Kamala Harris's Latest Expensive Promise, Amid a $1.8 Trillion Deficit

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In a media blitz this week, Kamala Harris unveils a plan for Medicare to cover home healthcare, which she says would help the "sandwich generation," but she dodges a question about how she'd pay for all her ideas. Meantime, the Congressional Budget Office reports a $1.8 trillion deficit for the last fiscal year, and Donald Trump declines to appear on "60 Minutes" for an interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.2	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,
0:21.0	this is Potomac Watch.
0:25.0	Vice President Kamala Harris goes on a media blitz proposing an expansion of Medicare
0:31.1	and being pressed on how she'd pay for her policies while former President
0:35.1	Donald Trump passes on an interview with 60 Minutes.
0:38.6	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:41.7	We're joined today by my colleagues,
0:44.1	columnist Alicia Finley and Bill McGurn, in a visit Tuesday to the TV show The View,
0:50.2	Kamil Harris proposed a new entitlement expansion for home health care.
0:55.4	Listen to this.
0:56.4	There are so many people in our country who are right in the middle.
1:00.3	They're taking care of their kids and they're taking care of their aging parents.
1:04.7	And it's just almost impossible to do it all.
1:08.6	So what I am proposing is that
1:15.0	we will do is allow Medicare to cover in home health care.
1:17.0	People say, well, how are you going to pay for? Here's the thing.
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