Vice President Kamala Harris's Economic Priorities.

From Marketplace, I'm Suri Ben Shore in for David Brancaccio.

Vice President Harris closed the Democratic National Convention last night with an acceptance speech that broadly laid out her proposal. The in Medicare, ending, that's her word, the housing shortage in this country, and a tax cut for

middle income households.

Marketplace is Nova Safo joins us from Chicago with more.

Good morning, Noah.

Good morning, Sabrie.

So the vice president had signaled that she would be framing her economic message as one focused on supporting the middle class.

Is that what we got? Any surprises?

Yeah, less surprises and more emphasis on certain things.

And I'll give you an example.

She described herself as realistic and practical.

That's her words.

And those words are important because much of the country is getting to know her again or for the first time

and she is defining what kind of policies she will pursue economic or otherwise.

And on the economic front, yes, she said she would be squarely focused on the middle class.

We know a strong middle class has always been critical to America's success.

And building that middle class will be a defining goal of my

presidency. What does that look like in terms of specific proposals?

She promised a middle class tax cut.

She said that would affect 100 million Americans.

We'll have to see what the details are there, but the next president will have a lot of sway over tax policy because many of the

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