Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be backtracking on many of the policies she previously promoted, raising concerns about whether voters can trust the de facto Democratic nominee.
An anonymous spokesperson for Harris’ campaign said she no longer supports a “federal jobs guarantee.” Said of Washington Examiner on wednesday.
A jobs guarantee would provide taxpayer money to anyone who wants to work for the federal government, an idea pioneered by the far-left in the 1930s.
Harris co-sponsored a jobs guarantee resolution in 2019. Examiner report.
The policy reversal marks the fifth time that an anonymous Harris campaign official has claimed she no longer supports a previous policy.
Neither Harris nor her campaign aides have fully embraced the policy change in public statements, raising questions about where she really stands.
Harris’ list of radical policies includes:
- To support “Some form of compensation”
- Co-sponsored bills To protect illegal immigrants from deportation
- backup Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All Bill
- backup Ban Private health insurance
- support give Taxpayer-funded insurance for illegal immigrants
- support Ban Hydraulic fracturing
- backup Funding cuts police
- By comparison From ICE to the KKK
- I want to ban it Plastic straws
- Defending the ban Offshore drilling
- Trump administration attempts to “undo” border security 94 administrative actions Within the first 100 days, the administration has rolled back nearly every Trump-era measure.
- support Decriminalizing illegal border crossings
- Said She won’t “treat” illegal immigrants as “criminals.”
- Called “Start” [ICE] From Scratch
- Discussed Temporarily closing the border would violate federal law.
- Raised Funding the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a far-left organization that pays bail for violent criminals, including murder and rape suspects.
- support Los Angeles Police Department Cuts
- He called for efforts to get more police on the streets.The wrong idea“
- He supported the administration’s so-called “Biden Economics” at a time when costs for American families are rising dramatically.
- I boasted. About being a “leader” in the movement to “abolish bail money from America.”
Scoop: A spokesperson for Harris’ campaign told me that the Democratic presidential candidate has changed her position and no longer supports a federal jobs guarantee, as advocated by some on the left and Green New Deal proponents.https://t.co/HZHwKK7Yin
— Zachary Haraschak (@zhalaschak) July 31, 2024
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