2020 Democratic Party Platform - Democratic National Committee

2020 Democratic Party Platform

The platform was considered by the 2020 Platform Committee at its meeting on July 27, 2020, and was approved by the Democratic National Convention

on August 18, 2020.

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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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PREAMBLE

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PROTECTING AMERICANS AND RECOVERING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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BUILDING A STRONGER, FAIRER ECONOMY

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Protecting Workers and Families and Creating Millions of Jobs Across America

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Raising Wages and Promoting Workers' Rights

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Enacting Robust Work-Family Policies

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Investing in the Engines of Job Creation

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Building A Fair System of International Trade for Our Workers

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Putting Homeownership in Reach and Guaranteeing Safe Housing for Every American

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Leveling the Economic Playing Field

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Reforming the Tax Code to Benefit Working Families

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Curbing Wall Street Abuses

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Ending Poverty

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Protecting Consumer Rights and Privacy

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Tackling Runaway Corporate Concentration

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Guaranteeing a Secure and Dignified Retirement

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ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL, AFFORDABLE, QUALITY HEALTH CARE

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Securing Universal Health Care Through a Public Option

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Bringing Down Drug Prices and Taking on the Pharmaceutical Industry

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Reducing Health Care Costs and Improving Health Care Quality

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Expanding Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment

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Expanding Long-Term Care Services and Supports

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Eliminate Racial, Gender, and Geographic Health Inequities

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Protecting Native American Health

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Securing Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

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Protecting and Promoting Maternal Health

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Protecting LGBTQ+ Health

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Strengthening and Supporting the Health Care Workforce

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Investing in Health Science and Research

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PROTECTING COMMUNITIES AND BUILDING TRUST BY REFORMING OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE

SYSTEM

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HEALING THE SOUL OF AMERICA

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Protecting Americans' Civil Rights

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Achieving Racial Justice and Equity

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Protecting Women's Rights

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Protecting LGBTQ+ Rights

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Protecting Disability Rights

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Honoring Indigenous Tribal Nations

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Ending Violence Against Women

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Ending the Epidemic of Gun Violence

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Supporting Faith and Service

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Supporting Press Freedom

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Supporting the Arts and Culture

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COMBATING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PURSUING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

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RESTORING AND STRENGTHENING OUR DEMOCRACY

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Protecting and Enforcing Voting Rights

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Reforming the Broken Campaign Finance System

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Building an Effective, Transparent Federal Government

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Making Washington, D.C. the 51st State

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Guaranteeing Self-Determination for Puerto Rico

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Supporting the U.S. Territories

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Strengthening the U.S. Postal Service

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CREATING A 21ST CENTURY IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

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PROVIDING A WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION IN EVERY ZIP CODE

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Guaranteeing Universal Early Childhood Education

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Supporting High-Quality K-12 Schools Across America

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Making Higher Education Affordable and Accessible

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Providing Borrowers Relief from Crushing Student Debt

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RENEWING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP

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Revitalizing American Diplomacy

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Rebuilding America's Tool of First Resort

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Reinventing Alliances

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International Institutions

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Foreign Assistance and Development

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Transforming Our Armed Forces for the 21st century

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Ending Forever Wars

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Securing our Competitive Edge

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Defense Spending

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Keeping Faith with Our Veterans and Military Families

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Civil-Military Relations

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Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational Challenges

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Global Health and Pandemics

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Climate Change

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Technology

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Nonproliferation

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Terrorism

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Democracy and Human Rights

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Advancing American Interests

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Global Economy and Trade

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Africa

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Americas

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Asia-Pacific

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Europe

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Middle East

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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Democratic National Committee wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial.

We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands.

We pay our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals.

We respectfully acknowledge that we present this Platform at our 2020 Democratic National Convention on the lands of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians, the Forest County Potawatomi Community, the Ho-Chunk Nation, the Lac Courte Oreilles Band

of Lake Superior Chippewa, the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the Menominee Nation, the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, the Sokaogon Chippewa Community,

and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohican Indians.

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