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Where Do the Candidates Stand?
Posted on October 27th, 2016
With the presidential election just days away, NAHB reached out to the two major candidates to find out where they each stand on the many different issues facing our nation. Below are the results on the issues that will most likely affect the construction industry. We hope you will find this information helpful. Remember to get out and vote!

ENERGY

Trump

Make America energy independent, create millions of new jobs, and protect clean air and clean water.

Declare American energy dominance a strategic economic and foreign policy goal. Unleash America’s $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil and natural gas reserves, plus hundreds of years in clean coal reserves. Open onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands, eliminate moratorium on coal leasing, and open shale energy deposits.

Encourage the use of natural gas and other American energy resources that will both reduce emissions but also reduce the price of energy and increase our economic output. Reduce and eliminate all barriers to responsible energy production.

Read more: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ policies/energy/

Clinton

 

Generate enough renewable energy to power every home, with half a billion solar panels installed by 2020. Cut energy waste and reduce American oil consumption by a third through cleaner fuels and more efficient cars, boilers, ships and trucks.

Defend, implement and extend smart pollution and efficiency standards, including the Clean Power Plan and standards for cars, trucks and appliances that clean our air, save families money and fight climate change.

Launch a $60 billion Clean Energy Challenge to cut carbon pollution and expand clean energy, including for low-income families. Invest in clean energy infrastructure, innovation, manufacturing and workforce development to make the economy more competitive and create good-paying jobs and careers. 

Ensure safe and responsible energy production: Reform leasing and expand clean energy production on public lands and waters tenfold within a decade, cut the billions of wasteful tax subsidies for oil and gas companies and invest in clean energy, and cut methane emissions and put in place strong standards for reducing leaks from both new and existing sources.

Revitalize coal communities by supporting locally driven priorities and make them an engine of U.S. economic growth in the 21st century.

Read more: https://www.hillaryclinton. com/issues/climate/

Workforce Development
Clinton

 

Invest $20 billion to support millions of youth jobs, direct federal funding for local programs to put our kids to work. Invest $5 billion in reentry programs for formerly incarcerated people.

Invest $25 billion to support entrepreneurship and small-business growth in underserved communities.

Expand job training and apprenticeships, make government a more effective partner with workers, labor, employers and training providers to prepare workers for good jobs and encourage employers to invest in their workers for the long term. 

Read more: https://www.hillaryclinton. com/issues/workforce-and- skills/

Trump

No official campaign position, but Trump said he would create 25 million new jobs and grow the economy at an annual rate of at least 3.5%. Describing his plan in a speech before the Economic Club of New York as “the most pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-family plan put forth perhaps in the history of our country,” the plan includes reductions in non-defense spending, lower taxes and penalties for companies that move overseas

Regulation

 
Clinton
No official campaign position.
 

Trump

Issue a temporary moratorium on new regulations to give our American companies the certainty they need to reinvest in our community, start hiring again, and expanding businesses. We will no longer regulate our companies and our jobs out of existence.

Cancel immediately all illegal and overreaching executive orders and our most intrusive regulations, like the Waters of The U.S. rule. 

Eliminate burdensome regulations that are not necessary, do not improve public safety, needlessly kill jobs, and increase the size of our already bloated government after a thorough agency review.

Read More:  https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ policies/regulations/

Housing Affordability
Trump

No official campaign position.
 
Clinton

Help responsible working families by matching up to $10,000 in savings towards a down payment on a first home and support counseling programs for the significant financial commitment of homeownership. 

Clarify the rules of the road to expand access to home loans, defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and enforce fair housing and lending laws.

Connect housing support in high-poverty neighborhoods to economic opportunity and revitalize communities being dragged down by physical decay. 

Read more at https://www.hillaryclinton. com/issues/housing / .

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