the launch comes one week after the president launched his reelection bid in orlando. 2020 hopeful beto o rourke is proposing a war tax to help cover veteran healthcare costs. under the plan nonmilitary households would have to pay taxes americans making $30,000 would pay $25 a year for each us war. those earning $200,000 would be taxed $1000 a year. that money would be put in a new healthcare trust funds and divvied out to veterans returning from war. real quick politics showing o rourke lagging behind fellow 2020 democrats as he prepared for his first primary debate tomorrow in miami. the world s most powerful rocket launching into space overnight. 5, 4, three, two, one.
to go to your watch party. a l alas, i cannot. joe biden just outlined an immigration plan in the miami herald today. good choice of publications given the debate location. beto o rourke today called for congress to enact a war tax aimed at expanding care for military veterans. senator sanders unveiled a plan to cancel $1 trillion of student loan debt nationwide. elizabeth warren put out a ban for public prison facilities. another ban would end fracking nationwide. there is all this flood of important new policy stuff being churned out by the candidates ahead of this debate. but you know what they say about best laid plans. you should know ahead of all the prep these democratic candidates are planning for, the supreme court is also likely to issue big controversial rulings on
welcome back. president trump is renewing his attacks of joe biden. he made the claim during his interview with the hill without any evidence to back it up adding that is the real reason former president obama has not endorsed him. how he hasn t gotten obama to endorse him. how he s not endorsing him is rather a big secret. if you want to know, if you know the answer, please let me know. could be president obama knows something but there is something going on in that brain of his. beto o rourke has unveiled a plan to take care of the veterans including a war tax to cover the cost of future medical tear imposing $25 to $1,000 tax
dana: debt, war, taxes on today s campaign trail mix. the plan to impose a war tax in preparation for the big debate. kristin fisher is going to lay it out for us. we are seeing a surgeon policy proposals. the biggest is from senator bernie sanders who announced the college for all act which would do a few things: erase all student loan debt in america. that s $1.6 trillion. would also make 4-your public colleges and universities tuition free and senator sanders wants wall street to pay for it with the new tax and financial transactions. the bottom line is we should not be punishing people for getting higher education. it s time to hit the reset button. under the proposal we introduced
there. meanwhile, another sanders rival beto o rourke is pumping out his policy push ahead of the democrats big push. o rourke unveiling his plan to cover veteran s healthcare. leyla santiago has the details. it s a major issue in this election. when you combine that with veteran s issues, that s quite a political point for him, clearly a focus he wants to score some points on. reporter: right. so this is an eight-page proposal. it s got a variety of topic. let s actually get right into it. the first thing it talks about is ending the wars in afghanistan as well as iraq. he s got this idea of a war tax. more on that in a second. he talks about the veterans affairs, more spending for alzheimer s research. he wants this to allow service to be a pathway to citizenship and then focus quite a bit there at the very end of the policy on women veterans as well as lbgtq