Hillary Clinton ‘fact sheet’ on her universal preschool proposal doesn’t say how she’ll pay for it

Published June 16, 2015 12:08am ET



Hillary Clinton is trying to sell the idea that she’s running a substantive policy campaign, but her initial proposal for universal preschool released at a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Monday left out important details: How much the plan costs and how she intends to pay for it.

In the run-up to her Saturday announcement speech, the media promoted the idea that she intended to run a campaign that offered serious policy solutions. Politico even ran a story titled “Wonk Warrior,” in which Glenn Thrush wrote that, “she’s far more interested in the how than the why of the presidency, and views her greatest assets as a willingness to engage all participants in a debate and a workmanlike capacity to hammer out policy solutions.”

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