Team, as we enter this election year, we have an historic opportunity to make lasting progress for families and workers across the country.
In contrast to other candidates, the comprehensive agenda we released today is progressive, fully paid for, and widely popular among the American people.
It’s The Real Deal: It will make lasting progress for you and your family. This is the political and policy blueprint that should guide our priorities for the next 20 years.
For too many decades, we have failed to invest in our country and our kids’ futures.
We have spent $5 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and another $5.6 trillion fighting wars in the Middle East. Donald Trump has made matters worse by passing a tax bill that benefited the wealthy and corporations and increased economic inequality.
Our country would look very different if we passed The Real Deal:
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Every three- and four-year old would have access to preschool.
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Every family with kids would receive at least $3,000 a year, paid out monthly.
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40% of kids currently living in poverty no longer would be.
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Every worker would have paid family and medical leave.
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The 70% of Americans who graduate from high school but don’t earn a four-year degree would have the training and opportunities needed to earn a living wage.
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Millions of people would have access to new jobs in clean energy and infrastructure.
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11 million undocumented immigrants would have a pathway to citizenship and the chance to contribute even more meaningfully to our economy.
The Real Deal would cost about $6 trillion over the next decade—less than one-fifth of the cost of Medicare for All alone.
The policy failures of the Trump administration can’t be fixed with empty promises of free stuff.
There is a better way, team.
With The Real Deal, we can turn away from the politics of empty promises and can’t-do rhetoric. We can choose to invest in our country and our future.
We have an historic opportunity to reimagine a politics that finally makes lasting progress for you, your family, and millions of Americans. This is The Real Deal. Join us.
Together,
Michael
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