Trump vs. Biden: Here’s How Their Plans for Indian Country Compare
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The Biden-Harris Plan for Tribal Nations is a 15-page document, while President Donald Trump’s plan is outlined in cursory terms in only three pages. (NPR) WASHINGTON — With the release of the White House’s Putting America’s First Peoples First – Forgotten No More! policy vision and the Biden campaign’s Biden-Harris Plan for Tribal Nations , both major presidential candidates have offered up plans for Indian Country. The Biden-Harris Plan for Tribal Nations is a 15-page document, while the president’s plan is outlined in cursory terms in only three pages. Both plans contain similar elements, such as increasing broadband across Indian Country, addressing the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls crisis, and improving American Indian education. The White House takes credit for congressional legislation that the president signed off on, as if he authored the bills he put his signature on. The Biden-Harris plan, which was released 12 days prior to the Trump plan, commits to immediately reinstating the annual White House Nations Conference that was established during the Obama era and was convened for the eight years the administration was in office. In the White House plan, the Trump-Pence administration agrees to “Host National Tribal Leader Convening and […]
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