Thread by @BidenTracking

It is day 150 of the Biden presidency. In 150 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
-choosing Rahm Emanuel as the US ambassador to Japan.
-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
-proposing a $753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget

-approving the sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel
-continuing to advance Trump's $23 billion arms deal for the UAE.

-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.”
-filling immigration courts with Trump hires
-Neera Tanden is joining the White House as a senior adviser to President Joe Biden

-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

-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, an effort that would expand the govts ability to gather intel.

-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 despite the ongoing threats it poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the fact that it is operating illegally.
-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 will NOT including key Biden campaign pledges -- such as the public option, or student debt relief

-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 per The Daily Beast
-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.

You may think that creating this thread is tedious or stupid but I think it’s important to understand what the President has done that is actively hurting Americans. Biden is not a left wing president, if we want him to move left we need to know what Biden needs to change.

He does have some accomplishments if you’re interested in that:

https://twitter.com/bidentracking/status/1406288067321806859

He does have some accomplishments if you’re interested in that

https://twitter.com/bidentracking/status/1406288067321806859