On taxes, health care and climate policy, Biden’s pick for vice president has staked out more-liberal positions.
Jared Bernstein, an outside economic adviser to Biden who served as a top aide during his vice presidency, played down the ideological divergences between the candidates atop the Democratic ticket.“I viewed the proposal as an aggressive and potentially powerful form of temporary relief to get real money in peoples’ pockets, kind of an amped-up version of the checks that ended up going out," Bernstein said.
Vice-presidential picks often have differing policy views from the other person on the ticket, and they typically follow the lead of the presidential contender when it comes to a campaign platform. But Harris’s past proposals will probably face sharp scrutiny during the campaign, from both Democrats and Republicans, as they try to decipher what type of vantage point she would bring to policy debates if Democrats win in November.
“Harris is many things, but please do not use ‘moderate’ or ‘pragmatic’ to describe someone whose own campaign proposed approximately $40 trillion in new spending over the decade,” Riedl said.JPMorgan Chase has described Harris’s economic policy as consisting of “largely centrist views,” pointing out her opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, support for a corporate tax hike and opposition to a single-payer health care system.
“Harris’s means-tested policies leave out some of the most vulnerable among us,” she said. “I don’t have a great deal of confidence that differences between her campaign platform and Biden’s mean that she will push him left on those issues.”
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