Masks still will be required in health care facilities, long-term care settings, public transit and correctional facilities. Jay Inslee announced on Thursday in just more than a month, masks will no longer be required in places like schools, restaurants, gyms or grocery stores. Washington state Gov.Jay Inslee speaks during a news conference to announce his decision to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 2020 on March 1, 2019.OLYMPIA – Washington’s indoor mask mandate will end March 21.Īs COVID-19 case rates continue to fall, Gov. airstrikes in Syria in which he criticized the Trump administration’s restrictive refugee policies. Inslee wrote a letter to the State Department last year after U.S. Inslee supports refugees’ rights, and has focused on people displaced by the conflict in Syria. During his first term as governor, he instituted a moratorium on the death penalty (the state’s supreme court struck down capital punishment last year). Inslee is a proponent of LGBTQ rights and backed legalizing same-sex marriage in his state. On abortion rights, Inslee believes in a woman’s right to choose and opposed the Trump administration’s announcement that it would prohibit taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions. Social issues: Protect a woman’s right to choose, supports LGBTQ rights and against capital punishment He also signed a law in Washington that creates college aid for undocumented students. He created a legal fund to help undocumented families impacted by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. He supports the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and believes in a path to citizenship for “Dreamers” brought to the country illegally as children. Inslee gained national attention in 2017 when Washington state sued the Trump administration over its travel ban on visitors from several Muslim-majority countries.
Immigration: Opposes the travel ban and supports “Dreamers” Inslee said it would be an initial step toward creating universal health care in the state. Recently he introduced a public option health care plan to help stabilize the state’s health insurance exchange. In 2013, as governor, he expanded Medicaid under the ACA in his state. Inslee backed the Affordable Care Act when it was up for a vote during his time in Congress. Health care: Move towards universal health care Inslee believes in a positive working relationship with trade partners and open access to foreign trade markets. He has said that “ any punitive tariffs to the Asian markets are felt deeply” in the state of Washington. Inslee opposes the Trump administration’s trade policies. He also signed an Equal Pay Opportunity Act that requires employees receive equal pay and work opportunities regardless of gender. Inslee signed into law a guaranteed paid family leave plan in 2017, granting eligible parents 12 weeks paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child or for a serious medical condition. Inslee supports increasing the minimum wage, which is currently $12 in Washington state and will rise to $13.50 in 2020.
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Economy/Trade: Free trade and increase minimum wage “We’re the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we’re the last who can do something about it,” Inslee said in his 2020 announcement video.
He has also proposed lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2035 and converting state ferries into electric hybrids, among other initiatives. As governor, Inslee pushed unsuccessfully for the nation’s first state-level carbon tax. As a member of Congress, Inslee backed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that passed the House but ultimately failed in the Senate. Inslee has long been a champion of climate change action and is making the issue the centerpiece of his presidential run. A vocal advocate of combating climate change, he is also the author of “ Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy.” Climate change: Reverse climate change, lower carbon emissions, 100 percent clean energy Inslee stepped down from his House seat in 2012 to seek the governor’s mansion and was reelected in 2016.ĭrawn to environmental causes from a young age, Inslee grew up with a love of the outdoors and is now an accomplished self-described “ doodler” of natural scenery and wildlife, a hobby that helps alleviate the stress of working in politics. Jay Inslee is a fifth-generation Washingtonian who served as a state legislator and member of the U.S.
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