Sahil Kapur is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.
CHICAGO — Kamala Harris is slowly unveiling a policy agenda for next year if she wins the presidency. The ensuing debate is highlighting an important dynamic: She’ll need Democrats to win control of both chambers of Congress for many of her biggest ambitions to have a fighting chance. There is little in Harris' agenda that can be achieved by executive action — and any attempts would most likely get tied up in court.
Meanwhile, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, of Louisiana, has excoriated the new Harris proposals as “massive, big-government socialist policies” and compared them to laws in “Soviet Russia and Venezuela.” “The Harris plan is the opposite of what our country needs, and it should be soundly rejected,” Johnson said in a statement. And former President Donald Trump, who is likely to remain influential with the GOP even if he loses the election, is fiercely criticizing her ideas.
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