It is day 100 of the Biden presidency. Whole Biden hasn’t been a progressive president. He does have a few accomplishments. Including:
-announcing he will withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
-Ending long term family detention
-issuing a policy that sharply limits the immigrants whom ICE officers can arrest at courthouses
-launching an "internal review to address the threat of domestic violent extremism within the Department of Homeland Security."
-consolidating Guantanamo Bay. 40 detainees will now be in two instead of three detention facilities.
-expanding a pause on federal student loan interest and collections for about 800,000 borrowers with defaulted loans.
-fully forgiving the student loan debt of 72,000 borrowers who were defrauded by colleges.
-sharing up to 60M AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine doses with world
-Last minute language was added to the stimulus bill blocking GOP governors from using federal money to subsidize their plans to slash taxes on the rich and corporations
-sending specific raw materials required for India’s vaccine production
-announced free lunches for all students through 2021-22 school year.
-signing an executive order to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for hundreds of thousands of federal contractors.
-allowing separated families the option of being reunified either in U.S. or their county of origin.
-Endorsing Amazon’s union efforts
-halted the US’s support of Saudi Arabia’s offensive in Yemen
-repealing the global gag rule, which bars the federal government from offering U.S. aid to any foreign health organization that also offers or provides information on abortion services.
-ending the DOJ’s private prison contracts
-increased food stamp benefits because of the pandemic through an executive order.
-protecting DACA through executive order
-revoking oil and gas permits in all national wildlife monuments through executive order.
-canceling the Keystone Pipeline project through executive order
-Joe Biden telling the U.S. Supreme Court that he thinks low-level crack cocaine offenders should be among the beneficiaries of a federal law that reduced certain prison sentences, reversing the position taken under Trump.
It is day 100 of the Biden presidency. In 100 short days Biden has, unsurprisingly, not been a particularly progressive president. So here’s a list of every progressive thing that Biden could have done or every action that Biden took that was against a progressive agenda:
-Air Strikes in Syria
-Reopening previously closed “facilities” at the southern border
-sending more military equipment to American neighborhoods than Trump did.
-proposing a $753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget,
-not removing remove patent barriers on Covid-19 vaccines
-settling on a 25% corporate tax rate
-Not sanctioning MBS
-continuing to advance Trump's $23 billion arms deal for the UAE.
-considering "filling gaps" in the US-Mexico border wall.
-looking to extend a Trump era policy that bolsters mandatory minimum drug sentences.