Tom Steyer
Historical Details
Position on Issues
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"Ban high risk weapons including assault weapons, device modifications, high capacity ammunition magazines, and strengthen laws on untraceable firearms, including ghost guns, 3D printed guns, and home manufactured guns"
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2017
Steyer opposed the American Health Care Act, which would have eased essential health benefit requirements and created a block grant system for Medicaid. For example, in May 2017 he wrote, "The AHCA is a huge tax cut for the richest Americans paid for by throwing everyone else's healthcare under the bus."
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"'I support decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings. These matters are better handled through civil proceedings,' Steyer told The Post."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2017
"Ending #DACA: unjust, short-sighted, and just plain dumb-ass wrong. Americans stand with the Dreamers."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2017
Steyer opposed the American Health Care Act, which would have eased essential health benefit requirements and created a block grant system for Medicaid. For example, in May 2017 he wrote, "The AHCA is a huge tax cut for the richest Americans paid for by throwing everyone else's healthcare under the bus."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2018
"Politics in Washington aren't working. Congress won't take the most basic steps, such as requiring background checks on every gun sale in America, to reduce the death toll from guns."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2019
"Republicans have launched an outrageous assault on reproductive rights. Abortion is healthcare. The draconian anti-choice bills in GA, AL, and OH seize power on behalf of a centralized group of legislators. Unacceptable."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2016
"Proud to stand with Planned Parenthood, now and always."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2016
"At a time when economic inequality has spiraled out of control, raising the minimum wage to $15 represents an important first step to restore balance, advance economic justice, and ensure all Californians benefit from our state's prosperity."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2019
"An entire #DemDebate passed with ZERO questions about reproductive health, abortion rights, or gender equality.
"The right to choose has been under sustained, strategic attack. We cannot take away the basic right to bodily autonomy. As president, I vow to protect Roe v. Wade."
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"I am honored to join a coalition of 19 foundations and philanthropic donors to support a new $53 million fund to help expand energy efficiency efforts in developing nations. These efforts, which could potentially double the climate benefits compared to reducing HFCs alone, are necessary to reduce greenhouse gases, address the climate crisis, and strengthen the global framework needed for business to accelerate our transition to clean energy."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2015
As the founder of the political advocacy group NextGen Climate (now NextGen America), Steyer has advocated for many policies aimed at fighting climate change, including various renewable energy investments. For example, in 2015 he wrote, "Today President Obama took an important step by committing the country to using 20% renewable energy by 2030. But we must still do more."
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"I support providing two-years of free tuition to community colleges. Every American should have the right to a free, quality, public education from universal pre-kindergarten through higher education, including workforce and technical training."
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"I will enact policies that ensure that all corporations and all income classes will pay their fair share. I will repeal the Trump tax cuts and institute a wealth tax - 1% on those whose net worth is above $32 million - that will generate over $1 trillion for healthcare, education, environmental, and criminal justice programs. It will not continue to provide favorable treatment to the rich and powerful at the expense of low-income and middle-class Americans, nor will it starve the government of the resources needed to deliver services."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2019
"Mr. Trump can't spell 'strategy.' All he can do is theater and bluster. Now he's dragging us even further into a trade war with China and just like his business deals of the past, someone else is footing the bill. American farmers should not be collateral damage."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2016
"Investing in U.S. energy, water, & transportation infrastructure is crucial."
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"I'm for legalizing marijuana. I'm from California, we also have legalized marijuana."
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Candidate's Website, 2019
"Tom also firmly believes in consumers' right to shop for the plan of their choice. Tom proposes that his public option be offered side-by-side with private plans on the open exchanges, allowing any individual to purchase a plan on the exchanges if it fits their needs better than their current employer option."
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Candidate's Website, 2019
"To give Americans a real choice, Tom supports the creation of a public option. Every American should have the ability to choose the plan that best suits their health care needs. But choice is only meaningful if there are good options available. Tom's public option will compete aggressively with the insurance companies to drive down costs, expand coverage, and deliver quality health care. ... Tom's public option will be administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which charges a far lower overhead than private insurers, but be fiscally separate from Medicare and Medicaid. It will enable the government to negotiate health care costs directly with medical groups and providers, just like Medicare does today."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2019
"A failed real estate developer is fixated on his worst idea ever for construction: A huge, useless wall. This is worse than his bankrupt casinos!"
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2019
"The #TrumpTaxScam gave 4 pharma companies-Johnson&Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Abbott Labs - $7 BILLION in tax breaks this year.
"That $$$ could have nearly DOUBLED our efforts to end the opioid crisis and save tens of millions of American lives. Instead, it's lining corporate pockets."
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Candidate's Website, 2019
"Tom will tackle the student debt crisis head-on by forgiving certain types of student loan debt, reforming the public service student loan forgiveness program, making the refinancing of student loans easier, cracking down on predatory student loan servicers, and expanding access to educational benefits through his New National Public Service Plan."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2017
Steyer shared a link on Facebook to an article about state leaders supporting carbon taxes, and wrote, "Leadership from the states. Forward-thinking governors. A better vision for America. Fantastic!"
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
After President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement, Steyer posted on Facebook: "Mr. Trump keeps promising 'better deals.' These promises are as real as the promise to disclose his taxes. He has no Plan B."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2017
"By pulling out of the Paris Agreement, Donald Trump is betraying America's moral, political, and economic leadership position."
