This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational Challenges: Technology
🇺🇸Only one party will ensure equitable access to medical treatments and vaccines generated by new biotech discoveries 1/9
#Democrats will maintain American capabilities that can deter cyber threats, and we will work with other countries—and the private sector—to protect individuals’ data and defend critical infrastructure, including the global financial system. 4/9 #DemPartyPlatform#CyberSecurity
#Democrats will promote international efforts to responsibly and ethically manage research in areas like gene editing. We will sustain and improve international collaboration and data-sharing. 6/9 #DemPartyPlatform#bioethics
#Democrats will partner with other countries and private companies to build up capacity and implement appropriate safety standards for any work that involves dangerous pathogens, 8/9 #DemPartyPlatform#Biotechethics
..and #Democrats remain staunchly committed to the international prohibition on the development or use of biological weapons. 9/9 #DemPartyPlatform#BioWeapon
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This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational Challenges: Technology
🇺🇸Only one party will recommit the United States to the principles of an open internet, including net neutrality 1/9
#Democrats believe that American diplomatic leadership is critical to maximizing the benefits of technological innovation while minimizing its risks and dislocations. 2/9 #DemPartyPlatform#technology
We have a stake in bridging the gap between the pace of innovation and the development of rules of the road governing the most consequential domains of technology, from cyberspace to artificial intelligence to synthetic biology. 3/9 #DemPartyPlatform#technology
If #Republicans refuse to work to bring urgently needed relief to American workers and families..House Democrats’ proposed budget resolution provides an alternative path for the #AmericanRescuePlan. 2 #ForThePeople
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational Challenges: Climate Change
🇺🇸Only one party will work with world leaders to catalyze increased global investments in clean energy solutions and climate resilience 1/8
#Democrats will support the protection of species and wildlife habitats around the world, including by advancing the goals of the United Nations Framework Convention on Biological Diversity & encourage other countries to join us in conserving 30 percent of the planet by 2030. 2/8
#Democrats will also work with world leaders to catalyze increased global investments in clean energy solutions and climate resilience, including to help low-income countries move along a more sustainable development path. 3/8 #DemPartyPlatform#ClimateActionNow
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational Challenges
Global Health and Pandemics
🇺🇸Only one party understands the urgency of strengthening the global public health system. 1/12
The human and economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the urgency of strengthening the global public health system—and the consequences of America’s disengagement from the world. 2/12 #globalhealth#pandemic
The Trump Administration was warned about the clear and present danger of a global pandemic. The Administration not only ignored the threat but dismantled our early warning and response mechanisms and failed to act when the pandemic began. 3/12 #globalhealth#pandemic
Former President Trump incited a violent insurrection against our democracy. He charged up a violent mob to attack the Capitol to stop the Congress from fulfilling our Constitutional duty to count the electoral ballots that have duly elected the next President & Vice President 1/
The mob violently attacked law enforcement and smashed its way into the Capitol, calling for the hanging of the Vice President and hunting the Speaker and Members of Congress. 2/ #Capitol#ImpeachAndConvict
Five Americans have died following this violent attack and more than 50 police officers were seriously injured, including 15 officers who were hospitalized – and without law enforcement’s heroism, the attack could have been even worse. 3/ #Capitol#ImpeachAndConvict
Inauguration of President-Elect Biden Signals New Day of Unity, Hope, Healing
Today, Wednesday, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in. #UnityUSA#BuildBackBetter 1/
Together, the Democratic White House, Democratic House of Representatives and Democratic Senate will work to not only recover from the devastating pandemic and economic crisis – which have infected nearly 25 million Americans and killed 400,000 – but will #BuildBackBetter 2/