Mike Bloomberg in Survey of 2020 Presidential campaign websites
On Abortion:
Encourage states to expand who may perform abortions
Mike will work with Congress to codify Roe v. Wade. He will enforce laws that protect women and providers--ensuring medical professionals and volunteers who help women are safeguarded against attacks.
Mike will encourage states to expand the types of medical professionals permitted to perform abortions, helping to increase women's access to reproductive health services.
Mike will appoint judges who respect established legal precedent. He will end Trump's domestic and global gag rules, which put limits on organizations that receive funding for family planning, and repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits
federal funding for abortion except to save a woman's life. Mike also will reverse Trump's efforts to expand religious and moral exemptions in the Affordable Care Act that undermine access to affordable and effective contraceptives.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Abortion:
Codify Roe v. Wade, repeal Hyde Amendment
Mike will work with Congress to codify Roe v. Wade, guaranteeing legal access to safe abortion in all 50 states. He will also partner with Congress to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits using federal funds to pay for abortions except to save the
life of the mother, or in cases of incest or rape. Mike pledges to abolish a rule by President Trump that bans Title X organizations from providing abortions (even if funded separately) and from referring patients to other abortion providers.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Guarantee equal treatment and equal rights for LGBTQ+ people
Mike will fight to pass the Equality Act to guarantee protection for LGBTQ+ people in all facets of life and will take executive action to ensure equal benefits and protections for LGBTQ+ federal government employees, as well as employees of firms that
do business with the federal government. Mike will also step up anti-discrimination enforcement by conducting affirmative, systematic civil rights testing to identify and address LGBTQ+ discrimination.
Mike will launch a federal "Respect for All" initiative to combat bullying, harassment and discrimination. He will promote school-based mental health programs, including suicide prevention efforts, and protect LGBTQ+ youth from the harmful
practice of conversion therapy. Mike will expand support for shelters and services for homeless youth, and ensure equal treatment of child and families in the child welfare system, as well as LGBTQ+ seniors in federally funded long-term care facilities.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Protect voting rights; require automatic registration
Mike will change practices that make it more difficult to vote. He'll end voter suppression by banning unwarranted voter purges. Mike will establish a new Voting Rights Act formula for determining pre-clearance requirements for certain jurisdictions in
order to stop discriminatory voting laws before they are enacted.Mike will create a uniform, transparent, and inclusive districting process that will require states to establish independent redistricting commissions when drawing federal congressional
districts. This is especially important for communities of color, who have long been disenfranchised by unfair, partisan redistricting.
Mike will require policies like automatic voter registration and early voting, and ensuring the
availability and accessibility of polling places. Mike will upgrade election infrastructure and protect the integrity of our federal elections by mandating the use of state-of-the-art voting machines.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Reinvigorate Civil Rights Division of Justice Department
Mike will reinvigorate the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and require more transparency from companies in their hiring, pay, lending and procurement practices. Mike's plan also ties federal
housing funding to progress in reducing segregation, requires implicit bias training for police, teachers and federal contractors, and expands and protects voting rights.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Set labor rules to end the gender pay gap
Mike's plan will ensure American women receive equal pay for equal work, ending the pay gaps that exist in the vast majority of industries and across all educational backgrounds.
Mike will set rules for employers to ban the use of an employee's salary history to set wages and prohibit the retaliation against workers who discuss wages with one another.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Corporations:
Strengthen & expand Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Mike will restore critical consumer protections overturned by the Trump administration--including rules to rein in payday lending, ensuring investment advice prioritizes people's best interests, and preserving customers' right to sue financial
institutions. Mike will strengthen the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by fortifying funding and expanding its jurisdiction to include auto lending and credit reporting.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Corporations:
Raise corporate tax rate to 28%, prevent use of tax havens
Mike will raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% and increase the minimum tax on foreign income. He will also apply the minimum tax on foreign income on a per-country, rather than global, basis. He will prevent companies from shifting reported
profits to foreign tax havens, tighten rules on transfer pricing and the reporting of foreign taxes, and apply pressure to countries that act as tax havens. He will take the lead on cooperative international efforts to defeat profit-shifting.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Crime:
End cash bail; $2.5 billion for public defenders
Mike will fund $2.5 billion over 10 years for public defense--requiring grantees to have pay parity for defenders and prosecutors, as well as workload limits. Mike will also end federal cash bail and build new supervised release alternatives, end court
fines and punitive fees, and propose a new federal sentencing structure to reverse an overly punitive legacy. He will de-criminalize the use and possession of marijuana, commute all existing sentences, and expunge all records.
