It is day 300 of the Biden presidency. President Biden has been far from a progressive president. Here is a comprehensive list of everything that Joe Biden and his administration has done that was against a “progressive” agenda:
-Air Strikes in Syria
-Mass deportations of Haitians
-Using title 42 to expel 690,000+ people
-generally deporting 1,283,413 people
-Stopping testing for COVID on ICE deportation flights
-killing 10 people in a drone strike in Afghanistan
-continuing to expand offshore drilling
-okaying a $650 million potential air-to-air missile deal for Saudi Arabia
-Reopening previously closed “facilities” at the southern border
-Senate Democrats deciding to drop paid family and medical leave, a “cornerstone” of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, from their social spending package.
-choosing Rahm Emanuel as the US ambassador to Japan.
-naming Neera Tanden the White House staff secretary
-sending more military equipment to American neighborhoods than Trump did.
-proposing a $753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget,
-Biden's DOJ continuing to defend Trump in the defamation case that accuses him of raping journalist E. Jean Carroll
-settling on a 25% corporate tax rate
-Not sanctioning MBS
-The Border Patrol horse unit
-continuing labeling Black Lives Matter protesters as terrorists.
-proposing a $753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget
-auctioning off more than 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling companies
-approving the sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel
-continuing to advance Trump's $23 billion arms deal for the UAE.
-granting Navient a two-year, $391M extension on its contract to collect federal student loans.
-reaffirming the United States’s opposition to an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into possible war crimes in the Palestinian Territories.
-considering "filling gaps" in the US-Mexico border wall.
-Kamala Harris to migrants: "Do not come. Do not come. We will enforce our laws and secure our border.”
-continuing to deny federally assisted housing to people who use marijuana
-filling immigration courts with Trump hires
-The Biden administration and ICE still have no clear plan to provide vaccine access to the more than 22,100 detained people in ICE custody.
-backing away from a promise of free college/university tuition for students from families making less than $125,000
-opposing changing Senate rules to make raising the debt limit filibuster proof
-spending more on Israel than climate change.
-"vigorously" defending an exemption to anti-LGBT discrimination laws for religious schools.
-looking to extend a Trump era policy that bolsters mandatory minimum drug sentences.
-continuing to seizing land for the border wall
-continuing to support the Saudi Blockade in Yemen
-considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online,
-returning to the Pentagon more than $17 billion diverted by the Trump administration to build the wall at the southwestern border, and plans to cancel all related construction contracts
-Biden Administration ICE contracts continue to only allow ICE detainees to make $1 a day
-Joe Biden’s new budget boosting ICE funding by $18 million.
-using a helicopter rotor wash to try to clear out activists out from an occupied #Line3 pump station north of Park Rapids.
-Supporting a Supreme Court decision that blocked immigrants in the U.S. on humanitarian grounds from getting permanent residency if they entered illegally
-fully supporting states that cut supplemental UI benefits
-The DOJ urging #SCOTUS to reinstate the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, despite President Joe Biden’s stated opposition to capital punishment per Reuters
-allowing oil to continue to flow through the Dakota Access Pipeline
-not ordering the Pentagon to recall the billions in military gear it loaned to police.
-offering to keep 2017 Trump tax cuts intact in infrastructure counteroffer to the GOP
-continuing the Trump Pentagon’s policy of embracing landmines.
-defending a huge Trump-era oil and gas project in the North Slope of Alaska despite President Biden’s pledge
-The Biden Justice Dept will defend excluding Puerto Ricans from disability payments
-continuing a Trump policy that boosted armed drone exports per Reuters
-their "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism"
-giving in to Republicans demands on broadband infrastructure spending by reducing broadband spending by $35 billion.
-only canceling 0.17 percent of U.S. student debt.
-nominating a lawyer who represented Exxon in a suit against the treasury department for a major treasury department role. (General counsel)
-The new White House budget NOT including key Biden campaign pledges
-continuing to fill top Pentagon positions with defense contractors
-urging the Supreme Court to let cops enter homes and seize guns without a warrant
-blocking media access to their border operations.
-Dozens of young Biden White House staffers have been suspended, asked to resign or placed in a remote work program due to past marijuana use
-continuing to house immigrant children in inhumane conditions.
-Backing an effort to overturn a California law banning for-profit immigration detention centers,
-conditions in Guantanamo Bay are worse now than they were under Trump.
-continuing to support a coup in Venezuela
-Issuing 31 new drilling permits on federal land
-Not passing a promised $15 minimum wage
-Not passing a promised $2,000 to all individuals
-not officially banning the dealing penalty
-not canceling any student debt
-not passing Medicare for all
-not passing a green new deal
-not ending fracking
-not legalizing marijuana
-not supporting ending the filibuster
-not giving visa’s to people who were denied them because of Trump's Muslim ban.
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