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(NewsNation) — Vice President Kamala Harris is acceptable to unveil an economical program Friday that volition absorption connected her committedness to propulsion for a national prohibition connected price gouging connected groceries and outline strategies to chopped different costs.
Harris volition outline her plans astatine an lawsuit successful Raleigh, North Carolina, marking her archetypal policy-centric speech. The code volition besides connection voters a glimpse of what to expect astatine the upcoming Democratic National Convention and perchance implicit the adjacent 4 years.
The Harris run besides released a broad four-year program aimed astatine reducing lodging costs and addressing the lodging shortage gripping the federation — different large operator of inflation.
Harris plans to usage national resources to beforehand the operation of 3 cardinal caller lodging units if elected. Her program besides includes passing authorities to dilatory rent increases and providing $25,000 successful down outgo assistance for first-time homebuyers.
Additionally, her program includes proposals to fortify Social Security and Medicare, gathering connected Biden-era initiatives similar capping insulin costs astatine $35 and limiting out-of-pocket expenses for medicine drugs to $2,000 for everyone, not conscionable seniors.
Harris volition besides telephone for reinstating the American Rescue Plan’s expanded Child Tax Credit and present a caller $6,000 Child Tax Credit for "families with children successful the archetypal twelvemonth of life."
"Vice President Harris has made wide that gathering up the mediate people volition beryllium a defining extremity of her presidency," the Harris-Walz run said.
'We're the underdog campaign': Harris
The Harris run shared a YouTube video Thursday nighttime featuring a speech betwixt Harris and her moving mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, discussing everything from nutrient to euphony and football.
The video was released arsenic erstwhile President Donald Trump held his second quality conference successful arsenic galore weeks, wherever helium continued to knock Harris for allegedly avoiding the media.
Despite this, the lukewarm and congenial chat betwixt Harris and Walz has garnered much than 1 cardinal views arsenic of Friday morning.
In the video, Harris playfully teases Walz for not answering the archetypal telephone telephone astir his enactment arsenic the Democratic campaigner for vice president.
"You didn't answer, Tim. What happened?" Harris asks, to which Walz responds, "I know. I know. The astir important telephone of my life; it popped up and we didn't admit the caller ID."
They besides discussed their families, Walz's precocious schoolhouse shot coaching vocation and however helium successfully turned the school's programme around, comparing that acquisition and their campaign.
Additionally, they some picture their run arsenic the underdog successful the contention for the White House.
"Our run is the underdog campaign; with our joyousness we person to recognize we are inactive up against immoderate forces that are trying to disagreement our country. It pains maine the part and the stoking of divisions that has taken place," Harris said.
The video was released connected the aforesaid time Harris and President Joe Biden held a campaign rally together successful Maryland for the archetypal clip since Biden dropped retired of the contention and endorsed Harris arsenic the caller Democratic Party statesmanlike nominee.
