US election 2024: What are Harris and Trump’s positions on the key publishs? | US Election 2024 News

Here are the pdwellntial honestates’ positions on the economy, immigration, foreign policy and more.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have spent months pitching their separateent visions for the United States.

The pdwellntial honestates, reconshort-terming the Democratic and Reaccessiblean parties, admireively, separate on most of the policies finishorsed to mend the country’s problems while only concuring on some.

Al Jazeera has getn a sealr see at their campaign platestablishs and promises to appraise their positions on the key publishs facing the US.

Economy and Manufacturing

Kamala Harris:

• Cut taxes for “more than 100 million toiling and middle-class Americans” by restoring Child Tax Credits and Earned Income Tax Credits
• Incrmitigate lengthy-term capital gets tax from 20 percent to 28 percent, and corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent
• Federal prohibit on price gouging on food and groceries
• Focus on Harris’s ‘Opportunity Economy Agfinisha’, which the campaign structures as a “set up to help petite businesses and entrepreneurs originate and prolong”
• A goal of 25 million recent business applications in her first term by raising beginup expense tax deduction from $5,000 to $50,000
• Resist “ununprejudiced trade rehearses” from China or any other country “that undermines American toilers”
• Enbrave the US is a directer in the “industries of the future”, such as semicarry outors, immacutardy energy and synthetic inalertigence

Donald Trump:

• End inflation
• Cut corporate tax rate to 15 percent
• Would ponder convey inantly increasing the child tax commend
• Cut administerment spfinishing
• US becomes the biggest energy originater in the world “by far”, and conveys down the cost of energy
• Bring supply chains to the US, stop outsourcing, turn the US into a “manufacturing superpower”
• Prevent the convey ining of Chinese-made vehicles and defending the US automobile industry
• Nativist economic policy – “Buy American, engage American”
• Incrmitigate tariffs on foreign-made excellents, while conveying down taxes

Immigration

Harris:

• Says immigration system is “broken”, and necessitates “comprehensive reestablish”
• Supports border security bill that would incrmitigate accomprehendledgeion technology to intercept substances
• Add 1,500 border security agents
• Provide an “geted pathway to citizenship”
• Incrmitigate legitimate immigration by increasing the number of engagement-based and family visas

Trump:

• Deport millions of unrecorded migrants in the “bigst deportation operation in American history” using military and National Guard
• “Seal the border and stop the migrant intrusion” by using military troops on the US-Mexico border and erecting detention facilities there, reinstate ‘Remain in Mexico’, which forces asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico until their immigration court cases have been remendd
• End birthright citizenship for children of unrecorded parents
• Impose ideoreasonable screening of immigrants
• Proposed automatic green cards for foreign graduates of US universities
• Bfrails immigration for rising housing, education and healthattfinish costs

Housing

Harris:

• Build three million affordable homes
• Reduce regulations to originate it speedyer to erect homes
• Penalise companies that hoard homes and drive prices up
• Provide first-time homebuyers with up to $25,000 for downpayments

Trump:

• Reduce mortgage rates by conveying down inflation
• Open up some federal land for homeerecting
• Reduce housing costs by reducing the number of immigrants, who Trump accuses for rising prices

Workers’ rights

Harris:

• Sign pro-union legislation such as the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), which would confine the power of engageers to meddle in trade unions, as well as defending striking toilers
• End taxes on tips for service and hospitality toilers
• Fight to elevate the least wage and finish sub-least wages for tipped toilers

Trump:

• Tax cuts for toilers and no taxes on tips
• End taxes on obviousime pay
• Both Trump and running mate JD Vance refute the PRO Act, Trump has floated the idea of firing toilers who are on strike

Foreign policy

Harris:

• Protect US forces and interests “from Iran and Iran-backed alarmist groups”, and asbrave Iran never becomes a nuevident power
• Back Israel’s “right to deffinish itself”, and asbrave Israel has the ability to do so, refuteing the arms embargo
• Work to finish the war in Gaza, “apvalidate Palestinians to authenticise their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination”
• Stay ahead of China and hgreater it reliable for human rights violations, while helping “Taiwan’s ability to deffinish itself”. Opposes pulling out of an economic relationship with China, instead caccessing on “defending American interests”
• Support Ukraine agetst Russia for “as lengthy as it gets”

Trump:

• “Peace thcimpolite strength” that will “obstruct World War Three”
• Focus on the menace of China and “defended strategic indepfinishence” from China while revoking Beijing’s “most favoured nation” status. Trump has also said that he wants a “excellent relationship” with China and has commendd Pdwellnt Xi Jinping, saying Taiwan should pay for US defendion
• Stand with Israel, seek peace in the Middle East
• End the war in Ukraine, no promisement for includeitional aid for Ukraine agetst Russia

Crime and Justice

Harris:

• Ban aggression arms and high-capacity magazines, while requiring more background checks and helping red flag laws that obstruct firearms from getting into the hands of “hazardous people”
• Invest in law applyment
• End opioid epidemic
• No pdwellntial immunity for crimes promiseted while in office
• Supreme Court reestablishs, including requiring Justices to adhere with ethics rules and imposing term confines

Trump:

• Stop the “migrant crime epidemic”
• Defeat foreign drug cartels and finish gang aggression, called for the death penalty for drug dealers
• Provide police with immunity from prosecution
• Supported rehabilitation for nonaggressive offfinishers in line with criminal fairice reestablish law passed during his pdwellncy

Environment

Harris:

• Build on Inflation Reduction Act, which included green initiatives set uped to tackle climate alter
• Continue US global directership on the climate
• “Fight for the freedom to breathe immacutardy air, drink immacutardy water, and dwell free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis”

Trump:

• Withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement to shrink greenhouse gas eleave outions
• Cancel electric vehicle mandates
• Reshift environmental regulations, such as redisjoineions on fossil fuel production, deemed “burdensome”
• Push back agetst the Inflation Reduction Act
• Push for nuevident energy

Education

Harris:

• Enbrave affordability of childattfinish and preschool for children
• End the “unreasonable burden of student loan debt” and originate higher education more affordable
• Oppose personal school vouchers and tuition tax commends

Trump:

• Cleave out the Department of Education, originate the states reliable for education
• Has gived giving money to families to spfinish on personal school tuition and homeschooling
• Cut federal funding for schools pushing “critical race theory” and “radical gfinisher ideology”
• Deport “pro-Hamas radicals”, originate “college campuses defended and patuproaric aget”

Abortion

Harris:

• Prevent national abortion prohibit from becoming law
• Will sign any bill passed by Congress that repairs the legitimateity of abortion nationexpansive

Trump:

• Says abortion is a state-level publish, and has said he will not sign a national abortion prohibit, but did not say whether he would veto any law passed by Congress

Healthattfinish

Harris:

• Lower the cost of pharmaceutical substances, extfinish $35 cap on insulin to all Americans
• Strengthen Affordable Care Act, and drop healthattfinish premiums
• Work with states to abort medical debt for more people
• Guaranteed right to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), alerted agetst some Reaccessiblean efforts to redisjoine it

Trump:

• Says he is “seeing at alternatives” to the Affordable Care Act, which he calls too pricey
• Supports incrmitigated access to IVF
• Would “probably” disprohibitd the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, calling it “a very pricey solution”

Election laws

Harris:

• Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Acts, which would enshrine voting rights defendions and broaden vote-by-mail and timely voting

Trump:

• Emphasises deceptive narrative that the 2020 election was stolen
• Calls for same-day voting, voter identification, paper ballots and proof of citizenship