalize a hostage agreement and ceasefire agreement.”
