I want to push back on the battle ānot being about progress.ā Because /Biden has accomplished a lot, actually, especially given a Republican-controlled House. One could argue that he hasnāt gone far enough, but thatās not the same as having accomplished nothing. So hereās some things Biden has done:
1) Raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
2) Highest appointment of federal judges since Reagan. Reagan started a trend of Republicans packing federal courts with uber-conservative judges, and blocking Democrat appointments, which is how we ended up with our current Supreme Court. Biden is doing his absolute best to turn the scales back the other direction by appointing as many liberal and left-wing judges as he can, as fast as he can.
3) $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure package that will pour federal money into things like public transit, high-speed internet in places that donāt have it (which are overwhelmingly poor, and cut off from the rest of the world), and a whole lot of other basic things that make life easier for ordinary people.
4) Halted Federal executions. This doesnāt affect state-level convictions, but it does affect federal-level executions; those are completely off the table for as long as he (or any other) Democrat is President. (13 people were executed under Trump)
5) Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords and pushing for other environmental care legislation,
6) Pushed through the āInflation Reduction Actā (named that to get Republicans to be willing to allow it through). Itās actually the largest climate bill in U.S. history and allows Medicare to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs for the first time. It includes 369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote lean energy technologies. $300 billion in new revenue through a corporate tax increase. $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to hire new agents, modernize its technology, audit the wealthy and more. A $2,000 annual cap for out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for those insured by Medicare.
6) Overturned Trumpās ban on transgender people serving in the military.
7) Re-authorized the Violence Against Women Act
9) Forgave student loan debt (this one the Republicans in congress managed to partially stymie, but thatās not Bidenās fault--itās the Republicans).
10) Managed to get a modest gun-safety bill through the gauntlet of Republican opposition. (The first one anyoneās managed to get passed in decades.) Itās far from perfect, or enough, but it did expand background checks on gun purchases and made it easier to prosecute illegal gun trafficking. And the reason it was as weak as it was, is because the Republicans have a majority in the House and they blocked anything stronger, itās the Republicansā fault. Not Bidenās. If we want sensible nationwide gun control, we have GOT to get the House a Democrat majority.
11) Passed a long-stalled Post Office reform bill.
Thereās a lot there! And the things that he promised but didnāt manage to achieve, he put them before Congress and the Republicans in the House stopped them. If Democrats controlled the House as well as the Senate, most of them would have passed and now be the law of the land! The problem is not Biden.
Biden may not be very exciting, and he may not be as far left as we want. But heās still got a lot done in the last three years.
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