Mike will launch a Department of Justice reform hub to evaluate and fund state-level criminal justice reform efforts, set a goal to reduce incarceration by 50% by 2030 and spread the use of alternatives to prison pioneered in New York. He will
launch a national initiative to address unsanitary and inhumane prison conditions and will launch new education and job training programming. He will focus probation on re-integration, with a goal of cutting probation revocation by one-third nationally.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Crime:
Restore voting rights to felons after they're out
Mike will restore full voting rights to felons who have served their sentences. These rights will be restored upon release. Pre-trial detainees will also be allowed to register and vote.
States will no longer be permitted to use fines, fees, or other impediments to delay restoration of voting rights after a person is released from prison.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Education:
Make education and training a national priority
Mike will work with states to upgrade America's career-training system through major new investments in community and technical colleges and through partnering with employers. He will invest in apprentice programs, with the goal of boosting
apprenticeship starts to 1 million a year by 2030. He will streamline the government's 43 employment and training programs, pool their resources and focus funding on those that deliver the best results for people.
Mike will make sure people can access unemployment insurance benefits to help pay for career and technical training programs. He also will launch a pilot program to give people federal student aid for eligible short-term certificate programs.
Mike believes that college should be available to all Americans, regardless of income, doubling the size of Pell grants and removing barriers for DREAMers and formerly incarcerated students.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Energy & Oil:
Make climate change a U.S. priority; rejoin Paris Agreement
Mike will immediately rejoin the Paris Agreement, re-assert global leadership by laying out an aggressive plan for U.S carbon reduction, and rally other countries to curb climate change. He will make climate change a priority of U.S. foreign policy.
And he will protect the U.S. from climate-related security risks and protect the world's most vulnerable people from the impacts of climate change.Mike will accelerate the use of clean energy to replace power from fossil fuels. He will set limits on
air and water pollution from power plants. He will invest in communities that have suffered most from coal pollution or have been left behind in the transition to clean energy. He will expand incentives to make clean energy affordable for all
families. And he will quadruple the federal R&D investment in clean energy and end subsidies for fossil fuels.
Mike will create a national program to invest in upgrading homes and buildings to save energy and reduce pollution.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Energy & Oil:
Make pollution-free homes & vehicles available for all
Mike will make electric vehicles affordable for all families. He will strengthen gas mileage and pollution standards for cars and trucks and add a national zero-emissions vehicle standard. He will reduce diesel pollution from trucks and buses and
help businesses and school districts choose electric vehicles. He will build a network of charging stations along the interstate highway system. And he will invest in local and regional public transit systems.
Mike will create a national program to invest in upgrading homes and buildings to save energy and reduce pollution. Mike will set a 100% pollution-free goal for new homes and buildings by 2025.
He will shift equipment and appliances from fossil fuels to clean energy to increase energy efficiency and reduce pollution. And he will make clean buildings affordable for everyone and make sure building investments create good jobs.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Environment:
Make wildfire resilience a top priority
Mike will set a goal to reduce deaths and property losses from wildfires by 50% within four years. He will direct the U.S. Forest Service to coordinate with federal, state and local agencies, tribal leaders, environmental groups, rural communities,
private timber companies, utilities, and the insurance industry to develop fire management plans for each state at risk. Mike will double federal funding for fire management to $10 billion and devote half to mitigation efforts.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Families & Children:
Expand Head Start; and at-home care for at-risk infants
As president, Mike will triple the number of children served by Early Head Start, which provides child care to low-income infants and toddlers, and expand Head Start to reach more three to-five-year olds. As president, Mike will work to streamline
our country's patchwork approach to early learning. He will guarantee access to full-day preschool for all three- and four-year-olds, so that every child is ready to succeed in Kindergarten.
