It is day 250 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
-withdrawing 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.
-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.
-starting the clemency process for "non-violent drug offenders on CARES Act home confinement with four years or less to serve.”
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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
It is day 300 of the Biden presidency. While Biden hasn’t been a particularly 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
It is day 250 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
-Stopping testing for COVID on ICE deportation flights
-killing 10 people in a drone strike in Afghanistan
-continuing to expand offshore drilling
-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.
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
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