Harris, Trump hot-button issues

Across a wide array of key issues affecting Americans’ daily lives and the shape of the country’s political system, Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and former President Donald Trump (right) have sharply different records and plans
  

ECONOMY
 
Supports spending on infrastructure and renewable energy. Ban price gouging, build 3,000,000 new homes, $25,000 grant for first-time homeowners. Raise minimum wage, $50,000 tax benefit for new small businesses. Increase taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans

Spend trillions of dollars on tax cuts and enact sweeping tariffs on all $3 trillion worth of imports into U.S, including 60% tariff on imports from China and 10% across-the-board tariff on imports from other nations. Says he will not cut Social Security or Medicare benefits


IMMIGRATION
      
Support earned pathway to citizenship, but would close loopholes and back restrictions on asylum seekers, as illegal border crossings reach record levels

Finish U.S.-Mexico border wall, revive “Remain in Mexico” and asylum restrictions. “Carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American History” of undocumented immigrants
    

GAZA, UKRAINE

Asserts Israel has right to defend itself and that U.S should continue to send weapons, while calling for cease-fire and putting greater emphasis on humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Supports two-state solution

Claims neither Israel-Hamas nor Russia-Ukraine wars would have started if Trump were
president. Will cut back U.S. aid to Kyiv. Doubts two-state solution is possible in Middle East
 
  
ABORTION
   
Supports federal right to abortion. Has called on Congress to restore protections after 50 years of Roe v. Wade was reversed in June 2022

States should be allowed to impose any restrictions they choose. After Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 563 provisions to restrict access to  abortion were enacted in 22 states
  

GUN VIOLENCE

Call for nationwide red flag laws, universal background checks and assault weapons ban

Argues that guns are not to blame for mass shootings but rather mental health issues


Sources: ABC News, CNN, New York Times 
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