Trump vs Biden Policies 2020: Where Do They Stand on Key Issues?

The Democratic presidential nominee also opposes taxpayer money being routed to for-profit charter school businesses, and he’s pledged that his secretary of education will have classroom teaching experience.

Trump vs Biden Policies 2020: Healthcare

As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own that would provide “insurance for everybody”. Americans are still waiting for his plan.

Trump recently returned to health care amid disapproval of his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and growing uncertainty about the future of the Affordable Care Act, which his administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn.

President Donald Trump is reiterating his four-year-old promises for quality health care at affordable prices, lower prescription drug costs, more consumer choice, and greater transparency.

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He also announced executive orders calling for an end to surprise medical bills and declaring it the policy of the US government to protect people with preexisting conditions, even if Obamacare is struck down.

However, protections for preexisting conditions are already the law, and Trump would have to go to Congress to cement a new policy through legislation.

In the first presidential debate, the US President also held out the repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate to have health insurance as significant progress, while ignoring questions about his lack of a comprehensive plan.

The Democratic presidential nominee wants to expand Obama's law to provide more generous coverage to a greater number of people and add a “Medicare-like public option” that would compete with private insurers and be available to working-age Americans.

Joe Biden estimates that would cost about $750 billion over 10 years.

That positions Biden between Trump, who wants to scrap the 2010 law, and progressives, who want a single-payer system to replace private insurance altogether.

Biden sees his approach as the next step toward universal coverage and one he could get through Congress.

The Democratic presidential nominee also has sought to turn the current Supreme Court vacancy into a healthcare matter, noting that the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a key vote in upholding the 2010 health care law.

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Meanwhile Trump's nominee, federal appellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett, has criticized the court's reasoning in that decision.

Trump vs Biden Policies 2020: Coronavirus

Over the course of the summer, Trump went from acknowledging that the pandemic may “get worse before it gets better” to declaring that the US is “rounding the corner” on the crisis.

Then he tested positive for the virus himself.

The pandemic remains the biggest obstacle for his reelection hopes, and his bout with the virus just weeks before Election Day only brightened the spotlight on the issue.

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Roughly seven in 10 Americans think the nation is on the wrong track, and just 39 percent of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the crisis that has killed more than 207,000 people in the US, according to a recent poll The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Congress approved about $3 trillion in coronavirus relief in March and April, and Democrats and the White House have been at loggerheads over another significant round of funding, with Trump sending mixed messages on what he wants.

President Donald Trump has largely placed responsibility with governors for leading the response.

Biden draws some of his sharpest contrasts with Trump on the pandemic, arguing that the presidency and federal government exist for such crises and that Trump has been an abject failure responsible for tens of thousands of preventable deaths.

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Biden endorses generous federal spending to help businesses and individuals, along with state and local governments.

He’s also promised aggressive use of the Defense Production Act, a wartime law a president can use to direct certain private-sector activity.

Additionally, Joe Biden promises to elevate the government’s scientists and physicians to communicate a consistent message to the public, and he would have the US rejoin the World Health Organization.

He’s also willing to use executive power for a national mask mandate, but whether that is enforceable is questionable.

Trump vs Biden Policies 2020: Abortion

Years before his run for the White House, Trump described himself as a strong abortion rights proponent. But since coming to Washington, he has been cheered by anti-abortion groups for his administration's efforts to restrict access to the procedure.

As a candidate and as president, President Donald Trump has consistently expressed his opposition to the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide and said the issue should be decided by states.

He has expressed support for the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits Medicaid from being used to pay for abortions in most circumstances, and he's sought to restrict access to two drugs that are used to induce abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancies.

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In his Republican National Convention speech in August, the US President declared that “children, born and unborn, have a God-given right to life.”

Nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge, has the anti-abortion movement hopeful that the high court — should she win confirmation — will tilt decisively to the right and pave the way for the court to eventually overturn the Roe case.

Biden has declined to offer his own list of prospective Supreme Court nominees, but he's said repeatedly that he supports Roe v. Wade's finding that the Constitution establishes a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.

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He's endorsed calls for Congress to codify that right, a move that would keep abortion legal statutorily even if the court struck down the constitutional protections.

A practicing Catholic, Biden talked publicly for years of his personal struggle over abortion as a moral issue.

The Democratic presidential nominee cited that as a reason he supported the Hyde Amendment ban on federal taxpayer funding for abortion services.

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