In an effort to improve the health of at-risk infants and children, Mike's plan will increase the numbers of low-income families who receive free, voluntary nurse home visits by boosting funding for the Health Resources and
Services Administration's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. This program has been shown to lower maternal mortality rates and increase the self-sufficiency of families down the road.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Families & Children:
Guarantee 12 weeks of paid family leave
Mike will secure 12 weeks of paid family leave for all workers by supporting the FAMILY Act. Mike's plan makes access to paid family leave equitable,
gender neutral and available to workers of all incomes. Mike's plan enforces anti-retaliation protections for workers who take paid family leave.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Foreign Policy:
Repair our frayed relationships with our allies
The greatest source of American strength abroad is not our tanks or planes or ships, but our partnerships with countries in every corner of the world. Mike will repair those frayed relationships, giving the State, Treasury and Commerce Departments the
mandate and resources to intensify diplomacy, promote democracy and human rights and negotiate high-standard trade deals. And he will lead new regional coalitions to safeguard American interests, modernize international institutions and deter potential r
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Government Reform:
Phase out paperless voting machines
Mike will work with Congress to mandate that all paperless voting machines are phased out and replaced with systems that leave a verified paper trail. He'll require states to conduct statistically significant audits after every election and to publish
the results publicly. And he'll increase oversight of voting-system vendors to make sure that all Americans can have confidence their votes will be counted when they cast their ballots.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Government Reform:
Ensure equal status for Puerto Ricans; supports statehood
Mike will support statehood for Puerto Rico, subject to approval by Puerto Rican voters. He will ensure that all Puerto Ricans receive the same benefits and rights as other American citizens. Mike's economic plan will provide fair safety
net funding to Puerto Rico, including full funding for Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Child Tax Credit, as well as full Social Security benefits.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Gun Control:
Close "boyfriend loophole," pass national red flag law
Mike's plan will require point-of-sale background checks for all gun sales and finally close the private sale loophole, which enables prohibited people to buy guns simply by finding unlicensed sellers at gun shows or on the Internet.
It will require every gun buyer to get a permit before making a purchase. It will use sales records to identify crime guns and notify local police when individuals have been prohibited from having a gun.
Mike's plan will close the "boyfriend loophole" which allows domestic abusers to have guns, despite criminal convictions or restraining orders--simply because they are not married to their victims. It will pass a federal red flag law that
expands extreme risk orders to 50 states. It will require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old to buy handguns and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. And it will set a temporary ban on gun possession by assault and other violent misdemeanor offenders.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Gun Control:
Ban assault weapons; hold gun industry accountable
Mike will reinstate the federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines; current assault weapons owners will be allowed to keep their guns but will have to report them to federal officials. He will require secure storage of firearms when
they are not in use, which has been shown to reduce the risk of child gun injuries by up to 85 percent. He will also ban all guns in K-12 schools, colleges, and universities--except for law enforcement.
Mike's plan will repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) so that gunmakers and gun dealers will no longer have broad immunity from civil lawsuits. It will allow the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to treat guns
like other household products so that the federal government will have the power to set safety requirements for gun technology. It will formally declare the gun violence crisis to be a public health emergency to expedite funds and research.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Health Care:
Change patent laws to get generic drugs on the market faster
Negotiation is one of the best ways to keep drug prices down. Mike will work with Congress to give Medicare the power to negotiate on behalf of the 43 million Americans who participate in the Medicare (Part D) drug insurance program.
Private insurance companies will be able to use the government-negotiated price. Mike will cap Medicare beneficiaries' out-of-pocket spending on drugs at $2,000 per year to protect Americans from overwhelming drug bills.
