Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign is picking up right where he left off in 2016. His stump speeches remain the classic Sanders jeremiad against inequality and exploitation he’s been honing for forty years. And transforming US health care by establishing the most comprehensive single-payer system in the world remains his signature issue and rallying cry.

This time around, Sanders also boasts the first successful use of the War Powers Resolution to constrain US support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, and he has committed to working toward enfranchising incarcerated citizens. But the most significant addition to Sanders’s 2020 campaign is his plan to eliminate student loan debt.

Following Warren’s announcement of a means-tested student-debt cancellation plan, estimated to cost $640 billion, Sanders sponsored legislation to eliminate all the outstanding $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. This policy adds a massive new spending program, second only to M4A (Medicare for All), to Sanders’s platform.