Vice President Kamala Harris teased her first executive actions should she win Tuesday's presidential election.
Harris announced on Friday that her first potential executive order would be to eliminate college degree requirements for specific federal jobs.
There has been a lot of speculation about what Harris will actually do in the event that she wins Tuesday's presidential election.
Harris has come under fire for flip-flopping on a handful of left-wing policies she once campaigned on before 2020. Her flip-flipping has earned her the ire of many leftists who want to see her enact radical policies if she becomes president.
Harris's plan to slash college degree requirements is far from a radical idea and likely won't excite many of her supporters who want to see her enact more radical changes.
Kamala Harris was as radical as they came when she was a Senator from California but when she was selected as President Joe Biden's running mate in 2020, Harris completely shed her radical image.
That issue has only gotten worse ever since Harris took over for Biden in July as she has become even more malleable and fluid in what she supports.
Harris announced her plans to slash degree requirements during an event at an IBEW local union hall in Janesville, Wisconsin. Harris was in Wisconsin in order to try and shore up her support base in a state she can't afford to lose as Republicans are making gains.
Harris stated during her appearance in Wisconsin that, "The press is always asking me, ‘What are you going to do on day one?’ One of the things I’m doing on day one — because I can do it by executive order — is I will eliminate unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs. And then I will challenge the private sector to do the same.”
Harris has been talking about reducing degree requirements for certain federal jobs to expand opportunities for individuals without a four-year degree.
Harris hopes to extend this idea to the private sector but obviously, she has no power to enact such policies. She wants to use the federal government to lead a change that will lead to less need for four-year degrees.
Harris's decision to confirm reducing degree requirements as her first executive action is a safe move designed to make her presidency seem as centrist as possible.
It is the other executive actions that Harris could take that would be absolutely catastrophic. Harris has repeatedly discussed using price controls to combat rising food costs, a policy that would have terrible consequences.
However, going into an election she isn't favored to win, Harris needs to play it safe and try and make Americans forget that she is an extreme radical.
