Thread by @PeoplesParty_US

The #First100Days of a president’s term are historically their best chance to enact their agenda. What has Biden done?

Biden and Harris promised to implement a public option and lower the age of Medicare to 60, policies that fail to cover the 92 million Americans who are uninsured or underinsured and save the 68,000 who die every year from a lack of insurance. #MedicareForAll

But Biden and the Democrats didn’t even live up to these moderate pledges. Instead, they expanded COBRA subsidies, funneling tens of billions of dollars to health insurance corporations that are already making record profits as they jack up premiums and increasingly deny claims.

Wages have stagnated for decades despite huge increases in national productivity and wealth. Full time minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any state in the country. The last time working people got a raise in the minimum wage was in 2007, under George Bush.

Biden and the Democrats pledged that they would increase the #minimumwage to $15 an hour by 2025, and it has been in the party’s platform since 2016. But when they got their chance to pass it, the White House blamed a parliamentarian.

No one should be too poor to live in the richest country on Earth.

We need full student loan forgiveness to erase the $1.7 trillion in student debt held by more than 42 million Americans.

Forgiving all student debt would reduce the racial wealth gap between Black and White households from 12:1 to 5:1.

The federal government holds 92% of student loans and the president could wipe it away with executive action.

Instead, Biden promised to cancel $10,000 in #studentdebt per person during his campaign. A moderate pledge that he is now refusing to follow through on.

Biden and Harris promised that $2,000 checks would go out the door “immediately” if voters delivered the Senate to Democrats in Georgia. Once the votes were cast, Democrats retreated to $1,400 checks, delayed them, and means-tested them.

More than half a million people are unhoused in America. Housing is a human right. It is morally right and cheaper to house the unhoused than make society care for them on the street.

The government must guarantee #housingforall.

But Biden and the Democratic Party oppose housing as a human right. They kicked the can down the road by extending the eviction moratoriums without addressing the fact that millions can’t pay their rent or mortgage.

We need a strong #GreenNewDeal that creates millions of good-paying jobs and repairs and modernizes our crumbling infrastructure.

Instead, Biden has rejoined the Paris Accords, which do not put the U.S. on track to avert catastrophic warming.

The Democrats can’t claim to be serious about zeroing out emissions by even mid-century when they pump billions of dollars into the most polluting oil, gas and coal projects around the world — and changed their party rules to accept money from fossil fuel corporations.

Biden can’t say he’s serious about climate when he supports #fracking but not the Green New Deal, and when he hasn’t backed the National Climate Emergency bill. We have no time to waste and the public agrees.

As a nation of immigrants, we need a pathway to citizenship for the millions of hardworking undocumented immigrants in our country. We must pass the #DreamAct and naturalize all undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.

The Biden Administration promised to end for-profit detention centers and the humanitarian crisis at the border, a legacy from the Obama years that expanded under Trump. Instead, a record 18,000 children are being held in Border Control facilities, more than Trump detained.

Biden pledged to cancel Trump’s #borderwall. Instead, he’s vacillating on whether to stop it.

Bill Clinton presided over the biggest buildup of the for-profit prison industry in U.S. history. As a senator in the 1980s and ’90s, Biden spearheaded many of the racist laws that escalated the war on drugs and put thousands of largely Black and Brown people in those prisons.

Our country needs to end the drug war, end the militarization of police, legalize marijuana and expunge the records of nonviolent marijuana offenders.

Biden promised to use his vast pardon powers to reduce the current petition backlog of 14,000 prisoners and to take major steps toward reforming clemency. He has done neither. Instead, he’s arming local police with more military weaponry than Trump did.

Biden is also refusing to legalize marijuana and end the drug war.

The war budget consumes more than half of our national discretionary spending. We must end the wars, dismantle the global network of military bases, slash the military budget, and deploy those funds to combat poverty, hunger, and ill health.

Instead, Biden bombed Syria and has kept the U.S. from reentering the Iran Nuclear Deal.

He doubled down on Trump’s regime change campaign in Venezuela.

He is propping up dictatorships in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

He claimed that he would end the wars in Yemen but has continued to support it.

He pledged to leave Afghanistan and then refused.

Biden is maintaining America’s empire of hundreds of military bases worldwide and expanding its massive $700 billion military budget.

Biden is pursuing the extradition of journalist and political prisoner #JulianAssange, and claiming the authority to arrest the publisher in any country regardless of jurisdiction.