新闻：鲁本·加列戈尚未确定是否会竞选总统，但他已为民主党重新掌权后制定了宏伟计划。
The News Ruben Gallego isn’t sure if he’s running for president yet, but he still has big plans for his Democratic Party once it’s back in power.
这位亚利桑那州参议员将于周三推出一项规模宏大且覆盖面广泛的政策议程，旨在应对因人工智能蓬勃发展而正在发生深刻变化的劳动力市场与劳动力结构。他计划提高最低工资标准、增加加班报酬，同时对数据中心及自动化岗位征收税款；此外还将设立联邦公共工程计划，以帮助美国劳动者适应人工智能时代的需求。
The Arizona senator is launching a huge, wide-reaching policy agenda on Wednesday that’s aimed at confronting a labor market — and workforce — getting reshaped in real time by the AI boom. He wants to raise the minimum wage and boost overtime pay while imposing taxes on data centers and automated jobs, in addition to creating a federal public works program to ensure US workers can cope with AI.
作为一位刚上任第一任期的参议员，加列戈此举正值民主党全力争取下个月中期选举以掌控国会之际。他表示，如果今年秋天民主党能从共和党手中夺回部分国会控制权，公众理应尽早了解民主党届时的施政规划。
It’s a big move by the first-term senator as his party wages a pitched fight for control of Congress in next month’s midterm elections. He said he recognizes that the public needs to start hearing about what Democrats intend to do with control in Washington, if they wrest some of it from GOP hands this fall.
“当前许多劳动者觉得自己的辛勤付出并未换来应有的回报……正值选举季，民众迫切希望了解民主党的立场，”加列戈本周在接受Semafor采访时说道。
“People that are working right now don’t feel like their hard work is actually bringing them anything in return … and going into election season, people want to know where Democrats stand,” Gallego told Semafor in an interview this week.
“鉴于人工智能正日益深入人们的日常生活并引发诸多担忧，我认为制定一项具有前瞻性、切实应对人工智能与劳动力相关问题的政策同样至关重要，”他补充道。
“With AI becoming more and more prevalent in people’s lives and fears, I think it’s also important that we have a real forward-leaning policy that deals with AI and the workforce,” he added.
加列戈提出的这些全面政策举措显然具备支撑其2028年总统竞选计划的雏形。他坦言自己清楚这些举措会引发外界对他未来政治抱负的种种猜测，但并未直接回应相关问题。
Gallego’s sweeping proposals certainly look like the policy engine undergirding a 2028 presidential campaign. He said he’s “not naive” about his work furthering that speculation, though he demurred on his future aspirations.
“无论如何，”加列戈表示，“2028年总统大选之后我仍会继续参与各项政策讨论。”
“No matter what,” Gallego said, “I’m going to be involved in” policy debates after the 2028 race.
“目前我还没到能做出决定的阶段，”他补充道，“我和妻子之间还有很多需要商谈的地方，尤其是在养育孩子以及是否竞选公职的问题上。” 加列戈的计划几乎涵盖了美国经济的方方面面。他在阐述计划时融入了个人经历——提及自己在亚利桑那州的成长经历以及该州近年来的快速发展与经济变革，以此增强方案的说服力。
“I’m not in the space right now to make a decision,” he added. “A lot of conversations have to happen between me and my wife, especially when it comes to raising kids and potentially running for office.”Know More Gallego’s plan, which he pitches with a personal touch by invoking his upbringing in Arizona and the state’s recent run of rapid growth and economic change, touches almost every aspect of the American economy.
不过，他最关心的还是公众普遍存在的担忧：工资水平跟不上物价上涨的步伐。正如他在提案中所写，对数百万亚利桑那州居民而言，“美国梦正在逐渐远去”。
But he’s chiefly concerned with evident public views that wages are not keeping pace with rising prices — that the American “dream is slipping away from millions of Arizonans,” as he writes in his proposal.
除了将最低时薪提高至20美元并使其与通胀水平挂钩外，他的计划还包括推动行业性集体谈判协议以确立整个行业的劳动标准；要求企业为员工提供带薪休假；还将符合条件的劳动者的加班费从1.5倍提升至2倍。
On top of raising the minimum wage to $20 per hour and pegging it to inflation, his agenda would promote sectoral bargaining agreements to establish labor standards for entire industries, require companies to provide paid leave, and raise overtime pay for eligible workers from time-and-a-half to double pay.
