The Cost of Elizabeth Warren

Many commentators have gasped over Elizabeth Warren’s $52 billion (over 10 years) Medicare-for-All plan, and have laughed at her optimistic, double-booked, scheme for funding it. But I haven’t seen anybody tally up the costs of all her plans.

But I don’t get out much.

Anyway, presuming you haven’t seen a total either, here goes (all numbers taken from her website):

Program	10-Year Cost
Environment	$3 Trillion
Medicare-for-All	$52 Trillion
Education	$1.25 Trillion
Child Care	~$0.7 Trillion*
Gun Control	0.001 Trillion
Immigration	0.015 Trillion
Social Security	>$1.5 Trillion**
TOTAL	$58.6 Trillion

 

I may have missed a few, but I think that’s bad enough. For reference, the CBO’s latest 10-year budget projection (2020 – 2029) for the entire federal budget is $57.85 trillion.

She claims that it’ll all be paid for by increased taxes on corporations and the wealthy.

Har.

*Her website says that the cost will be roughly 1/4 of $2.75 trillion
** She never tallies it up, but just her provision for adding $200/month/person is $1.46 trillion