Mike will limit each new drug to a single patent lasting 20 years. This will speed up the time it takes for cheaper generic drugs to come on the market. The federal government makes enormous investments in drug research. Mike will make sure
drug companies pay royalties to the government on any new drug that's developed via federally-funded research. This revenue could be used to lower drug prices in Medicare (Part D) or fund new research.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Health Care:
Protect & expand access to care in rural areas
Mike will change rural hospital payment models so that they receive a fixed, capitated annual budget. Mike will double federal funding for Community Health Centers and increase funding for the National Health Service Corps, which offers loan repayment
and scholarship opportunities for doctors who practice in high-need areas. Mike will also expand broadband access to rural areas and boost Medicare coverage of telemedicine services.
Mike will create a Medicare-like public option--a health plan that will be administered by the federal government but paid for by customer premiums. He will improve consumer choice and increase competition in the private insurance market,
pushing down premiums for all. His plan will allow people of modest means who buy the public option to be eligible for the same subsidies that would apply on the health insurance exchanges.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Health Care:
Ban flavored tobacco products of all kinds
Mike knows that kids are most attracted to flavored tobacco products, and he'll immediately work to ban all flavored e-cigarettes. He'll also ban menthol-flavored cigars and conventional cigarettes. Mike will discourage tobacco use by raising
taxes on all tobacco products so that they are in line with those imposed on conventional cigarettes--and discourage people from starting in the first place.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Health Care:
Require insurance coverage for mental health care
Mike believes health care is a right, and that includes mental health care.
That's why he will make sure federal laws mandating insurance coverage for mental health and substance use disorders are enforced--so no American struggles to afford the care they need.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Homeland Security:
Address high suicide rates and mental illness among veterans
Mike's plan will increase funding for mental health across the VA, broaden access to mental health services through public-private partnerships, ease credentialing to increase the number of providers,
provide annual mental health exams for active-duty servicemembers, and educate those leaving the service on mental illness and gun safety.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Homeland Security:
Reverse ban on transgender people serving in the military
Mike will reverse President Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military and grant an honorable
discharge to servicemembers who were forced out under the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Immigration:
Create an earned pathway to citizenship for undocumented
Mike's plan will create an earned pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented. Mike will reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, implementing sensible immigration enforcement priorities that promote
public safety and national security. Mike will also end construction of Trump's ineffective wall, invest in smart security measures and upgrade our ports of entry to protect the border and increase efficiency.
Mike will rescind President Trump's disgraceful travel ban, end family separations at the border, establish rigorous safeguards for children, and promote alternatives to detention for individuals and families who pose no threat to public safety.
Mike will set the annual refugee resettlement target at 125,000 and also restore fairness and timeliness to the asylum process. And he will honor and protect immigrant service members, veterans and their families.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Jobs:
Raise minimum wage; pay Earned Income Tax Credit monthly
Mike's plan will enhance the Earned Income Tax Credit, pay it monthly and pay more where it's most needed. Mike will also increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, linked to growth in earnings, and ensure affordable child care,
paid family leave and the right to sue employers for harassment and discrimination. And his plan will grant all workers--including gig, contract and franchise employees--the right to organize and bargain collectively.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Social Security:
New minimum benefit; expand support for senior savings
Mike will introduce a new minimum benefit in Social Security. Mike will help people prepare for retirement by providing a government-backed savings plan that cuts out expensive fees, grows money safely and provides a match for low-income workers.
Mike will develop a federal safety net to guard against the catastrophic costs of long-term care, and he'll protect seniors from predatory financial advisers.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Tax Reform:
5% surtax on income above $5 million a year
Mike will reverse the Trump tax cuts for high-income earners, restoring the top rate on ordinary income from 37% to 39.6%. Mike will place a 5% surtax on incomes (capital and labor) above $5 million a year to fund improvements in infrastructure,
education, health care and more. This will affect less than 0.1% of taxpayers. Mike's tax plan will raise the revenue needed to pay for public investments like health care, infrastructure, education, climate resilience, and affordable housing.
