Democrats support ending the use of private prisons. The resulting document recommended changing some aspects of jails and prisons, saying too many of them subject people to inhumane treatment. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., met to hammer out Biden’s general-election platform. A task force made up of representatives from Biden’s team and allies of Sen. “They want to abolish our prisons”īiden does not want to abolish prisons. His campaign platform includes hiring more officers, focused on community policing. Biden says police departments should be given resources “to implement meaningful reforms” and that federal dollars should be contingent on completion of those reforms. “They now want to abolish our police departments”īiden has repeatedly said he does not want to defund the police or abolish police departments. “It’s within our grasp to end our gun violence epidemic and respect the Second Amendment, which is limited,” Biden’s campaign website says.
Under a buyback program, Biden says he will give people who now have assault weapons or high-capacity magazines two options: sell the weapons to the government, or register them under the National Firearms Act. To combat gun violence, Biden wants to ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and to regulate possession of existing assault weapons.
“They want to … confiscate your guns”īiden is not calling for the confiscation of all guns or for a repeal of the Second Amendment. He says he wants to lower the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60 and to protect the Medicare trust fund. Biden wants to allow Americans to buy into a public option for government-backed health insurance, but plans to also keep Medicare. Biden will “decimate Medicare”īiden does not want to cut or eliminate Medicare. Biden says the Social Security program is one of the nation’s “great public policy successes” and says he would try to make the program solvent and prevent cuts in benefits to American retirees. “The Biden plan would destroy Social Security”īiden’s plans related to health care and seniors do not call for the elimination of Social Security benefits. It’s Trump who wants to overturn the law, and while he has issued a largely toothless executive order affirming support for those protections, Trump has not offered a replacement that would keep them intact. Biden says he supports and wants to defend the Affordable Care Act, the health care law signed by President Barack Obama that established strict protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Biden “will destroy your protections for pre-existing conditions”īiden does not want to end these protections. Here’s a rundown of more than a dozen things Trump commonly - and falsely - says Biden wants to ban, abolish or destroy, along with the facts. And we’ve noticed a pattern: His claims about things Biden and Democrats want to eliminate are routinely inaccurate, misleading, oversimplified or exaggerated. Three days later, Trump pressed this theme, tweeting that Biden and Democrats “will kill your jobs, dismantle your police departments, dissolve your borders, release criminal aliens, raise your taxes, confiscate your guns, end fracking, destroy your suburbs, and drive God from the public square.”Īs part of our 2020 election coverage, PolitiFact has been monitoring and fact-checking Trump’s claims like these on Twitter, at campaign rallies, at White House events and during media interviews. “The radical left is hell bent on destroying everything we love and cherish,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, on Oct. According to President Donald Trump’s storyline, Joe Biden and his allies want to ban or destroy many things that matter to Americans, like health care protections, the Second Amendment and churches. Write down as many of these things as you can. Spend a few minutes thinking about what is robbing and ruining the peace in your life right now. Read Mark 4:35-41 and underline what stands out to you. Read Colossians 1:9-14 and underline what stands out to you.ġ2 Days of Jesus - Day 10: The Calm Before The Storm Then make a list of people in your extended family. Make a list of people in your immediate family. Cause the things that are weighing me down to be lifted off of my mind. Help me to set aside all the lists and worries and stress so I can focus on being in every moment today. Pray: "God, this season has been so busy for everyone. I don’t need talent to.ġ2 Days of Jesus - Day 12: Joy Filled Moments I don’t need to know everything to keep going. Sometimes I want to give up but I don’t.I’m called to big things and patiently wait for the payoff in good time. Adapted from and inspired by the work of author Donald Miller.