在人工智能产业方面，他也提出了雄心勃勃的举措：对数据中心收入征收10%的消费税并取消相关税收优惠；设立“机器人税”以遏制自动化带来的失业现象；同时考虑对人工智能相关代币征税。
He’s got equally ambitious plans for the AI industry, calling for a 10 percent excise tax on data center revenues and an end to tax incentives for those projects, a “robot tax” to discourage job losses due to automation, and consideration of a tax on AI tokens.
他计划用这些税收收入来资助一项类似“新政”的公共工程计划，确保美国不会因人工智能的普及而出现“大规模失业”现象。
He wants to use that money to help fund a “New Deal-style” public works program to ensure the US won’t experience “massive unemployment” from the adaptation of AI.
“数据中心和人工智能企业不能随心所欲地运营，完全无视其对劳动力市场和社区造成的影响。它们应当成为解决问题的力量，而不只是制造问题的源头，”加列戈在电话采访中说道。
“Data centers and AI companies cannot just be operating untouched and also unbothered in terms of what they do to our labor markets, to our communities. They need to be part of the solution and not just be a problem,” Gallego said in the telephone interview.
此外，他还主张将部分所谓的零工劳动者重新归类为正式雇员而非独立承包商，并要求企业在大规模裁员前必须提前向员工发出通知。
He also wants to prioritize reclassifying certain so-called gig workers as employees rather than independent contractors and require companies to give workers more notice ahead of mass layoffs.
加列戈表示，他愿意充分利用民主党的权力来推动这些改革措施的实施。他提议将自己的提案中的大部分内容纳入党的预算协调法案中；如果民主党在2029年同时控制众议院、参议院和白宫，那么他们只需简单多数票就能通过该法案。
Gallego said he’s ready to maximize Democratic authority to get it done. He proposed putting as much of his proposal as he can in a party-line budget reconciliation bill that Democrats can pass with a simple majority if they control the House, Senate, and White House come 2029.
他还指出，民主党不应听从参议院的议会程序规则——例如，如果最低工资标准的提高被判定不符合预算协调法案的适用条件（就像2021年那样），民主党就应该无视这些规则。
He added that Democrats should not listen to the Senate parliamentarian if, for example, a minimum wage hike gets ruled ineligible for reconciliation (as it was in 2021).
“我们不应该害怕突破预算协调法案的限制，也不应该害怕推翻那些议会程序规则，”他说，并认为共和党人“早已破坏了议会程序规则的重要性”。
“We shouldn’t be afraid to push the limits on reconciliation, on overruling the parliamentarian,” he said, arguing that Republicans have “already kind of blown up the parliamentarian primacy” anyway.
伯格斯的观点是：新兴的民主党势力拥有许多大胆的改革想法，人们已经可以预见民主党将在2028年之前就其政策议程展开激烈的讨论。加列戈的计划是迄今为止最为全面的提案之一，但他并不是第一个提出此类建议的人。马里兰州的克里斯·范霍伦参议员和新泽西州的科里·布克参议员也提出了减税方案；新泽西州的安迪·金参议员则希望民主党能为所有儿童提供全民医疗保险。
Burgess’s view The rising class of Democrats has big ideas, and you can already start to see the party nearing a big debate about its agenda ahead of 2028. Gallego’s plan is one of the most expansive yet, but he isn’t the first to jump in. Sens. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Cory Booker of New Jersey have tax cut ideas. Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey wants his party to give kids universal health insurance coverage.
这种大胆的改革举措与民主党领导人的态度形成了鲜明对比——那些民主党领导人希望在中期选举之后再开始真正制定他们的政策议程。
This bold flurry is a stark contrast with Democratic leaders, who would like to start really shaping their agenda … after the midterm elections.
据《纽约时报》报道，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马敦促所有民主党人在制定政策议程时重点关注人工智能技术的发展。
Notable Former President Barack Obama is urging all Democrats to home in on AI as they shape their agendas, per The New York Times.