Mike will tax the wealthy on equal terms with workers. He'll tax capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income for taxpayers above $1 million. Mike will attack the loopholes and complexities that benefit the wealthy at the expense of working
families. His plan will close the "pass-through" 20% deduction that lets many rich taxpayers pay less, and he will end the "like-kind" provision that lets real-estate investors defer tax indefinitely.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Technology:
Invest in growth hubs to generate breakthroughs & jobs
Mike will launch a major R&D initiative to create up to 30 new growth hubs in regions that need good jobs the most. The investment--modeled on the federal programs that brought us the Internet and the biotech industry--will
focus on generating scientific breakthroughs in areas such as public health, hydrogen power, green technology and sustainable agriculture.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Technology:
Fix 240,000 miles of roads, 16,000 bridges in 4 years
Mike's plan will fix 240,000 miles of roads and 16,000 bridges in four years, and dedicate $850 billion over 10 years to building and upgrading roads, bridges, dams and other infrastructure--helping to create millions of jobs. Mike will also establish a
$1 billion annual "pothole" fund to make emergency repairs and will triple annual federal investment in public transit, including $12 billion per year for a new operating assistance program to improve service and attract new users.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Welfare & Poverty:
Create 1 million new black homeowners
Mike's plan lays out a path for the creation of 1 million new Black homeowners by providing down-payment assistance, getting millions banked and recognized by credit scoring companies, enforcing fair lending laws, reducing foreclosures and evictions
and increasing the supply of affordable housing. Mike will increase the supply of affordable housing units nationally--lowering costs for middle and low-income residents. He will expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and enhance its value.
He will prioritize new transportation funding for areas that have undertaken progressive zoning reform and reward municipalities that support affordable housing development in neighborhoods with good schools, transportation, and economic opportunity.
Mike will make homelessness a national priority--and double federal spending on homelessness from under $3 billion to $6 billion annually.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Jan 20, 2020
On Crime:
Supported 1996 crime bill and stop-and-frisk policing
Bloomberg's record [favoring] stop-and-frisk policing is likely to prove a significant liability in the Democratic primary. But Bloomberg's spending on gun control has also earned him significant political capital among some progressives.
Bloomberg concluded with a spirited defense of the 1996 crime bill that accelerated American mass incarceration, saying of liberals: "They should have loved that, they never even bothered to read it."
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Nov 9, 2019
On Crime:
Crime dropped 32%; murders halved; 36% fewer behind bars
In 2013, NYC was the safest big city in the nation and reduced crime to historic lows, far outpacing the national reductions in crime. Crime dropped more than 32% and murders were cut nearly in half, compared to only a
15% reduction nationally. There were 36% fewer people behind bars, while the prison population nationally increased 3%.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Nov 9, 2019
On Education:
More than 126,000 classroom seats added, 600 new schools
Mike Bloomberg took over a broken and dysfunctional school system and turned it into a model of reform, raising graduation rates to record highs while also launching efforts to close the racial and ethnic achievement gap that had persisted across
the country for far too long. Under Bloomberg, more than 126,000 classroom seats were added and 600 new schools were created. In 2013, high school graduation rates were up more than 42% from 2005.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Nov 9, 2019
On Environment:
Established NYC as largest bike-share network
Mike Bloomberg made New York City a global leader in fighting climate change and pioneering sustainability measures, while also building hundreds of acres of new parkland and re-opening major areas of the waterfront that had been
abandoned by industry decades ago. In 2013, NYC's Citi Bike system was the largest bike share program in the country.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Nov 9, 2019
On Welfare & Poverty:
Created or preserved 175,000 affordable homes
Mike Bloomberg worked to improve life in NYC neighborhoods across the five boroughs. In 2013, NYC had the largest affordable housing program in the nation.
NYC added more than 850 acres of new parkland, created or preserved 175,000 affordable homes, and funded more than 100 public art installations across the five boroughs.
Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website MikeBloomberg.com
Nov 9, 2019
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