Thread by @BidenTracking

It is day 150 of the Biden presidency. While Biden hasn’t been a progressive president. He does have a few accomplishments. Including:

-The Department of Education is canceling $500 million in student loan debt for 18,000 former ITT Tech students defrauded by the now defunct for-profit college
-formally ending Trump’s illegal remain in Mexico program,

-removing the Hyde Amendment from his budget proposal.
-withdrawing $37 million in financial support from a planned dam in Honduras at the urging of activists.
-ending the use of 2 ICE jails

-significantly increasing the number of vulnerable asylum seekers allowed to cross at the border without open cases, up to 250 a day from 35 a day
-sending at least 20 million doses of FDA-authorized coronavirus vaccines abroad by the end of June

-protecting gay and transgender people from sex discrimination in health care, reversing a Trump-era policy.
-withdrawing a Trump-era proposal to expand collection of DNA and other biometrics from people applying for or sponsoring immigration benefits.

-supporting lifting patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines
-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

-announcing 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 country 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.

Here is what he didn’t do so well:

https://twitter.com/bidentracking/status/1406286922054606851

Here is what he didn’t do so well:

https://twitter.com/bidentracking/status/1406286922054606851