President Joe Biden and his administration have already outlined their next big spending bill, The American Families Plan. A basic outline of the second bill was revealed by the Washington Post on Tuesday citing “two people aware of internal discussions.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday released a fact sheet explaining how he will fund his “major” multitrillion-dollar campaign proposals — the Green New Deal, free college, housing for all, etc. — and revealed that he will pay for them through a combination of cutting military spending, creating new taxes, and enacting penalties on the fossil fuel industry in the form of lawsuits.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday unveiled her public education proposal, which includes halting the “privatization” of public schools, stopping vouchers, enhancing protections for illegal immigrant students, and quadrupling Title I funding.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday called for universal “3-K” education, full-day education for three-year olds, and predicted it will soon become a “universal right.”
Former Obama official and 2020 candidate Julián Castro participated in MoveOn.org’s “Big Ideas” forum in San Francisco Saturday and floated universal pre-k as a potential solution for “police brutality.”
